Editor: I'm gonna do this guy…
Photographer: You're gonna do this guy? That's nasty, and do I really have to take pictures?!
Editor: Why are all of our photographers perverted?
Boone, North Carolina
Editor: I'm gonna do this guy…
Photographer: You're gonna do this guy? That's nasty, and do I really have to take pictures?!
Editor: Why are all of our photographers perverted?
Boone, North Carolina
Editor, on phone with reader: Sir, the phrase “Stick a sock in it” is pretty common. It’s a common phrase.
[Pause.]Editor: It’s no one’s sock, sir. It’s not a threat.
[Pause.]Editor: Well, I disagree. I think it is a pretty common phrase and I think everyone understood what I meant.
[Pause.]Editor: No, sir, it’s not my sock. It’s nobody’s sock.
Walnut Street
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Reporter: I’m so middle-aged, I missed the turn-off.
Editor: We’re all getting on a bit…
Reporter: I don’t care. I’m happy just to sit here, let my belly grow, and get interested in plants.
Newcastle
United Kingdom
Copywriter: How about ‘Widget* is your final solution for packaging needs’?
Copyeditor: I think we should use any other description.
Copywriter: Why? Does it not make sense?
Copyeditor: Only if you’re not talking about the Holocaust.
4th and Congress
Austin, Texas
Designer: Here, just try it.
Writer: No.
Designer: Come on! Why are you being so stubborn?
Writer, shouting: I am not putting that in my mouth! It’s all limp!
Pause.
Writer, shouting into hallway: I was talking about French fries!
16340 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona
Overheard by: Miel
Managing editor: Who didn’t have their salad tossed?
Wilmington, Delaware
Editor: I keep getting these Facebook updates from you when you're driving…
Salesperson: I'm not driving. I'm at a stoplight.
Designer: A green one?
Augusta, Georgia
Writer: It sounds like my worst nightmare. Isn’t it just Samuel L. Jackson yelling at people for two hours? Nope, I’m not seeing that.
2001 Lind Avenue SW
Renton, Washington
Project Manager: I’m working on Chronic Constipation and should be done with it later today. How is Ulcerative Colitis coming along?
Multimedia Developer: Good. Should have it for you tomorrow for review. What’s up with Vaginal Discharge?
3339 Ward Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Editor: Oh, get me a cinnamon roll too. Here’s a twenty.
Reporter: A twenty? The only people that have money in the middle of the week are drug dealers.
169 West Nepessing Street
Lapeer, Michigan
