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Oct. 2, 2004

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Who's Carl This Time?

Quote 1 (Listen)

CARL: "It looks just like two rich guys trying to get a job."

That was a member of a group of people convened by USA Today, just to watch what big event Thursday night?

• Answer 1

Quote 2 (Listen)

CARL: "If I could only go through the ducts and leap out onstage in a cape -- that's my dream."

That was someone wishing he could have been right up there with the other presidential candidates. Who?

• Answer 2

Quote 3 (Listen)

CARL: "Thank you very much ladies and gentleman, that's very nice of you. That really means a lot to me. That really makes up for me not getting The Tonight Show again."

That was David Letterman, letting us know how he felt about not getting the job he has famously wanted his whole life, hosting NBC's Tonight Show. This week current host Jay Leno announced that his successor will be who?

• Answer 3


Who's Carl This Time? Round II

Quote 4 (Listen)

CARL: "With reforms unlikely at this late stage of the election, perhaps the only recourse will be to focus maximum public scrutiny on the suspicious process [there]. "

Former President Jimmy Carter was warning this week that there might not be free and fair elections in what part of the world?

Hint: At least Kathleen Harris isn't in charge anymore.

• Answer 4

Quote 5 (Listen)

CARL: "Merci, de rien."

That is French for "Thanks For Nothing," and was sent from a fan to baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. The fan was reacting to what big decision made by Major League Baseball?

Hint: The writer was speaking French, because the team in question is from Montreal.

• Answer 5

Quote 6 (Listen)

CARL: "I was fantasizing about a 9-to-5 existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. "

That's someone talking about the heady days of the 1960s. Turns out when he was supposed to be the "voice of the generation," he was dreaming of livin' in the burbs.

Hint: How does it feel -- to drive a minivan?

• Answer 6

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