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July 15, 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: Linda Wertheimer, Host, All Things Considered

This Week's Panelists:

•Roy Blount, Jr., Author, Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story
•Adam Felber, Writer and Performer
•Sue Ellicott, BBC and Times of London

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Someone's parents try not to embarrass him; technology that's safe from spies; the purplest prose.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
Guatemala discovers the wonderful world of public relations; slugs who must live (and die) by the Koran, and more.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
China's secret web-footed weapon; a recently divulged non-Communist non-plot; Mongolians take new interest in family.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
All Things Considered Host Linda Wertheimer returns, popcorn-and-drink combo in hand, to play "You're The Tent-Pole Release!"

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
Would Texas border guards stop Lance Armstrong for questioning? And the latest webcam soap opera.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
Strom Thurmond borrows someone else's fightin' words; the most boring TV since C-SPAN; the condiment everyone's talking about, so we are too.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
You Have To Be This Tall...

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 Food Product to be Changed to Appeal to Children.

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