# "Have they started the heart yet?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089 "2014-10-22T00:39:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/1 "2014-10-22T00:39:39Z")
Overheard as two nurses walked by at the hospital\* today. Apparently there was a heart transplant going on. Hopefully some family is going home with good news. I know we’ve done “overheard conversations” before, but this one was so unique, I just felt like posting it. Anyone got any really unexpected things they’ve overheard recently? \*My mom had a partial knee replacement done today. Everything went well…thanks for asking! Yes, she’s already been up, and walked to the door and back (with a walker). ETA: The answer was no, not yet. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/2 "2014-10-22T01:23:45Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > ETA: The answer was no, not yet. They were probably waiting for the thunderstorm to arrive so that Igor could raise the giant electrode on the roof. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/3 "2014-10-22T01:30:15Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > They were probably waiting for the thunderstorm to arrive so that Igor could raise the giant electrode on the roof. Lots of opportunities for that today and tomorrow. I don’t intend to go back tomorrow to see if there is a new monster on the prowl, though. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/4 "2014-10-22T11:45:07Z")
Moving to MPSIMS as you asked. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/5 "2014-10-22T16:40:54Z")
Working across the street from the justice center, I hear some interesting cell-phone stuff. Usually along the lines of, “Yeah, it was less than an ounce.” or, “I TOLD YOU that guy looked like a cop!” ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/6 "2014-10-22T18:38:03Z")
Big, dishevelled dude on the train: “Naw. It wasn’t the cops that killed him. It was the cop that shot him in the HEAD that killed him!” Later in that same conversation–“Maaaan! You got a court date and you didn’t even tell me? What da FUCK, man?!” You might enjoy this site: [http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/](http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/) For those of you who’d prefer a less NY-centric set of overheard weirdness: [http://www.overheardeverywhere.com/](http://www.overheardeverywhere.com/) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/7 "2014-10-23T12:37:43Z")
Not overheard, but directed to me one day many years ago when I walked into work: \*bright and perky delivery] “The Fire’s Out!” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/8 "2014-10-23T13:05:37Z")
Passing a few homeless/hippie dudes smoking pot on the street in SF: “Shiiit, man, you cut in like way too much coke in this shit.” They weren’t referring to the soft drink. ---
**Author:** ![Denial\_flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Denial\_flash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denial_flash)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/9 "2014-10-25T08:15:06Z")
Walking up to the Acropolis a few years back, middle-aged tourist to the guide: “I don’t get it, if this building is so precious and important to you guys why do you leave it all broken up like that? It’s a wreck!” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-they-started-the-heart-yet/702089/10 "2014-10-25T08:35:45Z")
Oakland woman on the phone, yelling at her girlfriend: **"Well if you’d been in the room hustling like you were supposed to, you wouldn’t have heard me call you a bitch! So it doesn’t count."**