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Jan. 28, 2006
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
CARL: "Where finding a job is job one."
That slogan really ticked off a certain company when it was invented by a Web site a while ago. But after an announcement this week that the company is cutting 30,000 workers, they might as well put that slogan on their stationery. What's the company?
• Answer 1
Quote 2
CARL: "I'm begging them -- on my hands and knees -- I need it... I have to have it... I'll give up my booze... I'll give up my porn... but please, for the love of god... don't take it away."
That was from a blogger, on a site called GOPness, one of many people responding to a legal decision that might take away what, very addictive communications device?
Hint: Executives will have to just twiddle their thumbs to recreate the sensation.
• Answer 2
Quote 3
Carl: "I haven't seen it. I'll be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven't seen the movie. I've heard about it. I hope you go -- you know -- I hope you go back to the ranch and the farm is what I was about to say. "
That was President Bush's tortured response, this week, when a student questioner asked him if he had seen... what?
• Answer 3
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