Science

State senator, addressing the senate about DNA swabbing: Of course it's invasive, you're sticking something in someone else's mouth!

State Senate
Raleigh, North Carolina

Female suit, in Finance & Technology floor of global investment bank: What's an integer?

London
England

Overheard by: lexington

Kristin Scott Thomas: Really, I'm Good, Thanks

Girl to friend: Why don't we just give her one of my mom's old boob implants? She had a mastectomy and never had it fixed, so she just puts a sock in there, and has a drawer full of implant boobs we could use.

Amherst, Massachusetts

Office worker #1: I got 10 out of 10 in the quiz!
Office worker #2: Did you get the first question correct?

Adelaide
Australia

Newly appointed head of county school superintendent's office: We need to teach out children why they need to know trigometry. (pause) With cooperation from sheriff's real CSI, kids will learn how trigometry is used to solve crimes.

Apple Valley, California

Overheard by: Kittytrix

Professor #1, referring to box on front desk: What is that?
Assistant: Tetramethylammonium hydroxide.
Professor #1: What?
Professor #2: It's just a bomb.

Wichita, Kansas

Overheard by: Listening for Ticking

Maintenance foreman talking to vendor about fittings: When I say air, I’m talking about nitrogen.

Southlake Boulevard
Richmond, Virginia

Sales guy: I'm not saying that people from Long Island have no soul, but all the empirical evidence seems to point in that direction.

Albany, New York

Overheard by: Mac

Colleague #1: Pi is 3.14.
Colleague #2: You gotta be more accurate than that, it's 3.1415926536…
Colleague #1: No, that should be 535. If you're gonna use it as an example of accuracy…
Colleague #3: Maybe it was an example of irony? Ranting about accuracy and getting the 17th decimal place of pi wrong…

High Holborn
London
England

Clueless coworker, trying to sell candidate to potential employer: Yes, he's bilingual. He speaks five languages!

St. Louis, Missouri