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July 29, 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: NPR Newscaster Corey Flintoff fills in for Carl Kasell
Not My Job Guest: NPR Cultural Reporter Rick Karr from New York

This Week's Panelists:

•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section
•Charlie Pierce, Author, Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story
•Roy Blount Junior, Author and humorist

Round 1


Who's Corey This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
President Clinton at the dentist...Al Gore bodysurfs...The Sopranos close a town in New Jersey.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
The Republicans one room search...Cell phone faux pas in San Diego...Supermodel or mice? You be the judge...In California, sorry's no longer the hardest thing to say.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
Maggots, good!...Cats get the rats...The Scottish kilt, ready for Paris, Milan and New York.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Rick Karr returns for a quiz about Veeps in a game called "You're not worth a bucket of spit!"

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
The world's oldest latrine...Moroccan actors get a bit too much into their role...and cops lure a jumper from the ledge with pepperoni.

Round 3

Who's Corey II (14.4 | 28.8)
OJ gets unbooked...Britney Spears: a Madonna wannabe...Goodbye Kathie Lee!

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
"Take That Doctor Atkins!"

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 Kathie Lee Gifford do now that she's quit Regis and Kathie Lee?

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