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I Even Heard Birds Are Being Forced To Move South For The Winter

tdomf_9e22f — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:27:55 +0000

Girl: I’m SICK of global warming! The sun keeps going down earlier and earlier!!!

-Upper Rez

And We’re Out!

Overheard@McGill — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:23:01 +0000

We will see ya next year. I mean, if you’re, like, into that…or whatever…

Sometimes the Inconvenient Truth is More Convenient

Overheard@McGill — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:08:01 +0000

Guy: I am really into this Green Fashion Show and all, but sometimes I just wish there was global warming.
Girl: Seriously…

-Milton Gates

No you cannot cry on my shoulder.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:48:38 +0000

Guy:…and that’s how I got Herpes in both my eyes.

-University and Milton

I grew a beard once but I ended up burning down a village.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:03 +0000

A slide with a picture of Robert Mugabe is shown.

Guest lecturer: You guys have seen that t-shirt that says “Guns don’t kill people, mustaches kill people”. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. So many bad people throughout history have had horrible mustaches! Hitler, Stalin, Mugabe… all had mustaches!

Class laughs.

Guest lecturer: No, really, mustache aside, he really is a murderer and a bad person.

-POLI 324

Ah, that would be Leacaucasian

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:00:40 +0000

“The Brown Student Services Building??.. What? Where do the white people go?”

-McTavish Gates

A “Wild” Guess

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:00:25 +0000

Discussing the play, “The Wild Duck” by Henrik Ibsen.
Guy: So, how are they scaling grades in this class, anyway?
Girl: Well, everyone kinds starts out with a B- and then they see what your essay is like. If you’re the one who wrote on your test ‘Gregors is a raccoon’ then you’re towards the bottom and everyone who didn’t say ‘Gregors is a raccoon’ does better than you.
Boy: Man, I gotta read this book.
- ENGL 314

Oedipus, man, what the fuck, I thought we talked about this.

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:42:42 +0000

Guy 1: “You know what’s really hot?”
Guy 2: “What?”
Guy 1: “Sniffing a sexy chick’s underwear”
Guy 2: “Yeah man.”
Guy 1: “So you do it too? I do it after sex when she leaves the room?”
Guy 2: “Yeah. Me too. But usually, it’s my mom’s underwear so my girlfriend doesn’t get weirded out.”

—before class

The way they dangle their participles… Fucking disgusting

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:51:29 +0000

(Girls are parting before Girl 1 walks into Brutopia)
Girl 1: Good night! (hugs)
Girl 2: Good night! Don’t hook up with any creepy guys, and NO LINGUISTS!
Girl 3: Yeah, no fucking linguists. Unless they’re hot.
Girl 2: No! Not even then! No linguists!

—outside of Brutopia

Oh, and I would have answered your email but our computer was stolen like my virginity in eighth grade

Alex — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:27:10 +0000

A mother meeting her daughter on the street.
Daughter: Hey you didn’t pick up my call earlier.
Mother: Sorry, I couldn’t make it to the phone on time just like your father couldn’t make it to the toilet on time.
Daughter: What do you mean mom?
Mother: Lunch didn’t go down well. There was explosive diarrhea in the car.
Girl: Oh my god!
Bystander: That’s disgusting.
- Sherbrooke and University

Military-Industrial Complex ain’t got nothing on McGill’s Superiority Complex.

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:57:15 +0000

Student: Is it true that a McGill professor is working on a bunker-busting bomb?
Professor: Yes, because we have learned that Concordia is up to something in their bunkers
(Class: slight laughter )
Professor: Yes, that is where they are training them to deliver pizza.
(Class: loud laughter and applause)

—POLI 227 (Intro. to Developing Areas), Leacock 132

Schizophilia

Alex — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:27:02 +0000

Girl 1: I just don’t think I can ever be fully monogamous.
Girl 2: What does your boyfriend think about that?
Girl 1: Which one?
- Lower Campus

My other roommate’s Quebecois, he keeps on trying to start his own apartment…

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:41:42 +0000

Guy: Yeah, I hate fighting with my roommate. He’s American, it makes him really aggressive.

—Redpath cafeteria

She’s got one of those V-Cards that you can earn frequent fellators miles on.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:00:42 +0000

Guy 1: She said she still has her V-Card, but she’s given head to over 20 different guys!
Guy 2: Well, technically she’s a virgin.
Guy 1: No, technically she’s a slut.

—-Burnside Basement

Rhyming also to blame for the Attack on Iraq

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:49:44 +0000

American Student: Why do they call it “zed” instead of “zee” in Canada, that doesn’t rhyme in the alphabet song.
Professor: Well, unlike Americans, we don’t need a song to remember the alphabet.
- Burnside, Econ 230

Daddy’s Little Sadomasochist

Alex — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:21:00 +0000

Girl on cell: “So we basically decided it was when you cut off someone’s balls and shove them up his ass.
[Listens]
……Yeah, ok. Bye, Dad, I love you!”
–McGill Ghetto

Overheard…in different ways

Alex — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:53:00 +0000

Ed Note: We got the same quote, from three different submitter, recalled in three different ways. It’s Overheard At McGill’s game of telephone. Each version recalls the exchange differently.

Version 1:
English major fails to comprehend angelology
(In ENGL 202, pur hero [the professor] explains that according to Paradise Lost, angels could have more pleasurable sex than mortals. He also explains that angels were exclusively depicted as males at the time…)
Girl: Who did the angels have sex with?
Ken Borris: Each other.
Girl: EW!

Version 2:
paradise lost?
guy: so they were having gay angel sex?
—-in eng. 202, filled with english majors or minors at 8:30 am

Version 3:
English Lecture on Paradise lost-

Guy- So they all have gay angel sex?
Prof- Uh.. Yeah!
Prejudiced annoying girl who always makes obnoxious comments: EWW!!

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Alex — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:01:00 +0000

[Two 11-year-olds on the 80 bus passing New Rez where two rainbow flags are hanging down]

Kid 1: What’s that flag?
Kid 2: It’s the Outgames flag.
Kid 1: No, the one with the 6 different colours.
Kid 2. Oh. I think that might be the McGill flag.

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Alex — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:14:00 +0000

Ambulance Driver: “Are you sure you want to go to the hospital with her? It’s only midnight–I’m sure you could hook up with someone else tonight.”

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Alex — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:06:00 +0000

“Everybody down! I’m hijacking the elevator!!”

…[awkward minute of silence]…

–McConnell Engineering Elevator

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Alex — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:57:00 +0000

Limping Girl [in crutches]: I tried something new last night…
Guy: Anal?

–Shatner Lobby

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Alex — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:11:00 +0000

[outside stripclub, in broad daylight, two attractive girls pass]

stripclub hypeman: hey baby, you lookin’ good. What are you? Are you Lebanese?
[girls hurry away]
girl 1: what did he mean am i Lebanese? does that mean he thinks my sunglasses are ugly?
girl 2: no way, they look totally hot on you.