# Overheard (or simply heard) sentences that gave you pause

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/41 "2013-07-31T13:35:53Z")

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> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#):
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> 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.

It’s also an old saying and the title of at least one country song.

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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/42 "2013-07-31T13:50:57Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> “Isn’t it a coincidence that Jesus was born exactly on Christmas day!”

Unlucky, though. He would get presents on only one day each year.

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**Author:** ![VanLandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@VanLandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanLandry)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/43 "2013-07-31T14:23:47Z")

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“Man, it’s as hot as a seive today.”

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**Author:** ![QuarkChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c5a1d2/32.png) [@QuarkChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuarkChild)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-or-simply-heard-sentences-that-gave-you-pause/664674/44 "2013-07-31T19:37:05Z")

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Overheard at a restaurant in Vancouver:  
Male speaker, stroking his chin: “I have to shave every other day. When the alarms go off at work I have to be able to get the gas mask on before the poison gas comes out.”

My friend leaned over to me and whispered, “Where does he work?!?!”

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