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Overheard in COS ...

Overheard outside of Poor Richard's yesterday afternoon, where two young hippies were meeting up:

Girl hippie: "Sorry if I seemed weird this weekend. I was on mushrooms."

Boy hippie: "No way! I was on mushrooms too!"

Overheard in COS ...

While distributing the December issue at Penrose Library, we see two tough-looking cholos are browsing through the free paper/magazine thing.

#1: "What was that gay paper we saw here before?"

#2: "I think it was this one, Steppin' Out. You know, like steppin' out of the closet"?

(The funny thing is, I assume they were talking about Newspeak.)

Overheard in COS just now ...

A rangy-looking drunk dude just attacked the Downtown Shuttle, apparently because the driver refused to pick him up. Said drunk chased the shuttle down the street, shouting, "You're fired, fucker! You're fiiiiiiired!"

Overheard in COS ...

On the payphone outside of Downtown Dogs:

WOMAN (screaming into the phone): Why the fuck would I call you? You're the motherfucker who put me in fuckin' jail!
(at gawking passerby)
What the fuck are you looking at?

Overheard at the Colorado College Dining Room during Lunch

Girl: Yeah, I think he's moving to Olympia to work at some climbing gym and get his life together.

Guy: I don't know if he can do it. I mean, he hasn't climbed in soooooo long.

Overheard in COS just now ...

... Three guys waiting for the Downtown Shuttle singing, quite beautifully, Boyz 2 Men's "End of the Road."

Overheard at Lunch

Outside Boriello's Pizza

Palmer HS Boy #1: "Have you ever eaten alligator? It's soooooo good."

Palmer HS Boy #2: "With ketchup?"

Palmer HS Boy #1: "NO! NOT with ketchup."

At Acacia Park

Palmer HS Girl #1: "Who's John Candy?"

Palmer HS Girl #2: "I think he's, like, some kind of actor dude."

Overheard Outside Our Window

AN older black man whistling the theme to the Andy Griffth Show!

Overheard at Dogtooth Coffee

I'm at Dogtooth and these two guys are talking politics, real idiotically. "I'd like to get off the grid," says the postman taking a break in between routes, "that Ted Kacinsky had the right idea."

(Thanks to AM!)