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
Blonde: So, he calls me drunk at two o’clock in the morning and tells me our relationship has barnacles.
Brunette: What?!
Blonde: He compared our relationship to ship that has barnacles on it!
Brunette: Um…
Blonde: So now I’m like, ‘Should I read into this?’
Psych building, Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
(odd club music plays in the background)
Student #1: Chef, what are we listening to?
Chef instructor: Just some flippy-trippy sausage making music! It's acid jazz.
Student #2, grinding variety meats: I'm so not on the right drugs for this.
Culinary School
Austin, Texas
Overzealous personal trainer to neophyte trainee: Touch yourself in the butt!
Gym
West Long Branch, New Jersey
Overheard by: Robert
Penn student #1, looking at sculpture: Oh my god, I, like, totally hate art.
Penn student #2: I know, right? They should just buy us all laptops instead.
Locust Walk
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
First grade boy: I had two girlfriends but I lost one.
First grade girl: Didn't one of them kiss you?
First grade boy: Yeah, Hannah told Alexis to kiss whoever she liked more, and it was me and this other girl, and she was going to kiss her, but then she kissed me and we've been together for, like, forever.
First grade girl: Yeah.
Lakeville, Massachusetts
Overheard by: was still playing with barbies- clothed
MHS student to another: Emileeeeeeey… You can’t say the “boner” word at a Holocaust luncheon!
University 4
Moscow, Idaho
Overheard by: i agree
Girl: Do you know how much inflow comes from the Colorado River?
Professor: Ummmm…yeah. I do, actually. (doesn't answer question).
UC Berkeley
California
Overheard by: not telling either
Foreign student, in Spanish: When I woke up the next morning, my stomach was so sore. Of all the parts of me I thought would get sore after a night of debauchery, the stomach isn’t even in the top 10.
Rector Lopez Argueta
Granada, Andalusia
Spain
Overheard by: Kelly
Guy: Do you guys ever get giant puddles underneath you in class?
Weary friend: Yes.
Guy: Mine always seems to be so much bigger than everyone else’s.
Becker Dorm
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/02/monday-sometimes-is-like-being-shot-in.html
Overheard by: ad’a
