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April 13, 2002


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Washington Post "Reliable Source" Columnist Lloyd Grove

This Week's Panelists:

•Sue Ellicott, BBC and Times of London
•PJ O'Rourke, Author
•Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe and Esquire Magazine

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
Someone's leisurely tour of the Middle East; Ohio's elected weirdo needs to take a break; Mayor Bloomberg admits he did it, and liked it.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
Now Brazil knows how Springfield feels; someone who left a lot of titles behind her; hats off --literally-- to London's finest.

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
He has the name of a crook, but vote for him anyway; something in the water in Afghanistan; Italians who really do say 'mama mia'.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Lloyd Grove, Washington Post "Reliable Source" columnist, plays "You, Sir, Are A Stud"-- a game about thoroughbred racehorse breeding.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Gerhart Schroeder gets hot headed in court; spending government funds to rid Missouri of combat boots and black eyeliner.

Round 3

Listener Limerick Challenge? (Listen with Real Audio)
Who made off with all the prizes this year; was it 6,000 or 7,000 layoffs?; someone who doesn't want to read anymore.

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
That's Mine, and I Can Prove It: stories about staking a claim.

Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank (Listen with Real Audio)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
What Oprah will do now that her book club is no more.

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