Dive into the archives.
- #5393
Sports reporter: “You’ve got me working the desk all alone tomorrow night.”
Sports editor: “Do you want me to get you a hat and spurs? Is this your first rodeo?”
- #5391
Male chief photog working on female anchor’s package on Male Menopause: “Really, how often do you say ‘gonad’?”
Anchor: “I say it at least once a day. As in, ‘you have no gonads’.”
- #5389
“Quark spell check wanted to change ‘tons-per-day’ to ‘tongue play’.”
- #5381
Reporter, to web editor: “I just broke news in your direction.”
Designer: “I thought I smelled something.”
- #5380
Raw feed: “Selena Gomez likes doing press with Joey King … Sometimes they do jumping jacks together.”
- #5374
After the “days without injury-causing accident” counter was set back to zero from more than 900:
Reporter: “What happened?”
Editor: “The photographer fell off a fence.”
- #5373
Copy editor after executive editor’s tantrum: “Two words, rhymes with bucket.”
- #5372
Reporter filling in for managing editor: “I am pretending to be the editor, so I can do whatever I want.”
- #5366
Political reporter: “Hmm, suggested headline… Stupid people say stupid shit, accomplish nothing of substance.”
Copy editor: “Wow. That was beautiful. I’m calling Hallmark as soon as we’re done here.”
- #5357
Police scanner: “10-4. It will be a 10-49 dirt bike.”
Reporter: “Does 10-49 stand for ‘awesome’?”
- #5354
Editor on grammar rules: “I think that there’s more to ‘that’ than that.”
Reporter: “I’m going to hit you with my stylebook.”
- #5352
Female Reporter: “God my shoes are killing me! It wouldn’t really be ladylike to take them off, would it?”
Female Reporter 2: “You still try to be ladylike? Do you realize what it is you do for a living?”
- #5346
Copy editor on upcoming trip to Comic-Con: “There’s a rumor that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will be there.”
Assistant Sports Editor: “Be careful you don’t get adopted.”
- #5344
Reporter to another reporter: “(Features editor) is reading my camp story. If he gays it up, I’m going to poison him.”
- #5342
Website editor: “Is it inappropriate if I ask everyone if they want a newsroom sleep-over?”
- #5341
Reporter talking about Overheard in the Newsroom: “It’s like your dad’s penis, you just can’t stop looking at it.”
- #5324
Reporter in reference to story on upcoming Steve Miller Band concert: “So what songs has this guy sung that people would know.”
- #5311
Assistant Editor 1: “I mean, is anyone going to see Gallagher?”
Assistant Editor 2: “Aren’t tickets like $35?”
Assistant Editor 1: “25. 25 dollars to sit and get hit with rotten fruit.”
- #5308
Web Editor, on story about a campaign to allow goats in the city: “I feel wrong capitalizing Goat Justice League.”
- #5305
Online editor 1: “I’m going to bring bagels tomorrow. What kind do you like?”
Online editor 2: “Donuts.”
