Washington is a town that runs on background, on double secret cover information and fields of wild, grain-fed anonymice. Everyone knows what someone else said about something in D.C., and while we’re always happy to receive tips on blockbuster scandals, sometimes you just want to chuckle to yourself about the guy next to you who’s telling his buddy on the cell phone to meet him for drinks at Big Hunk. Enter DCist’s Overheard.

A new concept it’s not; feel free to check out Michael Malice’s work in New York to see what we’re going for, but we suspect the District has its own vernacular, its own idiosyncracies, its own public verbal pratfalls. And we want everyone to know about them. Simply send your choice lines to overheardindc at gmail dot com (we’ve linked to this address over on the left sidebar), and we’ll publish them in a post when we get a nice collection or find a particularly jawdropping gutbuster. We don’t want to know who said it (unless it’s someone famous), and we don’t want anything blatantly offensive.

Go now, and listen to your loud-talking neighbor.