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That’s Just Sad

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Little boy to mother: Mom, have you ever heard of Anne Frank?

(silence)

Little boy: You know, she was this holocaust victim who lived in an attic and wrote this diary?

(pause)

Mother: I mean, I’ve read about the holocaust, but I don’t know any specific authors.

Overheard in New York

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Papa Speaks the Truth

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

— Ernest Hemingway

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I thought it meant ‘happy’…

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.

American Family Association’s OneNewsNow web site

They have a script that replaces offending language automatically. Oops, time for a tweak.

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How Life Should Be

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm.

George Carlin

Rest in peace George. You were one brilliant fuck.

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There’s a Limit to Dares…

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies…

Time

Nice parents…

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Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

The remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV – 42 years after she was reported missing.

Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television…

Daily Record

Hmmm, thinking that missing persons in Croatia isn’t the highest priority since they never bothered to look in her fucking apartment!

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Excuses

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Track star: Well, yeah, I’ve always hated that official, but I sure didn’t mean for my javelin to go right through his spleen like that!

Announcer: But you’re a sprinter.

Rick Reilly

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Decisions, decisions…

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

If it had to be one or the other, I’m glad it’s Richard Dawkins who joined Twitter and Tim Russert who dropped dead.

John Gruber

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Walk the Talk

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

I was looking for information on a SEO company that was recommended to me but I couldn’t find them on Google.

— Me

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Best Book Review EVER!

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

“The lamp’s glow was very weak compared to the blue glow emancipating from the basement.”

Aaron Rayburn

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Words to Live By

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

No matter how delicately one approaches the task, there is no telling off a Frenchwoman.

Jeffrey Zeldman via Twitter

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Acrobat

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Editing text in Adobe Acrobat Professional is like fucking in glass sheets.

Jeffrey Zeldman via Twitter

SO true!

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What’s More Than a Friend?

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Brunette: I really need to have sex.

Blonde: Well you better do it soon because you’re getting your period on Wednesday.

[long pause.]

Brunette: We spend too much time together.

Overheard in New York on the 1 Train

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Hook ‘em When Their Young

May 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

[Mother and four-year-old boy walking past liquor store]

Mom: So we have to go to Duane Reade and… Oooh! Let’s get some wine.

Boy: Yeah!

Overheard in New York at 115th & Broadway

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It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Little boy: …I met another girl at school who is Mexican!

Mother: Colombian! We’re Colombian!

Overheard in New York at 65th & Riverside

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At Least He’s Honest

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Tourist husband with camera: We could ask him. [Points to black man.]

Tourist wife: No, I don’t think thats a good idea.

Black man: Listen to your woman, I woulda taken that shit and run!

Overheard in New York at Times Square

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See You at Thanksgiving?

May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Chick #1: You were way too hard on my dad back there.

Chick #2: I know, I’m sorry… I just get so heated.

Chick #1: Still, “homophobic asshole” is a little harsh, don’t you think?

Overheard in New York at Park Row

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Must’ve Failed Catechism

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Mom, reading about unicorns to ten-year-old son: The unicorn was a symbol of Christ, its head in the virgin Mary’s lap…

Son: Wait, wait, wait! Mary was a virgin?!

Overheard in New York at Museum of Natural History, Mythic Creatures Exhibit

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Try ‘Member’

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Guy: So I tried to set my password to “Penis”.

Girl: [...]

Guy: It said my password wasn’t long enough.

Overheard in New York

LOL! Now that’s funny.

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Stay in Skool 3

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Brooklyn family court employee: What’s your daughter’s name?

Mother: Chicago.

Brooklyn family court employee: Like the state?

Mother: Yes.

Overheard in New York

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OJ with that?

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Q: How much is a sandwich at USC?

A: Free, but mayo is $30,000 extra

Heard from Alvin Borlaza

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Going on 48

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Eight-old-girl: What is aged cheese?

Dad: You age cheese to make it better.

Eight-old-girl: You do?

Dad: Like whiskey.

Eight-old-girl: Ahhhh, I see.

Overheard in New York

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He’s Not the Demographic

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Kid to friends: I swear I know that dude. [To dude.] Hey, you’re the weather man!

Anderson Cooper, offended: No!

Overheard in New York

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You could use Lesbanians…

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world’s gay women.

Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.

One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, “insults the identity” of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians.

“My sister can’t say she is a Lesbian,” said Dimitris Lambrou. “Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos,” he said.

The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece could not be reached for comment.

Nicholas Paphitis, Associated Press Writer

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Do you have anything in Red?

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

A 2 million yuan ($286,000) sculpture in northeastern China that took two years to build was dismantled days before its unveiling because a senior government official disliked the color, local media said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Way to support the Arts! Can’t wait to see how big of a disaster the Olympics are going to be. They probably dipped real people in Gold, Silver and Bronze to make the medals…

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You mean Greek?

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Girl #1: What kind of food do you want?

Girl #2: I don’t know, I can do anything so you can pick.

Girl #1: Ohhh… Let’s get Indian! I really want Indian.

Girl #2: Can’t do Indian. It reminds me of anal sex.

Overheard in New York on the L Train

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Lemme Guess…Divorce?

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Little girl: Daddy, daddy, will you buy me some Easter candy?

Father: No, sweetheart. We don’t celebrate Easter–we’re Jewish.

Little girl: But mommy buys me Easter candy!

Father: It’s not my fault your mother has abandoned her principles.

Overheard in New York

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RIP Professor Lorenz

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Edward Lorenz, Father of Chaos Theory, Dies at 90

Posted on Slashdot

I wouldn’t have graduated without him. I wrote a 70+ page thesis on horseshoe mappings in the Lorenz Differential for my Chaos Theory class in college.

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The Knuckleball

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor’s mailbox.

— Willie Stargell

That pretty much sums it up…

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Was hast du gesagt?

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures

AFP

First they piledrive the Mars Climate Orbiter into the planet because they forget that miles and kilometers aren’t equal and now they forget to carry the one…

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Way to ruin it Dad…

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Seven-year-old girl: Daddy! You wanna hear a secret?!

Dad: Sure, but remember honey: I’m a social worker so if this is a secret about you hurting yourself or others I have to report it.

Seven-year-old girl: … Never mind.

Overheard in New York at LaGuardia Airport

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I love New York

April 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Environmentalist with clipboard: Excuse me, do you have a minute to help save the environment?

Woman in suit: I’m sorry, I already saved the children this morning and then told the Democratic Party to go fuck themselves three blocks ago, so no, I don’t have time to save the environment today. Maybe tomorrow, hippie.

Overheard in New York at Broadway & Bond

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General Patton

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.”

“Battle is an orgy of disorder.”

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”

“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”

“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”

— General George S. Patton

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Learn that from Nickelodeon?

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Mother, to four-year-old boy who has just slapped a little girl: Why did you do that?! Give me a reason right now. I demand a reason, now!
Four-year-old boy: I have to control her.

Overheard in New York at East Broadway

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Simple Enough…

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

This life is fucking important so do not waste yours on bullshit.

Blek le Rat

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Stay in Skool 2

April 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Girl #1: What’s the plural of “panini”?
Girl #2: It’s just “panini” … Like goose.

Overheard in New York at 28th & 2nd

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That’s what you get for being clever…

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Angry woman to friend: I have a contention with the way people pronounce my daughter’s name. I did not name by daughter ‘Lady Nasty’! I named my baby girl ‘La Dynasty.’

Overheard in New York

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DirecTV

March 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Ronald Long of Deepwater, MO, was trying to install a satellite dish in his bedroom. He was having trouble putting the necessary hole in the wall and, thinking himself quite clever, decided to use his gun to get the job done quickly. Unfortunately, his wife was outside and caught the bullet in the chest. She was rushed to the hospital but was declared dead on arrival. On the upside, Ronald now has DirecTV. Silver linings, people.

KCTV via Boing Boing

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Good Idea…Ouch

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

40-something man to co-workers at the bar watching the tourney at lunch: “Did you hear what Bob in Accounting did? He scheduled his vasectomy today so he could get the next two days off to watch the NCAA tourney! Wow. Guess who won’t be in next year!”

— Overheard by Jenn at Champps

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Everyone’s a Critic

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

The orange/red & blue in the logo don’t work great either – the human eye cannot receive red & blue wavelengths simultaneously, so reds & blues are not good combos; I’m horrible with colors and can’t suggest what would be good, but blues/blacks seem to work well for technology…

— A moron that shall remain nameless

An excerpt from an actual email from a company president to a graphic artist.

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Woman ‘accidentally’ craps out her baby

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Pregnant woman uses train toilet, baby slips out

Reuters

Seriously? Why does this shit (no pun intended) always seem to happen in India?

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Rasicm?

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Guy #1: That fucking redhead bitch. I told you, man — those redheads are all the same.   

Guy #2: Whoa, dude, I know you’re upset, but racism is not cool.

Overheard in New York by rarrw at 57th & Park

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Overheard in New York

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Quote

Girl #1: If I were pregnant, when would I start throwing up? I mean, like, where can I get an abortion? Will they tell my parents?

Girl #2: I don’t know. Why does everyone always ask me?

Boy: ‘Cause you’re a whore.

Overheard in New York by kristen at 6th & 2nd

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Isn’t more than 49 50?

January 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Quote

Attorneys General from across the country gathered in New York today to announce a new agreement between MySpace and more than 49 states…

AP

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Overheard in New York

December 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Quote

Chick: I don’t know — all the worry about oil prices and gas… [Dude throws sideways glance.] What does oil have to do with gas, anyway? You don’t put a can of oil in your gas tank.
Dude: You know what? You’re a dumbass.

— Overheard in New York

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Stay in Skool

December 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Quote

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.

— Lauren Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina

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Steve Ballmer is an Idiot

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Quote

There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

— Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft

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Creativity

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Quote

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

— Charles Mingus

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What is Web Design?

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Quote

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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