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Friend #1: He actually has had sex before.
Friend #2: What! I thought he was on the V-boat with me!
Friend #1: The V-boat?
Friend #2: It's like a U-boat, but sadder.

Montreal
Canadia

Overheard by: Not on the boat

Conductor, as train comes in: Ahem: Quack-quack-quack, quack-quack, quack, quack, quack-quack… A-whoo-whoo!

Eltham
Australia

Woman in bathroom stall, on cell : … That’s just how it is… No, that’s my pee you’re hearing… Anyways, what did she say? Wait a second, I have to wipe…

Spokane Airport
Spokane, Washington

Overheard by: wish i had held it…

Health teacher to class: When you become more adult-like, you start to be more like an adult.

Roanoke, Virginia

College guy #1: Castaway is such a good movie… except why is it called Castaway? He wasn't cast away, he was just… lost.
College guy #2: Well, I guess he was kind of cast out of society because he was lost, you know?
College guy #1: Yeah…I still don't get it. It's not like someone came up to him and was like “Hey you, I'm casting you away!”
College guy #2: Right. Hey, you know what's another really good movie? Nanook of the North. It has an igloo in it!

Camp Randall Sports Center
Madison, Wisconsin

Black girl on cell: So, uh? So then, you explain what a cracker is to you…

Tacoma Mall, Washington

Overheard by: Troy

Boy housemate #1: Ah! I feel so sick, my tummy hurts.
Girl housemate #1: Do you want some soup?
Girl housemate #2: Do you want some toast?
Boy housemate #2: Do you want some “harden-the-fuck-up”?

Gold Coast
Australia

Man to patiently smiling girlfriend: Well…uh…I make quite a *mean* tuna fish curry. Uh…*or* a sardine curry. Uh…and have been *ridiculed* for it.

Clifton
Bristol
England

Overheard by: Sarah

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, walking on the sidewalk under row of windows: So, on the subject of vaginas…

Portland, Oregon