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Guy to self: Doctor Jean Grey has the most powerful orgasm of all the X-Men.

--Union Square Park

Overheard by: Stan

Engineering school chick, screaming: And I was like, 'Oh my god, this is the worst protractor ever!'

--Columbia University

Skanky hipster chick to another: I would totally do him... But only if I had the ninja outfit on.

--Ludlow St.

[Four NYPD cops are checking people's bags at rush hour. A man in a suit appears to be their superior.]
Man in suit: But then he realizes that Jedis don't seek revenge. [The four cops all nod gravely.]

--W 4th St Subway Station

Overheard by: KL

Fiftyish suit: Chewbacca, the original wingman...

--86th & Lexington

Overheard by: Ike

Woman on cell: I'm busy. I've got things to do. And right now what I'm doing is looking at comic books.

--Forbidden Planet

Overheard by: Josh

Chick: We were always competing to be chief geek... But he had asperger's, so he won.

--Central Park

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Preppy girl: I really loved that movie. I thought it was titillating... And not just because there was cock and balls. I don't care about that.

--Third Avenue

Guy to self: Brokeback mountain... Starring Hillary Clinton!

--Herald Square Subway Station

Overheard by: Worst Movie Ever

Doofette: I mean like I know it got the Oscar and all, but I thought "No Country for Old Men" was pretty boring. I have to admit though the choreography was amazing.

--SoHo

Thug, peddling pile of DVDs: Ghetto Blockbuster! I am your ghetto Blockbuster! I got movies, CDs, porno. [Another group of customers walks in.] I got that action, comedy, romance and I got that pussy! I am your friendly neighborhood ghetto Blockbuster.

--24 Hour McDonalds, Water & Moore

Overheard by: BigKahuna&BigRed

Creepy hipster: You'd think you can't have sex to "Silence of the Lambs"...

--Huron St, Greenpoint

Overheard by: sweetchuck

Dude on cell: If you like murder, you're gonna love this movie!

--48 Bus

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Hobo: Yo man, it's freezing outside! Can I get a shirt?
Teenager with suitcase: No, go away.
Hobo: Come on man, you probably got like ten shirts in there.
Teenager with suitcase: Listen to me bum, you're already wearing ten shirts, you're not getting a shirt.
Bum: My name's Max.
Teenager with suitcase: I'm Peter.

--Penn Station

Has anyone here ever read any books by Sue Grafton? I'm currently reading her 'P is for Peril' Novel, and so far it's pretty good, but as I understand it, she's writing one for every single letter of the alphabet, yeah? Are the others any good? Just curious, because if they have a good plot and are fun and interesting to read, that's twenty-six more books I can devour ;)

So, any opinions?

(cross-posted, sorry for the bother)

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Black lady #1: [sign language].
Black lady #2: [sign language].
Black lady #1: [sign language].
Black lady #2: Motherfucker!

--A Train

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Guido: If Mike Rowe died and you were there... Like if he died from natural causes and just went to sleep and died... Would you have sex with him?
Bitch: Hmm, I mean, I don't know, I'd have to like take a peak.
Guido: You mean you'd look at it?
Bitch: Yeah, maybe touch it.
Guido: But would you have sex with him?
Bitch: Roberto! It wouldn't be hard!
Guido: But what if he got hard and then died... Would you have sex with him?
Bitch: Maybe, but like why do I need to do that when I can just... You know... Ohh nevermind.
Guido: Oohh because you'll be doing all the work anyway? You could just buy a blow up doll.
Bitch: Exactly, so why do I need to hump Mike Rowe's dead body?

--6 Train

Overheard by: wet willy

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Adolescent son to father: I'm worried about the essay section.
Father: Just BS it and you'll be fine. If you're like me you should be pretty good at BS-ing. Just write something like: "The current political situation in blah blah really makes me contemplate the mysteries of life."

--1 Train

Overheard by: bildita

  

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence *****

Instead of men kissing you, and touching you, they revealed their minds to you. It was great fun!p.50

An inward dread, an emptiness, an indifference to everything fradually spread in her soul. p.71

"What's the use of my generalizing? I only know my own case."p.82

"No, it's man that poisons the universe," she asserted.p.136

"The serpent swallows himself and leaves a void."p.327

"Because when I feel the human world is doomed, has doomed itself by its own migybeatliness, then I feel the Colonies aren't far enough. The moon wouldn't be far enough, because even there you could look back and see the earth, dirty, beastly, unsavory among all the star: made foul by men. Then I feel I've swallowdd gall, and it's eating my inside out, and nowhere's far enough away to get away."p.331

"It's the one thing they won't let you be, straight and open in your sex. You can be as dirty as you like. In fact the more dirt you do on sex, the better they like it. But if you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a natural and vital thing." p.399

"If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily on twenty-five shillings...And that's the only way to solve the industrial problem: train the people to be able to live, and live in handsomeness, without needing to spend." p.453

"Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't." p.454

"A man has to fend and fettle for the best, and then trust in something beyond himself." p.455

"Well, so many words, because I can't touch you. If I could sleep with my arms round you, the ink could stay in the bottle."p.456


An incredible read, because of its timelessness. It is pertinent to this day and age. I wish I had that ability to say things that reach through the ages unfettered by the constraints of time period. I mean, he even used the word 'kudos'! How modern is that!

Synopsis: This is a classic, so you should know, but if you do not, a woman whose husband is paralyzed and impotent is encouraged by him to seek pleasure and procreation elsewhere. She finds in the gamekeeper a lover, and through each other both grow out of the Ernest Hemingway-like depression of their lives.

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Well-dressed young black guy: Excuse me sir, do you happen to have a cigarette?
Surfer guy: Motherfucker, you're in New York City. Of course I have a cigarette.

--13th & Broadway

Overheard by: rpk