October 31, 2008

Overheard in D.C.: Halloween Edition

It may be Halloween, but since the shenanigans won't get started until tonight, we don't have much actually in the way of ghoul-related overheards. Unless you kind of stretch it...


Overheard of the Week

At work at GWU:

A guy is talking to a second guy in his office about how he was watching Stone Phillips on TV this weekend, marveling at how much guy #2 resembles Stone Phillips.

Guy #2: "Well, my mom slept with a lot of guys. I have no idea."


After the jump, money, threesomes, and old presidents.

Keep your ears peeled this Halloween. overheardindc(at)gmail(dot)com

Photo by rockcreek

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From the makers of Who's Nailn' Paylin?

Overheard while waiting for the drag race to begin in Dupont:

Man: "I want to have a three way between Mayor Fenty and Governor O'Malley."


(NB: don't Google Who's Nailin' Paylin if you're at work)

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Happy birthday

In a Fairfax County high school:

Teacher: "Teddy Roosevelt turned 150 years young on Monday!"
Student: "Wait, he's still alive??"

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But being in Tom Tom's, you're back to 0.

In Tom Tom's Saturday night:

A guy knocked his beer off the bar and then caught it with his other hand right before it flipped over.

Guy's friend: "Wow, that's worth like 187 man points."

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Write-in? More like wrong-in! Hey-o!

On the sidewalk at Jack's before the Dupont high heel race started:

Girl 1: "Who's Carol Schwartz?"
Girl 2: "I think she's running for Congress."
Girl 1: "Oh, that's right."

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The injections are just water.

On a DASH bus on King Street, headed into Old Town Alexandria:

An early 20s girl on the phone, talking progressively louder:
"Yeah, she's such a selfish bitch..."
"She just keeps faking her diabetes..."
"I mean, who fakes being a diabetic?"

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Sexy!

Outside the Brooking Institution around lunch time:

Two females in their 30s, apparent office manager types, are walking out of the
Brookings.

One woman to the other: "There's something about that woman that my son just has to
chew on her."

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Your... the... what?

Outside of Old Ebbitt:

Guy 1: "Check out my new car."
Guy 2: "Man! Where'd you get that? Steal it?"
Guy 1: "Nah, I got it with my tent money."

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Suddenly troop morale plummets.

Wednesday night in Columbia Heights near the Target:

Early 20s girl on phone: "...send the Beanie Babies to the soldiers fighting in Iraq? No, I don't think I'm going to do that. I'm going to take them to Dad's house instead."

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And Princess Di, Mick Jagger -- same deal.


At Panera Bread at Ballston Common Mall this morning:

A twenty-something woman: "And he was...You know what he's like? Simon Cowell. He's from England."

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Cuz nothing lets the troops know "you care" by sending them decade old stuffed animals that people used to commit crimes for just to get their hands on.

 

I'm pretty sure she said "poo" and not "chew."

These are Brookings Institution people after all.

 

Yeah, Tom Tom's sure does suck.

 

monkeyrotica: you're damn right we like our poo at brookings! the salad bar is pretty good, too.

alrighty - i'm going to wait to be fired now....

 
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