A brief list of funny "Overheard" moments:
"Oh no!" - Mystery Guest
"What is it?" - Jane
"There's a little red line that goes all the way around the world!" - Mystery Guest, on the plane, upon seeing how far we have to fly to get from San Francisco to Sydney.
"What would I need to get a date with this woman?" - Monte Huebsch, during Landing Page Basics
"A prayer!" - Audience
"I twittered all night long. I twittered a bit too hard. I'm twittering love for you." - Danny Sullivan
"I never want to think of Danny Sullivan in that way. To me, he's like a Ken doll below the waist." - Mystery Guest
"Is that a tie or did a monkey die on your shirt?" - Rand, abusing the "text in a question" feature during Q&A for Viral Marketing and Linkbait
"I want to see the Ciarán/ Liza Minelli monster." - Me
"I lost it." - Mystery Guest
"Techcrunch sounds like a cereal robots eat." - Ciarán Norris
"Gee, good thing I looked at the itinerary. I'm moderating all day and I didn't know it!"
"My entire life has been spent getting into and out of trouble. I'm never doing anything but."
"That's not like you, mate."
- all Michael Motherwell
During the Essentials of Social Media Marketing panel:
Rand: "There were all these Heath Ledger movies on the Qantas flight over to Sydney as a sort of memorial."
Danny: "Did you watch any of them? I loved A Knight's Tale."
Rand: "Really? I heard that was crap. It looked like crap. I liked the gay cowboy movie. I even got a little teary-eyed."
Danny: "Knight's Tale has swords and rock music."
Rand: "Umm... That sounds horrible."
"Shut up you... you Brit!" - Ani Babaian, unable to think of a good insult.
"Shut up you... you Brit!" - Ani Babaian, unable to think of a good insult.
"You've been to a farm?" - Customs guy in New Zealand
"No." - Me, not realising I'd indicated that I had done just that on my customs form.
"It says here that you did." - Customs guy
"Well, no. But I guess the whole of Australia is one big farm." - Me
"In you go." - Customs guy
Photography student Matt Hawke, outside Luna Park: "You two are dressed perfectly for the photography project I'm doing. Would you mind walking down those steps by the North Sydney pool for me?"
Me (in my head): "So long as it's not for the Ugly People Wearing Stupid Clothes project."
New definitions: "To Monte": to do something inappropriate. "To Jacqui": to punch the person who did the inappropriate something.
"Wikitoria? Is that like a Victoria that everyone can edit?" - Rand, displaying unintentional cultural insensitivity and profound geekiness in Auckland
"I knew you guys were almost here because Danny twittered your entire taxi ride." - Ciarán (although Danny spelled my Twitter name incorrectly :) )
"This office space is incredible." - Rand, in Parnell, Auckland
"Yeah, but the commute would be a bitch." - Mystery Guest
"Oh, shit." - Me, upon seeing sixteen cyclists ahead of me on Waiheke Island as I struggle to drive on the left again.
"You passed levels one and two so they've upped the difficulty." - Mystery Guest, comparing my driving to a video game.
"Ooh blogs! I have some blogs. I have RSS feeds." - My aunt, having a serious talk with Rand about blogging
"Yeah, but the one she's most proud of is about her cat." - My cousin
"Yeah, but the one she's most proud of is about her cat." - My cousin
"The weather in Seattle is... well, I'd stay here." - Pilot of Alaska flight 513 from Los Angeles
As Rand (and a good number of other people) wrote, SMX Sydney was fantastic. A big congratulations are due to Barry Smyth, Lisa Davis and the rest of their team. They did a super job in putting together not just a good SMX, but a unique conference that future shows will have to work hard to live up to.
Let me leave you with one final piece of cheesiness: don't tell me this doesn't belong on iStockPhoto :)
These posts always make me jealous that I've never been to an SMX yet...to counteract that I'm going to make you all jealous of me by including some overheards of me...working by myself...in my room...
Mike: "............"
::keyboard rattling::
Mike: "burp"
Mike taps rhythmically on his desktop...
Mike: "That that that that that don't kill me..."
Ok, nevermind.
An iStockPhoto search on "businessman ferris wheel" comes up empty. There's an opportunity just waiting for you. Strangely, there were search results for "metrosexual carnival" ;)
These results are also particularly lame.
Any Google image search where the top 20 results contain no porn is clearly lame :)
That's not like you Jane....
It's not, is it? Please get the domain. You should write about all the people you mess with.
Agreed. Think of the applications: You get pulled over by an officer, they say they are going to issue you a ticket, and you reply with, "That's not like you."
I bet they'd freak out and taze you, bro. Good stuff.
Totally using that if I ever get pulled over. Which I never have. No, really. Not even on Waiheke.
Commenting on SEOmoz Michael? That's not like you...
MG's Ken doll quote is the best one. I now have coffee all over my laptop keyboard thanks to that, LOL. I also heard a couple of classics during SMX Sydney.
My fav was "No, it was definitely a chick, he showed me the photos" which came from the expo booth next to ours, followed shortly by "is that legal in your country?".
Courtesy of my friend Lewis Black:
"You're at the mall one day, and somebody over there says the dumbest thing you've ever heard and it goes in your ear. So you turn back, to find the person who said it, because if you can ask them a question like, "What the f*** are you talking about?" then it'll go away. But they're gone. And now those words are in your head. And those words don't go away. So your brain goes, "LET'S FIGURE IT OUT! Son of a bitch! I wonder what that's about!" And as soon as you have that thought, your eyes close and the next morning they find you dead in your bathroom."
My first exposure to Lewis Black was that very joke (If it wasn't for that horse, I never would have gone to college).
It gets me every time.
If MysteryGuest is really as funny and talented as this post makes her seem - then Rand doesn't deserve her.
Then again, I guess every comedienne needs her straight man.
HA! Techcrunch cereal. If Arrington doesn't take advantage and make a faux cereal box, I'll be super disappointed.
I've let Jane borrow the "Overheard" post, but that doesn't mean I'm relinquishing the crown. ;P
Nice to see a pilot with a good sense of humor.
MG's video game line was the best of the bunch, however, imho.
It was even funnier at the time, which didn't make my job of passing the cyclists any easier!
Took me some time to see it, but you actually managed to put the Opera building on the picture as well!
That makes it a candidate for: "businessman ferriswheel", "businessman bridge" AND "businessman australia"!
Notice the backpack rather than briefcase, meaning that 'young businessman opera house ferris wheel' is also a possibility
Maybe our picture could rank for "walking down stairs staring straight ahead and not falling but still looking really silly?"
"young businessman walking down stairs in Sydney near a Ferris wheel and bridge staring straight ahead and not falling but still looking really silly"
You've got a give the man some credit for doing that all at the same time!
PS: I seriously doubt Google would dig that as an 'accurate ALT tag' :D
I was talking about a different picture :)
"That's not like you...."
I'm so glad that Jane has to rely on memory rather than a dictaphone.....
Next time.
Recently overheard in my office:
Rand: (cuts open the top of hermetically sealed, kiwi flavored bubble tea) "That's one small incision for Rand, one giant leap for bubble tea accessibility."
Ben: You could just use a spoon
Rand: Thanks Mr. Smarty Pants
Ben:...
Rand: (Gets bubble tea on his nose trying to drink from the container and goes to the kitchen to get a spoon)
What can I say... Jetlag makes me an incompetent beverage consumer.
Oh - and someone should really send that image Mystery Guest drew over to Michael Arrington. He should make it their logo.
At least you don't have red wine all over your jacket (and now your bathroom) like one of your travel companions. The things we do for booze...
Edit for clarity: it broke in my bag after making it through Sydney, Auckland and L.A. The flight to Seattle was too much for the bottle.
Hey, I know those people! (Hey Paul -- don't get too comfy on the SEOmoz side of the picture there...we get you back in the States, it better be in Madison and not Seattle, mate! ;) )
Well Mozzers, I hope the Netconcepts' Kiwis helped keep you entertained. Certainly sounds like it was a great trip.
I know I've been major heads-down for awhile when I come across a SEOmoz blog post on Netconcepts' internal blog, then come back directly through SEOmoz and have to scroll 75% of the way down to find it...could we add another 12 hours to the day, right-right?
cheers
I love the fact that Brit is simply an insult now
Only when referring to you, Kiki.
I knew there was a new Ciaran nickname that I'd forgotten. Must get that one over to Julie Joyce immediately.
Kiki -- that is brilliant!!
I think Ciaran might kill me if it catches on. Let's pretend this never happened.
It's too late. I already told Julie.
That's ok Gerald, you & Randy can get away with anything as far as I'm concerned..
Kiki - I was just wondering - Are you and Elton planning on doing another duet together anytime soon?
Had to be there moments. I have had a fair few myself. I used to work at MS and told my VP 'excuse me for having an opinion' which is not that funny. That conversation took place in 99 and just before I left the company (8 months ago) that same VP quoted it back at me and everyoen who was there the first time broke into laughter - near tears. The other 20 people were trying to figure out how we got so much gin into our morning coffee.