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Dec. 17, 2005
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)
CARL: "No, I don't feel in a bubble. I mean, you feel in a bubble in the sense that I can't go walking out the front gate and go shopping, like I'd love to do for my wife -- although I'm a man, I'm not going to tell you what I'm gonna buy her."
That was someone sticking his head out of his bubble long enough to tell us he's not in a bubble. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
CARL: "Tight Levi's galore! The homoerotic Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue writ large!"
That was The Washington Post, summing up what the gay-male community expected from what surprisingly successful new film?
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
Carl: "I wanted to be just like him... Except for the drug habit and the failed marriages and the temper and the guns."
That was Damon Wayans, giving tribute where tribute was due, to a brilliant comedian who died last weekend at the age of 65. Who?
• Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen)
Yes, we care what our city's name means.
To the future our industry leans.
So our high-tech chat rooms,
Are ashamed of legumes.
Bengalooru means, a town of boiled ________.
•Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen)
I'm a geezer. I'm slow. That's no shocker.
But my daughter's a borderline stalker.
So I might roam less,
She's install'd GPS,
And remote control, too, in my ________.
•Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen)
Raid my hive and I'll give a swift chase.
You'll get stung, though you might win this race.
With your pug nose, brown eyes,
You will need a disguise.
Cuz, pal, we bees remember a ________.
•Answer 3
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