Hanging out being lazy? Not so fulfilling.

Sent in from BC:

Guy 1: “So, how’s life now that you’re just hanging out and being lazy?”

Guy 2: (with long sigh) “Not as fulfilling as one might think.”

Cool your Kool-Aid

Loud guy on the phone at Michelangelo’s:

“Honey, you just have to cool your Kool-Aid.”

Avoiding “the grid”

Staying off the grid at Escape:

Woman: “The problem with getting a job is that I don’t want to deal with ‘the man.’ If I get a job I have to go back on the grid and I don’t want to deal with that.”

“She has all of these ultra slutty Smurfette costumes.”

Echodropped at Escape and context completely missed:

Woman: “…she has all of these ultra slutty Smurfette costumes.”

Man: “Slutty Smurf – isn’t that kind of an oxymoron.”

Woman: “No,  she’s taking a page from Michael Jackson she turned into this tall Asian woman who dresses like a slutty Smurfette.”

A little bit later…

Woman: “I love CSI because they did that whole thing on furries.”

The Devil in Human Resources

From Mark: Overheard this comment made to a barista at a downtown coffee shop. I’m leaving off the name of the place because it is slightly demeaning to the worker.

Woman walks up to counter and makes it known she used to be a regular customer who hasn’t been by in a long time:

“Are you still working here! They must pay you well. Maybe you should consider making a deal with the Devil to get out.”

Woman laughs. After she leaves the barista turns to her co-worker and says something about the woman being crazy. They laugh.

Where do you want the TYME Machine to take you?

From Brown Pleather Bag at Fair Trade on State Street:

A customer walks in and has no cash. The barister (is that right for guy coffee shop workers?) says she’ll need to visit the TYME machine and go back in time.

The customer asks which year he’d go back to. He said it was a tough question. She said, “sixth grade.”

The customer clarified that the question implied that the time to which the barister must travel be within his own lifetime, not sometime like the 17th century.

Good question.

Burning the Bangle flag

Almost right…

Girl 1: The Bangles? Didn’t they do that song “Eternal Flame”?

Girl 2: I think that was a Cindi Lauper song, wasn’t it? The Bangles did do that song about grandmas and flag burning.

Echodropped at Michelangelo’s down the street from the Orpheum where the reunited Bangles will be playing on August 24 (hat tip to Matt).

European category tags

You light the other end. You stick that end in your mouth.

Middle-aged REBEL! Giggling chief of King Street dispenses piece-ful advice, walks his party favor to an adjacent cluster of smokers. We declined.

First Echodrop Round-Up

Prior to Echodrop Madison launching it took on a life of it’s own via Isthmus Ombudsman and Dane101 (where the name came from, but co-opted by IsOm). Here is a brief round up of some of those Echodrops reprinted without permission from that scalawag at IsOm.

“I’m like: how’m i supposed to bang hot chicks with this huge ass elbow?”
–sent in by real Bohemian blood.

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Weary Traveler manager(?) guy:

[That particular wine was] very mineral-y–very good. That’s a company that I don’t do business with anymore. They canned our good friend, who was their salesman–so I canned them.

Got something for you to try though.

[mixes drink]

Vodka and bull’s blood… They pasteurize it first.

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Sent in by Hastings, who’s too groggy to pretend he recorded that perfectly. He did follow up, though…

H: Just out curiosity, what was the drink you made that guy?

WTMG: The one I said was bull’s blood? That was puréed watermelon….

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Could you play something that’s not so disrespectful to women?

–male “dancer” to female DJ @ Bassett Street house party, Saturday, 6/2

The song was relayed to us as being one of those that recommends ass-shaking. Perhaps using the subjunctive. After careful deliberation, we conclude it must’ve been Booty Bass’ “Shake That Ass Bitch.” —

Presumed ex-band member: The Box Social is having the release party for the album I helped write. I’m going–pick up my free cd.

Friend:…

PEBM: I’m in the liner notes.

Overheard in Espresso Royale’s State Street patio. The Box Social play the Annex tonight @ 8:30pm (w/The Readiness, Mike Droho, Apparently Nothing). PEBM is going home to take a nap beforehand.

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UW student #1: I am such a loser! What am I going to do with my life? Run away to India for med school? I feel like a refugee… Ok do you see this?

UW student #2: [looks at laptop] …

UWS1: Test dates or locations?

UWS2: Take it in Alabama.

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MTM braintrust discussing leafletting strategies in Helen C. White (College) Library, 5/10…

MTM propagandist: The Union called again.

Imaginary Memorial Union Employee: How did you hear about Madtown Munchies?

MTMP: I ripped down your flyer…

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Bonus, 5/12
Passenger in Yukon, at State and Lake: Ooohh! A DeLorean!!!

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Student on cell phone: “You’re such a hooker. It’s so like you to take a random flight to L.A. at 2 in the morning.”

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At the Man Man show took a few reflective trips to the bathroom stall during the Man Man and Girl Talk sets last night–pretty much whenever someone volunteered to guard my “workspace”.

The following are some insightful critiques overheard during those moments beyond the bubble.

Confused at the urinal
“It’s like so many different styles of music. But they don’t know which one they want it to be.”

Effusive at the urinal
“Yeah, that was great–like the best show I’ve seen them do. I caught them last night at the Abbey in Chicago, too. It was cool, but the venue sucked. I mean there were like 200 people standing there with their arms crossed [from this we can infer that the crowd last night was relatively free of arm-crossers], and the cheapest beer was like $3.50–for a Miller Lite.”

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Following overheard at East Wash EVP:

customer: There’s a race…between the speed of light and the speed of you….

barista: really? Who’s ahead?

customer (no trace of sarcasm): You, currently.

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barista (very convincingly): people drive to Arizona all the time! There are like 20 people driving to Arizona right now.

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barista (touched): You brought me a bag of lettuce!

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barista: Ironical is not even a word.

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barista: That Picasso, he was a real prick.

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END EVP EAVESDROPPING

Woman in film line after seeing the climate march down State Street: “Is it productive to idle all of those buses on State Street and frustrate the passengers who already are doing their part and not using cars?”