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August 19, 2000
Listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:
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HOST: Adam Felber sittin in for Peter Sagal
Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell
Not My Job Guest: NPR Environmental Correspondent John Nielsen
This Week's Panelists:
•Roy Blount, Jr., Author, Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story
•Charlie Pierce, Author, Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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The good reverend gives America some
gardening tips, Al's passion makes the delegates weak in the knees,
and an all-too-familiar beret--or is it?--turns heads in L.A.
Opening Round
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Should Atlanta's highways open maternity lanes?
And are campfire songs the new frontier of political correctness?
Round 2
The Listener Limerick Challenge!
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Super French Canadian bees...
bricks on Mars...and a cake that packs a wallop stands up in court-
even if you can't walk a straight line.
Not My Job!
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NPR's John Nielsen hears about three offers
he might want to refuse--in a game we're calling "And That's Not All
You Get-If You Act Now, For A Limited Time...Hey, Wait...Come Back!"
Week in Review
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Martha's newest good thing...
good and spooky, that is. And the true appeal of the Latin lover:
it's what's IN FRONT of the eyes.
Round 3
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The other--er, two other conventions this week,
reunions in Korea, and the Beatles collaborate again, thanks to
technology.
Bluff the Listener
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If at first you don't succeed...try something else.
Lightning Fill in the Blank
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The rest of the week's news that we can
fit.
Panelist Predictions
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The next thing Gore and Lieberman will do to
boost their position in the polls.
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