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September 1, 2001
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Host: Adam Felber, filling in for the vacationing Peter Sagal
Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Comedian, actor and author, Al Franken
This Week's Panelists:
•Charlie Pierce, writer at large for Esquire Magazine
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section
•Sue Ellicott, BBC and Times of London
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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Crawford to the Borscht Belt; a child is born...but who knows when?; tighty-whities over red tights.
Opening Round
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To be preserved? No!; an inside the beltway Diane Warren; President Chirac, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you...and then averts them.
Round 2
The Listener Limerick Challenge!
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A back-to-school embarrassment; California's bounty hunters of the parking lot; "2-4-6-8! How can sports fans compensate?"
Not My Job!
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Comedian, actor and author Al Franken plays a game
called "They Like to Bite You Because You're so Sweet." Three questions about the lives and loves of mosquitos.
Week in Review
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What has 60 letters and makes the English really
mad?; a porcine rally cry; please check labels thoroughly before taking this drug.
Round 3
Who's Carl II (Listen with Real Audio)
The Senate as nursing nome; the world's most
valuable box of Chex; a goodbye to the asparagus kids loved to eat.
Bluff the Listener
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Now For This Once In a Lifetime Offer: an offer too good to pass up that we noticed in this week's news.
Lightning Fill in the Blank
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All the news that we can fit.
Panelist Predictions
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The next scandal to hit a children's institution following the Little League Danny Almonte scandal.
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