Stupidity

Okay, Now Tell Me How You Know That

Male fashionista: Deepness is just a less shallow superficiality.

São Paulo
Brazil

Overheard by: paparazzi

And Then Put It Back, Unused

Teen girl #1: Lemur? What the hell’s a lemur?
Teen girl #2: Lemur is French for ‘light.’ You know, like the candlestick on Beauty and the Beast — lemur.
Teen girl #1: You’re so smart. How do you know this shit?
Teen girl #2: I took two years of French.

Lemur Exhibit, Denver Zoo
Denver, Colorado

Couldn’t We Just Discriminate Against People Wearing Explosive Clothing?

Bimbette: Well, discriminating against the Muslims is different than against, like, the Russians for Hitler and everything.

Archbishop Spalding High School
Severn, Maryland

Overheard by: Wait, is she kidding?

My Money’s on the Democrats

Middle-aged student: … But technically, can a woman get pregnant by two different men?
Biology professor: Depends on what party she went to.

York, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: Jessica

Did He Know That?

Clerk: Hitler was a black man. Did you know that?

Long’s Drugs
Oakland, California

Once a Month. Our People Love Dragons and Firecrackers

White girl to Asian guy: So… How often is Chinese New Year?

http://overheardinumcp.blogspot.com

Overheard by: tom

Weapons of Mass Digestion

Paranoid blonde: He’s just so quiet and creepy. I really feel like he could kill someone!
Annoyed brunette: Because he’s quiet and creepy?
Paranoid blonde: Well, he, like, steals forks from the dining hall and stuff!

University of Maryland, College Park
Maryland

Wish I Had Somebody Who Cared Enough to Abuse Me

Bimbette #1: … So, after he called in to quit for me, I’m sure everyone was like, ‘He must be one of those, like, abusive boyfriends who won’t let her work!’
Bimbette #2: That’d be okay, though.

http://www.overheardinminneapolis.com/2007/05/oh_thats_why_they_stay.html

Overheard by: an invisible fiend

Frankly, I Feel the Ethics Committee Should Show Him No Mercy

Professor: I found the same paper that you turned in as your term paper on the Internet, word for word. That’s plagiarizing!
Student: All right, I’ll tell you the truth — I didn’t have time to write the term paper, so I paid somebody else to do it for me. But honest, I didn’t know he’d plagiarize it!

College
New York

Overheard by: DizzyLizzy

A Voyage Down the Birth Canal Doesn’t Help, Either

Chick: Oh my god, look at this baby! It is so ugly! I didn’t think babies were allowed to be ugly!

University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

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