[1] Overheard in New York was originally edited by Michael Malice, later Jenny Weiss, and finally Kristina Ryan.
[1][2] Overheard in New York was originally edited by Michael Malice, later Jenny Weiss, and finally Kristina Ryan.
Some are intentional witticisms on the part of their speaker, some are based on his or her apparent cluelessness (as with tourists or children), lack of common sense, or stupidity (as with Gothamites), and some seem to demonstrate symptoms of mental illness.
Because submitters usually do not know the people they are quoting, they often use glib labels such as "suit on phone", "tourist", "hobo", or "drunk NYU chick".
In Passing began publishing overheard dialogue from Berkeley, California in 2000, and more recent sites feature conversations from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Paris, Dublin, the London Underground, Minneapolis, Yale University and Vancouver, B.C.