Female coworker #1 to male coworker: So, where are you from again?
Male coworker: Chicago.
Female coworker #2 to male coworker: Wait! Is Chicago the state or is Illinois the state?
Male coworker: Is that a real question?
Seattle, Washington
Female coworker #1 to male coworker: So, where are you from again?
Male coworker: Chicago.
Female coworker #2 to male coworker: Wait! Is Chicago the state or is Illinois the state?
Male coworker: Is that a real question?
Seattle, Washington
Copy editor: I just wanna go home and sleep. And if I'm lucky, I'll never wake up again.
Project manager #1: That's my dream. To die in my sleep.
Project manager #2: Well, sure. But tonight?
Copy editor: Why, is there something on tv tonight you'd miss?
Ad Agency
Seattle, Washington
Receptionist: I just can’t get the song from Pinocchio out of my head.
Marketing director: Funny what pops into your head on the first round.
Receptionist, singing: I’ve got no strings to hold me back…
Marketing director: Later on, when we’re drinking, I’ll tell you about the midgets.
City Center Building
Bellevue, Washington
Employee #1: How do you tell the man you're going to marry that they are letting themselves go, and you're not sexually attracted to them anymore?
Employee #2: Leave them for a woman…
Employee #1: What!? I'm not a muff diver!
Employee #2: We can teach you.
Pullman, Washington
Secretary #1: I am so cold I can't type.
Secretary #2: Wear your gloves.
Secretary #1: I can do a lot of things in leather, but typing isn't one of them.
Seattle, Washington
VP: Do you know I used the words “wiki” and “blog” in a speech yesterday? My kids would be so proud!
Renton, Washington
Peon #1: There's sperm on the President's head!
Peon #2: I'm really glad that I know you're talking about your Obama Chia Pet.
Fremont, Washington
Overheard by: I guess he's a grower, not a shower.
Receptionist: I found out that I can't go to Disney World because I have a paper due that week and I don't want to miss 100 points.
Boss (who is rather overweight and old): That is really too bad but I mean, I'll go in your place.
Receptionist: Only if you get Mickey Mouse ears and go to the castle and have dinner with the princesses.
Boss: Sure. I'll be the best fucking princess those bitches have ever seen!
Bellingham, Washington
White dude to black coworker: The cool thing about Obama is that he is able to transcend race. He’s the ultimate embodiment of American multiculturalism and pluralism. He’s white and black, and his race doesn’t matter, he’s got character, which was Martin Luther King’s dream, that people would be judged according to the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
White dude #2: Yeah, well, I just can’t wait until Obama gets into office and he invites MTV over to the White House to film an episode of Cribs and he’s got a stripper pole in the basement right by his poster of Scarface.
130th Street
Tacoma, Washington
Overheard by: Stan Green
Engineer #1: A charred, dark husk of evil smoldering into infinity would be cool.
Engineer #2: I’d prefer the Dyson Sphere. Though I personally find Niven ringworlds much more aesthetically pleasing.
Engineer #1: But a husk!
Engineer #2: A Dyson sphere could be kind of a husk.
Engineer #1: Come on! Spooky husk!
Engineer #2: No! No spooky husk!
Engineer #1: Aww.
Engineer #2: …We can make the Dyson Sphere kind of spooky if you insist.
401 Elliott Avenue W
Seattle, Washington
Overheard by: Bjorn Townsend
