Our second Who's Carl This Time contestant made the cover of his local paper, the Winona Daily News!

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January 12, 2002


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Illustrator Mary Engelbreit.

This Week's Panelists:

•Writer and journalist Sue Ellicott
•Adam Felber, Writer and Performer
•Humorist and author P.J. O'Rourke

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
Red meat for lawyers; just a little sexy, but quite offensive; goodbye to the nicest corporate leader the world's ever seen.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
Utahns: patriotic? yes. paranoid? well yes to that too; a congressman gets the prized steer treatment; India builds the biggest camouflage in the world; Rio de Janeiro's newest criminal.

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
Soggy no more; food tasters? We don't need no food tasters; George Lucas almost makes another Jar Jar Binks sized mistake.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
This week we ask Mary Engelbreit about fake bands, using information gleaned from the Rocklopedia Fakebandica, an Internet compendium compiled by the Van Gogh Goghs, a comedy troupe.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Good news for British men, better news for British women; A shot between two eyes made out of coal.

Round 3

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
The first mangling of the English language for 2002; the Eddie Haskell of the Senate; a Wait Wait... goodbye to a former President's best friend.

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
It's your new currency, get used to it: three stories of problems with the new Euro.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
Who will follow Paula Zahn with "just a little bit sexy" ad campaign?

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