The premise of the group is that members post snippets of out-of-context conversation they've overheard on campus. It provides an amusing little glimpse into the everyday life of Carleton.
The typical post is something bawdy overheard late on a Saturday night. Examples:
Girl 1: Don't you remember when he was hitting on you?
Girl 2: Was I there?
Guy in 1st burton hallway: "I am an explosion of sensuality."
Yelled across the bald spot: "I DON'T WANT TO WEAR CLOTHES!"
Sometimes posts reference Carleton's notorious academic intensity:
"Hey, you want to come party with us?"
"Always. If by 'party' you mean 'read about whales'."
4th libe, on the day major declaration forms were placed in the sophomores' mailboxes:
"They want me to declare a major, and i want them to go to hell."
Sayles->first burton:
"I'm not sure seriously compromising your eyesight is a fair trade for finals."
"What do you expect, we go to an extremely competitive liberal arts college, these sacrifices must be made."
"I wish liberal arts were an actual competition. 'He's finishing the last sentence of his essay. The crowd holds their breath, what a dazzling conclusion! Now, for the fourth libe sprint!'"
Sometimes they touch on the pathos of college relationships:
Two people pass each other outside leighton:
guy 1: Hey!
guy 2: *clears throat, looks away*
guy 1: What? What? We're not talking again?!? REALLY? I can't keep doing this!!!!!
guy 2: Huh?
guy 1: Oh, sorry. I, uh, thought you were someone else.
And sometimes they poke fun at Carleton's oddities and shortcomings:
Two guys on bikes:
"You wanna go terrorize Goodhue?"
"No, it's too far away."
Heard in the CMC: "Dante's 7th Circle of Hell was really sweaty, kind of like an eternal Sayles dance."
But the best quotes are those that capture that quintessential, much-referenced Carleton quirkiness:
"Rain off! ... Well, maybe someday."
- outside LDC, displeased with weather and lack of superpowers.
Two football players walking through Davis:
"Maybe I'll get married."
"To who?"
"I don't know. I'm just thinking about getting married, though."
Some kid leaving Olin after 2a: "I measure my coolness level in scientific notation."
On the way to sayles dance, one boy to his two drunk friends:
"In a few steps we're going to veer at about a 30 degree angle to the right."
In the Sevy Tea Room:
"You better hope they don't schedule any quidditch games on D&D night."
Person approaching me to have her card swiped:
"So I threw my arm out and I was entangled... [to me] Oh hello!... I was entangled by his CURLY, HORRIFYING CHEST HAIR."
"Its a veritable blizzard out here. With tiny snowflakes. They divebomb my eyeballs."
--Person walking out of leighton into the tiny snowflakes and wind...
In absolute sincerity: "Hey... instead of going to parties, do you want to cook some squash!?"
Overheard at Burton:
"He's such a stud. He's, like, SO good at math."
Only at Carleton.
Not enough quirkiness for you? Fear not! More quotes can be found here.
(Quotes overheard by, in this order: Sara Luxenberg, Hannah Kyle, Bridget Hansen, Claire Weinberg, Nikoleta R., Colette Meller, Gwendolyn Neumeister, Erika Mackin, Kelly Soderstrom, Travis Raines, Emily Jo Hartley, José Guillén, Jinai Bharucha, Mark Stewart, Molly Nichols, Karl Snyder, Grace Russell, and Francesca Chubb-Confer.)