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February 16, 2002


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OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Bill Radke, host of KUOW and NPR's Rewind

This Week's Panelists:

•Author and Humorist Roy Blount Jr.
Washington Post Style Section Reporter Roxanne Roberts
Texas Monthly Editor Evan Smith

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
If you don't have anything nice to say; Congress faces Armageddeon; The Canadians who wuz robbed.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
Valentine's from the skies over Kabul; the dinosaur and the bad shrimp; sharks get a "quiet storm."

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
A comfort food of one; what NOT to call your local police officer; DNA fit for a King.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Bill Radke, the host of Rewind from KUOW and NPR, plays a game called: You're the Only Kid in the second grade who didn't get a valentine other than the one from Nancy Kaye -- and she gave one to everyone -- so it doesn't count. Three questions about Valentine's Day.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Miss Scarlet goes for the gold; auctioning off dates by the hour; This week's stupid criminals: in this case it was the getaway.

Round 3

Who's Carl II? (Listen with Real Audio)
Our national strategy: wait for him to die; the English/Brooklynese phrasebook; remembering the man who defined the Nashville way of life.

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
Be The First On Your Block.

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 figure skating come back from the gold medal controversy?

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