The News-Sentinel newsroom can be the scene of some wacky comments from time to time, either to relieve the tension of the day or because there's a wide variety of humor and quirks among our staff.
Sometimes, we share unusual phone calls and emails with each other. For example, one caller couldn't believe that our building wasn't a bingo parlor. Even after a reporter insisted that she was calling the newspaper office, the caller and some other people showed up in our parking lot ready to play bingo.
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