A great way to use a website to chronicle your college years: stealing overheard conversations

December 17, 2001 2:19 PM

A great way to use a website to chronicle your college years: stealing overheard conversations.
"Dodge-dart sounds like a horrible game."
"Actually, it's a car."
--Two guys at A Cuppa Tea
Sort of "borrowed" from The Obscure Store
posted by ColdChef to general weblog-related at 2:19 PM (6 comments total)

Did a quick search, and it's kind of weird this was never posted to the front page *cough* that I can see. I've only found it in a comment or two in other threads. Fun place.
posted by Su at 2:53 PM on December 17, 2001

Didn't Lance Arthur do this a year or two back?
posted by tomorama at 4:26 PM on December 17, 2001

glassdog.com/overheard
posted by holloway at 5:35 PM on December 17, 2001

The San Jose Mercury News alerts the Bay Area to "Eve's" eavesdropping.
posted by Carol Anne at 5:45 AM on December 18, 2001

Carol Anne: That's where I got the link. I am so ashamed.

Still, there's some gold in that thar site. I've been digging for a while and I've found some real nuggets.
posted by ColdChef at 7:33 AM on December 18, 2001

When living in Albuquerque long ago, I took a class in dialogue writing. The first assignment: go to the Frontier Restaurant and write down the conversations. Why? To find how scattered and disjointed actual speech is.
posted by Carol Anne at 7:54 AM on December 18, 2001