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January 27, 2001

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

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: NOT MY JOB GUEST: Singer Loudon Wainwright III .

This Week's Panelists:

•Charlie Piece, Esquire Magazine and Only a Game
•Sue Ellicott, BBC and Times of London
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Who -are- those 7 new neighbors? when the gooooal is a Nobel Peace Prize; a deep-down body tradition.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
Hey, -hat's -ith this keyboard?; the Justice Department may go gospel; and the Maid of Tallahassee.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
An unexpected facial...what you shouldn't drink before a test may surprise you... dream a little dream...of mazes?

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Loudon Wainwright III considers fast food in "Are You Sure You Want Fries With That?"

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
Sir, is that Reuben sandwich made with regulation...you know. What more than 50,000 Indian citizens may get lost doing....and an unscheduled stop on the receiving line.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
We think it's about peacekeepers?; don't call him General, he won't take no guff; and who got the fossils for nothing, and the palentologists for free.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
You Can't Do That! (but who knew you couldn't?)

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)
How the Bush White House will exact revenge on the Clintonite pranksters.

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