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August 3, 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: "They better be paying overtime!"
That was a man named Blaine Mayhew, suggesting that his employer owes him extra for the three-plus days he spent with eight of his colleagues, where?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Why don't we just e-mail (him) one of those Yahoo maps, showing the exact invasion route... That is, if there is an invasion."
That's Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post venting a bit of frustration over what he says are the Pentagon's constant leaks of contradictory information about U.S. plans to do what?
• Answer 2
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CARL: "I didn't know it was a hair piece."
That's an Ohio sheriff expressing his shock while booking a newly sentenced prisoner into jail. Who had to follow the shame of being thrown out of Congress with the humiliation of removing his toupee?
HINT: Why, oh why, if you had to buy a toupee, would you buy one that looked like that?
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
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CARL: "You have to give (him) some credit, too: He started a trend. It looks like a lot of former CEOs will soon be headed to secure, undisclosed locations."
That's Democratic Leadership Council Bruce Reed Reed sticking a needle in who?
• Answer 4
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CARL: "It's no monster. It's good with noodles."
That's a Singapore diner on ABC News giving some advice to Maryland officials: when you go to kill your much publicized alien predator, don't forget to bring a side dish. What's this public menace/entree?
• Answer 5
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CARL: Ted was trying to look hip, he was wearing a T-shirt. It's like seeing your grandmother wearing a thong, it's just something you don't want to see."
That's The Today Show's Al Roker taking a shot at ABC's Ted Koppel for dressing down during an interview with the rock star of the working class. Who was Ted talking to this week?
HINT: This guy is trying to relive his "glory days."
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Hyetographers, strap on your leather.
Tickle clouds with your nitrogen feathers.
Since our athletes and crowds
Will not stand for sky-shrouds
We'll exert our control on the __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
What's that eyeliner looking like soot called?
I think that my question's well put, Paul.
And this, too, is sticking:
There's so little kicking,
Then why do you call the game __________?
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Oh, honey, don't act so befuddled.
C-tactile nerves won't stand rebuttal.
Those slow-moving nerves
Know what they deserve.
And that's why I like to be __________.
•Answer 3
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