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Archive for November 2006

Friday, November 17th, 2006

This is what is called “foreshadowing.”

House Party, Forbes Ave:

Drunk Guy: Man, I’m so drunk, I don’t think I’ll be able to find my way home.
Drunk Girl: Don’t you live, like, two blocks from here?
Drunk Guy: Well, yeah, but I’ll just start going towards the first bright light I see, and it’ll be all down hill from there.

— Overheard by TheConnor

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Friday, November 17th, 2006

Submissions

Currently, the best way to submit entries to Overheard in Pittsburgh is to e-mail overheardinpgh AT gmail DOT com. Anyone who used the apparently haphazard form over the past few days should re-submit, should the mood strike them.

Just about everything is in order now, and Overheard in Pittsburgh is running relatively smoothly. I’m still getting moved into the new site, unloading boxes and assigning categories.

The best news right now is that I can say for certain that Overheard in Pittsburgh will be updated about twice a day again. I have finally gotten to the backlog of great entries, many of which are from Overheard in Pittsburgh veterans like TheConnor, M.Davies, and Ka-CHANG, all of whom have continued to pump their awesome directly into OiP’s bloodstream.
Thanks,
Chris

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Thursday, November 16th, 2006

I tend to believe the opposite is true.

S. Graham St., Friendship.
A white college-aged couple sings the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song:

Guy: Damn you, Will Smith! You created the wigger!

— Overheard by Nathalie

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Candy: The best child lure since 1983*

Outside Morewood Gardens, CMU Campus.
Two students are walking down the street when one of their friends pulls up in a car:

Driver: Hey little girl, I have candy!
Walking Girl: Oh hey! How’re you?
Driver: Oh, I’m alright.
Walking girl: Where you goin’?
Driver: Squirrel Hill.
[…]
Walking Girl: Wait: Do you actually have any candy?

— Overheard by Ka-CHANG

*Cabbage Patch Kids™ were very popular in 1983.

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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

“That, and ringworm.”

Tutoring Lab, Library, Art Institute.
A Female Art Student is petting a Male Student’s head:

Female Art Student: You’re just like my cat.
Male Art Student: I’m very animal-like. I think my cat got it from me.

— Overheard by Rotzi

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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

“OK, how about a four-dollar chocolate milk?”

Caribou Coffee, Forbes Ave., Oakland:

Barista: What can I get for you?
College Girl: Um… can you do me a favor? …Like… I want hot chocolate, but I want it cold.
Barista: Well, why don’t just get the iced mocha latte?
Girl: Well… but I don’t want the coffee in it.
Barista: So, basically, you just want chocolate milk.
Girl: Oh. Well, when you say it like that, it doesn’t sound as appetizing.

— Overheard by MLo

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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Please update your bookmarks and links.

I want to thank everyone who has mentioned Overheard in Pittsburgh in their blog or even blogrolled it.

I would really appreciate it, however, if those awesome people would update the links to direct here. The move has affected the Overheard in Pittsburgh’s google ranking/readership, and I had to delete the Blogspot version entirely because it is preventing search engines from finding this site.

Unfortunately, it turns out that deleting the Blogspot version simply meant terminating my access to those files. They’re still up, drawing attention from search engines, and Blogspot won’t let me do anything about, nor will they provide a way to contact any sort of support staff — one of the numerous reasons I finally left that service.

This is really important to Overheard in Pittsburgh. There are hundreds of sites that link to OiP, and I would appreciate any help you could give in terms of letting people know that the site has moved.

Thanks,
Chris

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Monday, November 13th, 2006

Peace, Love, and Getting Totally Baked

Outside Lothrop Hall, Pittsburgh Campus. Friday Night:

Freshmen Girl 1: Yeah, the hippies always have the best drugs.

— Overheard by zack UofPitt

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Monday, November 13th, 2006

“But that’s not what MarkRulz69 wrote on Wikipedia.”

Hillman Library, Pitt Campus.
Three students are checking out books at the front desk.

Female Student: I think I’m getting hot flashes.
Male Student: What, are you post-menopausal?
Female Student: No, but my temperature has been over 100 degrees for the past few days.
Guy behind desk: Uh, that’s not hot flashes; that’s called a fever.

— Overheard by Halle

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Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Welcome to the new Overheard in Pittsburgh!

So now you know reason for the unfortunate recent lag in posting entries: After more than a year and nearly 500 posts, Overheard in Pittsburgh finally looks like it wasn’t made on a Commodore 64.

In addition to not making your eyes hurt, this new site allows you to browse entries by location, as well as by subject. Want to read only about Squirrel Hill? Done. Want to read only about children or upsettingly sad old people? Double Done. Additionally, I expect to have a webform running that will make submitting easier, so you don’t have to scour the site for my e-mail address, which, only during the final closing of the old site, I realize had disappeared from the front page. The comments system is awesome, and the RSS and Atom feeds should work fine here.

Blogger was an alright place to start, but it was high time I got out. Blogger is slow and clunky, and it crashed an awful lot. Using Blogger was like living in your parents’ basement and trying to flirt with truckers on a CB radio. Using WordPress is like having access to some sort of “SuperWeb™” in a castle made out of candy and dreams. I’d like to thank all of the readers, particularly Robin H, Sophie, TheConnor, McArdle, Tia, Pharout, M. Davies, and the other submitters who have kept this site running. Without them, the Overheard in Pittsburgh would just be transcriptions of the sounds of my tears. Hilarious tears.

More news is coming, although I am not allowed to share just yet. So stay tuned: Overheard in Pittsburgh is getting better and better.

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