Copy editor: I just wanna go home and sleep. And if I'm lucky, I'll never wake up again.
Project manager #1: That's my dream. To die in my sleep.
Project manager #2: Well, sure. But tonight?
Copy editor: Why, is there something on tv tonight you'd miss?
Ad Agency
Seattle, Washington
Editor: It’s not chaos theory, it’s fractions.
8787 Orion Place
Columbus, Ohio
Writer to editorial assistant: Ham is more powerful than bacon, unless you eat a lot of bacon.
Hinsdale, Illinois
Editor #1: He said he had a big one.
Editor #2: Big what?
Editor #1: Brain!
12 West 27th Street
New York, NY
Production manager: I'm sorry, but Brad Pitt in Fight Club? That was the best he looked–with those abs that you didn't even know existed.
Editor: Like that eight ab right above his genitals?
Boss: Unlike my penis canopy?
Editor: Which shields it from sunlight and keeps it dry in the rain.
Brewster, New York
Copy writer #1: What is a leap year?
Copy writer #2 (disdainfully): It has to do with making up time that people screwed up back in the day.
Main Street, Buffalo
Editor #1: He's the son of the cake lady, right?
Editor #2: Yeah.
Editor #1: That lady died, right?
Editor #2: Yeah.
Editor #1: I wonder if he had something to do with it.
Houston, Texas
Overheard by: Confused reporter
Designer: Once again I get dicked on the vertical.
Editor, backing away: I don't want to know anything…about anything.
Memphis, Tennessee
Writer to editor: I was having a staring contest with you a little while ago, but you weren’t paying attention so I won.
Broad Street
Augusta, Georgia
Business Officer: You remember when I told you that?
Editor: No, I was drunk at the time.
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut
