Dive into the archives.
- #3483
Editor: “You’re supposed to have fun at work, and throwing things is approved behavior.”
- #3482
Reporter #1, complimenting a company-paid pen: “Ooh. Smooth ink action!”
Reporter #2: “Agreed! I’d been waiting for a nice pen to appear in the supplies cabinet.”
Reporter #1: “I’m putting off my resignation!”
- #3480
Editor to Cops Reporter: “I just heard on the scanner about some lady with a bag full of snakes running away from the supermarket.”
Cops Reporter after calling to check on it: “Uhhh that was a bag of steaks.”
- #3475
School District Superintendent to Reporter: “You didn’t throw me under the bus. You just showed me the bus.”
- #3473
Publisher after struggling with ancient mailing label technology for about 10 minutes and finally getting it to work: “Ha! I’m NOT going to be outsmarted by a dot matrix printer!”
- #3464
Reporter, spying a child in the newsroom: “Is that the Girl Scout Girl? Are there cookies? Is that her?”
- #3463
“I find it rather ironic that right when all I want is a margarita, I have to cover a drug/alcohol presentation at the high school.”
- #3454
Reporter, coming back from late night meeting with ketchup on her shirt: “I hate working nightside. It’s so much harder to eat and drive when it’s dark out.”
- #3448
Editor: “We’re like the WonderBra of the newsroom. We just give those stories a little extra ‘umph.’”
- #3447
Copy Editor: “There isn’t a headline that can’t be improved by adding the word ‘pants’ in it.”
- #3444
Copy Editor, referring to actors from John Hughes movies on stage: “Someone is looking at that stage right now and thinking ‘I can make a reality TV show out of that.’”
- #3443
Copy Editor to Intern: “Now you really know the life of the copy desk… living off M&M’s, potato chips and pop.”
- #3441
Reporter: “Somebody want to grab a camera? Our Cops Reporter is getting a ticket in the parking lot.”
- #3436
Copy Editor #1: “Let’s play count the number of times the Oscars are mentioned in tomorrow’s paper.”
Copy Editor #2: “It’s like a drinking game for your breakfast table.”
- #3430
Government Reporter: “Does anybody have any chocolate?”
Health care Reporter (opens a drawer): “No, but I have Band-Aids and a picture of a dog pooping.”
