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Forget Bike to Work Day! For whatever reason, today is National Pizza Party Day. Blame the sinister pro-pizza lobby, or something.
In any case, a pizza party is one of those things all kids look forward too, along with Halloween, sleeping over at the house of the friend with the cool toys, and the last day of school. And we think it's high time that more pizza parties were had.
Overheard of the Week
In the garden behind the Smithsonian Castle:
A school group of maybe 7 year-olds is walking through.
Boy 1: "You could buy 200,000 pizzas with $1,000!"
Boy 2: "That would be cool."
Boy 1: "Yeah."
After the jump, being nice to mom, lots more kids, and a contest! With no real prize!
Keep your ears peeled and send those overheards to overheardindc(at)gmail(dot)com. Don't forget to tell us where and when you heard it!
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Nice job, matchmaker
On Rhode Island Ave.:
Woman on the phone: "Dude, I saw a sexy blind man today and totally thought of you."
(pause)
"He was wearing a suit, and was wielding that cane like it was a double dutch rope!"
(pause)
"What was I supposed to say?! 'I know another blind person...' "
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Yes, but did the roller-derbier have a funny barf-related alias?
At the DC Rollergirls Championship Bout last Sunday:
Girl about 7 or 8 years old to another little girl: "No! You can't come sit with us -- you walked through her vomit!"
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That's what Yo Yo Ma's mama said
On 20th Street near Dupont:
A roughly ten year-old kid is struggling to carry a cello down with mother watching.
Child: "This is soooo heavy"
Mother: "You chose the cello."
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New York City snobbery: not just in New York anymore
At Wonderland:
Two 20s-30s women are talking:
Woman: "It's like 170th Street. That's practically upstate New York to me."
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There's so many things wrong with this
Mother's Day at Giant supermarket on 7th and O:
Two girls and a guy in their 20s in the checkout line.
Guy: "Should we send [female name] a Happy Mother's Day text?"
Girl 1: "But didn't she have an abortion?"
Guy: "Yep, we should send her one anyway..."
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The hospital is such a sexy place
At Inova Fairfax Hospital:
An EEG technician needs to do a brain wave scan on a patient. He's telling the nurse the different options of where he can do the test.
Nurse: "So she is sitting in a chair right now, can you do her while she's in the chair. "
Technician: "Yeah I can do her in the chair! I could also bring her up stairs and do her, or I could just do her on this bed!"
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Recycled lead?
In Rosslyn:
A Greenpeace worker to an Army solider: "You've done things for the country but what have you done for the EARTH!"
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Someone clearly went to the Earth Day concert on the Mall.
Downtown Silver Spring:
Two 20-something girls crossing the street.
Girl 1: "Why did you make us walk around that pole?"
Girl 2: "I had to throw something in the trash."
Girl 1: "Oh. You should have just let it blow into the wind like everyone else."
Girl 2: "Nah, I care about the environment and stuff."
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And lastly, a little contest: why will she be single?
Post your answers in the comments. The winner gets the extreme honor of being mentioned in next week's Overheard.
Lunchtime near 13th and F:
Woman #1: "OK well, have a good week, I'll see you Monday".
Woman #2: "Yeah... and by Tuesday I'll be single!"
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As a suggestion, perhaps more people should report overheards from the women's bathroom after watching a movie. My friends and I do this. We call it the Stall Report.
After seeing the Perfect Storm, the commentary was like this:
Uh, yeah, I liked it too, I guess, but there wasn't a whole to it. I mean it was like "there were these guys. They loved their women. And then they died." you know?
So true.
Are we doing movies from 10 years ago only? The Perfect Storm?...haha geezus
JK, I kinda dig the idea CR. Got any recent ones?
Woman #2's ex gets there fat spandex ass hip checked by DrLRon.
Change "These guys" to "this guy" and you pretty much have Synecdoche, New York.
Woman #2's boyfriend owns a Chrysler dealership that is getting eliminated. She's dumping his unemployed ass in favor of his brother, who's always had the hots for her, and owns a lucrative Kia dealership.
Woman #2 - Her name is Pam, and she has to tell her fiance Jim that a coworker named Dwight is the father of her child.
Woman #2 has to tell her partner that she contracted an STD from her sibling.
She's in love with Woman #1.
Woman #2: "because I'm only going to law school to find a husband and having a boyfriend will just hold me back from what I really want"
(actual quote from a classmate)
Woman #2 = Siamese twins
Because both Woman #1 and Woman #2 play kickball in the DC Potomac Kickball league on Monday night and Woman #2 is going get lucky, if you know what I mean (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more...) with someone who ain't her dude!
Woman #2 trains with a gang of vicious bicyclists and knows that they have plans to kill her spouse, DrLRonHoover, on Monday morning by running him over as he jogs to work. They will do this repeatedly and while intentionally not signalling their intention to pass. Well, most of them. A few will whisper, "On your left and your wife hates you."
BWOWOWAHAHAHAHAAAHHAAA! *wipes tear from eye*
Woman #2's significant other is being deployed to Afghanistan and she plans to break up with them via handwritten letter that she tucks into one of the bags.
No comment for the contest, but I would like to know where I can get my hands on these half-cent pizzas those kids were talking about.
0.005 cent pizzas.
Actually it's 0.005 dollars=0.5 cents
Do you work for Verizon?
Excellent question.
And I think you may be right. Having spent my life dividing by zero I was off by 100.
Woman #1: "OK well, have a good week, I'll see you Monday".
Woman #2: "Yeah... and by Tuesday I'll be single!"
Woman #1: "Oh that's right, you found out your boyfriend is cheating on you, and while his $62B trust fund would have been nice to help spend and his homes in Aruba, St. Moritz, and Bali would have been fun to visit, you can no longer stand the sight of him?
Woman #2: "Yeah... and by Tuesday he will be out of my life for good."
Woman #1: "OK well ... guess what?"
Woman #2: "I give up, what?"
Woman #1: "I've been doing him for six weeks, and we're off to Bali."
Swine flu!