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June 16, 2001
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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle and
quiz man Will Shortz.
•Charlie Pierce, writer, Esquire Magazine
•Adam Felber, writer and performer
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section reporter
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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Travel tips for a travelling neophyte; Oops, we prayed too hard!; The father's day gift that went wrong.
Opening Round
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Senator Daschle gets a lesson in metaphors, holding hands in the West Wing, you want a silencer with that
burger?, the newest addition to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Round 2
The Listener Limerick Challenge!
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How to save the Earth in a billion years, Tokyo gets the Tippi Hedren treatment, and the
lunch meat that ate Tokyo.
Not My Job!
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New York Times and Weekend Edition Sunday puzzlemaster Will Shortz plays a game called: "No dahlink, I'm Zsa, Zsa, she's Eva. The wacky world of the Gabor sisters.
Week in Review
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How to see a Stealth; toward a more lovable acronym.
Round 3
Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
Trapped by my celebrity without a brewski, a Wait, Wait goodbye to a man with blue shoes, the tainted pork
theory.
Bluff the Listener
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HMM..THIS FLOWER SMELLS LIKE CALVIN KLEIN'S OBSESSION. Man affecting nature.
Lightning Fill in the Blank
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The rest of the week's news that we can fit.
Panelist Predictions
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What will Phil Bronstein get next Father's Day?
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