It's funny how people judge someone based on first impressions — haircut, clothes, manner of speaking. It's how you make friends, get a job and do everyday stuff. Sometimes it can be unfair, but we live with it. And sometimes impressions can be based on a strange set of rules.

Overheard of the Week

At the outside bar at Old Glory in Georgetown:

Two mid 20s guys are talking.

Guy 1: "Hey, did you hear that DJ AM and Travis Barker were in a plane accident?"
Guy 2: "No, I didn't know that."
Guy 1: "Yeah, and I think DJ AM just had a kid with Christina Aguilera."

An eavesdropping mid 20s woman grabbing a drink shakes her head skeptically: "No. That's completely wrong."

Guy 1: "What I thought that was the truth! I read it in InTouch Weekly"

The mid 20s girl shuffles away from bar, still shaking her head.

Guy 2: "Can you believe the sluts in this joint?"

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After the jump, almonds, moose, drugs and snack cakes.

Photo by payal.jhaveri

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...of pixie sticks?

On 22nd Street north of P, Thursday at 9 p.m.:

Middle-aged guy in a suit is talking with a middle-aged guy in a hoodie about the good old days.

Suit guy: "I used to do lines and lines and lines!"

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Ah, constructive Halloween criticism

At 10th and G Streets NW about 6:30 p.m.:

Mid 20s woman talking on cell phone: "Why don't you dress up like a cow? Because you are one."

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That's the minor. For a major, you go to Pink Floyd at the planetarium.

In a theater at GW waiting for an undergraduate play to begin:

Girl #1: "So, what are you going to do tomorrow?"
Girl #2: "I don't know. Maybe get high and go to the zoo."
Girl #1: "Awww, I totally remember when we did that sophomore year."

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This is why you shouldn't cut corners with doctors.

At work the other day in Falls Church, VA:

A woman is talking on her cell phone, very excitedly: "Yeah, the surgery went really well. They saw the liver working when they reattached it."

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Was it the French embassy?

At work:

Walking by a male co-worker to a group of others: "...so then I decided to start using deodorant"

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Sister-mother is OK though.

On the Green Line Sunday afternoon:

"So she wants to adopt him and have me call him my brother! And I'm like, 'I can't be his sister and his aunt. We're just not that Southern.' People will think we're in-bred!"

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BFFudge

On the Red Line to Shady Grove, about 2 a.m. on Saturday:

A group of guys boards the train.

Guy 1: "...I'm more of a Ho-Ho's man myself"
Guy 2: [very excitedly] "Man, we're like, kindred spirits or something!"

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Sadly, it's better analysis than most TV talking heads.

Little girls are going into ballet school:

Little girl #1: "Oh my gosh, I LOVE Obama. He's so nice!"
Little girl #2: "Oh, I really don't like him. Obama is REALLY not a nice man."
Little girl #1: "What? He is soo nice! He's really really nice!"
Little girl #2: "I don't think so, he's not very nice at all. I don't like him."
Little girl #1 to little girl #3: "Did you hear that? She doesn't like Obama!"
Little girl #3: "What?? Are you kidding? Obama is the nicest man to ever run for president!"

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This guy should hang out with deodorant man

At Lauriol Plaza on a Wednesday afternoon:

Guy #1: "We should go to Costco tomorrow... but DON'T let me get almonds!"
Guy #2: "Why not?"
Guy #1: "I binged on almonds this morning because I was starving... and now I feel gross. I was farting almonds earlier!!"
Guy #2: "I don't think that's possible..."
Guy #1: "Almond farts!!"

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He just got his Microsoft Excel merit badge.

At a house party in Dupont:

A mid-20s guy to another guy and a girl.

Guy: "So I tell people I work for the Boy Scouts and they say 'What are you, a
scout master?' And I say 'No, I'm a scout professional.'"

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Coloring books: the new notebook doodles.

At GW:

Two students are talking to one another.

Girl 1: "I saw you had colored a new picture for your door."
Girl 2: "Yeah, I think it's so cute, it looks like [boyfriend's name]."
Girl 1: "It's a moose."
Girl 2: "Well, when you put it that way it sounds bad..."