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July 22, 2000

Listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:
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Guest Host: Peter Sagal
Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Jean Cochran, in for Carl Kasell
Not My Job Guest: Scott Simon, Host, Weekend Edition Saturday

This Week's Panelists:

•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section
•Charlie Pierce, Author, Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story
•Sue Ellicott, BBC and Times of London

Round 1


Who's Jean This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Defending Hillary's honor; the suburban attack vehicle mindset; a lot of zeros.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
The governor and first lady of Arkansas revert to stereotype, and the Taliban cries foul at a soccer game.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
British lawyers speak up about fashion; an urgent raven recall; birth control breakthrough (in ten years maybe).

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon returns to talk about Pittsburgh in "Hey, Youn'z a Bunch of Yinzers."

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
Swing your Farmall, ladies on the right. And Henry VIII is taken to task...6 times.

Round 3

Who's Jean II (14.4 | 28.8)
The missing link of Watergate? The missing sandwich in the Reform Party picnic? And were you missing Tammy Faye? She's back.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
I Can't Talk About It...

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)
What will archivists hear when they finally recover the missing 18-and-a-half minutes of the Nixon tapes?

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