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July 8, 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: Liane Hansen, Host, Weekend Edition Sunday

This Week's Panelists:

•Charlie Pierce, author, Author, Hard To Forget: An Alzheimer's Story (Random House)
•Adam Felber, Writer and Performer
•Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
The rice is cooked, as our Mexican cousins would say; inserting feet into mouths on breakfast TV; Dubya ponders the size of something.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
The Finns are laughing all the way to the bank, and how Brazilian officials remain yolk-and-albumen-free.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
No need to ask Sir Sean how he likes his martinis; the new scientific approach to love; a new species of animal in the nation's capital.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Weekend Edition Sunday Host Liane Hansen returns for "You're Not A Developer, But You're Gonna Play One On The Radio."

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
What's separate from the sheep in California; this year's soooo-EEEEE champion; a convention of independent thinkers, and voters.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
Fighting words from a North Carolina Senator; people who LIKE being laid off; a farewell to the man who personified the irascible roommate.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
The Soviets Were Our Raison d'Être.

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 Salvo in the War Between The Networks.

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