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And Screech just died a little inside

eavesdropdc — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:04:36 +0000

[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 the presidents.”

NELB – Sent in July 9

eavesdropdc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:00:00 +0000

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

NELB – sent in July 25

eavesdropdc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:22:00 +0000

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 and get married. I’ve discovered that everybody in high level positions is married. Appaently you’re not trustworthy single.

NELB – Sent in July 10

eavesdropdc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:58:00 +0000

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.”

NELB – sent in this morning

eavesdropdc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:02:00 +0000

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!

Fergie would be so proud . . . AND it’s No Eavesdrop Left Behind Day!

eavesdropdc — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:00 +0000

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.]

Sent in February 12

eavesdropdc — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:40:00 +0000

GW prof: so, now, if you wanted to go build a shanty town on the mall to protest something or whatever, you could.

Sent in February 24

eavesdropdc — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:56:00 +0000

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.

Sent in March 16

eavesdropdc — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:53:00 +0000

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?

Sent in February 28

eavesdropdc — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:56:00 +0000

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…”