Overheard At McGill » canada

Planet Awesome?

Overheard@McGill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:37:12 +0000

Prof: [looking at Girl 1] …Are you from the US?
Girl 2: She’s wearing a Roots sweater – why did you think that she was from the US?
Prof: I’m wearing no underwear. Where am I from?

- Leacock

Those Pompous Assholes

Overheard@McGill — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:38:45 +0000

Guy #1: So how are you going to get citizenship in both England and Canada?
Guy #2: I told you, I’m getting dual citizenship. It’s pretty normal.
Guy #1: OHHH. I thought you said jewel citizenship, like some weird British thing.

-Schulich Library

Overheard in 2006

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:24:16 +0000

Prof: The three things that Canadians have in common are hockey, a smug sense that the American health care system sucks, and its identity as a peace keeping nation.
Guy: And milk.
Prof: You have to stop bringing up milk, sometimes it fits sometimes it doesn’t.
Girl: That’s what she said.

-McConnell Engineering

Rand McNally is a dirty liar!

tdomf_9e22f — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:46:55 +0000

Girl 1: What’s the Capital of Alaska?
Girl 2: Anchorage?
Girl 1: Let’s look at the map.
Girl 2: Oh my God, Alaska is attached to Canada!?! I always thought it was an island!

-McConnell

And don’t even get me started on Lake Titicaca

tdomf_9e22f — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:48:00 +0000

Guy: Why would anyone name a city WATER-LOO??

-Otto Mass

Oh, ASIA! I thought you said “smoking pot”.

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:00:15 +0000

Professor: Do you have any experience in Asia?

Student: Not really… Well, I lived in Vancouver for a little bit.

-Leacock

Oh. I hear that’s a dangerous neighborhood.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:22:24 +0000

Girl 1: Where are you from?
Girl 2: Regina.
Girl 1: Ha, yah, we all came from vagina
Girl 3: Actually, I was born from a C-Section
- New Rez

Someone didn’t watch Carmen Sandiego growing up.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:25:39 +0000

Prof: So, minimal standards of living in Canada are very different to Togo.
Student: What the fuck is Togo?
- ECON 209

I…really don’t know where I was going with that.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:38:50 +0000

American: In Canada you may have free health care, BUT in AMERICA WE HAVE SOCIAL INJUSTICE!
- Greenbriar Rez Common Room

This Condition Is Called Hyperactive Separatist Syndrome

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:27:24 +0000

Prof: If you show patients with right parietal cortex damage a map of Canada and ask them to point to Quebec, they will point to the middle of the Atlantic…which is where Quebec should really be.
- ANAT321 Circuitry of the Brain

Please, he goes to McGill. What does he need Viagra for?

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:42:52 +0000

Girl 1: He has this really different accent because he’s from Niagara.
Girl 2: WHAT! He’s on Viagra?!?!
Guy: Possible Side Effects: you get a strong Canadian accent
- Geo Lounge

If only we could get rid of Rupert Murdoch and his desire to keep us informed…then we could ignore the whole world!

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:46:08 +0000

Girl1: Listen, so like 95% of Canada lives in Toronto.
(Table full of international students stare in awe)
Gir1: Well, like the GTA…the Greater Toronto Area.

-New Rez

Americans: The Canadians of Screwing.

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:18:01 +0000

“I know everyone claims to be anti-American, but I mean, if you want to be screwed, you’d rather be screwed by the Americans than the Europeans – at least, the Americans will pay your cab fare home.”

—International Business class in Bronfman

Because Canada starts with a K

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:57:59 +0000

(Two girls placing an order for food online)
Girl 1: What’s the postal code here?
Girl 2: um….I don’t know. I think it’s K3A something
Girl 1: Oh you mean H3A?
Girl 2: No, K ’cause we’re in Canada
Girl 1: …. for real?
Girl 2: yeah….is that not right?
Girl 1: oh my god.

—McConnell Residence

Faceless Invasion hits the road for Queen’s

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:38:31 +0000

Guy 1: So, what’s the mask for?
Guy 2: Oh, its so when you finger-bang a goat on camera your face won’t show up on the internet.
Guy 1 (shocked): We’re finger-banging goats? I don’t even think there are goats in Montreal.

—Leacock Lobby

US foreign policy? Sooo “Command and Conquer”!

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:07:08 +0000

Guy: You guys have mounted police? They go around on horses? That is sooo “Age of Empires”!

—BMH

“Yes, but not of the Rhode persuasion.”

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:00:11 +0000

Girl: Is Prince Edward Island an island?

—New Rez study room

In retaliation, American Guy would go to Afghanistan and mistakenly kill two Canadians.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:24:03 +0000

American Guy: [Jokingly] Canadians are mostly pussies who’ll believe anything the government tells them. I bet if me and you threw down I’d win solely on the fact that I’m American and you’re Canadian.
Canadian Guy: Oh please. If you and I actually got into a real fight you’d get knock down faster than the Twin Towers.

—Outside Redpath

It’s Under The Moose

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:01:58 +0000

Girl: I can’t believe it! I’m in Canada and I can’t get ice!

—RVC Caf

If by some, you mean all, and by states, you mean provinces, then yeah.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:51:14 +0000

(a bunch of Engineers playing Halo 2)
Engineer 1: You’re raping everyone, man!
Engineer 2: Yeah, I mean, that’s illegal in some states.
Engineer 3: Uh… some?

—Engineering Lounge

Rodney King would not be loved.

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:48:40 +0000

Newfie: Newfies aren’t for kicking…they’re for loving!

—Molson

Ladies and Gentleman, this is a Public Service Announcement. For the last time, yes, Montreal is a fucking island. Thank you.

overheardatmcgill — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:07:41 +0000

Girl 1: “So, let’s hang out over winter break”
Girl 2: “Wait, aren’t you going home to the West Island?”
Girl 1: “…What?”
Girl 2: “You live on the West Island..wouldn’t taking a presumably long ferry ride to hang out with me for a couple of hours be a waste, even though I am worth it?”
Girl 1: “…WEST OF THE MONTREAL ISLAND”
Girl 2: “MONTREAL IS AN ISLAND? WHAAAAT?”

–Outside Peterson Hall

Considering there are only a dozen or so Newfies at McGill, chances are that if you know a Newfie, that was him.

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:21:35 +0000

Newfie: See, in Newfoundland, we call AIDS “the hiv” and we assume that all homosexuals have it…and therefore avoid them.
Non-newfie: …dude, that’s fucking terrible.
Newfie: Well, I didn’t say that’s what I believe, but that’s how everybody else there feels.

— St. Catherine

Canada’s frigid business climate has failed to yield fruit

Alex — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:47:30 +0000

Prof: “Costa Rico is much better at producing bananas than Canada.”
- ECON 208

On the bright side, not much Calculus in Afghanistan

Alex — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:40:01 +0000

Canadian soldier (twists beret nervously in his hands): Yeah, I’m not really on duty right now; I’m actually going to school… I have to take CALCULUS.
McGill Girl: Really? I don’t have to take calculus.
Canadian soldier (drops beret in shock): That’s not fair!
- PE Trudeau Airport