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E-mail Joke Quickly Ends Reporter's Job
By Howard Kurtz of the "Washington Post"
When Joe Rhodes, journalist and self-described "smart aleck," showed up at the Portland Oregonian last fall, he was asked to familiarize himself with the computer system.
The reporter, who had moved from Los Angeles to take a feature-writing job, sat down and composed a mock memo: "In an effort to make everyone at the New Oregonian feel more comfortable, members of the New Northwest team have chosen Thursdays as 'no underwear day' in the newsrooms.... All staff members will be subject to a brief inspection. Anyone found to be wearing undergarments will be severely reprimanded and forced to wear a sweater vest the following Monday. Exceptions will be made for those staff members with hernias, testicular cancer or radical mastectomies."
Rhodes then pressed a button to send the message to a friend. The message was inadvertently sent to everyone in the newsroom. more...

Mrs. Pete Monaghan came into the newsroom to pay for her husband`s obituary. She was told by the kindly newsman that it was a dollar a word and he remembered Pete and wasn`t it too bad about him passing away. She thanked him for his kind words and bemoaned the fact that she only had two dollars. But she wrote out the obituary, "Pete died." The newsman said he thought old Pete deserved more and he`d give her three more words at no charge. Mrs. Pete Monaghan thanked him and rewrote the obituary: "Pete died. Boat for sale"