![]() Examples of this includes a Headline stating "Female trap shooters aim to end homelessness" under a picture of aimed guns:, implying that the trapshooters are ending homelessness by shooting the homeless, a "Passover Special" in an advertisement under a special on pork ribs, and a Headline stating " Whining at work", with the dummy directing the reader as to " How to stop it", and with a photo of a man with a rifle to the left of the text, implying that the solution is to shoot your boss! Mispositioning: A combination of two advertisements, pictures, or headlines that unintentionally suggest something when placed next to each other.Unintentionally suggestive photos, such as this illustration of ivory frogs, completely unrelated photos (a picture of public toilets above the headline "New fountains coming this summer" ), and maps that have wrong places named, such as a talking globe which claims that Boston, Massachusetts is located in India are included. Examples include someone holding a paper with his thumb, positioned in a way as to appear as if his nose is elongated, and a Senator whose picture in the paper lacks his head. Poor photography: Pictures, taken by professional photographers, with bizarre positioning.Fried Rick, "Bill cracks down on worthless Czechs" (instead of checks Jay quipped that it "looked like" a racial slur ), " Pee-baked pumpkin pie" (Rather than pre-baked ) and "Staten Island ferry hits pie 18 injured" (Instead of pier ) Others are phonetic spellings of words the drafters of classified ads or newspaper editors appear to have had trouble spelling, such as a "bad mitten" game, "Jerry Atrick" chair, or a " Palm Iranian", and Jay usually says " I'm a little dyslexic, but if I was putting an ad in the newspaper.". Typos: Words that are misspelled and thus have a new meaning, i.e.Also under this category are normal people, with the same name as a celebrity or famous person, real or fictional, involved in something completely unrelated to their "doppelganger's" fame, such as " Harry Potter faces old sex crime" and "Pope arrested on meth counts". ![]() ![]() Names with double meanings: A person's name that, when read as a word, yields a humorous, illogical, or self-fulfilling phrase, such as "Moron drives truck into house". ![]() Leno's final Monday included weddings at the end, and his very last Headline on this version was the "Butts-Fudger" wedding. These are set aside for the last few Headlines in a separate stack, when they are included in the broadcast. "Small-Husband", "Sawyer-Hiney", "McMaster-Bates", "Gorey-Butcher", or "Lusty-Johnson".
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