Journalists love news. Shocker, right?

We love it all. The sweet stories, the crime stories and especially the wacky stories.

When we sit in the newsroom, a lot of the time all you can hear are fingers slamming down on the keyboard. There's an occasional frustrated grunt because the computer is slow. Often we can hear our coworkers in an awkward phone conversation. There are ringing phones, dinging computers from the constant flow of emails coming through and a loud rumbling fan that seems to never shut off.

It get tense. The constant "clank, clank, clank" of fingers on keyboards gets faster and faster as deadline approaches. The grunts become more frequent as the day goes on. The phones never stop ringing.

And then there's an outburst. It never fails. Once a day, once of us starts to randomly laugh. Sometimes uncontrollably.

In between slamming on the keyboard and returning phone calls, we all take a little time to read other news sites and catch up on what's going on in the world (it is our job to know, after all).

When one of us reads an amusing story, something funny, we usually can't help but laugh aloud. When one of us laughs, all the others become curious and we instantly have to share the story. Often times we try to put the stories on our website, but if they have a hint of inappropriate-ness, than we resort to Facebook or email to share the latest hilarity of the news world.

It's our own daily perk. Anticipating who win spin around in their chair laughing at something, and then reading it yourself and laughing, then sharing the laughter with coworkers - it's a part of news that we love.

It gives you a way to relate to someone - a happy way.

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up," - Mark Twain.