History

Teen girl: I put my new bra on my cat’s head and he looked like a German soldier.

New Zealand

Overheard by: Schmitty

Crazy old woman to teenagers: I just learned something today. The Native Americans had microwaveable pot!

Amherst, Massachusetts

Overheard by: shay

Psychology professor, speaking of horrible deaths in the French Revolution: People are terrible…they should have never been invented.

Rutgers University
Newark, New Jersey

Overheard by: Person

Gay man: I find Neanderthals really attractive. If there were Neanderthals around now, I would be all over that.

Hyattsville, Maryland

Overheard by: prefers guys with smaller noses

Mother: And some armies have the sniper and he just picks them all off. Pkk pkk pkk.
Three-year-old with chicken pox (over still talking mother): I'm Spartacus!
Five-year-old without chicken pox: No, I'm Spartacus, you're Spartacus!
Mother, still talking: And then the detonator gets attached and once the fuse goes, it all goes boom!
Three-year-old: I'm Spartacus!
Five-year-old: You're Spartacus!

Flight between London and Liverpool
England

Overheard by: nadine

Tour guide, showing statue of Athena to students: Does anybody know who that is?
Student: Abraham Lincoln.

Berkeley, California

Professor: So, how did the baby boom come about?
Student: When a–
Professor: –You don’t need to actually walk me through it. In the late 1940s, everybody was becoming a mother. Okay, half of everybody.

University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida

MHS student to another: Emileeeeeeey… You can’t say the “boner” word at a Holocaust luncheon!

University 4
Moscow, Idaho

Overheard by: i agree

Little girl to mother, pointing at a picture of Ronald McDonald: Look, Mommy — they put lipstick on George Washington!

McDonald’s
Jackson, New Jersey

Overheard by: Lydia

Nerd: So, what do you think of Hitler?

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