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Wed 31 Oct 2007

How do you say “coleslaw on the side” in Yinzer?

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Pacific Ring Chinese Restaurant, Squirrel Hill. Saturday Afternoon.
A waiter approaches a large group of of people, starts speaking Chinese to the only Chinese guy in the group. The customer has trouble communicating with the waiter, but he manages to order his meal in Chinese:

Girl: Wow, I didn’t know you could speak Chinese. You’re so…international.
Guy: I suck at Chinese. I’m about as international as the tri-state area.

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Wed 31 Oct 2007

Greg and Tim didn’t realize that their interest in collecting color swatches would lead to love.

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Systematic Gem and Mineral Hall, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Oakland.
A group of teenage boys is gathered around a case containing fluorite from Illinois. One clutches a digital camera:

Guy #1: Dude, I don’t care if you get a picture of the rock — I just want the color of the rock. What are you doing? No. Just fuckin’ fake it. There. I don’t need you to take any more.
Guy #2 with Camera: I would give a leg for you.

— Overheard by Zyzzy

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Wed 31 Oct 2007

Nobody ever “hates to say it.”

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Office Building, Downtown.
A white man and woman are discussing the number of shootings on the North Side that day, and the white man says he doesn’t always feel that safe visiting friends there:

White Woman: I hate to say it but black people only shoot black people.
White Man: Yeah, but sometimes they miss.

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