September 5, 2003, 11:51
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Overheard Conversations
Yes, not only have I stolen this idea from SDMB, but I'm also copy/pasting the post I made in their thread. So sue me.
What amusing, scary or just downright weird things have you heard other people saying? It can be just one random line overheard on the street or a whole conversation you caught on a bus something.
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Overheard last christmas in the high street of the small market town where I live...
4 overweight old ladies (60-70 years old) are standing outside a music store and one of them is holding a bunch of CD's. They're looking at the track lists and the sleeves and passing them around. Usually the 13-18 year olds do this, and to see 4 fat old ladies doing it was amusing enough, but when I walked passed them I heard one say: "No, dear, I think it's Japanese Reggae."
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September 5, 2003, 11:52
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Oh, and here's a link to the SDMB thread. There are some really funny and bizzare ones in there (the Osmonds one is unbelievable). Check it out.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...0&pagenumber=1
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September 5, 2003, 12:51
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I've heard a lot of strange things, though I don't remember any of them at the moment...
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September 5, 2003, 13:10
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I think I heard some people badmouthing me for being a russian gangster, but I can't be quite sure.
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September 5, 2003, 13:12
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What's funny about Japanese Reggae?
Different accent?
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September 5, 2003, 13:43
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the idea of japanese reggae is pretty funny. 
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September 5, 2003, 13:44
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****! That board claims copyright on everything you post there!!! 
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September 5, 2003, 14:01
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You can breathe underwater
I didnt kick him in the groin, he walked into my foot
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September 5, 2003, 14:46
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You can breathe underwater too.
I wasn't worried; were you?
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September 5, 2003, 14:53
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st swithin, do you ever contribute anything of substance?
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September 5, 2003, 14:55
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Absolutely not. That is my primary function: dissemination of disinformation.
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September 5, 2003, 14:58
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I was boarding a bus in my home city of Toronto, which, as many of you probably know, is full of all sorts of ethnic groups and is home to a huge number of poeple who were not born in Canada. I'm standing behind this really, really flaky looking family, and they were chatting to each other about something stupid or other. Then the mom stares at some Asian people, turns to the rest of her family, and says, in a not-quiet-enough whisper, "immigrants!"
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September 8, 2003, 00:10
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There was a line in New Scientist a few years back, it was overhead by a student walking on campus at Cambridge. He heard one professor say to a lecturer "...in these matters, 17thly, its considered bad form to... ".
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September 8, 2003, 00:36
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I was walking past a girl at school who proclaimed that she "can't even draw stick-figures".
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September 8, 2003, 00:46
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Eavesdropping is evil! 
j/k
I don't hear much, except the usual, "Did you hear what Kyrie did with Jason?', "Yeah, she's such a slut".
Conversations like that are why I tend to close my ears at school.
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September 8, 2003, 00:50
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"Why is she mad that you got married? She's not one to talk, f ucking a married man and all."
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September 8, 2003, 01:09
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On a school ski trip, some ski police people (I don't know what they're called, but I think you know what I mean) were skiing by me, and then one of them lifted a walkie talkie to his mouth and said "We've got a 2-4-0 under the Battleship." 
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September 8, 2003, 01:13
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Was if female? If so, "2-4-0" could mean "guy with nice ass". 
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September 8, 2003, 01:20
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I think it had to do with the fact that the ski-lift was stopped. I just found it amusing that they had such a complicated code.
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September 8, 2003, 01:24
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Well, you don't want any nearby skiers to hear what you're reporting back to base, they might wonder what you will do to fix it. 
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September 8, 2003, 03:09
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"She's just a friend? She's just a friend!? YOU WERE IN THE SHOWER TOGETHER!!!"
Heard from a distance of half a block, while sitting on my porch one summer night. 
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September 8, 2003, 03:11
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Originally posted by Boshko
I think I heard some people badmouthing me for being a russian gangster, but I can't be quite sure.
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Yes, but you're in Korea where every white woman is assumed to be a Russian prostitute. 
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September 8, 2003, 03:17
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When I was in college I walked past two girls sitting under a tree when one said to the other "Liz, your boyfriends always talk about how you suck **** so well while my boyfriends always complain I do a loosy job giving head."
I was drinking a coffee at the time and I almost spit it out all over the person in front of me.
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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September 8, 2003, 03:35
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You should have offered to judge.
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Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
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September 8, 2003, 03:46
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I would have but I was to busy giggling and choking on my coffee.
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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September 8, 2003, 04:32
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Originally posted by geeslaka
Eavesdropping is evil!
j/k
I don't hear much, except the usual, "Did you hear what Kyrie did with Jason?', "Yeah, she's such a slut".
Conversations like that are why I tend to close my ears at school.
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But how else will you know who the sluts are?
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September 8, 2003, 04:37
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But how else will you know who the sluts are?
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Hear hear. I can think of no more valuable type of information.
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September 8, 2003, 04:41
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I prefer not to sleep with things that stupid.
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I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
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September 8, 2003, 04:57
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geeslaka doesn't get laid for principle reasons, that is why
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September 8, 2003, 05:02
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I prefer not to sleep with things that stupid.
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Suit yourself. Eventually desperation will break down all your high falutin' ideals.
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