More Newsroom Quotes
“I need to find me a Walton.” -Meg Green, producer 03-01-02
“I guarantee I can break into your house in less than 15 seconds.” -T-Bone 03-06-02
“I think George W. is cute in kind of a nerdy way.” -Meg Green 03-13-02
“Dad, you go and steal everyone’s jokes!” -Sydney Fletcher 11-26-03
“I’m really older than I am.” -LindsAy Holman 11-18-03
Jody Lowery: “LindsAy, why are you so moody?” LindsAy: “I don’t know. I’m just all up in it.” 10-03-03
“It’ll be a wild weekend. You know Ms. Blanco…she’s a party animal.” -Trey Lankford, photographer covering Blanco headquarters 10-02-03
“If we look at the monitors and see that Channel 12 or Channel 6 have breaking news and we don’t, we’re disappointed…we’re bummed out.” -A Spider Monkey Newsroom Tour 11-12-02
“Who do you have to get under the mistletoe with to get a cup of coffee around here?” -Sherri Allen 12-25-07
“Since 9-11, the Air Force has also been tracking Santa.” -Joe Haynes 12-24-07
“You can see Santa here on the radar in San Antonio. And that’s the last we’ve seen of him.” -Joe Haynes on air 12-24-07
December 27th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Good times!
December 27th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I’ve got a follow up to a Spider Monkey tour:
Viki and Colleen are plugging away at a show when a tour comes through. Suddenly we hear: “It’s lunch time in the newsroom and as you can see, there’s no one in here right now.”
SIGH
December 27th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Ha! I love me a Spider Monkey Tour! The little kids get him. Colleen, remember the follow up to the bummed out statement? It goes, “And if we look at the monitors and see 6 and 12 don’t have a story we do, we’re like, Wahoo!”
December 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I didn’t know Santa was lost at the Alamo… Kinda of depressing. I guess that is why I haven’t gotten my Playstation 3 yet.
On the other hand what a sweet gig Santa would be.
You get to hang out with Dwarves, and who doesn’t love dem little people.
Play with all the greatest toys.
and everyone leaves you cookies and milk for fear of not getting what they want for christmas.
Of course if I get the gig, cookies and milk will soon become beer and pretzels.
Plus breaking into all those houses you may find those lonely desperate house wives.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Where to I apply again.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Spider Monkey should be surfer dude. Guess who gives the tours here at the WBRZ? My department…but I have never been asked to conduct one. They are probably afraid I will curse in front of the children. Smart people actually..just ask Cub Scout Troop #93. Thanks for letting me keep my job that day George!!!!! Hugs&Kisses
December 27th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Was that the time you said THE cuss word over a station-wide page?
December 27th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
So many stupid people and so few asteroids.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
sometimes I wish stupidity was actually painful. Then we would have have a medicine for it.
December 27th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
“Then we would HAVE HAVE a medicine for it.”
Randy, your own personal asteroid should be arriving shortly.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
“Santa has been hit! Santa has been hit! You can see it on our Texarkana Tower Cam.
(pause)
Looking for a dry Wednesday, especially for you folks in southwest Arkansas, around DeQueen…
(in the distance, the children cry.)
{period inserted inside parenthesis to gig Mrs. Lindsay}
December 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Colleen I miss you so much SWEET BABY!!!!! And as far as the cussing bit I think that Ms. Samuels has you beat. I over heard a prompter operator saying the other day that he would get his fill of cuss words when he heard that Ms. Samuels was producing! Plus I miss all the jokes between you and the Trog. Your legacy still remains the Vo in the box is more popular than ever!! Love ya Colleen!
December 28th, 2007 at 12:06 am
“Ms. Samuels?” HAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Colleen, WHAT DID you say over the page? Remember when y’all had Sue page Peter Jennings? AND Sher, remember when Sue said something over the pager like “It’s time to party! Party in the lobby!”
Collene, 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(tell “them” that story…)
December 28th, 2007 at 12:06 am
OOps, CollEEn
December 28th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Ha…remember receptionist Sue said she used to page people in her sleep and her husband said, “One more time and you’re out of here.”
December 28th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Colleen, Hope your enjoying Red Stick. I think my favorite Colleen moment, was the LATEX Chaulk PKG.
Classic TV.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I had an unfortunate moment with a cub scout troop in the old production booth. they were sitting behind the producer chair, about 2 mins to air my live shot goes down..i can’t get anyone to answer 2-way, so i hit the ole handy *314 and have the “live” telephone in my hand and forget about it and the kids when i believe i screamed out one of the most offensive curse words in the dictionary (God doesn’t like it) As I hear myself reverb throughout the station and see the shocked faces of the children, I think I said to the troop leader, “Sorry, but you have had a very valuable experience here. You get to see what happens when it all goes wrong.” Horrible…Randy would you be refering to Ms. Fixit and the “Caulk” pkg. Trey still has that somewhere saved! Priceless!
December 28th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Linds…you have to tell “30″…that’s really your story!
December 28th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
absoluetly Colleen. I think I laughed more on that one PKG than I did on anything else i saw or heard while spending my time at the station.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Colleen, I will never forget that day! If only the
Boy Scouts could adopt your motto for news: “Nothing said during, or 30-minutes before or after a newscast counts.”
Randy, the Ms. Fixit story is still somewhere in the newsroom. Next time you’re there, ask to see it.
LindsAy, I forgot about getting Sue to page Peter Jennings. I laughed so hard it counted for an ab workout.
December 30th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Here’s the :30 story (It probably won’t be as funny to “you” if you weren’t actually there)…
Once upon a time, in a LAND far, far far away. A young and cute LindsAy was being “trained” by an apt producer nammed Colleen. I was sitting in the booth…all nervous…when Colleen said “LindsAy…..” she didn’t get the REST of her sentence out before I yelled “30″ (seconds) in Gwen’s ear!
You should have seen her face!!!!!!!! It was HILARIOUS!
Turret time cues…gotta love ‘em.
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
As I was watching the other night and being a Wisconsin native, imagine my surprise when I learned from Sherri that the state has a new city…’Many-toe-eck!” So much for the toe cheese joke!
January 19th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I bet that you could post daily something that ‘Fletch” has
said. He should do stand-up comedy!!
February 5th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Oh my lord! I remember the Walton quote.. but I don’t seem to recall saying Bush was cute in ANY way!! But I guess if it was on Sherri’s desk, it must be true…
What a blast from the past!!