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# "Bad Breaks" Page Analysis This page showcases **"Bad Breaks,"** Judge magazine's humor column featuring unintentionally funny errors from newspapers and other publications. The cartoon at top depicts a "judge" awarding these amusing excerpts. The humor derives from **grammatical ambiguities and absurd literal readings**. Examples include: - **"Effect Before Cause"**: A jury verdict stating a colonel was killed *by* a gunshot after it's fired (reversing causality) - **"Time's Flight Backward"**: An event "postponed until Saturday last" (paradoxically moving to the past) - **"Strange Verdict"**: Wounds made by "a piece of lead pipe, a revolver, an axe and a LONG RE[?]" (unclear final object) - **"Vocal Missiles"**: Words that "dropped from her, fell into his breast like burning lead" (treating speech as weapons) The satire mocks careless newspaper writing and editing of the era. The "Prize Break" section invites reader submissions. These columns were popular because they demonstrated how sloppy writing could produce unintentionally ridiculous meanings—targeting professional journalists' competence without requiring specific political context.

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