Overheard In The Newsroom
From Overheard In The Newsroom:
Guy 1: “This isn’t a news meeting, this is Journalists Anon.”
Guy 2: “Hi, my name is ___ and I’m a journalist.”
Guy 1: “How long have you been clean and sober?”
Guy 2: “I just told you, I’m a journalist.”
And this:
“Didja hear about the Lindbergh baby?”
Copy editor to colleague hopelessly behind on the news cycle.
Brilliant.
And overheard in mine today:
EditorBates: The county commission tabled the Reasonable Charges resolution last night.
Me: Get out! (I did my happy dance. Yes, I have a happy dance. Shut up.)
EditorBates: (grinning) I knew they had read our story. A couple of them (the commissioners) were eyeballing me.
Me: (laughing) Good!
High Fives in Hoots were plentiful amongst editorial staff and then we went back to business and waited on the ice to come.
I won’t even get into the gallows humor we’ve developed. It’s on a need-to-know basis.
I wouldn’t even question that you have a happy dance – that should be a given!
I don’t have a happy dance. I need to get to work on that.
A. Am overjoyed that you have reason to do the happy dance. HA! Thwarted! Take that! Yaaa!
B. I could supply an endless number of contributions to that Overheard in the Newsroom site. Seriously. I still have the infamous “quotes lists” from the old newsroom on a disk at home. They are magnificent. And still oh-so-quotable! For example, our graphics guru was reknowned for his non sequiturs and malapropisms. One day, frustrated yet again by our insane ME, he yelled out, “That’s just like the blind leading the French!”
It really does make sense.
Oh, and the Lindbergh baby line was actually used by our copy desk chief. He was a helluvafella, God rest ‘im.
I send you smooches and … well, it’s too cold for Fresca. Unless you want to sit it out in the back yard and save fridge space.
:0)
“That’s just like the blind leading the French!”
That does have awesomeness.