Research supervisor on phone: So, question — monkeys. Apparently one got a rash during the drug trial, but no one noticed because she was really hairy. Yeah, really, really hairy. She’s a hairy monkey. What do you know about that?
West Point, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Alison
Engineer: I’m against Google Earth! The terrorists are using it! And the communists!
700 West Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, Arkansas
Engineer #1: I just lost that guy.
Engineer #2: Didn’t you transfer him up front?
Engineer #1: He’ll call back.
The phone rings.
Engineer #1 on phone: Hello? …Uh, yeah, sorry about that…Here you go.
The phone rings.
9531 Rayne Road
Sturtevant, Wisconsin
Engineer: So, did you enjoy your Cinco de Mayo?
Secretary: Um. I was in Rhode Island for the weekend…
Engineer: Yeah, so?
Secretary: Ever been?
Engineer: Yeah, couple of times… what’s your point?
Secretary: Heh. Rhode Island is like the white-bread capital, at least the part where I go is.
Engineer: Okaayyy… so there was no Cinco de Mayo celebration?
Secretary: Dude, lemme put it this way for ya: It’s so damn white up there, they have white gardeners. Mexicans are like freakin’ nonexistant up there. And don’t even get me started on the nonexistance of black people. Hell, the last time I saw a black person while I was up there was the one we brought with us. . .and she kept singin’ “Massa got me workin'” just to freak the rest of the whities out.
One Penn Plaza
New York, New York
Overheard by: *snicker*
German engineer: Yeah, it’s a backdoor thing, and I got him right in the morning.
29663 Arnold Drive
Sonoma, California
Overheard by: E40
Male software engineer to another: Yeah, I don't know what to say… I mean, I'm not a gynecologist or anything.
Software Company
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Overheard by: Monkey
Engineer #1: This milk’s gone bad.
Engineer #2: So you just put three quarters of a gallon of bad milk back in the fridge?
Engineer #1: I told Hal* this morning and he said he’d take care of it, but obviously never did, so now whoever used it is gonna end up sick in bed tomorrow.
Architect: That’s ok, it’s supposed to rain tomorrow.
71 West 23rd Street
New York, New York
Chemist to worker soaked from rain: So, is it still raining out there? (laughs)
Soaked worker: No, no way. It's bright, sunny and warm. There's just this kid throwing water balloons…
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: underpaid chemist
Engineer: Don’t make me laugh. It spreads germs.
700 West Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, Arkansas
Japanese professor: The peroxides are very volatile. If you drop them, we have to be out of the building before they hit the floor.
Grad student: I won’t drop them.
Japanese professor: And only Japanese ninja can move that fast.
Grad student: OK.
Japanese professor: I am well trained in the art of the ninja.
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio
