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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Thisbe Nissen and Erin Ergenbright, authors of The
Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook (HarperCollins)
This Week's Panelists:
• Sue Ellicott, BBC and Times of London
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Roy Blount, Jr., author, Am I Pig Enough For You Yet?
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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National security and golf, in one swing; advice for those going from the boardroom to the big house; the newest atrocity of reality TV, in all her glory.
» Music Cue: "Big Fat Mamas are Back in Style"
Artist: Buster Poindexter
Composer: Millinder/Clawson
CD Title: Buster's Happy Hour
Label: Forward
Opening Round
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Why pay $6,000 for somethig that mildews?; someone still
trying to keep things on track; a set for your very last act.
» Music Cue: "Chicken Strut"
Artist: The Meters
Composer: Neville/Porter
CD Title: The Meters Anthology Funkify Your Life R1
Label: Rhino
Round 2
Listener Limerick Challenge
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The power of grandmotherly suggestion; a celebration of short leather pants; don't turn up your nose at twist-off wines.
» Music Cue: "Red Red Wine"
Artist: UB40
Composer: Neil Diamond
CD Title: The Very Best of UB40
Label: Virgin
Not My Job!
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Thisbe Nissen and Erin Ergenbright, authors of The Ex-Boyfriend
Cookbook (HarperCollins), play "You're playing "Ripple" for the twentythousandth time and you suddenly realize you have no idea where you are ... but that's cool!" Three questions about the Grateful Dead.
» Music Cue: "West LA Fadeaway"
Artist: The Grateful Dead
Composer: Garcia/Hunter
CD Title: In the Dark
Label: Arista
Round Two
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Stealing everything but the bank and the bed; if you carry dessert in Canada, consider yourself armed and dangerous.
» Music Cue: "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee"
Artist: Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians
Composer: Fred Waring
CD Title: Brother Can You Spare A Dime
Label: Fanfare
Round 3
Who's Carl This Time?
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The mosquito-borne menace; the Dem who can't stop saying, I told you so, albeit woodenly;
a woman who might have to think of some Good Things to do ... in jail.
» Music Cue: "If I Knew You Were Comin I'd a Baked a Cake"
Artist: Bing Crosby
Composer: Hoffman/Merrill/Watts
CD Title: Bing Crosby: The Radio Years
Label: Crescendo
Bluff The Listener
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"Skeletons in the closet": politicians come clean before 60 Minutes does it for them.
» Music Cue: "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens"
Artist: Louis Jordan
Composer: Kramer/Whitney
CD Title: Louis Jordan No Moe!
Label: Mercury
Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
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