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    Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
    9:40 am
    [rhiannonmai]
    At Toys-R-Us Santa Cruz.
    Little Girl 5 or 6 years old.
    "MOMMY!! I want a boy toy"
    Mommy
    "Me too, Sweetie, me too"

    Longs Drugs Downtown Santa Cruz
    Little Boy about 6-7 years old.
    "DAAAAAAD!!!! Mommy's buying EVERYTHING in the store!!!"


    Monday, March 23rd, 2009
    10:14 am
    [vexvim]
    Overheard on the Red Line

    Loud Woman cursing a blue streak with a baby in a stroller talking to a couple also cursing a blue streak

    Mom: That was my favorite baby daddy. I'd take a bullet for him. Straight up
    Saturday, February 7th, 2009
    2:36 pm
    [thornwolf]
    Made in China
    Overheard in Prehistoric Pets in Irvine, CA

    Child holding money and pointing to the crappy rubber dinosaur toys: "Dad I want one"

    Dad: "No we're not buying anything here"

    Child: "But why?"

    Dad: "Because it's made in China"
    Friday, August 29th, 2008
    12:19 pm
    [merry_rogue]
    Overheard at Cal State Fullerton
    While waiting for my history class this morning, two first-time freshmen were having a conversation. The below exchange occurred after one turned and bent over to take something out of her backpack, which was on the ground:

    Girl 1: "Oh my god, are you like on your period or something?"
    Girl 2: "Oh my god, yeah, why?"
    Girl 1: "There's all this blood on the back of your pants."
    Girl 2: *In a lower voice* "But I'm wearing black underwear, you're not supposed to be able to see it."
    Girl 1: "I think that only works if you wear black pants."
    Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
    6:26 pm
    [funnygurusdca]
    Freeway Overpass: 1 -- Graffiti Artist: 0
    Not exactly overheard in CA - more like "overhead" (momentarily, anyway!)


    Man, said to be tagging overpass, injured on 5 Freeway in East Los Angeles
    Witnesses say man who fell from an overpass near Main Street off-ramp had a can of spray paint in his hands.

    I wonder if he stepped back to admire his work?!?

    A man was apparently spray painting graffiti on an overpass when he fell Saturday night onto the 5 Freeway in East Los Angeles, authorities said.

    Several motorists told authorities that the man had possibly broken his back at about 9:45 p.m. and had a can of spray paint clutched in his hands as he lay on the freeway near the Main Street off-ramp, said California Highway Patrol spokesman David Porter.

    Porter said the man was taken to a nearby hospital where he is being treated.

    The accident comes about three weeks after prolific tagger Cyrus Yazdani -- who goes by the moniker "Buket" -- was arrested for causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage.

    Yazdani is perhaps most recognized for a YouTube video that shows him climbing and spray painting behind the Hollywood Freeway sign near Melrose Avenue as traffic speeds below.


    - link to story ...
    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tagger23-2008jun23,0,7487128.story

    - Buket video ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywOZPO5VJy8


    Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
    10:33 am
    [rhiannonmai]
    Outside the back door of the downtown library.
    "Look Mister! I have the purple pen. That makes me more dangerous than you!"


    I have no idea what the power of purple pen does. BUT I WANT ONE!!

    Sunday, May 25th, 2008
    1:59 am
    [existencialismo]
    Want to go to Mighty Mic?

    FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE (Students, Faculty, and all community members) ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT - FIRST COME FIRST SERVE - LINEUP AT BETWEEN 4:00 - 6:00 PM IN FRONT OF ACKERMAN GRAND BALLROOM on the UCLA CAMPUS - $10 Suggested donation - 100% of proceeds are going towards purchasing a mobile clinic!

    for more info check out http://www.mightymic.org or email mightymicconcert@gmail.com



    Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
    3:31 pm
    [merry_rogue]
    Overheard on the bus
    So in taking public transportation to class earlier this afternoon, I was joined by a few students from the local high/middle school, that just got out, on their way home. Two girls sat behind me, both black and appeared to be freshman age.

    They got to talking, rather loudly, about swear words as one of them had apparently gotten in trouble for cursing in class.

    Anyway, this part made me chuckle a little:

    Girl 1: "What's wrong with saying 'ass'?"
    Girl 2: "I know. Really!"
    Girl 1: "It's not like I meant it like a butt or something."
    Girl 2: "Didn't Jesus have an ass?"
    Girl 1: "Yeah, he did! He rode a donkey! If Jesus can say 'ass' I can too."
    Saturday, February 16th, 2008
    6:48 pm
    [funnygurusdca]
    Here it came -- and there it went!
    Make that "Overhead in Cali" ...

    I'm pretty sure I just saw that satellite that the U.S. is planning to shoot down next week, before it crashes!

    On the Channel 8 6:30 pm news, they said it would be visible in the San Diego skies, beginning at 6:34 pm, for a only a few minutes, traveling rapidly from Southwest to Northeast.

    The Navy plans to fire a missile from a ship somewhere in the Pacific Ocean to destroy the satellite. I hope they're a damn good shot because that thing was really haulin' ass across the sky!
    Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
    8:15 pm
    [funnygurusdca]
    On a T-shirt seen at UCSD
    "Democrats make better lovers! Who has ever heard of a great piece of elephant?"
    Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
    10:51 am
    [pretty492]
    On the handwritten sign taped to the drive-thru speaker with chicken stickers.
    "So sorry!  We don't have no nacho cheese and chips and potatoes." 
    Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
    9:12 am
    [rhiannonmai]
    Fires in California Find your loved one

    http://www.norcalscan.org/live.html
    Live audio feed from the SoCal fires


    Here's _one_ way "Health and Welfare" message traffic is now being accomplished these days, over the internet.
    http://disastersafe.redcross.org/
    It all helps.
    73, Cap

    Fires in California Find your loved one
     ----------------------------------
       
       If you have a family member or know someone who does in Southern
     California please forward the following information to them to locate
     there loved ones:
       Red Cross Safe and Well Being Web Site: www.redcross.org or call
     1-800-RedCross for help to register on line or you may do so on their
     behalf.

       Lynda Maguet
     Director Disaster Services
     American Red Cross
     Monterey-San Benito Counties Chapter
     942 Lupin Drive
     Salinas, CA.93906
     (831) 424-4824 Ext 5007
     (831) 375-5730
     LyndaM@MontereyARC.org
    Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
    6:18 pm
    [agreatnotion]
    Your Trio is a Wonderland
    "So you know John Mayer by himself. He sucks. But have you heard the John Mayer Trio? It sounds like Stevie Ray Vaughan! What the fuck, John Mayer!"

    — San Francisco, 25th & Bartlett St.
    Saturday, September 8th, 2007
    8:14 am
    [diabhol]
    'Cause This Time It Won't Be Denied
    Balding Man On Phone: It's gonna be like the holocaust, but a good holocaust.


    --CVS, Silver Lake


    Overheard by: dude, seriously?

    Current Mood: tired
    Current Music: NPR, "Weekend Edition"
    Friday, August 31st, 2007
    3:37 pm
    [funnygurusdca]
    On the bus going to Coronado
    Two women in their early twenties, discussing a promiscuous friend

    I won't say she sleeps around alot, but some guys have a petition going around, nominating her for "The Annabel Chong Humanitarian Award"!
    Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
    7:46 am
    [rhiannonmai]
    Downtown SC
    Two women, obviously sisters. Walking along Pacific Ave.
    "Diana! Your source of information comes from a woman who gets sexually aroused by looking at the weave of a fabric draped across her thigh!!"


    Current Mood: amused
    Sunday, August 5th, 2007
    7:07 pm
    [merry_rogue]
    I'm so going to Hell for this one
    While working the registration line at a convention last month in Long Beach, I saw/overheard this one:

    A woman who had no arms (Her hands came straight out of her shoulders--More likely the unfortunate birth defect caused by her mother taking an injection of Delalutin to prevent a miscarriage) was desperately searching for her party in the crowd of thousands of people waiting to get through registration. Every now and then she walked past me, standing on her toes, trying to peer over the crowd.

    Eventually she came by me again while talking on her cell phone and (I suppose) out of frustration she yelled out, "Would you like me to jump up and down, waving my arms?!"


    I stifled back a smirk, picturing the poor lady waving her non-existent arms, and have felt guilty for it ever since. -_-
    Saturday, July 14th, 2007
    5:56 pm
    [miriku]
    tourists
    hotel elevator in hollywood, the speakers are 30 somethings in touristy clothes, no accents

    i get on, this is the conversation already in progress as i hear it
    "... then we get off on the meeting floor and take the escalator, much faster"
    "i'm so excited! i've never had plantains before"
    "... you are sooo white"
    Monday, July 2nd, 2007
    11:05 pm
    [crystaviel666]
    San Diego Fair
    I was at the San Diego Fair last Thursday with my son and was looking at livestock. We were looking at pretty average-sized cows (although to a child it would've been big), and I overheard a young girl exclaiming, "Oh my gosh! I didn't know they got THAT big!"

    It was so adorable. :^>
    Saturday, June 30th, 2007
    2:51 pm
    [backsideofmoon]
    not necessarily overheard, but rather 'oversaw'
    my friend and i were on our way to walmart (because it was the only thing still open at 1am), and we were sitting at a red light.  we were right behind a car that had two illuminated screens in the back seat.  ok, now most of the time that im behind a car with those, they have like disney movies in for the kids or something similar.  no, not this time.  this time is was some high quality porn.  my friend and i just looked at each other and were like 'are you seeing what i'm seeing?"  and we just laughed.
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