Does every campus have these?

[UGAalum94]

I guess I found the Overheard in New York website sometime last year, and recently I learned that there's one for Athens, Georgia. It could be any college town, and I'm guessing that a lot of them have these sites.

It makes me laugh and worries me at the same time.

http://www.overheardinathens.com/

As always, I apologize if I'm duplicating a post or thread. I can't search GreekChat very well.

[1908Revelations]

My campus does not have this. Some of it was funny, but I would be concerned that psople would use it to be malicious. So if some friends fall out they could put it on there and air their laundry. Childish.....yeah, but I det someone has done it or will sooner or later.

[33girl]

Pittsburgh has one. It's only funny about 50% of the time, if that.

[UGAalum94]

The ones about the bus system usually do make me laugh, but they require a familiarity with the campus bus system:

large ones. that are on fire. with spikes.
Rating: 360 [ + / - ]

* Bus driver: Attention passengers, the next stop is physics. If you got on at Tate and get off here, you will be beaten to death with stones.

And this makes me laugh too:

* (In the middle of a final)
* Camo hat guy: (puts pen down, leans back in chair) Fuck!
* (Class turns around and looks at him)
* Camo hat guy: You think that'll help my participation grade?

[ZTAMich]

I LOVE overheard in NY! Funny stuff. They had one for the beach last summer. Glad to see they are in other cities as well.

[mystikchick]

we don't have an overheard in site, but we have an anonymous confession board that in its various incarnations has been outright vicious and awful (like i don't sit next to the fat girl in class because she's ugly and i don't want to be seen next to her) to stupid to bragging about how many people have had sex/done other sketch things in the library (don't ask, i don't even want to know if it's true).

[UGAalum94]

The anonymous confession board would really worry me. I bet it gets really dark really quick.

Part of what appeals to me about the overheard site it that it almost has to stay somewhat light because you don't get the sense that the people who said the dumb stuff are the same people posting it. Since no one is identified very specifically, there's not too much to worry about in terms of why people posted stuff.

Sometimes I wonder if a particular thing was actually said, like a girl who believed that when she was asked for her social on a scantron test thought they wanted the name of her last sorority social. Since I'm assuming a person wouldn't be drunk taking a test, how could someone that dumb get into UGA these days? I conclude that it didn't really happen.

[ISUmatt]

CollegeHumor posts a lot of "overheard" things in their daily updates.

[christiangirl]

my campus doesn't have anything like that...we're not cool I guess *shrugs*

[tld221]

not only am i familiar with Overheard in NY, the metroNY paper runs it every morning. it's good times, and there tend to be afew from the NYU area.