[No eavesdrop left behind! This was submitted in September, you know, when it was still baseball season. But hey, spring training!] At the Nats game Tuesday 9/28. In-between innings while the Geico gecko is helping throw t-shirts to the crowd, a twenty-something woman to her friends: “Is our mascot a Lizard? I thought it was [...]
Entries Tagged as 'No Eavesdrop Left Behind'
And Screech just died a little inside
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Dumb chicks, No Eavesdrop Left Behind, Sports
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NELB – Sent in July 9
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · No Eavesdrop Left Behind
Girl to her friend: So what’s the time difference between New York and DC?–Overheard on the 7:30am Vamoose Bus from Rosslyn to NYC
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NELB – sent in July 25
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · No Eavesdrop Left Behind
Interns, discussing future career plans: Guy: “He’s a pretty smart guy as I understand it.” Girl: “Well, I’m a smart girl!” Guy: “He’s a Career Ambassador, which is equivalent to a 4 star …. and you could totally take his job in like 30 years!” Girl: “thankssssss and until then?” Guy: “Work on your Arabic [...]
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NELB – Sent in July 10
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · No Eavesdrop Left Behind
Mid-twenties couple on Red line train, talking about some event she was invited to: Girl: “He told us to dress ‘hot’. What’s ‘hot’?” Guy: “I’d say visually appealing.” Girl: “But I think I’m always visually appealing. I think this is hot.” (gestures to work clothes) Guy: “Spice it up a bit—wear fish nets.”
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NELB – sent in this morning
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · No Eavesdrop Left Behind
Waiting on an orange line metro. A group of older tourists who seem to have covered a lot of ground that day: Old man tourist: Where are we going now? New York? St. Louis?Local host: We’re going to Vienna.Old man tourist: Oh, Italy!
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Fergie would be so proud . . . AND it’s No Eavesdrop Left Behind Day!
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · No Eavesdrop Left Behind
3 kids, under 10 years old, singing: “G-g-g-get you drunk, get you drunk, drunk off my humps…” -By the Smithsonian castle [Note from EavesdropDC: It's time for another No Eavesdrop Left Behind Day, so we'll be posting every hour today . . . be sure to check back frequently for more eavesdroppy goodness.]
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Sent in February 12
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · GW, No Eavesdrop Left Behind
GW prof: so, now, if you wanted to go build a shanty town on the mall to protest something or whatever, you could.
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Sent in February 24
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · No Eavesdrop Left Behind
barista 1: (telling a story). now, this is the same friend who faked cancer.barista 2: (dumb stare)barista 1: but the guy who faked cancer, he did it for a girl. so then she faked a pregnancy to get back at him.
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Sent in March 16
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · No Eavesdrop Left Behind, Sports
A conversation between a customer (who was wearing a soviet hockey jersey) and a waitress at matchbox last week, before the caps-flames game. waitress: cccp? who’s that?customer: it’s the soviet union.waitress: oh, are they playing the caps tonight?
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Sent in February 28
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · GW, No Eavesdrop Left Behind
Overheard at GW Law school – lounge – table of males and females: Girl 1: “Study says that spanking leads to riskier sexual behaviors!”Male 1: “Do they mean spanking during childhood or spanking during adult hood?”Girl 2: “I don’t know, both seem to apply to me… from personal experience…”
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