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February 23, 2002


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Fiona Ritchie



HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Fiona Ritchie, host of NPR's The Thistle and Shamrock

This Week's Panelists:

•Writer and Performer Adam Felber
Washington Post Style Section Reporter Roxanne Roberts
Esquire Magazine's and Only a Game's Charlie Pierce

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
Xiang Zemin knows what's amore; monkeying around in Asia; a thrilling icy triumph.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
Spain gets some unbexpected visitors; glossing a little too quickly over Japanese-American relations; men discover that, in truth, nothing does beat a great pair of legs.

Round 2

Historical Reenactment Theatre (Listen with Real Audio)
Our friends at Second City bring us a solo act at the Hague; a peckish pugilist comes to Washington; a psychic gets taken off her guard.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Fiona Ritchie, host of NPR's The Thistle and Shamrock, joins us from Scotland to play "You're the Biggest of the Big Boxes" -- a game about Wal-Mart.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Spending quality time in the barnyard; Olympians with fashion sense; an achey-breaky defense against surveillance.

Round 3

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
Pass your papers to the left -- the Supreme Court says it's okay; rats get a new lease on life; the furniture that reads over your shoulder.

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
City Government: 21st Century Style

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 hot new sport that'll be invented for the next Winter Olympics.

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