One night, in the '80s, I heard a TV news anchor say, "(Newscaster #1) has the night off. (Newscaster #2) is sitting in her chair."
That was an odd way to say another newscaster was filling in. It would have been funny if the substitute newscaster had taken the intro literally. How often does a newscaster spend an entire broadcast just sitting in a chair without reporting any news?
