Dive into the archives.
- 978
Podcaster to Editor: “You had your vindication all over my jacket and pants.”
Referring to a leaking pen.
- 977
“The editor interface has to be simpler because, well, they’re editors.”
- 976
Sports anchor: “I think wrestling warm-ups are probably the most homo-erotic thing I’ve ever seen.”
Sports director: “It’s like a poor man’s Cirque du Soleil.”
- 975
Reporter: “Did they just say a body? They found a body?! Finally some excitement in my life!”
- 974
“Can you profile him without actually talking to him?”
“Yeah, I mean, that’s kinda what obituaries are.”
One section editor to another in reference to a source who could not be reached
- 973
“That’s inappropriate.”
“You know what’s inappropriate?” (sound of zipper going down)
- 972
“I hope there are no more bomb blasts before I get there. I’m tired of missing all the action.”
Reporter on vacation.
- 971
“You dropping the bouquet is the exact reason why we have the infield fly rule.”
Sports office chatter
- 970
One editor to another: “Do you know anything about pickles?”
- 969
Scanner Traffic: “Inbound w/ a 63-year-old woman whose smoked all her life and has just quit. She says she feels different.”
- 968
Overheard on the police scanner:
“Two subjects fighting, one armed with a stick, one armed with a brick. So far the one with the brick is winning. Sending medical now.”
- 967
Reporter: “Where do I file expenses, because I’m putting in for a dinner I had to buy when I interviewed that porn addict.”
- 966
Reporter filing out timesheet: “What are you supposed to mark for furlough?”
Editor: “F”
Reporter: “Not FU?”
Editor: “… If it makes you feel better.”
- 965
“New COC Head”
Story slug in a news rundown (COC = Canadian Olympic Committee)
- 964
“I prefer to complain and act in a passive-aggressive manner that accomplishes nothing. I call it my business acumen.”
- 963
“(Co-worker) said if they try and make us furlough for a week or something, that it would be his three weeks’ notice. I so hope they do something like that. I’d give a week’s pay never to have to see him again.”
- 962
Reporter speaking about activist source:
“I need him not to be in jail.”
- 961
While making fun of horoscopes: “You have 2 feet and are a mammal.”
- 960
“If there’s nothing wrong with the woman, why would she need all the ‘therapy cats’?”
Editor, on phone to distraught caller, about a convicted cat hoarder
- 959
Sub 1: “So that’s all the senior roles sorted, is it just the rest of the monkeys they need to sort out now?”
Sub 2: “Well I’m not going to be pissing in anyone’s face that’s for sure!”
