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August 3, 2002




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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Singer Kathy Mattea; her new album, Roses, is available on Narada records

This Week's Panelists:

• Writer and performer, Adam Felber
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
Washington Post Style Section reporter, Roxanne Roberts

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
If you're at work for 77 unplanned hours, do you get O.T.?; We're invading. No we're not. Yes we are...maybe; Hair today, in prison tomorrow.

» Music Cue: "Ducktail"
Artist: Joe Clay
Composer: Rudy Grayzell
CD Title: Loud Fast &Out of Control
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment



Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
A Senator stands up for what he believes, and that includes expensive electronics; The earth loosens its belt in shame; Manatees beach themselves in the hope of having a quiet Saturday night.

» Music Cue: "I'm Tired"
Artist: Madeline Kahn
Composer: Mel Brooks
CD Title: 75 Yrs Of Film Music; Warner Bros
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment



Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
China changes what we only manage to complain about; Women learn why they lose their men from September through the end of January; The science behind canoodling.

» Music Cue: "Touch Me"
Artist: The Doors
Composer: Robby Kreiger
CD Title: Best of The Doors
Label: Elektra Entertainment



Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Singer Kathy Mattea plays a game called, "You're The Other Great Silent Film Comedian... No, not Buster Keaton, the other, other one". Three questions about silent film Harold Lloyd based on a new book called Harold Lloyd, Master Comedian.

» Music Cue: "They Are the Roses"
Artist: Kathy Mattea
Composer: Van Warmer/Schoeph/Jenkins
CD Title: Roses
Label: Narada Productions



Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
An Olympic story that'll make you long for Tonya Harding; New York says goodbye to an era when XXX didn't have anything to do with Vin Diesel.

» Music Cue: "Lonely Little G String"
Artist: Sonny Lester and Orch
Composer: Bill Grundy
CD Title: Strip Tease Classics
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment



Round 3

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
A trend for CEO's; Monstrous yes, but tasty too; Ted Koppel thinks he's boss.

» Music Cue: "57 Channels & Nothin On"
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Composer: Bruce Springsteen
CD Title: Human Touch
Label: Bruce Springsteen



Bluff The Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
"Frankly, I'd rather make it a Blockbuster Night." New sights in the singles scene.

» Music Cue: "Is She Really Goin Out With Him?"
Artist: Joe Jackson
Composer: Joe Jackson
CD Title: Millennium Records
Label: A&M Records



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

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
How will the U.S. finally oust Saddam Hussein?

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