Overheard in Bennington
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Campus Wide Email Conversation
[edit] Just a footnote
Marguerite Feitlowitz: "Its a strong love affair that can survive such grammatical insults!"
5/22/08 Literature of Dislocation
[edit] Mathematics?
Josh LaMorey: I couldn't imagine writing a math paper; it's like walking on water--miraculous.
Franklin Common Room 5/22/08
[edit] Helen Keller
"I just want to see Helen Keller leading a Wookie Army. Wharrrg!"
Woolley Common Room 4/24/08
[edit] Recycling
"Learn to recycle! You ruined my life!"
Overheard angry screams coming from Kilpat, 4/15/08
[edit] Ginoza Strikes Again
After describing his computer program to show conflicts between classes in the curriculum, and asked if he was going to give it to the Dean's Office: "No, I'm mad at the Dean's Office. I'm gonna sell it to them." Extended round of applause
Overheard in Admissions Intern Meeting, 4/15/08
[edit] An Explanation of Reid's Attire
"My mom buys all my clothes." Enough said, Reid.
Overheard by those in Admissions on Saturday 22 March 2008
[edit] Being & Bennington
"You can never read enough philosophy to 'do' philosophy so we're just jumping in. It's the Bennington way; 'You've never handled a hammer in your life? Well here, take advanced sculpting!'"
-OVERHEARD IN THE BEING AND TIME SEMINAR
[edit] Roby's Out of His Cleft!
"I WROTE MY PAPER ON FARTS AND CHICKEN POOP IN THE MINOR CLEFT!"
-OVERHEARD BY a passerby in Jennings
[edit] Is it some sort of dirt or...?
"Vermont is a fiction founded on granola."
-Overheard in Greg Stroud's Memory and the Modern class
[edit] Golden Calf
Overheard in the library:
"I think David Archer is a golden god, but I also know that I am an atheist."
[edit] I ain't saying she's a gold digger...
Overheard walking to the dinning hall:
Guy and girl walking arm in arm...
Guy- "Oh man I need to spend my SCE money by the end of the term."
Girl- "Ooh, what are you going to buy me?"
[edit] Overheard at Bennington
Someone: Have you heard about overheard at Bennington?
Someoneelse:No. However, it sounds gay.
[edit] Not Lovin' It
Girl: You can't hook up with Bennington boys off campus. That's like going to Paris and eating McDonald's!
Overheard by: NYU will have to do (me)
[edit] Yummy
Sunny Cyr: It's like when you are dreaming that there is a giant plate of cookies under your pillow. Like, the most delicious cookies you have ever had, and while you're dreaming you're like 'oh man! it's gonna be so good to wake up and find those cookies,' but then you wake up, and they're not. fucking. there!"
Overheard by: Tim Kretchmer
[edit] Gossipy Little Snots
M. Zimmer?: Anyways, I think we should just leave this page be, it's all in good fun, and those who take it too seriously will only be annoyed, and that's too bad.
Overread by: rhea?
[edit] On Nabokov's fancy word choice...
Chris Miller: When he's not kissing your glabella, he's punching your jaibus.
Overheard by: the Nabokov class
September 26, 2007
[edit] Getting In Touch With Your Feminine Side
Gay Boy to Straight Boy: I feel like you can't say anything tough while embroidering.
Overheard by: Kilpat 11
25 September 2007
[edit] The College Experience
Girl: Yo, how much Shakespeare did you read? Are you reading it all for tomorrow?
Jon: No, he said just Acts 1,2, and 3.
Girl: Oh, word. I am too fucking drunk now anyways.
Overheard by: Jon M
12 September 2007
[edit] His Mom Would Only Buy Him The Educational Kinds
Sam Rich: (while explaining his collating system)I play a lot of video games. I have good problem-solving skills.
Overheard by: the Office of Admissions Bullpen
7 June 2007
[edit] Four Years at Bennington Makes You Very Sophisticated
Boy: So, what's this senior dinner about?
Girl: It's food and speeches and a 'Happy Gradulations.'
Overheard by: Anonymous, in Woolley shower
June 1st, 2007
Boy: Are you going to lunch?
Girl: No, I have to go to work.
Boy: Where do you work?
Girl: Maintenance.
Boy: What do you do there?
Girl: I sit there and answer the phone if it rings, otherwise I eat popsicles.
Overheard by: Karen Gover, after African Dance class
May 29, 2007
[edit] The Miracle of Life, as Explained by Literature Students
Sarah McAbee: So he didn't come out of an egg or something?
Ryan Biracree: No, he came out of a Scottish dude.
Overheard by: Sarah Crow in Kilpat living room
May 28, 2007
[edit] This sums it all up
David Archer: Jesus Christ. Has there ever been a worse time to be alive?
Overheard by: S. McAbee
27 May 2007, on the delightful walk from Jennings to Kilpat, after the Student Leadership lunch
[edit] An Evening of Chris Miller's Finest
"I'm feeling really...um...rigid."
"Like [when] you say 'He's a dick!' it's not like you're thinking slang. It's like: 'dick!', it just rolls off the tongue."
"I guess if you're an aborted fetus you are a loser..."
"Felch is a word never used by polite people in society. Not that that means they never do it in the privacy of their own bedrooms..."
Jessica Eldridge: Getting drunk is something people have been doin for a long time, like eating, drinking, pooping, having sex...
Chris: Yes, it's especially fun to do them all at the same time!
Chris: (in response to a comment made by Sam Dion) So cunt and fart are onomatopeic?
Sam: I don't want to get into it...
Overheard by: The History of the English Language class
May 22, 2007
[edit] When "Who would you rather..." gets ugly
Ryan Biracree: And what exactly is the advantage of Danny Devito in that case?
Ben Taft: He has a vagina.
Overheard by: Michael Zimmer in Kilpat living room
May 26, 2007
[edit] The intersections of Music Healing and SEPC
Ryan K. Smith: (to Sarah McAbee, who'd just brushed off an SEPC issue with the remark, 'That's not my job anymore') You should just answer everyone for the rest of the day like you're Milford Graves. "That's not my job, skibbidy-bop."
Overheard by: The Admissions Office
25 May 2007
[edit] The Crushing Weight of Monogamy? Or a Sprained Ankle?
Roby Moulton: (waving a cane at an injured housemate) You need this; you need this wisdom. This cane was made from the hawk of a falcon.
Overheard by: R. Biracree
May 14, 2007
[edit] He did for the Heroic Couplet what Biggie did for the word "Bitch."
Chris Miller: He's like a rapper who's getting very self-referential. Pope is rapping a lot about his rapping these days.
Overheard by: Chris Miller's "Swift and Pope" Class
May 14, 2007
[edit] On things your parents say when they don't know what it means...
Chris Miller: It's like when your mom says I really get off on this TV show. (laughter throughout class) But enough about your mother.
Overheard by: Everyone in History of the English Language
May 1, 2007
[edit] Compassion towards the lactose intolerant
Heidi Lamar: You're gonna have diarrhea, motherfucker!
Overheard by: Everyone in Canfield 6, yelled at Wyatt Kirby as he drank from a gallon jug of milk.
May 9, 2007
[edit] The Scoop
-"So what have you been up to?"
-"Well I'm in to lounge music right now..."
-"Oh yeah, since when?"
-"Last night."
Over heard in the Bingham common room
[edit] A tale told by an idiot...
Brian Pietras: The New Initiative is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!
Overheard by: R. Biracree
May 2nd, 2007
[edit] Molotov Cocktail
Roby Moulton: You can have fun and never do it, but I'm gonna blow shit up.
Overheard by: Michael Cahoon in Kilpat 20
[edit] Ima gonna get soo fat
Michael Cahoon: A man's body is not supposed to be pretty, it's like a jeep, it gets the job done.
Overheard by: Michael Zimmer in the Kilpat living room, after a discussion about getting fat.
[edit] Slip of the tongue?
Emi: It's just dick is the first thing that comes out of my mouth.
Overheard by: Zim in the Kilpat living room during a rousing game of Tetris.
[edit] Good Thing US Weekly Sticks To The Classics
Chris Miller: I think it would be annoying if [celebrity couple names] become standard, like if a new edition of 'Romeo and Juliet' came out called 'Romiet.'
Overheard by: everyone in History of the English Language
April 5, 2007
[edit] I vote Andrew Barton for the Katherine Hepburn role
Dan Briggs: So guess who's coming to dinner at the town house tonight?
Maggie Duffy: Your daughter's black fiancée?
Overheard by: R. Melia, in the Red Room
March 29, 2007
Karen Gover: Okay, so why does Kant have such a hard-on for reason?
Overheard by: everyone in Plato's Republic
March 23, 2007
Ian Rogers: There are plenty of straight guys here! I count for like six straight guys!
Overheard by: N Luce
Cricket Hill, March 22, 2007
Brian Morrice, on the wartime GDP vs. the big peace sign in the middle of Commons Lawn: You want peace, you want the American economy to collapse.
Overheard by: S. McAbee
2nd Street, 20 March, 2007
Lit Magazine Fundraiser 1: We should make t-shirts. T-shirts would sell.
Lit Magazine Fundraiser 2: Fucking hipsters love t-shirts!
Overheard by: Rebecca Grabman
VAPA Pod, 18 March, 2007
Sarah McAbee: This water is hilarious! (impersonating Andrew Barton in the new Bennington viewbook)
Overheard by: Rose Melia
Admissions Office, March 16, 2007
Ryan Moran: If postfeminism means waking up and finding a cat in your colon, I'm all for it.
Overheard by: too many people
VAPA Pod, March 16, 2007
Asher Woodworth: Just cause she's my grandmother doesn't mean she's dead! (to Jackie Kramer)
Overheard by: Avi Ragaven
Crosett Library, 2nd March, 2007
Freshman Girl #1: ...unless you want to live in a male-dominated society?
Freshman Girl #2: (ineffectually shrugs)
Overheard by: R. Melia
Second Street in front of Leigh, Dec. 13, 2006
Tristram Savage: I want to eat a penguin really badly.
Overheard by: Sally Richardson
Dickinson, 28 November, 2006
[edit] Scientifically Speaking, That's a Podiatric Increase of Melanin
Betsy Sherman (whispering): My feet are tanner than yours.
Overheard by: the pale feet of J. Holt
During a lengthy faculty meeting, September 2006
[edit] Breakfast Breads are a Man's Job
Nick Brooke: Last time, Terry got mad at me for making the waffles.
Overheard by: J. Holt
Midnight breakfast, Spring 2006
M Feit (to mass of students blocking a hallway): You students are the bane of my existence!
Overheard by: S. McAbee, as told to J. Holt
Barn, 17 November, 2006
Student: Excuse me. What type of meat is the salsbury steak?
Dining Hall Employee: (Pause) It's beef.
Overheard by: J.A. Cottrell
Dining Hall, 17 November, 2006
Kirk Jackson: When you frig the noose, could it be anatomically more in the right place?
Overheard by: M. Wolkowitz
Lester Martin Theater, 14 November, 2006
Luna Galassini, while cheating at thumb wrestling: Look, until we've got a ref, I'll do what I wanna.
Overheard by: S. McAbee
Kilpatrick living room, 14 November, 2006
Kyle Schroeder (to fellow videogame player who demonstrated disgust at earned videogame weapon of purple electric guitar): It shoots bats out of it. It's dope.
Overheard by: S. McAbee
Kilpatrick living room, 13 Nov. 2006
Kyle Schroeder (on cell phone in Kilpat): Interior architecture is like bitch architecture.
Overheard by: M. Zimmer
Kilpatrick, 11 Nov. 2006
[edit] Is That an STD or Are You Happy To See Me?
Sitting girl: You look like you're standing there thinking, "I'm a man."
Standing guy: Yeah, that's what I always think when I'm standing in a stationary position. "I am a man."
Admissions office, 9 Nov. 2006
[edit] Being Happy That One Is Sad
R. Melia: That was like high school. "I'm so miserable, but this Bright Eyes concert is awesome!"
Overheard by: S. McAbee
Admissions office, 1 Nov. 2006
P. M. Ribic: You can [expletive deleted] in my hand, just don't make me smell it!
Overheard by: S. O. Anderson
Constantly throughout Fall '06
A. Heller: If you want to live in a religious state, go to the Vatican. Even the Jews believe in Stem Cell Research!
Overheard by: N. Luce
27 Oct. 06
Alum '45: Mount Anthony! Look at it. Why, on December 7, 1941, we were climbing Mount Anthony, and when we came down, everyone asked "Have you heard?" "Heard what?" we asked. "Why, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor!" It was kind of like Oct— September 11th.
Overheard by: S. McAbee
Alumni Weekend, 2006
Nick Brooke: You know what would be a great end to this show? If, after her last song, she keeled over and died of consumption.
Overheard by: J.A. Cottrell
Joanna Newsom Concert, 6 Oct. 2006
Brian Pietras: I can't work! There's the taste of food in my mouth!
Overheard by: S. McAbee
5 Oct. 2006
Mansour Farhang: Civil society is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant.
Overheard by: S. McAbee
State & Society in the Middle East, 5 Oct. 2006
Elise Oleksiak: Sobriety is awkward...
Overheard by: Some people, recorded by Michael Chinworth
Peer Mentor Nate Luce: What's with that Old Beardy down in Cuba?
Overheard by: Sarah McAbee
Admissions Office, 22 Sep. 2006
Sarah McAbee: I dated this guy who is in a loungey band, and he's always like "I hate those bitches who always come in and are like Play Brown-eyed Girl! Play Brown-Eyed Girl!!!"
Overheard by: Peer Mentor Nate Luce
Admissions Office, 22 Sep. 2006
Resident of Paris-Borden: Dude, imagine if your dad was a shark? DUDE. Your dad would be an alcoholic.
Overheard on the Paris-Borden patio at 3 a.m., some time in early October
