The English Model
Little girl: Mommy, where do people go when they're bad?
Mother: Australia, sweetie, with all the snakes.
--Central Park
Overheard by: Girl from Australia
via Overheard in New York, Dec 7, 2006
Girl on cell: Look, Peter, I'm not saying that I hate you. It's just that you f*cking annoy me so much that I'd rather eat my own spleen than go out with you again.
--Starbucks, 45th & 6th
Bright-purple-mohawk guy to shaved-head girl with multiple nose piercings: Your best friend is so weird!
--12th St & University Pl
1PM Playing with an Extra-Full Deck
Coworker #1: I can get news from all 52 states!
Coworker #2: Uh... there are only 50 states.
Coworker #1: Duh -- Alaska and Hawaii!
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
4PM Being the Truth Fairy Is Less Fun than I Thought It Would Be
Bearded man in green pixie wig, pink feather boa, and fairy wings: I think about death every day.
577 Western Avenue
Westfield, Massachusetts
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people… On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ~ H. L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920
