# Overheard (or simply heard) sentences that gave you pause **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674 "2013-07-27T16:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/21 "2013-07-29T04:24:45Z")
Overheard from two girls walking past is outside a movie theater: “he was like a gay lobster”. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/22 "2013-07-29T04:55:27Z")
Two that came most quickly to my mind are from songs I heard this week: “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of…” :rolleyes: “It’s our god-forsaken right to be loved…” :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/23 "2013-07-29T05:19:58Z")
I used to use these as sig lines: (some paraphrased, due to old age memory lose) “Axl Rose? Who the hell is that fat old queen?” At the Bard’s festival: “Nobody’s gonna confuse her for a dude! Look at the tits on that fuck-animal!” And a blast from the past: “Hey, look! Pancakes! No tip for you, Shithook!” Honorable Mention: “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then” ---
**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:** [July 29, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/24 "2013-07-29T05:22:23Z")
“On one hand, I know exactly what I want. On the other hand, I’m ambivalent.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/25 "2013-07-29T05:32:37Z")
‘…electrical cord around my neck, about ready to…’ I cannot decide if I want to know what was on either side of that or not. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/26 "2013-07-29T10:49:04Z")
Him (speaking of calling a friend on another continent): “Remember, they are six hours ahead of us”. Her: “Six hours their time, or ours?” mmm ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/27 "2013-07-29T14:48:25Z")
A female co-worker was walking by my office with a visitor. Co-worker: We’re the same age. My brother and I are twins. Guest: Regular or identical? I laughed out loud. The co-worked later told me that I’d be surprised how often she gets asked that question. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/28 "2013-07-29T18:01:27Z")
One of three youngish businessman types: “All in all, I think he was better off with the cocaine.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/29 "2013-07-29T18:11:07Z")
In a fairly busy park one Sunday morning: “I still can’t believe I let you do me in the butt last night.” ---
**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:** [July 29, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/30 "2013-07-29T18:14:13Z")
Walking by a group of hippies in SF on the edge of their seats listening to their friend around an outdoor table, explains that: …in the Oort cloud… hiding… making their ships almost imossible to ever observe! So, you now see…" ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/31 "2013-07-29T18:25:13Z")
And my thread is from SF too. Sitting in a bar listening to a man in a 3 piece business suit talking to an androgynous person with fire engine red hair. “I could love him as a man but I’m not sure could love him as a women” I was wondering exactly “who” the woman was. The speaker? The subject man? The wife of said man? possibly the androgynous person may have some info that could clarify this but I was late for an appointment and didn’t stay any longer. ---
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/32 "2013-07-29T18:42:33Z")
About 3 months ago, I walk by a cube in our office that vendors usually setup at. Guy on cell phone whispering (but not low enough obviously): “Well if I could do that, I would not have to bring a whole summer sausage and a bag of balloons, now would I”? Endless speculation has ensued… reminds me of what’s in briefcase in Pulp Fiction, only more disturbing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/33 "2013-07-29T23:00:37Z")
In a coffee shop: “Until I took Intro Psych, I had never heard of ‘arrested development’”. “The show?” In a restaurant, to a waiter: “How much do you charge for a bounced check?” I could barely hold myself together after the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/34 "2013-07-29T23:11:04Z")
Imagine being in your isolated country home early one morning and hearing through an open window, “Stop stop stop, pretzels on the roof!” (That one was uttered by me.) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/35 "2013-07-31T07:22:08Z")
Sotto voce from a guy to his girlfriend in the front of a Blockbuster line (in which I was the cashier): _I’m gonna take you home and hump you._ Angry reaction from negligent mother who refused to chastise her young son for standing on the bus seats while in motion, and was called out on that by another passenger: _Did you squeeze that boy out of your pussy?_ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/36 "2013-07-31T10:12:27Z")
“Isn’t it a coincidence that Jesus was born exactly on Christmas day!” ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/37 "2013-07-31T12:49:51Z")
A recent afternoon at work I heard a guy say “if it wasn’t for that cloud cover I think the sun would be out”. ---
**Author:** ![destineal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@destineal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/destineal)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/38 "2013-07-31T13:03:32Z")
Heard from a regular customer at the restaurant where I bussed tables 20 years ago: “Every two weeks he pays me 200 bucks to come over and yell at him and pee on him in the bathtub,” ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/39 "2013-07-31T13:07:33Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Honorable Mention: “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then” This one makes sense to me. There are quite a few things that I wish I didn’t know about. Most of these things are weird, gross, sex things that I found on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/40 "2013-07-31T13:25:15Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > In a restaurant, to a waiter: “How much do you charge for a bounced check?” > > I could barely hold myself together after the latter. I heard once “You people Made My Check Bounce…!” at a store. :rolleyes: I always wondered if the counter person replied, “How? By depositing it…?” I’m sure instead the store apologized & gave her something. Probably put a sign on the wall too: “All Checks Not Clearly Labeled as “Origami” Will Be Deposited” :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674.md?page=3)