Monday Funny

by Jill on 8.28.2006 · 16 comments

Tourist: I want to go home. New York is so unchristian. Look at this, they even have a place called “Satan Island”!
New Yorker: Oh yeah, we New Yorkers are the worst. We even sold our souls to the devil so we could all read.

–6 train

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Liberal Serving: 8.30.2006 at 1:17 pm

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1 Kelley 8.28.2006 at 3:49 pm: You cannot be serious. No, it can’t be true.

Did someone toss this touris under the 6 train, cause that’s where he/she surely belonged.
2 Tally Cola 8.28.2006 at 4:25 pm: That is awesome beyond all reason.

I mean, as a quote, not that someone is actually that dumb.
3 Matt Browner-Hamlin 8.28.2006 at 4:25 pm: Such a great site. This conversation was my introduction to Overheard in New York.

Girl: There’s a Duane Reade.
Guy #1: What do we need a Duane Reade for?
Girl: If we’re gonna do this, you guys both have to be wearing condoms.

–84th & Broadway

I’m not sure what makes the site funnier – how honest people will be in public or how stupid people tend to be (in public or otherwise)…
4 DAS 8.28.2006 at 4:41 pm: Wait a minute? New York City has Duane Reade drugstores? Next thing you know, you’ll be telling me they have diners in NJ, space shuttle launches in FL, etc.

;)
5 piny 8.28.2006 at 5:08 pm: That’s apocryphal. That has to be apocryphal. Please, please, let that be apocryphal.
6 KnifeGhost 8.28.2006 at 5:44 pm: If by “apocryphal” you mean “totally awesome”, then yes, it’s apocryphal.
7 Thlayli 8.28.2006 at 6:56 pm: New York does, in fact, have a physical feature that bears Satan’s name:

Spuyten Duyvil
8 norbizness 8.28.2006 at 7:22 pm: I think I do believe about one out of every four overheards in New York, but I sure hope this is in the 25%
9 Mark 8.28.2006 at 9:46 pm: I don’t see what is wrong with the quote?

New Yorkers are satanists… look at your Yankees for proof!

:P

ps-I was being sarcastic if you didn’t already catch it. :)
10 VK 8.29.2006 at 5:36 am: Have you seen this -http://cristalia.livejournal.com/119634.html – Harlan Ellison groped Connie Willis during the Hugo presentations on Saturday.
11 StacyM 8.29.2006 at 6:47 am: OK, I could see myself making the “Satan Island” comment in a purely over-the-top satirical way. If someone said that with all sincerity… Wow.
12 zuzu 8.29.2006 at 10:27 am: You mean it’s *not* Satan Island?
13 Josh 8.29.2006 at 11:03 pm: For us folks in the Christian heartland, we’ll just have to remember to avoid Staten Island. It took me three minutes to figure out what was being referred to.
14 theohzone 9.1.2006 at 8:40 pm: i don’t believe this one simply because new yorkers wouldn’t just talk to somebody, particularly a tourist, and most of them couldn’t be that clever off the bat – except for you guys? :)

that tourist has serious problems.
15 theohzone 9.1.2006 at 8:42 pm: also “apocryphal” is hott.