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OHnewsroom — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:02:50 +0000

Reporter: “Wow, this missing woman is super cute. I think she just kidnapped my heart.”

OHnewsroom — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:56:41 +0000

Reporters discussing being assigned to cover 60 day session of state legislature:

Reporter 1: “Great. Two months of an asshole festival.”

Reporter 2: “No. This is worse. An asshole festival would be much less boring.”

OHnewsroom — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:24:07 +0000

Community News Editor on finishing a story about people who hate the Super Bowl: “Just sit back and wait for the hate.”

OHnewsroom — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:22:09 +0000

Executive Editor working on Births page: “I’m sorry, but some of these newborns are just downright ugly!”

OHnewsroom — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:10:34 +0000

High school sports reporter: “The kid burped in my recorder. I should spell his name wrong.”

OHnewsroom — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:10:13 +0000

Reporter: “Is he dead?”

Desk: “I don’t know, but if he is it will give us a ‘Funeral Fund Story’ tomorrow.”

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:59 +0000

Photographer to newspaper reporter: “Your story sounded good on the radio this morning.”

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:08:28 +0000

Reporter: “I hate talking to that guy, he has diarrhea of the mouth.”

Editor: “And it’s your job as a reporter to pick the nuts out of that crap and make something that everyone will eat up.”

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:05:27 +0000

Reporter as random person walks by: “So he stuck $85,000 of heroin pellets up his butt?”

Random person glares.

Reporter: “Sorry.”

OHnewsroom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:50:17 +0000

Page designer: “I got the meatballs as far away from the hemorrhoids as possible.”