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Branding has been a buzzword in the last few decades: you want people to think of something on your terms, not theirs. Perhaps the folks from Occupy D.C. could take a few pointers.

Overheard of the Week

On K Street near McPherson Square:

One of a group of 20-something women walking by the Tent of Dreams: “Oh look, it’s Space Mountain!”

After the jump, sexy turtles, heaven, and Chinatown.

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Especially considering they don’t have the shirts with two humping turtles anymore

Friday afternoon in Dupont Circle near the north Metro station entrance:

20-something on cellphone telling the caller about her job offer waiting tables: “Yeah, I got a job offer from the Greene Turtle. I’m probably not going to take it. By the time they train me, I ‘ll want to quit anyway.”

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No, but you are super high

Monday at about 9:30 a.m. along 17th Street NW:

20-something woman talking on her cell phone and eating an apple: “So, you can’t tell from my urine if I have cancer or something?”

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Time travelers are real

On a MARC platform:

Woman to man, on the virtues of indoor plumbing: “I like running water. No, I like HOT running water. It’s the coolest.”

Man is silent in response.

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Chinablock

Sunday afternoon outside the F Street entrance to the Verizon Center:

Little boy to dad: “Are we in Chinatown?”
Dad: “No. Chinatown is one block over.”

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Don’t get arrested

In a North Bethesda office elevator:

Three big 40-something dudes are talking. One, obviously in the midst of regaling the other two about a night out, says, “Hey, if you’re dumb enough to pass out, I’m dumb enough to tea-bag ya.”

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Clearly they went to Kansas State

Near the P Street Whole Foods:

Two well-dressed twenty-somethings, discussing the merits of moving to Midwest college towns:
Man, loudly, to woman: “So you would want to get married, move to Lawrence, Kansas, and have two kids that will probably grow up to be assholes?”

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Kids says the darnedest theological things

A sunny afternoon in NW Washington:

A six-year old girl and her three or four year old brother are looking up at the sky:

Girl: “Do you see the moon?”
Boy: “Yes. The moon is in space!”
Girl: “Yes. Earth is in space as well.”
Boy: “No!
Girl: “Yes! First is earth, then space, then comes heaven.” (long pause,
turns to dad.) “Papa, what comes after heaven?”
Dad: (silence)