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May 25, 2002
Welcome to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's weekly news quiz program. Find out how well you know your news by playing the interactive online version below. You can also listen to this week's show with host Peter Sagal.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Get me Pootie-Poot on the phone!"
That, according to Time Magazine anyway, is how someone engages in high-level foreign diplomacy with leaders like Vladimir Putin. Who is it?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "Wait until the East Side co-op president starts grilling them about where they went to school, which dancing class they attended, and whether they would bother the neighbors with any impolite crashes or unaesthetic bangs."
That was New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, splashing her acid this time on a warning from the government that who might now be trying to rent an apartment for evil purposes?
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Answer 2
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CARL: "Even her miniskirt seemed sad."
That was the New York Times' Julie Salamon, talking about a TV character who might have overstayed her welcome when she left this week, after five years. Who was it?
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Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Some kid called out, "Yo! Papa Smurf!
That's my wave. Get off of my turf."
And I said, "chill, dude,
No need to be rude.
Please rein in your rage while you __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
That scientist's plucky and lewd.
He knows that we chickens are prudes.
And yet he halts feathers
(He blames the hot weather)
Now we peck around in the __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
And one, two, three; stop: a firm stance.
And four, five, six; go: a soft glance.
To make traffic flow,
Just let yourself go.
I'm teaching policemen to __________.
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Answer 3
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