A Statement of Policy

We wanted to point out that we've now enabled comments on our entries. While it's rude to speak in public about something someone else said, here we encourage it.

--The OverheardInNewYork.com Staff, NYC

Buy Our Crap -- You Know You Want It

Man #1: Do you believe the crap they have on those sites?
Man #2: These days most sites seem to sell crap only to make money off dumbass readers...

--14th & University Pl

YOUR HEADLINE HERE, RELOADED

Put away your skewer jokes -- we've posted a new contest! Click here to read the entry and submit your headline. The winner of Monday's contest will be posted this coming Monday.

Winners of this and future contests will get a copy of the book Overheard in New York, signed by Morgan Friedman (until we run out).

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Pledge Drive

Greetings, friends. Do you enjoy the fine, free quality programming here at Overheard in New York? Then you owe it to yourself to contribute whatever you happen to overhear. Together, we can continue bringing you the meta-humor we all know and love.

Thanks

The Staff

Overheard Everywhere

Occasionally, we leave New York and also overhear great quotes that we'd like to use on the site, which we haven't done when they're not in an Office or Beach. To encourage our eavesdropping, we've launched Overheard Everywhere - The Voice of the Rest (of the world outside of New York).

This site is a bit different than our others because, in addition to posting what we overhear ourselves and what our spies tell us, we will also link to the Best Of the other overheards on the Internet, on the hundreds of imitation overheard sites that have popped up -- so, if you or a friend of yours runs your own overheard site, tell us about it, and we'll read it daily and post and link to our favorites on your site, too.

Let us know what you think at hatemail@overheardinnewyork.com or lovemail@overheardinnewyork.com

Team Overheard

Celebrity Wit

After four years of documenting the insights of the Unknown Man in the Street,
we're branching out and documenting the insights of the Celebrity, too. Let
us know what you think of our new site, Celebrity Wit, by e-mailing us at
hatemail@overheardinnewyork.com or lovemail@overheardinnewyork.com

Team Overheard

Overheard on the Radio

The creators of this site were just on The Brian Lehrer Show (listen here).

As the producer explained to the host who we were and what we're about, she handed him some printouts of site quotes and ended with: ...and don't say fucktard, obviously.

--Centre Street office

This week's Headline Contest

This week's Headline Contest: Here

It's All Fun and Games Until He Drives the Bus into the River

Bus driver: Next stop: 60th Street, transfer to the four, five, six or the N/R. Sixtieth Street and Bloomingdales, next stop... Hi, everyone -- I'd like to take this red light to thank you for joining us on this, the one hundred and fifteenth run of the M103 bus. Now, I know some of you have had bad days at school, work, church, et cetera, but please don't bring that home to your loved ones. Leave all your stress on the bus, and I'll toss it into the East River for you when we pass it. [Applause.]
Middle-aged woman: Well, that was nice of him!

--M103 bus, 3rd Ave

We Love It When Our Friends Become Successful

For those of you into voyeurism and candor, the website Double Agent is based on the premise of "women spying on women for men." We asked the guys over there for some recommendations of their work, and these fly-on-the-wall video clips are what they came up with: 1, 2, 3, 4. Enjoy!

Overheard in the Bookstore

January 31st sees the release of Overheard in New York, the book. There are apparently people out there who have lives and don't read websites; now they can see for themselves what this site we all love so much is all about.

The book is perfect subway reading, and makes a great gift for Chicks, Dudes, Old ladies, Tourist moms and Crazy guys. And unlike
almost every other website turned into a book, we weren't censored. You get the best of the best--and the worst of the worst!--as well as a bunch of quotes we saved especially for the print edition.

We're very excited and hope to make this an annual tradition. It'll be
like Zagat's, but with hobos. You can order it here.

--Morgan & Michael (and 4 pages of contributors!)

Heard in New York

Our beloved editor will give a talk 8pm this Wednesday, 12/8, about working with Harvey Pekar on Our Movie Year. It's in the basement of Lolita, corner of Broome and Allen on the LES. Our beloved publisher will be there as well; come by and say hi to the Overheard staff!

One Year Later

This past week the first anniversary of this site went quietly by. Wow, has it really been a year already? Yes, it has. We just said so. Please pay attention. We hope that the site has made you laugh, or caused you to look over your shoulder before speaking.

We wanted to take this moment to thank our readers, especially those who contribute, and our non-readers, especially those who provide our fodder. This site wouldn't be here without the help of friendly ears. If you heard anything, do take the time to send it in.

We also wanted to announce that due to the great influx of submissions, starting tomorrow we're going to be posting twice daily for as long as possible. Onward and upward, as we once overheard someone say.

--The Overheard In New York Staff, NYC

But Thanks Anyway for Paying to Have the Teeth in My Vagina Straightened

20-something girl, bawling: It's not funny! I turn boys gay, Dad.

--Aroma Cafe

Headline by: shudder

Runners-Up:
· "A Father's Dream Comes True" - 6th Floor Blogger
· "Put Other Daddy on the Phone!" - KJM
· "There Are No Strap-Ons Without Consequences" - Captain Hetero
· "There, There, Liza. It'll Be Okay." - Howard Bannister
· "Worst Super Power Ever" - Cricket


Click here to see the new Headline Contest

~YOUR HEADLINE HERE~

Starting today, Overheard in New York will be running regular headline contests. What you do: Click on the link at the top left of the site, read the headless entry, and let your brilliance unfold. What you get: Headline credit when the entry is posted, props from friends and coworkers, and a link to your blog (at our discretion).