Overheard in the Newsroom » Booze + Drugs

#9314

OHnewsroom — Sat, 19 May 2012 02:58:49 +0000

Managing editor: “I screwed up. The intern doesn’t turn 21 until a couple days after the election. You have to make the liquor run on election night.”

Reporter: “So why did we hire an intern?”

#9309

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:55:28 +0000

Reporter: “I’m on E. I need to go to the creativity juice gas station.”

Editor: “It’s called the liquor store.”

#9308

OHnewsroom — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:51:04 +0000

Reporter: “It’s not Bourbon. It’s just coffee and water, I swear.”

#9293

OHnewsroom — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:58:34 +0000

New reporter: “So what’s the deal with that park? It seems pretty nice.”

Veteran copy editor: “Nah, you don’t want to walk around there. That’s where all the winos hang out.”

#9256

OHnewsroom — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:24:21 +0000

Editor: “This ice wine counterfeit issue in China is actually a huge, huge problem.”

Reporter: “Whatever, just give me some grape Kool-Aid and some Everclear.”

#9248

OHnewsroom — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:51:59 +0000

Reporter 1, speaking about allergy medication: “This says take one every two hours.”

Reporter 2: “Immediately I take two. That means good shit happens.”

#9159

OHnewsroom — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:22:48 +0000

Reporter: “We should have more team lunches.”

Managing Editor: “Martini lunches?!?”

#9156

OHnewsroom — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:07:16 +0000

“After a week like this I’m glad I don’t have a drinking problem.”

#9149

OHnewsroom — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:45:44 +0000

Producer on the phone with her Grandma: “No Grandma, I’m not drunk, I’m at work.”

#9126

OHnewsroom — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:05:31 +0000

Web editor to reporter frantically searching for her water bottle: “It’s really vodka, isn’t it?”