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Overheard: Why Do We Go To A Liberal Pagan School?!

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May 1, 2008 - 12:00am
By Monika Derrien
Tags: overheard

Thanks everyone, for all the submissions this week and the past two years. It’s been fun!

Blonde: [sniffs] What is that?

Brunette: Are you kidding? You know that smell. I know that smell.

Blonde: [sniffs again] I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Brunette: Honey, it was all over you last night, and you know it. Ho Plaza always smells like cum in the springtime!

— Ho Plaza

Chick: Ugh! I hate Ho Plaza this time of year!

Dude: Why?

Chick: It makes me feel really bad…guilty.

Dude: Because it reminds you of how much you like the cock?

Chick: And I can’t escape it!

-Ho Plaza

Sorority Girl: Jenna, this is my sister!

Jenna B: ... Oh, your biological sister?! Hi!

— Outside Ruloff's

Middle-Aged Guy: Hey, is that a Chinese place I smell? Is there a Chinese place around here?

Student: It's Japanese.

Middle-Aged Guy: Applebees? That's Applebees that we're smelling?

Student: No, Japanese. [pointing] It's right here.

Middle-Aged Guy [beckons family over]: Hey, c'mon guys, there's a Chinese place over here! Is it all-you-can-eat? No, we must be too late for the buffet...

— Outside Kyushu

12-Year-Old Girl: Sometimes my orgasms feel like one-tenth of a sneeze.

12-Year-Old Friend: What does that mean?

— The Commons

Guy 1: You know one out of every four Cornell women get raped ... You could be that one!

Guy 2: Yeah ... thanks ...

— Arts Quad

Boy 1: What do you do when you have a crush on someone who's gay?

Boy 2: Yeah, I know. It's not like you can wait for the gay to go away!

— Donlon

Girl 1: You don't know what a hoodlum is?

Girl 2: I'm foreign.

— Ho Plaza

Cornellian: Why do we go to a liberal pagan school?!

— Libe Cafe

Guy: I would be Squirtle because I love it when my girlfriend squirtles for me.

— Duffield Hall

Remorseful Sunburned Kid: Oh man, I went outside yesterday for only an hour and I still got burned!

Pasty Lab Assistant: You should have listened to me. Never go outside.

— Baker Laboratory

Sorority Good Girl: Every time I kiss a boy, I get sick! ... Maybe it's God's way of telling me to become a nun.

— Ho Plaza

[Two guys sitting at a crowded table sing to each other while composing a comic-opera. Two other guys walk past, leaving without food, having ditched the line]

Foodless Guy 1: We are never coming here again.

Foodless Guy 2: Yeah, we're just not. . . artsy.

— Temple of Zeus

Distressed Student: But it's not your internship, it's my internship, Mom!...Mom, I lost so many socks!

— Low Rise 6

Random Hotelie: You know what 1.2 million dollars would mean to someone from Somalia? God, I want to be a pirate!

— Statler Library