girl: "she was anorexic and bullemic"
boy: "how's that work?"

"So is it real deja vu, or have you just been doing laundry a lot today?"

-said by my roommate to his wife in our kitchen

"Hey baby. I've been looking for you."

"Where were you all afternoon?! ...and where are those trailers? Bend over!"

- my supervisor and his manager, both male, as they were passing my cubicle

"Senator, I knew Jimi Hendrix, and that is not funny."

-A very serious woman in a book store at the mall. I have trouble believing that a US senator and a friend of Jimi Hendrix just happened to be in the same book store, but I know I didn't hear her wrong.

"...next on four, an interesting look at how alligators are being used in a complex insurance scam."

- Channel 4 (TV) Announcer, late at night

I know this doesn't technically qualify as something heard "in passing" but I couldn't help myself. It's a conversation between Sharon Osbourne and Gary Busey.

Gary: I wanted to invite you to my church...
Sharon: Oh really?
Gary: Yes, and afterwards we would get on horses and ride down this long road to the Dairy Queen and shout insults at anyone wearing zippers.

"Quick!!! Spray down at the bottom, where my butt is!!!"

~ this was shouted during sleep by a person who refused to explain it upon being awakened.

"Go get in bed and chew your feet!"
- at a Christmas party in North Hollywood, CA

"The word, ‘blueberries,’ it speaks of a fruit, but it speaks of much more, of the Lac St-Jean, of the summer cottage, of liberty and dripping juice, and also of the bears who from time to time come into the forest!"
- professor at the Université de Montréal

::blink::


(Translated from:

"Le mot, ‘bleuets,’ça parle d’un fruit, mais ça parle aussi de beaucoup plus, du Lac St-Jean, du chalet, de la liberté et du jus qui coule, et aussi des ours qui viennent de temps en temps dans la forêt!" - in other words, no, it doesn't make any more sense in French.)

"Listen, everyone knows that I'm a nice guy. I'm the one they come to when they want help with something. And they know that unless it's Hitler asking for me to come fix his stove, I'm going to do it."