Students

Private junior high school boy #1: Oh my god, so the other day someone hacked onto my Facebook account and changed everything to gay. My activities were gay, my favorite movies were gay, I was even interested in men!
Private junior high school boy #2, without irony: Dude, that's so gay.

Toronto
Canadia

Student: That’s terrible!
Professor: I agree, I’m a horrible person.

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York

College tour guide, passing crying student: College is hard. You will cry.

Willamette University
Salem, Oregon

College girl: I may have made the best porn movie ever, but I’m not going to show it to my mom.

Lincoln Park, Illinois

Grad student trying to impress a date: Pigeon shit is the most toxic bird poop.
Date: How do you know that?!

http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/01/sundays-best.html

Overheard by: squirrely mcsquirrel

Freshman guy: It's been in my mouth for almost a minute now, and I'm still not sure what it is.
Freshman girl: Scary thought, isn't it?

Dining Hall, Arcadia University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Female student during welcome week: My uncle doesn't believe in recycling. You know, cause it's like a democratic principle…
Male student: Oh, yeah, totally.

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Overheard by: Actually, it's more communist…

Student #1: Like, a visible person?
Student #2: Yeah! You know, that was exactly what I was thinking — a visible person!

Bexhill College
United Kingdom

Young topologist: It would be so cool to be a chef, because, like, what you cook would be inside people who eat your food.

Creative Arts High School
St. Paul, Minnesota

High school punk #1: “Fluids” sounds better.
High school punk #2: I don't like fluids.
High school punk #1: And that's why you're flunking band!

Chicago, Illinois

Overheard by: SaraG(as in gee, I wonder what THAT means…)