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August 10, 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: "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive."
Who, according to The Washington Post, this past Monday followed a denunciation of terrorism with a soaring golf shot?
• Answer 1
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CARL: "Don't rat, don't cut in line, don't reach, don't ask, don't touch, don't whine, and flush often."
Those are just some of the pointers offered by a consultant whose business is thriving these days. He advises senior corporate executives on how to succeed where?
• Answer 2
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CARL: "Friedrich Nietzsche once declared that if we stare at a monster long enough, we become the monster. The 30-minute length of (her reality TV show), amounts to almost legally actionable monstervision."
That's Washington Post writer Ken Ringle giving his opinion of a new reality TV show that debuted last Sunday on E!. What new show could suck the humanity out of viewers?
HINT: Another reviewer said the star of the show is a "mentally ill widow."
• Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Don't go to the swamp at night. You'll have to tie yourself to your boat because those mosquitoes will pick you up and carry you away."
That's Coerte Voorhies from the Cajun country in Louisiana talking to USA Today about his state's mosquitoes. In addition to their lifting abilities, they are now a threat to give you what?
• Answer 4
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CARL: "The problem with Knowing It All, dear boy, is that some of the little people may find you insufferable when you explain to them that they are suffering now because they didn't listen to you in the first place -- sigh -- when you were right -- sigh -- as you always are -- big sigh and roll of the eyes. They may hold their hands over their little, average American ears."
That's Maureen Dowd in The New York Times telling someone that America will tune him out in 2004 if he runs an "I Told You So" campaign. Who?
• Answer 5
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CARL: "In her magazine, she says she will be polishing her copper on August 20. Congress may have other plans for her on that day."
That was the always pungent New York Post. Who might soon be copping a plea, rather than buffing the copper?
HINT: Congressional aides will be furiously creating free-form centerpieces for the witness table when she comes.
• Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Cooked, mashed, pureed, roasted, canned, raw,
I find all these vegetables bland, blah.
Our matriarch's able
To bring love to the table.
Food's best if the label says __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Buckskins on the walkway there, posin'
They're closed so that no stray air blows in.
We dance slappy dances
In short, strapping pantses
And show off our soft __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Traditional corks are a trap,
My choice is wine spoilage or crap.
I don't want detox,
So bring a fresh box.
And, waiter, let me sniff the __________.
•Answer 3
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