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March 10, 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
BOSTON NOT MY JOB GUESTS: Hosts of NPR's Car Talk, Tom and Ray Magliozzi

*****This week, the show originates from the Morse Auditorium in Boston, Massachussetts. It's a special show in conjunction with member station WBUR, Boston.*****

PANELISTS ON STAGE WITH PETER AND CARL IN BOSTON:
•Roy Blount Junior, humorist and author of I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap
•Charlie Pierce, Esquire Magazine and Only a Game
•Sue Ellicott; writer and journalist

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
A "fat guy" feels good about a "fellow fat guy"; America moves the earth; how a few people angered millions of people in the northeast.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
Usical-may ig-pay atin-lay; getting "Yoiked": It's a good thing!

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
Three limericks about the Hub of the Universe: Boston, Mass in honor of our hosts in the Bay State.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
We're in Boston, so it's only natural we'd invite Click and Clack to play our quiz: Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the hosts of NPR's Car Talk play a game called: "You're the Medium Itself, Expressing the Very Beingness of Nothingness in its Inherent Paradox, You Dig?" Or: questions about art.

Week in Review (14.4 | 28.8)
The Maryland state song: not your usual patriotic ditty.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
Niosh and snook in the news; the man who ran...and ran and ran; 75 and still ticking.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
"True Believers" A new religion that is raising eyebrows.

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)
If Dick Cheney is ever incapacitated, who will run the country?

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