Words

Rich girl #1: This one’s ‘the juxtapositioned couple’? What’s juxtapositioned?
Rich girl #2: I don’t know… Like, without their skin?

Phoenix, Arizona

Older lady: What’s a whiffy?
Man, confused: What’s… a whiffy?
Older lady: Right there! It says, ‘Free whiffy’ — W-I-F-I.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Overheard by: Jen

Student: What does ‘STP’ stand for?
Teacher: ‘Standard temperature and pressure.’ Also, ‘Stone Temple Pilots.’

Chemistry class
Provo, Utah

Nurse: I didn’t know it yet, but I was saying ‘fuck’!

VA Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio

Overheard by: Scut-monkey

English student #1: Girl, don’t even tell me you was where you was, ’cause you wasn’t there!
English student #2: Foo’! Don’t be tellin’ me where I is and where I isn’t! I is where I is at!

927 Franklin Street
Iowa

Overheard by: grammer teachah

Guy: So I told her, ‘Stop busting my chops.’
Chick: What does that mean?
Guy: What does what mean?
Chick: ‘Busting my chops.’
Guy: You never heard that before?
Chick: I think so, but I never knew what it meant.
Guy: It means, like, breaking someone’s balls.
Chick: [Silent stare.]Guy: You never broke someone’s balls?
Chick: I don’t think so.
Guy: Well, you’re breaking my balls right now.

Westbury Music Fair
Westbury, New York

Overheard by: Big Larry

Hipster girl: Haha, that presentation we did in class was kinda strange…
Dude: Yeah, I know, but I just had to say ‘porn.’

Dalseweg
Nijmegen
Holland

Computer science kid on phone: No, do the balls first, then the walls… Yes, the balls — do the balls. No, not walls first… Balls! Do balls first! Then you can check to see if they get moved and get larger. Yes, you want large balls, so do the balls first!

http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/04/long-time-no-update.html

Overheard by: probablysaiditall

Guy #1, at urinal: That bitch is out of control.
Guy #2, at urinal: Yeah, she’s all kinds of fucked up. She needs to chill.
Guy #1: She needs to fuckin’ simmer. Simmer and sauté.

http://overheardinphilly.blogspot.com/2007/04/let-it-go-bobby-flay-just-let-it-go.html

Overheard by: teamcinnamon

Dude #1: … And she was just so sassy!
Dude #2: Don’t say ‘sassy’ — you know what it does to me.
Dude #1: Sssassyyy. [Dude #2 shudders orgasmically.]

Merrill F. West High School
Tracy, California