Results tagged “overheard”

Overheard outside the ROM during last night's bomb scare. A small group of friends is standing on the corner of Bloor and University, facing the museum. Guy: You know, if they could figure out a way to destroy just the crystal and leave the rest of the museum intact, I think I'd be okay with this......

Overheard by tyrannosaurus_rek in the ticketholders line for the opening night of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. A young man and woman are discussing what they'll do after the screening of Mulberry Street.

You know all those flashy LED lights on the CN Tower? Apparently they're going to get flashier by this Thursday.

Overheard this afternoon on the bus. The TTC driver, while in traffic, is in conversation with a fellow driver. An accident has occurred outside of Downsview station.

Overheard in the Parkdale LCBO on Brock Street. A young man is talking to an employee.

Overheard on the subway between Chester and Pape. A homeless man is asking people for money and a mother and her teenage son are conversing.

Overheard on the eastbound Queen streetcar at Shaw St. A young couple is talking loudly about how worldly they are when the car stops in front of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.

Overheard by reader Adam in a store at Bathurst and St. Clair. A kid has apparently just soiled his trousers. He has relied on empirical evidence for his mother to figure this out.

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week.

Overheard by reader Elena H. on the westbound Queen streetcar just before River St., at around 6pm, on January 22nd.

Overheard at the intersection of Bloor and Spadina last night where two women were talking, walking east.

Overheard in the lobby halfway through the second act of Wicked, the "spellbinding musical" at the Canon Theatre.

Overheard in a midtown tea shop where two women are sitting with with their respective children, a boy and a girl. Both of the kids are about four years old. The little boy is talking excitedly to his mother about Santa Claus.

Overheard by everyone anywhere near the obviously crazy woman standing next to transfer machine at Wellesley station on a rainy afternoon.

Overheard at 2 AM along Queen West last week by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous.

Overheard at a stoplight while leaving Queen's Park at 12:30 PM today.

Overheard at a King Street eatery, 10:00 PM Tuesday.

Bookninja pointed us to Julie Wilson's Seen Reading blog. Wilson works in the publishing industry here in Toronto but on her blog she becomes a literary spy of sorts. She makes a note of what people are reading in public, guesses where you are in the book and concocts a blog post that riffs on that.

Overheard by Sarah H. on Queen West around Dovercourt.

Overheard on the 211 bus, Montreal, highway 20, direction Ouest. Sandy-haired teen: At the last Just For Laughs, this comic told this joke. He said:      "I travel in America and people ask me, 'what's the story with Toronto and Montreal?' So I tell them, it's like you have two brothers. One is an accountant. The other is a womanizing alcoholic."      And before he gets to the end of the sentence, the crowd starts cheering,...

"Overheard" on the Toronto Livejournal community: ME (On Bicycle): What kind of bike is that? COP (On horseback, in the bike lane): WHAT? ME: What kind of bike is that? COP: It's a horse. ME: Great! Get the @#$% out of the bike lane then. We have to admire this guy's moxie and want to point you to Matt Blackett's passionate rant about mounted cops from the Spacing Wire....

Overheard at one of the many Fringe lineups. Guy to Girl: It's not that I have no dignity. It's just that my dignity is cheaply bought....

Upset little old lady to her friend: I just HATE that all my pantsuits have tapered legs! I hate this modern world.

Overheard in the ladies washroom at the IFOA last night:

Just to mix it up a bit, we're taking a momentary departure from the usual spoken-word Streeter to bring you a particularly amusing written edition. Think you can handle the wild ride?

TOist tipster Rishi sends us this streeter:

Apropos of the greatness that was Slate's piece on Overheard in NY, TOist will say we like the motto of the website discussed at length in said article: "Anytime you overhear people, if you only hear a second of what they say, it's always completely stupid."

If they weren't construction workers, they could be cast as construction workers in the upcoming Torontoist biopic (simply entitled "Torontoist"). Overheard on St Clair West, around the breakfast hour, here's what the two men said: