Not overheard, but heard: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7560441&postcount=177
I was around tourists a bunch this week & somehow avoided picking up any fresh gems.
Heh. When I moved from my newlywed apartment to our first house about 20 years ago, my mom enjoyed telling people that my husband and I were relocating from Athens to Rome. She didn’t specify that she meant cities in the state of Georgia.
I should think the Fire Department would frown upon having only one open.
I remember another thread that dealt solely with this. IIRC, it was sparked by a British game show host asking a question about US states bordering the ocean, and Connecticut was not included. I believe the conclusion in the thread was that the state is not seaside.
Ah, found it here.
I actually can still recall the days when you could leave a few cents in your mailbox for the mailman to pick up a letter if you don’t have the stamp. At that time, I was very small child but recall my mother doing that. That stopped a long time ago though.
Theres a couple of funny ones at http://www.overheardwhat.com
my favourite has to be:
Guy 1 to Guy2: “Have you seen How I Met Your Mother?”
Guy2: “Have you seen how i met your sister?”
Last April, my boss was clicking away at her computer and apparently persuing gossip sites instead of working, because I overheard this gem between her and another person here:
Grandboss: Oh. My. GAWD. Did you know 50 Cent is going to be the new Fred Rogers?!?
Co-worker: Did you know today is April Fool’s Day?
Grandboss: Dangit!!!
Another one from my crazy-ass grandboss (my boss’s boss), when she was re-decorating her office and proudly brought in a painted ceramic container for candy:
“Thate jar is so pretty, you could put a dead person’s ashes in it.”
Then there was this exchange when grandboss brought back some pastries from La Madeline:
Grandboss: There are some chocolate croissants on the table if you want one.
Purplehorseshoe: Ooo! Thank y-
Grandboss: … and a piece of chocolate croissant in my bra.
Male Co-worker: I don’t want that one.
I mean, dude didn’t skip a beat. We were in tears laughing so hard.
Well, it’s only been a state for 100 years anyway. It’s not like, y’know, New York or New Jersey or anything, which are an ocean apart from York and Jersey to begin with, whereas New Mexico is right next to the real thing. About the only way to tell them apart is the slogan on this t-shirt.
Many years ago (approximately 1980+/-a year or two) I was at a computer conference in Seattle. Mentioned to some American (no idea from what part) that I was studying at the University of Alberta. He asked me if that was in British Columbia. :eek:
:smack:
Well, is it?
This one was overheard by millions:
Last week during the Sugar Bowl broadcast, Brad Nessler referred to West Virginia University as being “another school from the state of Virginia”. Pretty ignorant, especially (even?) for a professional broadcaster.
I sincerely hope that was a whoosh.
Nope.
Do you know what county Conway, Arkansas is in?
Is Arkansas in South Carolina?
Topeka is in Arkansas, innit?
Well hey. What states have the Universities of South Florida, North Texas, Western Michigan, Central Oklahoma, etc.?
Sure, West Virginia seceded from Virginia in 1863. But what’s that got to do with football?
Missouri has Washington University, while Pittsburg State (no H) is in Kansas.
“My e-mail isn’t working. It keeps saying ‘Outlook is requesting data from the microwave.’”
Nah, they were “The First to Go”, but we waited until the Feds asked us for a draft of men to go kill our neighbors before we made a rude gesture.
You nailed it, Dude.
Autumn in Detroit. A woman checking into a hotel gives her home address as somewhere in Massachusetts. One of the two desk clerks says she’d grown up in New Hampshire, but she’d moved to Detroit several years earlier.
Hotel Guest: Do you like it here?
Desk Clerk #1: Oh yes. But sometimes I miss New England. Especially at this time of year.
Desk Clerk #2: What’s so special about this time of year?
Desk Clerk #1: It’s when all the leaves turn colors.
Desk Clerk #2: (dubiously) What, like blue?