Overheard: Spiritual or Full of Spirits?

February 19, 2009
By Keri Blakinger

Mc Epic

Girl 1: A sandwich is not epic unless it’s like ... the Iliad.

Boy 2: I have a great picture in my head of a McIliad.

— Synapsis Cafe

A World Without Class

Boy: I have one class on Thursdays and no class on Fridays ... I like my Fridays like I like my ladies ... no class!

—Collegetown

AA is For Quitters

Girl 1: I mean, it’s not alcoholism if it’s fun ... and you’re with your friends.

Girl 2: That’s not true, you can have a LOT of fun drinking by yourself!

— West Campus

$orry

Boy: Do you think I need to say I’m sorry or should I just give him his money back?

Girl: I don’t think you need to say sorry … giving him money is an apology — he’s Jewish. I bet the words for money and sorry are the same in Jewish. Or Yiddish, whatever.

—Linden Ave.

Spiritual or Full of Spirits?

Boy 1: You didn’t know there was a church close to Collegetown Bagels?

Boy 2: No.

Boy 1: Yeah, that’s where all the girls are always coming from in Collegetown.

Boy 2: Oh, that’s why they sound like that — they’re not drunk, they’re speaking in tongues.

—West Campus

Cognitively Challenged

Girl 1: So it’s connected to cognitive

dissonance?

Girl 2: What’s dissonance?

—Engineering Quad