Yvesdroppings Are Very Worldly
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The scene: an animation student is creating a butler character, and is trying to think of stuff for him to do in a scene.
Teacher: "You could have him gesturing at stuff."
Student: "He can't gesture! He's British!"
-- Academy of Art University
Woman: "You know, in Georgian Republic, I was very religious, but it was banned. And now, I move to America, and people here are such fanatics I'm becoming a Communist again!"
Guy: "Wow."
Woman: "I mean, people say Jesus walked on water. How could he walk on water? Who believe that?"
Guy: "Well, I believe that."
Woman: "You do? What was he, David Copperfield?"
-- N Judah
Man with accordian: "Did somebody say moonshine?"
-- From Jackson / Late night houseparty in El Cerrito
Tight-Pants Girl: "My computer keeps crashing, it gets really slow and then it says I have too much memory or something."
Scruffy Guy: "Uh ... have you tried emptying your browser's cache?"
Tight-Pants Girl: "Omigod, you must have degree in computer hacking."
-- Sliders in the Castro
Dreadlocks: "I swear like a sailor sometimes. I hope you don't mind. But my brother doesn't care, and he's really upstanding, so you probably don't either."
Preppy: "Your brother's very salt-of-the-earth."
Dreadlocks: "Yeah. And I'm salt-of-the-sea."
-- Walgreens on Market
One Hobo to Another: "I couldn't believe it! He went down after one punch, with just a broken nose, which we've ALL had."
-- Powell at Market
Really Fat Guy With Set of Pastels and No Sense of Irony: "I was looking for nude models, and this one chick came up who was -- ugh! She was, let's say, very ROUND. And I was like, 'nobody needs to see that!'"
-- Washington Square
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