Female student: Where are you from?
Male student: Milwaukee.
Female student: Oh, you know, I always forget Milwaukee is a state.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Female student: Where are you from?
Male student: Milwaukee.
Female student: Oh, you know, I always forget Milwaukee is a state.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Sales rep, to no one in particular: What did five fingers say to the face? Slap!
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Male co-worker #1: Stay away from [Pam]. She knows kickboxing.
Male co-worker #2: So? I know how to run very, very fast.
1250 Broadway
New York, New York
Assistant: Is this poster going to be mandatory?
Manager: We’re going to treat this as being required, but not mandatory.
227 W. Monroe Street
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Caleb Yarian
Office worker: I haven’t heard from him since the last time we talked.
4526 11th Ave NE
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: James eDropper
Coworker #1: Rio de Janeiro just won the vote to host the 2016 Olympic Games.
Coworker #2: Is that like a perfume?
Charles City, Iowa
50-year-old secretary to another: You know, if you need a uterus, you can have mine. It’s all flappy and old.
Middle School
Larchmont, New York
Overheard by: Lil’ Bill
Catholic seminary library employee: Are you going to interview Jane’s friend for the position?
Catholic seminary library supervisor: No, I decided she wasn’t qualified enough.
Catholic seminary library employee: That’s a relief.
Catholic seminary library supervisor, surprised: Why do you say that? Don’t you like her?
Catholic seminary library employee: It’s just that… Have you ever overheard any of their phone conversations?
Catholic seminary library supervisor: No.
Catholic seminary library employee: It’s like they’re in a competition over who has the most intense visions of the blessed Virgin Mary. We already get enough of that shit.
California
Overheard by: bless me for I have sinned
Physician: What can you tell me about this X‑ray?
Student: It’s a male pelvis with two fractures.
Physician: It’s shaped like a male pelvis, but it’s not.
Student: How can you tell?
Physician: The lack of a penis outline on the X‑ray helps.
Emergency Room, University of Kansas Hospital
Kansas City, Kansas
Overheard by: Stifling the Laugh
IT to sales: If you leave two mammals in a room together, eventually they will screw.
Victoria
Canadia
Hat Tip 🎩 to The Marketing Scientist