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June 2, 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:Star of NBC's drama Third Watch, Amy Carlson


•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style section
•Adam Felber, writer and performer
•Paula Poundstone, comedienne

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Swimmers with floaties???; Stop calling us names! It's making us crazy!; Reverend Elvis puts his foot down.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
A brutal headline in this week's New York Post; Is it a fast or a diet?; France suffers yet another cultural setback.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
Illegal campaigning at the old H.S.; Supermodels get religion; W-O-R-D-S.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Star of NBC's Third Watch, Amy Carlson plays a game called: "It Seems To Be About 'Wanting to Hold Your Hand' but When You Play It Backwards, It Says, 'I Want Your Soul For Satan.' A game based on the book, A History of Music Censorship in America By Eric Nuzum.

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
Broken wings and busted beaks; "Psst, hey mister, you want those new golf balls?"

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
Zell's Old House; America gets ready for a bit of spending money; The Demise of Lord Lloyd Webber.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
New ways to keep, or restore, the peace.

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 be an unintended consequence of the Casey Martin Supreme Court decision?

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