20-something hipster chick: I cried throughout the whole movie. Seriously, I was bawling! Richard Nixon was such a sad man.
Tick Tock Diner
Passiac, New Jersey
Overheard by: JoBell
20-something hipster chick: I cried throughout the whole movie. Seriously, I was bawling! Richard Nixon was such a sad man.
Tick Tock Diner
Passiac, New Jersey
Overheard by: JoBell
Political science professor to class, explaining the term “political actors”: Political actors can be political parties, politicians, organizations of different kinds…and by organizations I do not think of a group of pedophile carpenters gathering in a living room.
NTNU University
Norway
Overheard by: Amused student
Guy on phone: Look, now that you're an American you can't be doing that kind of stuff…
University of Central Florida
Overheard by: Michelle
Guy: Well, the Republican party is doing that right now.
Easily offended girl: I don't generalize!
Guy: Well then, what about homosexuality?
Easily offended girl: Oh, they should all burn in hell!
West Texas A&M University
Genius cashier: Did they decide on a President yet? You know, the President thing?
North Andover, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Wrote it on my receipt so I wouldn’t forget
20-something foreigner: The Democrats and Republicans… It's like the difference between safe sex and unsafe sex.
Taverna
Athens
Greece
Overheard by: sarah
Mom, doing mock interview of five-year-old for their journal: Okay, who is your least favorite person?
Five-year-old: Saddam Hussein, and the girl at school with the bent chin.
Maryland
Overheard by: Brittany
American Government professor: And our second candidate for class president was born to a military family in 1990, which almost makes me sick to my stomach when I think about what I was doing in 1990. See, you could be my baby!
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
Boy #1: So, I never got what the difference was between liberals and conservatives.
Boy #2: Well, conservatives like big business, and liberals like communism.
Boy #1: Oh. What if I want to be both?
Boy #2: You can't be both. It's an on/off thing. Like, you're either pregnant or you're not. Or like you're Christian or you're Islam.
High School
Minnesota
Drunken girl #1: Ah, that tubby boy kissed me.
Drunken girl #2: Doesn't matter, just remember the rule.
Drunken girl #1: “We don't share”?
Drunken girl #2: No, the other rule.
Drunken girl #1: “Your dress can be as short as you like, as long as you're wearing stockings”?
Drunken girl #2: No. The “if you don't remember it, it didn't happen” rule.
Drunken girl #1: Oh, I'm forgetting it now, then.
Sydney
Australia
