We asked what bizarre exchanges you had heard in your newsroom, and below are a few more contributions:

Chief sub to photographer: “Bob, what shape is that school pic going to be?”
Photographer: “Oblong.”

Chief reporter: “How did Tony Hancock kill himself?”
Features editor: “He committed suicide”

Reporter at keyboard: “My colon has stopped working.”

More are promised…………….

Meanwhile, we received the following anecdote from a media studies student:

On a visit to the local newspaper, they were telling us about one of their headlines.

It was the Christmas Eve edition of the paper, and the cover story was about one family who would not be with their father/husband over Christmas because he was in the Army/Navy away keeping peace.

The headline was, ‘Man stuck in Turkey over Christmas’.

Another was about an unexploded World War 2 bomb that was found on a beach.

The headline was ‘Shell found on beach’ – It’s a good job they have proof readers, do you not think?

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