Matt Lauer has to sit back as Katie Couric, left, his departing co-host of the NBC "Today" television program, gets a goodbye kiss from news anchor Ann Curry during Couric's final NBC "Today" televison show, in New York on Wednesday.Couric is leaving to become the next anchor of the "CBS Evening News." You write the cutline/AP photo.

Top Cutlines (1st & 2nd are interchangeable today):

1. Apparently Katie meant it when she said she wasn't going to have a man as a partner anymore -- A Token D.

2. Matt leans back and suddenly, unbidden, he hears a voice with a familiar Scottish brogue coming from somewhere in the vicinity of Katie's facelift scars - Cap'n I canna hold her much longer, she's gonna blow! -- Bob.

3. Come on Ann ... it'll be fun. You saw what it did for Madonna and Brittany Spears! -- Deal With It.

HM: Susan

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