Law clerk: I was taking international law because I think the world is becoming more global.
Cambridge Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Law clerk: I was taking international law because I think the world is becoming more global.
Cambridge Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Professor: So we'll have lab meeting on Monday, then.
Grad student: Um, that's Labor Day, so people will probably be away.
Professor: Away? Why?
Grad student: Because it's a federal holiday?
Professor: Well, we're not federal, so we don't take federal holidays.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Overheard by: LabCat
Co-worker #1: So the new governor of New York is legally blind!
Co-worker #2: Yeah, and he’s black. And he’s something else too… Blind, black… And… What else?
Co-worker #3: What else is there?
Burlington, Massachusetts
CEO: Guys, guys–no monkeys, we're calling the White House.
New York City, New York
Boss, about author: It's a great book, but the guy is one of those liberal nuts, real left wing. Been part of the anti-Nazi movement for years.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: What Year/Country is This
Coworker on James Carville: I love Carville. I took a leak with him at a wedding.
Los Angeles, California
Developer: They took the Gubernator off the forklift to see how fast they could drive it.
Sys admin, in Austrian accent: Slow down if you want to live!
Manchester, New Hampshire
Busboy: I’m joining the national guard next week. You get lots of tuition for only one weekend a month and two weeks a year.
Manager: Yeah, right. Pick me up a key chain from Baghdad, would you?
Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: Shatmandu
Employee #1: Hey I think Obama is not worthy of a president.
Employee #2: Really?
Employee #1: Yeah Kevin Rudd would do a better job, and he's useless.
Manhattan, New York
Overheard by: trevor mcginnty
Coworker #1, after mayoral election: So, did you vote yesterday?
Coworker #2: For what, American Idol?
Columbia, Missouri
Overheard by: Voter
