November 2005 Archives
The Classy Ladies of Wednesday One-liners
Chick on cell: Um, it's me, and you know what? I just sent you and email that was all like, "I don't want to think about it, I just want to blah blah blah." I changed my mind. I do want to think about it, and you know what happens when I do? I say, ew! Yuck, yuck, yuck, ew, ew, yuck. argh! Ugh! Ugh! I'm so grossed out right now I cannot even tell you. What a fucking asshole. Asshole, asshole, asshole. I hate him, I hate him. He's a big dick. A big dick. Oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm walking around the streets of New York swearing, but god knows I'm not the first person. Holy shit, what a dick. Ew. Ugh, ugh, ugh. Call me back. Bye!
--Union Square
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Girl: Oh, I don't really feel bad. I just think it's good to say that sometimes so you don't look like an obnoxious girl.
--40th & 3rd
Girl: I mean, large groups of people have never called me sketchy before.
--DT-UT, 2nd Avenue
Asian chick on cell: I am so, so sick of cheering for the underdog. I want to support a winner for once. You get that feeling of elation, y'know? Like, you cheer for a winner, you're a winner too, damn it!
--D train
Chick: It's so annoying! All of my friends really hate me!
--86th & Lexington
Overheard by: Stephie Russell
B&T lady: I'm sorry, I live in a house; I don't have to worry about people "revolving" in.
--Apartment building, Rector & Greenwich
Overheard by: Dan C.
Heavenly Wednesday One-liners
Hobo: You people are all evil...You are oppressors...You're gonna be up shit's creek when Moshiach comes!
--37th & Broadway
Overheard by: Alexander
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Girl on cell: I've decided to start answering my phone with "I am the God of hellfire."
--West 4th Street & 6th Avenue
Guy: Can I have a cigarette?...Fine, leave me here! Go to Hell! That's not a request it's a Commandment!
--Mott & Bayard
Guy: Have you ever met God?...Gimme a pen and paper. Prepare to meet him.
--Union Square
Overheard by: deandra
Woman: So how long were you in a mental institution? I mean, Catholic school?
--F train
Overheard by: Patrick Tyler
Punk girl: I dunno man, either he's got a contract with Satan or a million guardian angels...
--7th & A
Overheard by: Michael Mulvey
God Squad guy: All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again? Guess what? Jesus put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
--A train
Overheard by: Andy Hobin
Wednesday One-liners Watch Too Much TV
Dude: Are you suggesting MacGyver is my penis?
--F train
Overheard by: Giovanni Diaz
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Southern lady: Oh my goodness! There was a girl. And she was a big girl. And she was wearing a short, short tiny little skirt. And she had a thong on! With no pants! And a boy came up and started bonin' her from behind! I thought I was in The Twilight Zone!
--N train
Guy: Well, I'd let Jessica Alba give me head, but she'd have to be wearing gold hoop earrings and chew gum. You know, totally porno.
--5th Avenue & 10th Street
Overheard by: Christina Walker
Guy on cell: I gonna watch that with a fucking can of Vaseline, playing with myself the whole time.
--50th & 8th
Dude: You think Bill Gates gives a shit about a bunch of jackoff losers playing Madden 2006? He probably installed some censors in the controls that reprogram your brain with the same code they wrote XP in as you play.
--Millennium Broadway Hotel, West 44th Street
Overheard by: Jonathan Dorman
Tourist dad: Who did you think was going to be staying at our hotel? Madonna? Brad Pitt? Erik Estrada?
--8th between 47th & 48th
Wednesday One-liners Rifle Through the Trash
Guy: Dude, no one uses "hobo" in a sentence anymore.
--McCoy's Bar, 9th Avenue
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Hobo: Yeah, 'cause I wanna buy a sandwich. Please help me buy a sandwich. Please, it's for a birthday, that sandwich. Oh yeah, gimme all that change. I love you! I love you! I love you!...Don't be bendin' over to pick up nothing. Don't be bendin' over pickin' up nothing off the floor. Don't be playin those games with me. Respect yo'self!
--89th & Madison
Overheard by: Lucy & Janie
Hobo: Fellas, let me lay it straight to you: I wanna go to the peep show and whack off.
--Greenwich & Spring
Overheard by: Jhorn
Hobo: Can you spare the love and help a brotha out? Even some change. I'll remember it...I'll remember you when I win the lottery. I'll come looking for you in my helicopter.
--115th & Broadway
Hobo: Come on! Help me make my first million!
--Forest Hills
Overheard by: c.barina
Hobo: Columbus didn't discover America, people were here already. I'm going to 55th Street. I just discovered 55th Street! Look for the dumbest kid on the block and offer him fifty cents for his house. What? You can't write? That's okay, just sign here with an X.
--4 train
Overheard by: Hobo Whisperer
Hobo: C'mon, gimme a quarter. Pretty lady, gimme a quarter. Hey, you, Fat Albert, you gotta quarter? Nah...oh! Slim Shady over there, you know you got a quarter!
--86th & 2nd
Overheard by: Mallory McMahon
Hobo: One dollar! One dollar! Magic beans! One dollar!
--14th & 6th
Overheard by: Adam Nathan
Hobo: So how about some change for your favorite homeless guy?
--12th & 5th
Hobo: Yo, Freddie! Fuck you. Every time I hear your fuckin' name and see your fuckin' ugly face, it makes me wanna take a big fuckin' shit on your head.
--Tompkins Square Park
Overheard by: Tessa White
Woman: Yeah, Coney Island is where they bury all the dead homeless people.
--49th & Broadway
Overheard by: Michael Galyon
Hobo: There are, like, a hundred people on this damn train. If each one of you gave me just a penny, I'd have, like, two dollars.
--B train
Hobo: Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go. To fuck this cock, to fuck this cock, hi ho.
--Union Square
Hobo: I had a birthday once. I almost died, I was so fucked up. I just drank way too fucking much. But I'm clean now. I did die once in '73 in a bathtub. Jim Morrison. It's a pretty famous story. My wife found me in the bathtub. Oliver Stone made a movie about me once, but it wasn't that good.
--F train
Overheard by: mlot
Yarmulke hobo: Who wants to take the day off work, take me home and cuddle? Why go to work when you can cuddle with me?
--57th & 6th
Overheard by: Katie C
Wednesday One-liners: The Pole
Old man on pay phone: If I see another nigger on this street, I'm gonna rip his dick off and eat it!
--Chambers & Church
Overheard by: Ziggy
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Guy: Man, only girls wipe. I've had this penis for 24 years and I've never done that to it.
--E train
Overheard by: Katie
Girl on cell: I wanna have sex. Have some penis. Get laid!
--Filene's Basement, Union Square
Man: So she stuck her face through the divider and asked the cabbie if he minded if she sucked this guy's dick.
--2nd Avenue & 10th Street
Overheard by: Nicole G
Guy: ...So I said, "Nigga, if you gon' suck my dick, then suck my dick!"
--Washington Square Park
Chick: Look...he doesn't have a job, all he does is lay on your
sofa and play PlayStation, you pay his bills, you feed him. There are
thousands of men in the city who would like that deal; at least find
yourself one that has a respectable dick.
--34th & 8th
Overheard by: Cully
Guy: There's just something about potato chips that I don't want my penis near them.
--Columbia University
Overheard by: Mike Lock
Crazy guy: America? I am here to cockblock you!
--32nd & 3rd
Overheard by: Tammy Scumbag
Girl: He was hung like a pinky toe. So I never showed anyone this...but once we broke up, forget it! Everyone saw what a little dick he had!
--Rolf's 3rd Avenue
Guy on cell: You just wanted to suck my dick? I thought you liked me!
--54th & Lexington
Chick: I don't have a penis, and I'm not an American penis.
--116th & Broadway
Wednesday One-liners: The Hole
Guy on cell: Yo baby, you better be keeping that pussy wet for me.
--Fulton & Gold
Overheard by: Prof A
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Tween boy: I want some pussy but I'm a virgin-ass nigga.
--98th & Broadway
Overheard by: leeza
Queer: Ooh boy, I loves me a sturdy woman. Just lose the vagina and we'll be in business!
--1 train
Girl: You're a Barnard woman, and it's for vaginas; I won't take "no" for an answer!
--116th & Broadway
Guy on cell: Your cunnie woke me up last night...Well, we do live in shared space, these things happen!
--Union Square
Lady: I just told them to get all the black hair out. It hurt worse than a Brazilian.
--59th & Lexington
Overheard by: Erin
Woman: If you don't shave your twat, you'll get crawlies coming out of it!
--Duke's, East 19th Street
Suit on cell: The only moist rainforest left is between her legs.
--28th & 5th
Girl: Ew, you wipe like that?
--Ladies' room, Rockefeller Center
Girl: You smell like pussy! Where have you been?
--Union Square
A Pink Triangle of Wednesday One-liners
Crazy man: Why you gotta stick your dick in a man? How can you be a Latin King and stick your dick in a man?
--6 train
Overheard by: Dirt "Chainsaw" Dog
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Chick: God, you can't even tell the dykes from the hipsters anymore.
--St. Marks Place
Overheard by: Rose Fox
Crazy woman: I'm not a woman, I'm a man. I'm a gay man. I get my orgasms up a man's ass.
--6 train
Queer: Oh my god! Do lesbians have Soccer Mom fantasies too?
--Union Square
Suit: Man, I need to call my cable company and get TiVo or something; every night I turn on the TV and there's woman-on-woman porn, and you know I want to watch it and save it for later.
--Elevator, 53rd & Madison
Black guy: Ooh shit! She so fine I'll suck her daddy dick!
--33rd & 8th
Overheard by: Rich Dees
Girl: So today after my quiz I went to the Agora Gallery. My friend knows some guy that works there and we had "lunch". Like queer people.
--John & Cliff
Wednesday One-liners by Dolly Parton
Girl: Have you seen my mom's titties?
--A train
Overheard by: Matt Gossett
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Tween girl: I can't wait for college. College is when you get tall and your boobs get big.
--M104 bus
Guy: Yeah, he has really nice girlie titties.
--3rd between 12th & 13th
Guy: Oh shit, I showed my tits on camera.
--18th between 10th & 11th
Overheard by: djlindee
Wednesday One-liners Go to the Health Club
Tour chick: ...And up that street is the gym. I've never been in there but I'm sure it's full of glistening weights and...I don't know...glistening bodies...
--Washington Square Park
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Hipster girl: I think it's time now for me to open my own spa. And after years of working at Bliss I know what to call it: No Cunts Allowed.
--Washington & West 11th
Overheard by: Trey Desolay
Flyers guy: What about you? You want to come to the gym?...No?...That is a big mistake.
--14th between 6th & 7th
Wednesday One-liners Don't Speak Truth
Guy on cell: Oh, wow, that's too bad. You know I would help you out if I were in New York. I am on the West Coast, I flew out yesterday, I am standing on Rodeo Drive.
--73rd & 3rd
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Huge guy: Did you know that real monsters eat little kids who aren't quiet on the train? So shut it up, or a real monster is gonna get angry! There are real monsters, okay? Grr...
--F train
Man on cell: Ma...Ma! Look, Ma, I really can't talk right now. I'm seriously stuck in traffic...it's gonna be at least another two hours before I can get up there for dinner, okay?...Ma! The FDR is blocked all the way...listen, I have no way to speed this up.
--Lexington between 84th & 85th
Overheard by: Katia
Incomplete Wednesday One-liners
Woman: I mean, I don't want to break up with him, but I just don't think I can date an amputee.
--Hungarian Pastry Shop, Amsterdam Avenue
Overheard by: Jeff Julian
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Girl: ...and it, like, hit me right in the head. Right in my soft spot! I know only babies have soft spots but I think mine, like, never healed.
--The Met
Overheard by: Shannon
Chick on cell: So the Rogaine worked on your eyebrows, right?
--25th between 10th & 11th
Girl: ...you see, your nose should eventually fall off because it's easier...
--Penn Station
Overheard by: Special Agent K74
Wednesday One-liners Are None Too Bright
Indian man: You're the stupidest lady in the world...You see her? She's the stupidest lady in the world. You are #1!
--7 train
Overheard by: isabelle
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Wheelchair guy: I hate playing poker online; the players are such retards.
--Satellite Poker Club, [Censored]
Overheard by: Pundy
Old Lady: Oh lord. Oh lord. Can you help me? I stuck my bus pass in the ATM, and it won't seem to give it back to me. Oh lord.
--Chase Manhattan Bank, 15th & 1st
Guy: Yo! You dropped something! Right here...you dropped something...Man, what are you, stupid? You're gonna miss the train!
--West 4th Street station
Overheard by: Colin
Hispanic man on cell: How much did it cost you to get the car
out?...How much? How much was it last time?...What was the
problem?...Double parking...How many times?...Who the fuck
would double park a car and just leave it?...You didn't think they'd do anything?...Oh, like you couldn't wait for your fucking donut long enough to find a regular place to park...You are a fucking idiot. You are an idiot.
--Howard Beach station
Overheard by: Rich Mintz
That's Why He Invented Hell
Girl #1: Man, I really want some cigarettes, but I don't have any cash.
Girl #2: Sorry, I don't have any cash either.
Girl #1: Look, I found a 20! God like totally wants me to smoke.
--Broadway & Prince
Oddly Enough, Using Windows
Guy #1: I told you I wanted a pineapple.
Guy #2: It's November.
Guy #1: And?
Hobo: Pineapple and coconuts are made from computers. And you can tell!
--77th & 1st
Overheard by: Big Z
Pro or Con?
Girl #1: What's with the people yelling?
Girl #2: It's a protest about something.
Girl #1: What are they protesting?
Girl #2: I don't know, the Bubonic Plague?
--Washington Square SE
Overheard by: Gradie Smith
"Domo arigato!"
White chick: Oh, I've been meaning to ask you...how do you say "hello" in Korean?
Asian chick: I don't know; I'm Chinese, bitch!
--Starbucks, 44th & Broadway
One Yacht Short of a Regatta
Girl #1: Excuse me! Sir!...Why is the water level so low?
Girl #2: Yeah, are they like draining the Hudson River for the winter or something? Isn't that like bad for the boats?
--79th Street Boat Basin
Bob Saget Would Award Him a Big Check
Suit #1: Who would win in a fight, a cheetah or a chimpanzee?
Suit #2: Definitely the cheetah.
Suit #1: But what if the chimpanzee kicked the cheetah in the balls?
--34th & Madison
It Was The Bronxstein Until Ellis Island
Teen girl #1: What is the Bronx short for?
Teen girl #2: It's not short for anything, it's just the Bronx.
Teen girl #1: Oh, I thought it was short for Brooklyn.
Teen girl #2: Wow.
--6 train
Overheard by: Jen
It's That Pesky Tom Paine Again
Trainer guy #1: How do you say "sixty-nining" in Chinese?
Trainee lady: I don't know...How do you say it in Trinidadian?
Trainer guy #2: There is no language called Trinidadian. They speak English. It was a British colony.
Trainee lady: What happened?
--New York Health & Racquet Club, Whitehall Street
They're So Going to the Outer Darkness
Promoter guy: Do you girls like comedy?
Girl #1: No.
Promoter guy: You telling me you girls don't like to
laugh?
Girl #2: Laughing is against our religion.
Promoter guy: And what religion would that be?
Girl #1: Mormon.
--Broadway between Bleecker & Houston
Then Stop Showing Us Your Hymen
Tween girl #1: Oh my god, is it wrong that I want him inside me?
Tween girl #2: Uh, yeah, especially since you're like 13 and a virgin.
Tween girl #1: Oh my god, shut up! I don't want all these New Yorkers to know I'm a virgin!
--50th & 6th
Define "Better"
Drunk boy: God, fucking Bedford is so fucking gentrified.
Drunk girl: Go to the Lorimer stop. It's way better there.
--Bedford Avenue station
Overheard by: Ami
Sharpie is Just Their Name, Dimwit
Asian girl: So he gave me directions to go meet him.
White guy: What? I ain't goin there, that neighborhood is all Cripped out! I ain't about to get shot!
Asian girl: Look, I can call a car service to pick us up at the train station if it's that big of a deal.
White guy: Naw, I'm kiddin', I'll just stab 'em with a pen.
--Walgreens, 4th Avenue
She Admires Their Ability to Smear Their Foes
Lady lawyer: Hey, what animal year are you?
Boy attorney #1: The monkey, I think.
Boy attorney #2: Dude, chimpanzees freak me out after seeing Outbreak.
Boy attorney #1: That was a monkey, not a chimpanzee.
Lady lawyer: The thing I don't like about monkeys is their butts.
--Office, East 45th Street
No, That's Pretty Much Judaism
Girl #1: I really like matzoh bread.
Girl #2: Yeah, my friend makes it really amazing because she fries it in butter and sugar. It's so good.
Girl #1: Wait, is that allowed? I thought matzoh was supposed to be about suffering.
--Lafayette Street Residence
Cue Big Musical Finale
Tourist guy: Officer, what's happening?
Cop guy: What's happening? Rush hour's happening!
--Times Square station
He's Going Back to Reclaim His Throne
Hobo: Can anyone spare $100? I'm trying to get to Hawaii.
A man hands him a dollar bill.
Hobo: Can any one spare $99? I'm trying to get to Hawaii.
--12th & 7th
Overheard by: Zimmy
I Feel Sorry for the Poor Bitch
Girl: Did you hear about that new dog they're breeding? It's called
a pewgle.
Guy: What kinda dog is that?
Girl: Oh, it's a pug and um...um...a bugle.
--Deli, 53rd & 6th
Overheard by: Janelle F
Michael Schiavo Gets On With His Life
Woman: He wants the pad tai with chicken, no vegetables.
Man: I can't have vegetables. My vegetarian wife just left me.
--Tai Hong Lau, Mott Street
Overheard by: Amie
Just Look--Indirectly--at Stephen Hawking
Girl #1: ...so he'd just sit in the back of the room jerking off and nobody could say anything because he was special.
Girl #2: Let me get this straight: he couldn't control his motorized wheelchair but he could beat off?
Girl #1: Where there's a will there's a way.
--Tisch School of the Arts, Broadway & Waverly
Overheard by: D
Welcome to the Jungle
Black girl: I didn't want to say this in there, but have you noticed how all Mexican men working in bars and restaurants look the same?
White girl #1: Well I bet they all think that white women look the same.
White girl #2: Well all elephants probably look the same to gorillas.
--West 3rd Street & 6th Avenue
We Prefer to Be Called Immigrants
Guy #1: I don't think aliens are aliens.
Guy #2: Oh no. Me neither.
Guy #1: I think aliens are just regular people who evolved a different way.
Guy #2: I have always believed that. Everyone knows that.
--Astor Place
User ID: Golden_Gurlz
Guy #1: Yo, them pants is hot, where'd you get 'em?
Guy #2: Muthafuckin' eBay, nigga!
--7th & Bleecker
Overheard by: Eve's droppings
That's Just Where His Ideas Went
Girl: When you were talking about Saddam Hussein, it reminded me of Osama bin Laden. Wasn't he born here or something?
Professor lady: No...
Girl: Then he grew up here?
Professor: No...
College girl: Oh, right! He came here to go to an Ivy League, didn't he?
--Tisch Hall, West 4th Street
Chelsea Takes a Trip North
Guy #1: You talk about cock more than girls I know who suck it every weekend.
Guy #2: Um, are you insinuating that I'm gay?
Guy #1: I don't need to insinuwait anything.
Guy #3: You're both gay.
Guy #1: Suck my cock, bitch.
--79th & Amsterdam
Overheard by: AChest
Drunk guy: Let me ask you something...What are the chances that you'll let me take you home and blow you?
Sober guy: Not very likely.
Drunk guy: See, it's just that my girlfriend is out of town and I really want to suck you off.
Sober guy: Um. No.
--75th & Columbus
She Should Major in Double Entendres
Teen girl #1: Do you have your final college list yet?
Teen girl #2: It's not exactly done.
Trannie: Seniors?
Teen girl #2: Yep!
Trannie: Either of you applying to Williams? I went there!
Teen girl #1: I was looking at it, but I'm not so sure.
--1 train
Overheard by: michal
Not as Sick as "Grody" Usage
Queer #1: Ick. He's like, your cousin or something.
Queer #2: First cousin. Second cousin. Once removed.
Queer #1: But not a cousin cousin.
Queer #2: Right.
Queer #1: That's still grody.
Queer #2: I love that skirt on her.
--33rd & 8th
You Can Get Some Store Credit at Evolution
Suit: Am I going to be charged for the giant roach that fell on my head while I was eating?
Cashier lady: Um...no.
--Spade's Noodles, 3rd Avenue
Overheard by: Becca and Christa
He Kept Uploading from His Floppy
Guy: I really don't watch that much porn.
Chick: I woke up in the middle of the night that one time, and you were totally sitting in your desk chair watching porn!
Guy: I was just switching files between hard drives and I wanted to make sure the porn file still worked.
--D'Agostino, 110th & Broadway
Overheard by: djlindee
Sometimes Reagan Worship Goes Too Far
Woman #1: I think I'll get the spinach ravioli that you got last time.
Woman #2: Really? I did? Did I like it?
--Chelsea Gallery, 7th Avenue
Overheard by: Jenyc
So Should I Just Throw Out These Carnations?
Hobo: What's the best in the nation? Hey you, what's the best in the nation?
Guy: The best what?
Hobo: In the nation. What's the best in the nation?
Girl #1: The best what in the nation?
Hobo: You know, like country.
Girl #1: Oh, you mean what's the