Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train
Morning Roundup: Black Friday Edition
Devendra Banhart @ 9:30 Club
Taking a kid to get a haircut can be easy ("What do you want?" "I dunno, same thing") or it be can an awful ordeal. Here's to moms and dads who are patient when junior wants a mohawk or a rat-tail or something like that.
Overheard of the Week
At an Arlington barber shop:
A woman is trying to convince her 10-year-old son to get a non-terrible haircut. After some earnest debate over how to define terms like "short" and "mullet," the kid switched tactics.
Kid: "A mullet is shorter. I want a ponytail."
Mom (patiently): "You don't have the kind of hair that grows into a ponytail. You have Rod Blagojevich hair."
Let us know if you hear something funny/weird/interesting: overheardindc(at)gmail(dot)com
After the jump, weird questions, food, and more.
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Health care reform?
Guy in a suit to two others outside the Hart Senate Office Building:
"Now you know why baby unicorns cry."
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A chair?
At Meskerem on 18th Street in Adams Morgan:
A middle-aged couple walks in.
Woman to maitre d': "So... where would you say the most Ethiopian place to sit would be?"
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Sadly, there were probably more Phils people on the train, so they need these obvious directions
On the Yellow Line after the Phillies v Nats game on Tuesday:
Metro operator: "Keep in mind customers, that no matter which door you exit from on this train, you'll end up on the same platform."
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In fairness, it was probably both.
Outside Union Station, Sept. 7:
A homeless man approaches another homeless man:
Homeless man #1: "Hey man! How ya been? What you been up to?"
Homeless man #2: (mumbles something softly)
Homeless man #1: "Chillin?"
Homeless man #2: "JAIL!"
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Good question, Ted Koppel!
On a sidewalk on the closed part of Constitution Avenue, about 10 minutes before the President's speech on health care:
Police cars are everywhere.
Non-touristy looking 40-something in khaki pants to a Capitol Police officer: "What's going on?"
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This wouldn't be funny in a sitcom, but in real life, it is.
At the CVS on Dupont Circle last Friday:
Man, screaming at the top of his lungs to the cashier: "CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE THE HEARING AID BATTERIES ARE?"
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Sort of missing the point.
At Smith & Wollensky during Restaurant Week:
Two underdressed couples at dinner: "We're the ones that called ahead. Are there any vegetarian options on the Restaurant Week menu?"
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That's salesmanship!
T-shirt vendor outside RFK after a DC United game: "Five dollar T-shirts! Five dollars, stupid!"
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Just give the kid whatever f**king haircut they want. They're the ones who have to live with it. A hard-earned lesson I learned when my mother let me get "EAT F**K PIE!" shaved into the back of my head. The 1980s was a great time to be an adolescent.
Vegetarians asking for specials at a steakhouse is always funny. Until you see their gutted carcasses hanging in the aging room window. Then it becomes hilarious.
Get those vegetarians some whale cake...
Y'know, that 40-something-in-khaki-pants story would have been a lot more funny if he'd asked the cop, "CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE THE HEARING AID BATTERIES ARE?" because, as it is, I don't f**king get it. Guy asks cop what commotion is. This is funny why?
I didn't get it either.
Is it any funnier if the guy in the khaki pants was Roy Pearson? No? Alrighty then.
You can tell he was a non-tourist because of the ghost bike he was lugging around with him.
Any vegetarian who dare to go into Smith & Wollensky needs a good beating from every meatatarian around them.
Hitler was a vegetarian.
Hitler is not funny.
Get back in the bunker, Liz.
Back in the VW Liz.
Not to bitch (or to bring on the wrath of fellow commenters), but I am a vegetarian and I've always gotten really good meals at steakhouses. Usually their salads and vegetable dishes are quite good, so this overheard wasn't too ridiulous or funny to me.
The places where I usually strike out dining wise are seafood restaurants and at catered events. I don't ever want to see another portobello mushroom in my life.
It's the opposite experience from my few vegetarian friends. One incident took place at Morton's. One friend just had to complain about the quality of the salad. Great experience for the rest of the group, but definitely not worth taking my vegetarian friend who just didn't know when to shut up. She was a total buzz-kill.
Must not have been a very funny week.
Dude. 9/11, man. This week is about as funny as cancer.
How about mothers with cancer--are they funny this week? Because twice recently, Dimitri the Lover and the possibility of using a mother with cancer as an excuse to not call someone has come up among people I know.
I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor… I am Pagliacci.” Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
What don't you not get about the 40 something year old? He's wearing khaki pants! HILARIOUS!
He was next to the Capitol right before the speech, and had no idea why everything was closed off.
OOOOH, now I get it. Everyone in this city is supposed to know EVERYTHING that is going on...Why isn't this fool as informed as all of us?!?
still don't get it.
Yes, there actually are people in this town who don't give a rats ass.
The address was national news for days, and they always block off the streets around the Capitol when the president's there.
But hey, I can only post what people send in. Sometimes it's not the funniest.
Surprising as it may be, there are tons of people who never watch the news and are totally uninformed, even in this town. It's sad.
At an average of 170 lbs., that's about 12 people per ton; how many tons are we talking about?
At an average of 170 lbs., that's about 12 people per ton; how many tons are we talking about?
At an average of 170 lbs., that's about 12 people per ton; how many tons are we talking about?
What do you all have against Khaki Pants Pete? He's just your typical suburban guy trying to avoid the stress of everyday life in his man cave. If you had a man cave, you wouldn't know about the stupid road closings either!
Poor Andrew, we bitch when he doesn't do Overheard and then bitch when he does.
Bah humbug! It's good for him - the boy needs to toughen up; become a man!
I think I was on that yellow line train after the Phillies game. That operator was consistently hilarious.
Non-touristy looking 40-something in khaki pants to a Capitol Police officer: "What's going on?"
Capitol Police officer: I don't know, I just work here.
overheard in LA? I'm a DC-er on vacation. small little old lady, 'san francisco is full of candy-asses'. superb.