Overheard ...
Mon, 2005-05-02 17:16
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Overheard ...
... in new york ...
you will hoot ...
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he he he he
ps
I think you would enjoy Augusten Burroughs' books - he is a very camp gay New Yorker but he is sooooo funny.
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I'm locked out of my room so until the security guard gets here I shall be ranting!
Girl #1: Have you heard? I read dolphins are committing suicide together in ever larger numbers.
Girl #2: Is that good or bad for us?
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This is my favorite. It is soooo New York. You have to live there for a while to appreciate just how New York this is. I almost pissed myself.
Middle-aged woman #1: Yeah, my cleaning woman is the greatest! Last time, she color-matched and coordinated all of my lipsticks and arranged them in a row for me!
Middle-aged woman #2: Oh my god! I'd swoon!
--Midtown elevator
Woman: Do you have a non-fiction section?
Book Guy: Well, everything that's not fiction is non-fiction. [Over] there's cooking, and there's history.
Woman: No, that's not what I asked. Do you have a section for non-fiction?
Book Guy: Well, there are no non-fiction novels. Everything here that's not a novel is non-fiction.
Woman: But you don't have a non-fiction section?
Book Guy: No. Everything that isn't fiction is non-fiction.
--Barnes & Noble, Staten Island
I think they made it up.



