Comments on: New York, New York

By: bdbd

bdbd — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:55:38 +0000

An arena-sized class in intro business statistics, a “round it out to 100 points” 5 point exam question that goes “your friend makes the false statement A about the Law of Large Numbers. Correct your friend’s mistake and explain to your friend how the Law of Large Numbers can be usefully applied.”

One answer: “I would not have someone who cared about the Law of Large Numbers as a friend.”

By: Rick Dubin

Rick Dubin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:39:40 +0000

So this duck walks into Tavern on the Green……..

Made up is funny too…

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:19:19 +0000

“I have no doubt that these “quotes” are the product of TimeOut writers getting pissed in the pub on Friday afternoons”

I suspect they spend most of their time in the pub regretting the decline of Bradley’s Spanish Bar since they featured it as one of the top 10 reasons to live in London.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:04:49 +0000

#17 – I believe was translated from hieroglyphics in King Tut’s tomb . . .

By: kevn

kevn — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:00:49 +0000

Regarding the other VP candidates: They Palin comparison.
ziiiiiiing

By: Kieran

Kieran — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:17:22 +0000

#16 has been doing the rounds ever since women forced their way into science class, I think.

By: Matt McIrvin

Matt McIrvin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:19:47 +0000

Ah, yes... the companion to "Why Does It Taste So Salty?"

By: herr doktor bimler

herr doktor bimler — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:04:00 +0000

First-year biology tutorial. Class are going through the ritual of taking buccal swabs and smearing them on slides so they can practise their microscopy skills and learn to identify the different kinds of epithelial cells.

“Excuse me, Professor XXXX —this cell isn’t shown in the study guide”.
[Professor XXXX looks through microscope].
[Clinical but penetrating voice]: “That, young lady, is a human spermatozoon.”

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:00:52 +0000

Son #2 is going to be living in the West Village in 3 years, I’m sure.

I think when you see the Chrysler building though you think it should be the Empire State Building. It’s just so cool looking.

OK, I’m the idiot who thought it was The Empire State Building at first. In my defense, I was in the 4th grade.

By: qb

qb — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:38:58 +0000

And you believe that that “quote” is not contrived?

That’s exactly how it went down. I was there.

By: Watson Aname

Watson Aname — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:26:15 +0000

And you believe that that “quote” is not contrived?

Who knows? I’ve overheard even more ridiculous things from tourists though, so it’s certainly plausible.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:40:15 +0000

My ex-brother-in-law, when he was a graduate teaching assistant in biology, would routinely ask the undergrads in his lab to go to the supply room and bring him back some fallopian tubes. He claimed that many spent time doing just that.

Frank,

Kind of sad that someone so loony has the mone to stay at the Mark Hopkins.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:58:13 +0000

Overheard on a Napa Valley tour bus, last week:

Expensively dressed lady on mobile-phone, to her maid:

’ I’m sorry I can’t be there for the excorcism. Now be sure to ask the ghost-hunters whether they are good spirits spirits or whether they are bad spirits.’

She eventually got off the bus at 1 Nob Hill

By: Michael Drake

Michael Drake — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:53:29 +0000

Turns out, they were in Chicago.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:22:47 +0000

I don’t think Time Out’s ‘Overheard Underground’ is entirely made up, at any rate. I’m pretty sure that I was once quoted in it (though saying something which wasn’t even a bit witty, unfortunately).

It’s not really Time Out’s feature, anyway: it’s contributed by this bloke: http://www.themanwhofellasleep.co.uk/gossip.html.