April 19, 2004

In Passing ... This is a great little blog that documents conversations heard in passing. "We need a dolphin with opposable thumbs." "The combination of a dolphin and a monkey should do it, then." "Hell of a love child." "You have not been trained to think that way, so you don't. But I see it." --Two guys who appear to be doing more drinking than eating at the hotel restaurant.  
posted by Kimberly 20 years ago
  • Other good ones: "It's smoking. What's wrong with it?" "That's steam. Are you not familiar with things that are hot?" --A girl and a guy outside the Cheeseboard pizza shop. "I think New Year's Eve is just a conspiracy to make you want Jamba Juice the next day. Think about it: hangovers, resolutions... um... it's winter, so you don't get much fruit in your diet..." "Do you think maybe the holiday is older than Jamba Juice?" --Two guys in line at Jamba Juice "...it was great. We went to a different steak house every Friday. But I figured it out when he asked the waiter to leave the lemon out of his water." "Huh?" "He wasn't trying to take me out to nice places. He was on Atkins." "Maybe he doesn't like lemon. Some guys don't, you know." --Two women talking at a restaurant
  • I just loved this one: "So I get home, and she's sitting at the kitchen table with a notebook, counting all the carrot sticks." "Again?"
  • This is great. [banana in passing...]
  • Superb, thanks!
  • This one made me snort: "Yeah, but my sister got suspeneded for refusing to turn hers off in class. She's such a ghetto baby already." "Ok, that's annoying, but suspended? That's hella harsh. I got my cell when I was 16 and I talked all the time in high school." "They've got a no phone rule. Makes sense. I thought it was kinda funny." "She could've had an important call, or something." "Pssh. Have you met Alicia? She's eight." --Two girls talking outside Pegasus Books.  
  • this is awesome.
  • Well, I'm gonna be sat here all night reading the archives. )
  • Good find, Kimberly!!!
  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! * falls off chair * "You know, there's something about being here in front of... twenty-two THOUSAND people... that makes me want to masturbate on stage right now. But I think there are some reasons I shouldn't do that, and so instead I'd appreciate it if you'd permit me a moment of self-indulgence... in the form of a 45 second guitar solo." *picks up instrument* "Pardon me, while I jerk off." --Moby, on stage presence, at Live105's BFD 7 concert. "Man... if he had like, beat it off on stage... then we'd 've seen... Moby's Dick." --Guy standing next to me "Shut up. Just shut up." --His friend
  • My own in passing: "This is just between you and me, right?" --Drunk guy on cell phone outside a bar
  • Great find Kimberly!
  • "See, if I'm actually up and checking work mail at 5am, I make sure as hell that I respond to everything. Even stuff that I really only have a ping response on. Just so people know I'm working at 5am. I figure they'll figure if my answers are vague, it's because I'm so tired." "That's not really what we've been figuring." --Two men talking in line at Jamba Juice
  • "His phrasing is weird, it's offbeat. He's not pausing at the commas...Dude, he's pausing at the big words." --a girl watching Bush's press conference on the tv in the lobby of my hotel. Heh.
  • a friend was walking down the sidewalk about a year ago - two girls going the opposite direction. all he heard of the entire conversation was "so i just kept fucking him". would REALLY like to know what the entire conversation was. but this little bit was interesting enough.