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November 10, 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: Dan Perkins, also known as Tom Tomorrow, the creator of the comic stip This Modern World

This Week's Panelists:
• Evan Smith, Editor of Texas Monthly • Roy Blount Jr., humorist and author • Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section Reporter

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
Who's the Boss?, America's number one fan; a woman greatful to slave away in the kitchen.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
Interesting Internship Opportunity; A pint-sized Brando; and what story is NPR ignoring?

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
A medical excuse for deadlines; a delicious carnivorous discovery; kids do the darnedest things.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Dan Perkins, AKA Tom Tomorrow, the man behind the comic strip This Modern World, joins us to play "You can lift twenty times your own body weight!" Three questions about ants.

Round Two ( Listen with Real Audio)
With a name like Rumsfeld it has to be good; Hey, I know ewe!; A scourge on the streets of Paris; Prince Charles's bane.

Round 3

Who's Carl This Time?(Listen with Real Audio)
This week's successful billionaire politician; A lesson on what not to pack; Who's tuff, buff and butch?

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
To Whom It May Concern; three stories about peculiar letters.

Lightning Fill in the Blank (Listen with Real Audio)
The rest of the week's news that we can fit.

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
What advertising slogan will America adopt in its war against terrorism?

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