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July 1, 2000

Listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:
(14.4 | 28.8)

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Guest Host: Peter Sagal
Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell
Not My Job Guest: John Mcchesney, Technology Correspondent

This Week's Panelists:

•Charlie Pierce, author, Author, Hard To Forget: An Alzheimer's Story (Random House)
•Adam Felber, Writer and Performer
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
A big bookstore needs a big idea, and fast; Oracle goes Dumpster diving.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
A huge scientific discovery that must be taught to biology teachers; why the workplace is going to heck - khakis and chambray.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
New hope for the bum-kneed; the Olympic torch lights the dark where it never has before; the storks are restless.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Technology Correspondent John Mcchesney considers the fleetingly famous in "Why Should We Know Who You Are?

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
The melodic downloadable future; and from runway to runway.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
A popular book's most unsung reader; a head of state gives ardent thanks, and looks lovely doing so; a star is born just the way you probably thought she was.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
Standing Up To The Government.

Lightning Fill in the Blank (14.4 | 28.8)
The rest of the week's news that we can fit.

Panelist Predictions (14.4 | 28.8)
The Next Thing Amazon.com will Do To Make Money.

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