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- #3746
Weekly newspaper editor, receiving contributed photos of a local event: “Butt shots!”
- #3745
“If the station were on fire, we wouldn’t know until we heard it on the scanner.”
- #3744
Reporter #1: “Will you come with me to shoot a story? It’s kind of out in the boondocks. It’s in the woods… could be sketchy.” Reporter #2: “Yeah, I’ll bring my hammer just in case.” Reporter #1: “Good… I have my mace.” Reporter #2: “I’ll ninja him if he tries anything.”
- #3743
Conversation about how a man in the obits got the nickname ‘lunchmeat’: Copy editor: “You know a little part of you is curious.” Wire editor: “Yeah, but that little part of me would also catch a donkey show in Mexico, so we don’t really listen to that little part.” Designer: “You really did just say [...]
- #3742
News managing editor about abandoning the computer: “No one touch this, I’m crafting news.”
- #3741
Section Editor: “You have to move ‘boner’ as close to the end of the sentence as you possibly can.”
- #3740
Designer to editor seeking to fit another story in the section: “Do I look like the fairy princess of space?”
- #3739
After hearing what sounds like a baby: “Is that a baby crying, or a crying journalist?”
- #3738
Online editor, talking to two other online editors who had been waiting for the same story: “So we were all just sitting around doing nothing? Awesome.”
- #3737
Reporter #1: “Old people are supposed to drink like three teaspoons of vinegar a day.” Reporter #2: “No wonder old people are so bitter.” General manager: “And smelly. So now you have bitter, smelly old people.”
- #3736
Reporter: “I can’t get over how sad this story is.” Crime reporter: “Good thing you aren’t the crime reporter. You would be sad all the time.”
- #3735
Creative director after discovering the kettle in the kitchen is gone: “The kettle has been laid off.”
- #3734
Web editor #1: “I don’t like the phrase thanks in advance. There’s an assumption you’re going to do what they want.” Web editor #2: “That’s why I don’t let guys buy dinner.”
- #3733
Copy editor: “Oh no. I have the same skirt as one of Jesse James’ mistresses.”
- #3732
Upon learning that Ricky Martin had come out of the closet: Photographer: “OMG, Ricky Martin is gay!” Reporter: “Duh. Your gaydar needs tuning.”
- #3731
Editor trying to cope with two reporters out during the same week: “When a reporter is on furlough, can I hire them back as a freelancer?”
- #3730
PA walks into room of other PA’s, all gathered around TV, which has Lindsay Lohan on the screen: PA #1: “Is there something new going on with Lindsay Lohan?” PA #2: “Always.”
- #3729
Reporter explaining to a person on the phone why reporters are always busy, no matter if it’s a slow or busy time of year. “We’re either digging or shoveling.”
- #3728
Cameraman: “Dead body on camera is bad, right? Dead body with nipples is even worse, right?”
- #3727
Online editor: “Why is it always MY internet that runs the slowest?”
