Overheard At McGill » obscure reference

Side Effects Are A Love of Star Trek And No Girlfriend.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:36:05 +0000

Professor: What population has a high rate of myopia?
Student: Nerds?

-Leacock

Evil Knievel Had Like 30 Kids Or Something.

tdomf_9e22f — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:27:22 +0000

Girl 1: If the guy is really big, wouldn’t you be more likely to get pregnant?
Girl 2: No, only when his balls are big.

- New Rez

Rum Runner Wishes and Sans Nom Fishstick Dreams.

tdomf_9e22f — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:10:43 +0000

Guy (on phone): You’re just looking for the cheapest way possible to get completely wasted. Here at McGill, we have class. We drink, like, Rum Runner.

-University & Milton

But surely you know that nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

tdomf_9e22f — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:00:39 +0000

Girl: (yelling angrily) Will someone PLEASE tell me what the STUPID Spanish Inqui-frickin-sition is?!

-Leacock

I’m pretty good at SML, but I’m placental discharge at Python.

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:53:46 +0000

Guy: If you’re crap at SML, then I’m period blood at SML.

-Trottier

And Linux is like using contraceptive foam?

tdomf_9e22f — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:52:34 +0000

Guy 1: Viruses are like the STDs of porn.
Guy 2: Yeah, that’s why you use a Mac. It’s like wearing a condom.
Guy 1: Yeah, but it just doesn’t feel the same.

-Duluth

‘Til death do us part.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:27:53 +0000

Guy: Avada Kedavra is so romantic!
- McTavish

Of Foils and Philosophy

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:22:20 +0000

Fencer 1: See, I’m a dualist, and he’s a monist.
Fencer 2: Well, since we’re fencers, we’re technically all dualists.
Fencer 1: Yeah, I guess he just duals himself.
- Fencing Tournament

It’d certainly bring the greatest amount of good to the greatest number of people.

overheardatmcgill — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:21:10 +0000

Girl: These sunglasses are SOOOOOOO awesome, they adapt their color to the amount of light! They are SOOOOOOOO utilitarian.
Philosophy student : I hope she kills herself.
- Outside of Leacock

“And she complains afterwards just like a woman…”

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:55:07 +0000

Guy: “Listen…Bob Dylan…Musical genius, yea…but premature ejaculator.”

Plot Summary, TransAtlantica

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:52:23 +0000

Prof: ..for example, some damselfish populations have only one male. And if the male gets killed, one of the females will transform into a male within hours.
Student: How do you figure out gender on the reef?
Prof: We can tell because all of a sudden they stop asking for directions.
- Stewart

You think guy 4 is Yahel?

overheardatmcgill — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:57:45 +0000

3 guys wearing mcgill sweatshirts, presumably roommates, are waiting in line at the registers and are impatiently wondering where the 4th guy is…
Guy 1: where is he?
Guy 2: i know, how long does it take to get cans of the soda he wanted?
(guy 4 returns, empty handed and dejected)
Guy 3: what happened? you couldn’t find them?
guy 4 shakes his head no…
Guy 3: alright, i’ll go help you
(a good 10 minutes pass…they were now at the register and the clerk is ringing up their order and still no sign of guy 3 or guy 4)
Guy 2 to guy 1: wow, remind me never to go shopping here again with both of them
Guy 1: yeah, i know
- Metro on Parc during first week of finals

In an alternate past, Mr. Nakamura hits it off with a little-known orphan with big dreams, Annie-San

overheardatmcgill — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:59:27 +0000

(A fat Asian guy with red dyed hair walks by)
Really White Guy: Dude! That guys looks just like Hiro, you know from Heroes!
Friend: Are you an idiot that guy looked nothing like him. Man can’t you tell Asian guys apart.
White Guy: Of Course I can! Clearly you’re not a fan of the show.
- Outside Otto Maass near the garden.

If only there was an underground passage for everything! Then we could take the darkness of our smoke filled rooms with us all day!

overheardatmcgill — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:45:03 +0000

Girl 1: Did you know there’s an underground tunnel connecting Leacock and Redpath?
Girl 2: Really?! I wish there was a tunnel connecting Leacock and Stewart Bio… I mean, it wouldn’t be that hard to do, would it?

-Corner of Peel and Dr. Penfield

This one is as much a mystery as Yahel Carmon’s whereabouts

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:42:52 +0000

(Guy taking a shit, yelling to friend outside bathroom)

Guy: Man, I can’t wait to take a shit in a bathroom I can actually fit in.
-Rue Ste-Famille

“There are people dying… If you care enough for the living… make a better place, for you, and for me”

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:51:20 +0000

Girl 1: Hey girls, I went back for reading week and so much happaned. Remember my friend Danielle? Apparently her father died.
Girl 2: uh huh…
Girl 1: And remember my friend Dan? I called his house and his mother said he killed himself last week.
Girl 2: okay…
Girl 1: And look at my hair. My hairdresser ruined it!
Girl 2: OH MY GOD, that is tragic!
- ANTH 209 lecture

The online version features Bukkake.

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:44:39 +0000

Dorky Kid playing the tennis game on the Nintendo Wii and beating all challengers.
Dorky Kid: Oh man, I can’t wait till the Nintendo people come up with the Wii-jerking-off-game.
Other Guy playing Wii tennis against him: Dude, thats gross.
Dorky Guy: Man, C’mon…you cannot tell me you haven’t fantasized about it.
Other Guy: I fantasize about Angeline Jolie.
Dorky Guy: You’re such a loser…
—Computer Science Party, Durocher

No Squirrel, No Cookie! (see comments)

overheardatmcgill — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:16:15 +0000

Two girls are meeting on the corner of Milton and Lorne.

Girl #1: What took so long?
Girl #2: We were so close to getting the squirrel, you have no idea…

—Milton and Lorne

which is in New England — no, that’s all wrong, I’m certain! We must have been changed for New Rez girls!

overheardatmcgill — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:04:12 +0000

Girl 1: No, dude, I never knew New Jersey was in New York!
Girl 2: Yeah… I didn’t even know New Jersey was a city!!!

—Stanley and St. Caths