Archive for April 2006
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Install Cherrtree Brand Intimidation-Resistant Windows in Your Home!
Bruegger’s Bagels, Squirrel Hill.
A grizzled man with a salt-and-pepper face-stache sits at a table by himself with his bagel, muttering to himself and staring ahead at the window:
Muttering Man: I can tell you to shut up anytime I want, punk. Yeah, I called you a punk. What’re you gonna do about it?
— Overheard by zig
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
Pittsburgh: New York with a Side of Perogies
Penn & 6th, 8:45am
The driver of a BMW lays on his horn at the usual jaywalking day-shift folks, including a Man in a Downtown Alliance Partnership Jumpsuit:
Man in PDA Jumpsuit: Go back to Cranberry, ya bum!
— Overheard by bwzimmerman
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
The Revolution Will Not Be Colorized
Basement, Cathedral of Learning:
Man: Let’s start a revolution.
Woman: OK, we need a color.
Man: How about purple?
Woman: No, not purple. Red. Red is for revolutions.
— Overheard by ema
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
What a smart swirl!
Gen Chem 2 class of 300 people, Chevron.
The Professor is mixing chemicals together in a dish on an overhead projector so the students can see the colors of the reactions when an orange-red swirl appears in the dish:
Professor: I like the patterns we’re getting.
[He stops to look at the overhead.]
Professor: Clever.
— Overheard by Sophie
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Just as soon as the blue minus appears
Atwood Street, Saturday Night, around 1:15.
A group of four students, two guys and two girls are walking:
Girl: Well, after the test you can smoke again.
— Overheard by ema
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
“Now go play with your molecules!”
Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill.
A Mom and Dad engrossed in scholarly discussion pass a sign that says, “Chocolate contains serotonin!” with their Little Boy:
Little Boy, jumpy: What’s serotonin?
Dad, annoyed to be interrupted: It’s a neurotransmitter.
— Overheard by Kate
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
FOUR MORE YEARS
Outside McDonald’s, Oakland
Smoking Man, yelling: Four years — FOUR YEARS — I was saying White Christ was my daddy.
— Overheard by zig
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
You can save the world by making this your outgoing voicemail message.
500, North Side:
Black Man in Camouflage: I’m gonna toss her salad, then I’m gonna toss HER salad. I’m `a be tossin’ some salads all night. I got jelly and I’m-a toss your salad.
Pleasure mobile, tossin’ salads, that’s what I DO.
— Overheard by Maggie
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
And now the teacher has become the student.
Gen Chem 2, Class of 300 People, Chevron Hall, Pitt Campus:
Professor: We will have a review session on the weekend before the exam on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Who votes for Saturday?
[No one raises their hands.]
Professor: Who votes for Sunday?
[200 students raise their hands.]Professor: I guess Saturday is a recovery day.
— Overheard by Sophie
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
Emmit Otter’s Jugband invades the KISS Army
Marketplace (Formerly C-Side), Pitt Campus:
Girl, sarcastically: You know, all the times that I’ve heard Kiss’s “Detroit Rock City”, I’ve never thought to myself, “Gee, something’s missing. Oh, I know what: A washboard.
— Overheard by Lauren