Friday, August 31, 2007

Don't you mean Constantinople?

[Inside FedEx/Kinko's. Two Turkish dudes are dropping
off a FedEx package, having already filled out the
shipping label. Non-Turkish woman is working behind
the counter.]

Turkish dude: I need to send this package overseas.

Non-Turkish woman: Where is it going?

Turkish dude: Istanbul.

[Non-Turkish woman looks at the label.]

Non-Turkish woman: Can you spell that?

Turkish dude: I-S-T-A-N-B-U-L.

Non-Turkish woman: Is that a city?

-West End

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Sounds like that va-jay-jay needs to be baptized

Monday, August 27th at Lauriol Plaza restaurant:

"I know many Catholic girls who have very Pagan vaginas."

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

You know Obama's dad?

A man introducing his coworker to a friend:

Man [to coworker]: This is _______, he works at the Inter-American Investment Corp. across the street.
Coworker [to man's friend]: So, you are an economist by trade?
Friend: No, goat herder.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Details, shmetails.

Co-worker: Wait, are you trying to mentor someone or are you trying to get a Wii?


-- 2000 Penn

______ runs faster than my car!

It's a '96 Neon, so it isn't too surprising. This just sent in:

I heard this being said last Thursday and couldn't wrap my head around the 60 mph fast woman.

On a red line train at Union Station

Girl 1: I need to exercise.
Girl 2: You should go running with me. I run all the time.
Girl 1: You know ________ can run really fast. She says she can run, like, 10 miles in 10 minutes.
Girl 2: Yeah?

Monday, August 27, 2007

All I ask for are metro tracks with frickin' laser beams attached to them!

Metro PA: "Attention all concerned personnel: 3rd rail power between Grosvenor and Medical Center is about to be restored. Anyone not wishing 3rd rail to be energized: you have 1 minute to alert control."

Nervous passengers look around at each other, but avoid prolonged eye contact.

- Farragut West

Tell me how you really feel.

Girl: Get off your high, high, high horse. You're so high up you can't even see the ground, you bitch.

-- Dupont Circle

Friday, August 24, 2007

There are some things you shouldn't admit, even if they're true.

Ugly chic: "Let's just say, my phone's on vibrate and if it rings, that's the most action I've gotten in a long time."

-Dupont Circle, outside Krispy Kreme.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Hide your pet rabbits, gentlemen.

3 female co-workers standing on the corner waiting for walk signal.

1st woman: So, you think he is?

2nd woman: No, you don't really think he is?

3rd woman: Hell, yes I know he is. He is cheating on his wife and me. I'm gonna cut off his dick and then quit! That'll teach him.

--Corner of 15th and L, NW

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Baltimore - new fashion capital of the world

Guy: You know what I'm going to do? I'm bringing back the safari hat. Tomorrow I'm wearing a safari hat to work.
Girl: That's so Baltimore.

-- The Hill

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

We apologize for mixing our sports metaphors below - one of us is a girl and didn't know better

Scene: Man cuts a woman off to snatch a coveted parking space along a Clarendon street. Woman (looks to be in her mid 60's) stops car and gets out. She goes over to the man and starts tearing him a new one:

Man: Ma'am, it's just a parking space, settle down.
Grandma: Don't tell me to settle down!
Man: Ma'am think about your dignity, think about your self respect!
Grandma: Don't talk to me about fucking self respect you motherfucker!

Just a reminder that football season begins in 11 days

Professor: "I have three children--15, 13, and 7."

Female Student: "Oh, I don't think I could have three."

Male Student: "Yeah, with two you can do person-on-person defense, but with three you need zone."

Professor: "You have a point."

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Monday, August 20, 2007

"I'm feeling lucky!"

Guy: "You haven't heard about what happens when you type 'French military victories' into Google?"

Girl: "My Google's stuck on Turkish!"

-Ballston

Thursday, August 16, 2007

How do you respond to this?

Homeless Man to Young Woman: “Girl, I don’t wanna get freaky witchu, but you is FINE!”

-McPherson Square

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Thought we forgot you said that last night, didn't you?

"I'm the worst lesbian ever"

--Blue Line

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

No, you aren't smarter than a 5th grader!

Tourist woman: "Are those mountains in the picture the Himalayas?"

--Museum of the American Indians, in the exhibit about tribes in the Andes Mountains in South America

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Friday, August 10, 2007

My new favorite band is Pumba and Mulan.

Man, to woman next to him listening to her iPod: "You a fan of the iPod?"

Woman, clearly annoyed: "yes"

Man: "Yeah, me too. So whatcha listening to?"

Woman: "Belle and Sebastian."

Man: "Is that like a collaboration between the "Beauty and the Beast" chick and that crab from "Little Mermaid"?"

--Metro, yellow line at Crystal City

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

This is retarded.

On a metro train at McPherson Square:

Woman tourist: "But doesn't DC have a subway?"

--Blue line train, McPherson Square, around noon

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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

That's some LSAT-worthy logical reasoning. Please be my lawyer.

While standing near a clearly marked sign that says "Red Panda":

Tourist 1: "Is that a fox, or a monkey?"

Tourist 2: "It's a monkey, it's in a tree!"

--Zoo

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Monday, August 06, 2007

Some eavesdrops are so awesome they don't even need a funny subject line.

Girl 1: "So did you enjoy hanging out with ______?"

Girl 2: "Yah we had a great time--smoked some, drank some."

Girl 1: "Sex some?"

Girl 2: "NO! He has size 14 shoes."

Girl 1: "Oh?"

Girl 2: "He would break my vagina."

--Luna Grill, Shirlington

Friday, August 03, 2007

Be sure to remember this life lesson when you're drunk at IHOP tonight.

Girl #1: "This is too much food and I'm really not that hungry. I don't think I'm going to eat the pancakes."
Girl #2: "Seriously? You can't not eat the pancakes. This is IHOP not IHO."

--IHOP, Ballston

The teen years are where you really get your priorities straight.

Teen girl to friends: "If I didn't spend so much money at stores like this (shows price tag to friends), I would have money for weed."

--corner of M and Wisconsin

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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Doh!

Father of tourist family (holding up fare card to metro employee): "I don't get it. I put enough money on here for the four of us, but when I put the card into the machine, it just spits it back out the top."

--Rosslyn

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Wonder what the next d-bag trend will be?

Young suit on cell: "Nooo, remember what they said!? Popped collars are out of style now!!"

--Lafayette Park