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April 20, 2002


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Neal Pollack
Neal Pollack



HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Author Neal Pollack, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (HarperCollins)

This Week's Panelists:

•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section
•Roy Bount Jr., Author, Am I Pig Enough For You
•Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe and Esquire Magazine

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
Severely uninformed tourists; goodbye to a man of the jurist and football benches; the president's cleanup crew.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
A giant cooperative the EU could take a lesson from; the parties where no one's frowning; a potent crime fighter.

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
Giving fishing some allure; studying for Beverages 007; a 2000-year-old postal mistake.

Read about how to make the perfect martini.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Author Neal Pollack plays, "You're Not Just A Person...You're a Potential Thousand Simoleons If I Can Claim You As A Dependent": a game about taxes. (Neal Pollack is the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, published by HarperCollins)

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Tom Delay's dark secret; Albania holds a yard sale.

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)
We didn't tell them to stage a coup; anybody want a lockbox?; rock stars are insecure too.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
The next innovation in firehouses.

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