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May 12, 2001

Listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:
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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Columnist and pundit Andrew Sullivan


•Adam Felber, writer and performer
•Charlie Pierce, Esquire Magazine and Only A Game
•Paula Poundstone, comedienne

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (14.4 | 28.8)
Getting away from our ex-employees; trouble with "The Twin"; Jesse asks a silly question.

Opening Round (14.4 | 28.8)
Britain's conservative party loses a word; Ida Castro pulls a Cheney.

Round 2

The Listener Limerick Challenge! (14.4 | 28.8)
Where RV's go for the night; opera hits the real world; Mickey and Minnie go underground.

Not My Job! (14.4 | 28.8)
Author and columnist Andrew Sullivan plays a game called: YOU'RE THE MOST FAMOUS CLINICALLY DEPRESSED WOMAN IN AMERICA, AND YET YOU WROTE A GUIDE TO LIFE...or YOU'RE ELIZABETH WURZEL.

Round 3

Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
Two words that make the hair on George Bush's neck stand on end: Jimmy Carter; rings hit America's pinky fingers; remembering the man who did so much to increase the leisure time of the world's school students.

Bluff the Listener (14.4 | 28.8)
DOOBIE OR NOT DOOBIE. A Doobie Brother makes news.

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)
A Cliff's Notes look at the news.

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