Herpes

What's the difference between herpes and true love? When Bill Jr. doesn't answer - is now really the time for such jokes - Bill Sr. comes back with the punchline: herpes is forever. A grown-up slap on the back (added in the retelling) and that's the sex-talk part of parental lore done with. Done right.

On the wall beside the urinal in the College Inn Pub in fat black marker, "I Hate Disco Like Herpes." Will points out that this could mean many things. It could be that the writer hates disco in a similar fashion to the way he hates herpes. It could also mean, in brief directions-on-a-bus-window English, that he hates disco, whereas herpes he likes. Then there's the possibility that he hates disco-like herpes, the herpes that started some time in the late 70's, breaks out on the dancefloor, and won't let you sit still. Another, equally unlikely possibility is that he hates disco that is like herpes. But where's the punchline? Here it is again in blue pen on the wall beside the urinal - "and just like herpes, disco will never go away."

Herpes, the hilarity never ends. Sort of like herpes itself.

Boston Overheard, 4/7

"-Wouldn't it be awesome to live there for watching the fireworks?
-No
-What do you mean, "No"??"

"Technically they're not cats because they come from a different planet"

"-So what are their descendants like?
-Awesome!"

"I'm from Boston. Boston, Puerto Rico!"

"He's a pirate, he better know the joke! It's like, hey, what kind of movies do pirates like? Yaargghh-thouse! What kind of socks do pirates wear? Yaargghh-yle!"

[woman standing in crowd waiting for the fireworks]
"-Excuse me, excuse me, is it over?
-No, it hasn't started yet"

"If there was, like, an overheard in Boston, I'd write that up there"