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The brotherly bond is an important one: when not fighting, you’ll share a lot, help each other, and teach important life lessons. For example.

Overheard of the Week

Friday night in the Giant in Columbia Heights:

Little kid to another little kid, presumably his brother: “Listen, listen [name]: never ever go full ninja. Just don’t ok?”

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She makes a good point

Two women in line at a Federal Triangle-ish Pret a Manger:

Woman 1: “No one in our circle of friends will let their children go to birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese. You host one there and its a guaranteed bust.”
Woman 2: “Oh yeah?”
Woman 1: “Of course, they’re disgusting! Just look at their mascot: a RAT!”

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Practical?

On the Indigo patio on Monday night:

A group of 20-30 somethings are talking: “So there are butch lesbians and lipstick lesbians. I’m a chapstick lesbian.”

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Yay!

At the Target in Columbia Heights:

One thirty-something male to his friend: “But to be fair, everything DOES cause cancer.”

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It’s worth trying everything

At Hill Havurah, a Jewish community:

One retired age woman to two others: “You know why the Nats aren’t winning? Their beards are weighing them down.”

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Let’s hope not

At a conference in downtown Silver Spring:

At the end of the day at a weeklong annual conference, the audience was visibly tired and the presenter, a government official, was trying to reiterate an important point over and over.

Presenter: “I know you guys are probably tired of me repeating this, and I’m not trying to kill a horse here…”

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#livelaughlove

At the Wiener 500 wiener dog races on the riverfront:

Thirty- or forty-something man to friends: “Today is the autumnal equinox, which is the one day a year I allow myself to have a pumpkin spice latte.”
Man 2: “Oh, you basic bitch.”

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In Hollywood?

On the Blue line headed downtown:

Grandfather of family group is looking at the Metro map.

“Excuse me, where’s the Georgetown Metro stop?”

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Seems about right for the current political climate

At 9:30 a.m. at Peet’s at 17th and Penn:

A young man in his 20s in a suit is giving a pitch to older man in suit.

Young man: “We work with people on both sides, except, of course, for people on the left because they are so hostile.”

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Well, they are called tannins…

In Logan Circle:

Two nicely-dressed late twenties or early thirties women are walking.

Woman 1: “Isn’t burgundy like a tan??”
Woman 2: “No, I think it’s like more of a red…”

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Expanding your horizons

At Wegmans during a chile pepper promotion:

A clerk was talking a customer into buying a carton of peppers.

Woman: “Oh no, my family would never eat anything like that. We’re British. I made an omelet for my Mum and she wouldn’t touch it. ‘What’s all this foreign rubbish in it? It’s too spicy, I won’t eat it.’ It was parsley.”

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Teen ennui

At the Friendship Heights Metro:

Teens are walking down the stairs.

“At this point, all we have in common is a shared love of Thanos quotations.”

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