Girl 1: Are you ready for your exam?? Lemme test you…when was the War of 1812?
Girl 2: (pause)(blank stare)…I don’t think we’re being tested on that.

—New Rez

girl: why isn’t he having feedback trouble like we were having in bio?
guy: Because he’s a physicist, and biologists are retarded…
girl: Is that why we’re going to be majoring in bio?
guy: sure is!

—Leacock 132

(observing two students with improvised clubs and shields)
Floor Fellow:Hey, what are you guys up to?
Student 1: Fight club
Floor Fellow:Oh…alright. Good luck to both of you then. (moves to exit)
Student 2: If I bleed, I’ll call you.

—Upper Rez

Girl: It’s Christmas, you know, so fuck it, I’m going to go to church!
—Outside burnside

TA: The 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference created competitiveness between Canada’s east and west coast poets, not unlike the eastcoast-westcoast rivalry in hip-hop…albeit a little less cool.

–Canadian Lit

One really tall guy: oh man you’re short
Really short girl: haha
Another really tall guy: YEAH!! you’re really short!!!
Really short girl: Well it doesn’t matter how short you are when you’re on your knees.

Stewart Biol 4th floor

In line at the Via Rail station

Girl 1: So, apparently, he goes down on her all the time, but she practically
never goes down on him.
Guy 1: Well…we know who wears the pants in that relationship…
(Very long pause.)
Guy 2: …How does he SURVIVE?

Girl #1: Hey, have you seen Chris lately?

Girl #2: No, I’m really worried about him.

Girl #1: Oh my god I know! Have you seen his facebook statuses?

Hey faithful OaM readers,

Because its the holiday break, and everyone is back home (meaning they are submitting less), we’re reducing the amount of quotes we’re putting up during the holiday break to one per day. We’ll be back to full output on January 3rd. As it is right now, we’ll be posting one per day, every day, at 6pm.

Some other updates:
* We added tagging, so that you can browse quotes of a particular genre (sex, alcohol, NewRez, editor’s picks, etc.). Each entry is tagged at its end, and theres an index of tags towards the bottom of the sidebar.
* We expect T-Shirts to be available in January.
* If you have any questions/comments/ideas, feel free to email us at info@overheardatmcgill.com.

In the mean time, happy holidays, and thanks for (eaves)dropping by.

Girl 1: I just wish he was better looking
Girl 2: Yeah, it’s his eyebrows
Girl 1: Totally, maybe if he does something about his eyebrows, I’ll go out with him

—Redpath Tim Hortons

Cultural Studies Student: All those date rape videos in high school, the date rapist ALWAYS looked like me! It was kind of a blow on my self esteem.

Girl 1: So wait your boyfriend is from Mexico and he doesn’t speak English?
Girl 2: Yeah.
Girl 1: So do you speak Mexican?
Guy 1: (amid eruptions of laughter in the group) You are aware that Mexican is a nationality and not a language, right?

—Upper Rez

“I always walk to the train station . . . except for the times i take a cab.”

—New Rez

(Prof puts up slide of a Classical Greek statue of a man that is, naked and with shoulder length hair).
Guy (leans over to girl), “Dude, who’s the chick with the dick?”
—Leacock 26

Guy: Yeah, I hate fighting with my roommate. He’s American, it makes him really aggressive.

—Redpath cafeteria

Prof: What great things have we done since the 18th century, really? With all our technology and progress, what have we really accomplished?
Girl (seemingly in earnest): We have three different kinds of iPod.
Prof: …Yeah…

–ENG 202

Girl: “I know you have a girlfriend, but I’m really drunk. Can I just put my head in your lap for a little bit?”

—at a party

[Girl #1 is walking quickly while Girl #2 is trying to catch up]

Girl #2: Why are you walking so fast?
Girl #1: I have to get home in time to watch Grey’s Anatomy.
Girl #2: Why?
Girl #1: I’m applying to med school next year.
Girl #2: OMG, you’re SO gonna get in!

— Roddick Gates

[Girl opening mail]
Girl: Ambulance bill?? I thought that was a cab….

- Molson

Guest lecturer: It may be possible that we can control the methylation pattern of our genes.
Student 1: Does that mean we can give ourselves cancer? Like if we alter our methylation pattern?
[Students at the back of class giggile]
Student 1: (Turns around and yells) Will you SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
Guest lecturer and class: ….
Student 2: Awkkkkkkward!

—Pharmaceutical Science 563, MacIntrye

[student reacting to professor’s story about landmines in Zimbabwe]
Student: “Ok… I’m from Zimbabwe… where EXACTLY are the land mines?”

—POLI 244 

Girl: Oh god, I hate those mornings when you wake up thinking “god where am i?”
Guy: Funny, I usually wake up thinking “shit, where are my pants??”

–Strathcona 

(after seeing the new James Bond)
Girl, to her friend: OK, seriously now. Don’t you wish you had a dick so you could fuck Daniel Craig’s ass? It was like two scoops of butter pecan.

—Outside movie theater

Girl 1: Are we going out tonight?
Girl 2: I don’t know, but if we do, what are you going to wear?
Girl 1: You know that shirt you have that makes my tits look huge?
Girl 2: Yeah…?
Girl 1: I want to borrow that.
—Milton & University

Girl: “Yeah I definately slipped up there. He has my…”
Guy: “…Panties?”
Girl: “GOD NO. My dignity, yes, but I’m proud to say my panties are all accounted for.”

–Redpath

Girl: Are you sick?
Boy: No, I’m just hanging out here, trying to pick up chicks. You?
Girl: No, I’m trying to get sick so I don’t have to take my exam.

—Health Services, during exam time

Girl #1: So, what exactly is Realism?
Girl #2: It’s like, the United States saying like, uhm, we want more power.
Girl #1: Awesome, thanks.
–outside LEA 132, POLI 244