"...Daddy Warbucks' hair, and all I said was, 'You can't have Daddy Warbucks' hair!"
~A girl telling an apparently amusing story to a guy next to her at The Crib

"Argh."
"Horses."
"EW!"
~Two girls walking the halls of Sauk. Didn't sound like an ongoing convo, either, as before this they were talking about not going to someone's party. Then there was a pause, and then this.

"And another thing! Nobody but a midget would ride a pony on a cattle drive!"

--a vehement woman, who apparently left the kitchen just to make that announcement, then immediately went back in, at the Main Street Brewery. Cortez, CO.

[edit] Yesterday, almost a year after hearing this quote, I was in the Brewery (mmm...fresh honey root beer...) and this very same woman was kvetching about the music again:

"Why am I not surprised that a girl that would say 'that don't impress me' isn't impressed with rocket science?"

She cracks me up. If my wife weren't the jealous type, I would invite this woman out just to listen to her rant. Unless she rants like that about everything, which would just get old.

"And there were actually parents livid with me for teaching their children that there was more than one way to think about women."
"To think about women like Marie Curie, or...?"
"Marie Curie or Pam Anderson. All the same. Doesn't matter."
--Two women talking in line at Caribou Coffee

"And we were all insane people from an asylum and I was the news broadcaster 'cause I was really cold."
~Girl at SALT, talking about a crazy night on the town

"Did you say 'speedo night'?"
"No! He said 'Santa Claus in a speedo'!"
~Girl and guy at SALT. The guy had been laughing at something that was said, and the girl was trying in vain to figure out what was going on.

"So what happened the other day, did they fix your brain?"
One guy talking to another guy on the escalator at the mall

"And the guy was singing with his dog, you know, the one with the sunglasses? And all these homeless people were gathering around, and it was all really sunny."

--Overheard at restaurant in Sarasota or something like that. The lady was totally serious.

"...I was wearing a shirt that sort of made me look pregnant, and he told me that my baby was going to burn in hell. I said, 'I'm not even pregnant, you bastard!'"
- woman at a workshop

"So, what would YOU, the ethical subjectivist, say to Ted Bundy when he announces that it is right for him to rape and kill you because he will derive pleasure from it? Anyone?"

"Uh, isn't there another way we could discuss this chapter?"



-Professor and student in Ethics 234, having an academic debate