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September 21, 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?
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COREY: "We knew the FBI was watching something for months and months. I knew it was the FBI because there was this guy sitting in a car reading The Washington Post."
That was a resident of Lackawanna, New York, talking to the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester. Who was the FBI really going after, using such clever disguises?
• Answer 1
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COREY: "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
Who was that, explaining his folk wisdom?
• Answer 2
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COREY: "He simply and dramatically has shaken off the image of a door-to-door salesman."
That was The Washington Post, praising someone for taking a simple but momentous step: finally putting a stop to his habit of combing his hair over his bald spot. Who has finally revealed his head as God made it?
HINT: Sadly, he made this decision after he was photographed as Time magazine's Person of the Year last year.
• Answer 3
Panel Round
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COREY: Forbes magazine is always interested in providing News You Can Use to its high-end corporate readership. This month, via its Web site, Forbes offers a guide to the five best places in America to do what?
HINT: Among the comparisons: exercise equipment, visiting hours, best-tailored orange jumpsuits.
• Answer 1
Question 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
From All Things Considered: If you sprinkle these five words in your vocabulary, I think you'll be well off. They are 'ahoy,' which roughly means 'hello'; 'avast,' 'Well, look at that there'; 'aye,' which is 'Yes, I agree with you'; 'aye-aye,' which means 'Yes, I'll get right on that as soon as I finish my coffee'; and 'arrr,' which you just sprinkle in everywhere."
That was John Baur, giving us all helpful hints on how to celebrate the international holiday we all observed this last Thursday. Which holiday?
• Answer 2
Question 6 (Unfortunately, there is no audio available for this question.)
Also from All Things Considered: "Some people use 12 of them in a short message, and it's pretty ugly. Some people absolutely hate this. Neal Stevenson, the science-fiction author who hates these things, said that this is the moral equivalent of a rim shot in a Las Vegas nightclub, you know, to underline the joke."
That was a man named Scott Fahlman. He and his colleague Jeff Baird, of Carnegie Mellon University, were talking to John Ydstie on the 20th anniversary of what now ubiquitous phenomenon of the digital age?
HINT: Whenever I see these things, I turn my head sideways and frown.
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
He's a candidate of the screen star mold.
Just who did you say was thus far polled?
A campaign terminator.
Just write him in later
And your governor might be __________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Hack with collaborative whack-ses.
Then we eat snacks from our pack-ses.
And now back to work.
Who lost the tools, jerk?
Again, we have misplaced our __________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
We think rigid mourners will soften
When more of her clothes she is doffin'.
She's sepulchritudinous.
They think it's lewd of us,
Putting hot girls on a __________.
•Answer 3
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Giuliani's comb-over over?