They are not actually cartoons. We are comparing them to cartoons.

Agnes Skinner walks into a Taco Bell with her son Seymour.

Mother: I would like a menu and a table for two please.

When informed that they didn't have menus, she appears taken aback.

Mother: Do you have taco shells that can be eaten?

The staff inform her that yes, all taco shells (hard or soft) are edible.


-overheard in unicity

-thanks to deb for the contribution

Thou shalt not...

Terry MacLeod: I covet other people's rhubarb.

overheard on information radio this morning

I know what the Joker would say about that:

When life gives you businessmen...

Woman, on her cell: Is he like a businessman, businessman? Or is this like when I used to call sell lemonade and call myself a businessman?

-overheard on the #60

But feel free to do so in the bus shelter.

Woman (stepping on to the bus): SHIT!

Bus Driver: Not on my bus, please.

overheard on the #17

... so I had this guy TOTALLY convinced I was a cop!

I was crossing Portage, when a young man on a bicycle approached me. He was maybe in his early twenties, or younger, with waist-length blond hair and smelled noticeably of beer. In general he looked like he would fit in very well in 1967.

Hippie: Winnipeg Police! Winnipeg Police! Hey.
Me: [slows down, but does not stop]
Hippie: Hey, I'm with the Winnipeg Police, uh, I've got my badge right here [reaches for his back pocket, but doesn't take anything out] Uh, let's cross the street. Yeah, cross the street.
Me: [thinking] Why is he pretending to be the police? Where is he going with this?
Hippie: Where did you get that ... uh ... jacket and book?
Me: [thinking] Is he going to try to mug me for a water-damaged copy of Foucault's Pendulum? I haven't finished it yet!
Hippie: So I'm with the Winnipeg Police...
Me: [keeps walking]
Hippie: So you've been ... uh ... you've been seen dealing drugs. You've been dealing drugs, right?
Me: [laughing] No.
Hippie: Hahaha! Just kidding man! F*** those guys! [bikes away]

I heard that's how The Flash got his powers.

Two kids are outside an elementary school, one is trying to climb the guidewire attached to a telephone pole.

Girl: You shouldn't climb that! You could get electrocuted.
Boy: I KNOW! That's the whole POINT!

-overheard in wolseley

Not even if I really REALLY want to?

Driver Dan: We have a strict policy here at Winnipeg Transit—no tipping the driver, please. No tipping the driver.

-overheard on the 60

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No Such Thing

Here at WoW, we are often riding the bus. It's our unofficial headquarters.
A bus ad has been making us crazy, perhaps you've seen it, it features a leisure suit wearing gentleman advertising Lifestyle Condoms (sorry we've cut him out of the picture). I truly hope that the point of the ad is that men like him should never procreate, but I digress.

The thing that bugs us about this ad is the presence of this button. It looks like a computer keyboard button and it says "undo". The caption being "There is no such thing in life".
I encourage our readers to look down at their own keyboards. How many of them have this button? I'm guessing none. Because not only does it not exist in real life, it does not exist on a keyboard.

We here at WoW encourage clever bus ads, but have yet to see any.

Plus, I've already had my cootie shot, so...

Nor-ender: Man, I'm from the North End, screw the 10 second rule. We had the 8 minute rule. If nobody kicks it, you get to eat it.

-overheard on the bus

But it smells so much like the Ex!

Gansta Kid#1: Dude! We're on the pivot point
Gansta Kid #2: Does it spin? Is it gonna spin all around when we turn?
Gansta Kid #3: This ain't no Gravitron!

-overheard on the #60 "Accordion" bus

That's where we keep the VHS

Repairman: Why is it so hot down here?

Employee: Well, there is that portal to hell...

-overheard at blockbusters on broadway

I call it Confusion Corner.

Dan the Driver: Coming now to Crazy Corner. CRAZY Corner. Also known as Pembina Osborne and Corydon. Crazy Corner. (through the intercom) CRAZY CORNER, in case anyone's sleeping. Crazy driver at Crazy Corner.

-overheard on the #60

The street that's fun to say. Try it yourself.

Dan the Driver: Now approaching Byng Place. BYNG. My favourite street: Byng. BINGGG!

-overheard on the #60

If you drop an anvil on someone in real life it will kill them.

Enthusiastic Teen: [singing] Hello my sweetheart, hello my darling, hello my ragtime gaaal!

...

I used to watch that Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, and that frog would come on and sing, and I was like, what the hell? That doesn't happen in real life!

-overheard on the #29


PS. Did you enjoy our little April Fool's prank?