Overheard Conversations

[FrustratedPoet]

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.

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."

[FrustratedPoet]

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/showthread.php?s=&threadid=208344&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

[Adagio]

I've heard a lot of strange things, though I don't remember any of them at the moment...

[Bosh]

I think I heard some people badmouthing me for being a russian gangster, but I can't be quite sure.

[SlowwHand]

What's funny about Japanese Reggae?
Different accent?

[C0ckney]

the idea of japanese reggae is pretty funny.

[Firelad]

****! That board claims copyright on everything you post there!!!

[MRT144]

You can breathe underwater
I didnt kick him in the groin, he walked into my foot

[st_swithin]

You can breathe underwater too.
I wasn't worried; were you?

[MRT144]

st swithin, do you ever contribute anything of substance?

[st_swithin]

Absolutely not. That is my primary function: dissemination of disinformation.

[Goingonit]

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!"

[Dauphin]

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... ".

[Skanky Burns]

I was walking past a girl at school who proclaimed that she "can't even draw stick-figures".

[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.