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The City That Never Thinks

February 20, 2006 on 12:34 pm | In IdBlog, Stuff | Add a Comment

Arch New Yorker Fran Lebowitz once said, “Polite conversation is rarely either.” A website called Overheard in New York proves it.

One of the free pleasures of living in this great metropolis are those little snippets of conversation one overhears in the course of a normal day. Overheard in New York has made a business of this urban hobby, posting a steady stream of secondhand banter from the streets and subways of the city.

The appalling thing is how dumb it all sounds. I mean, I like to think that my fellow New Yorkers are a little smarter than your average red-stater, but you wouldn’t know it to listen to us. Maybe it’s another harbinger of the apocalypse, or maybe there really is a correlation between excessive cell phone use and brain damage. I was a bit depressed about the whole thing until I found Overheard In the UK.