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January 26, 2002


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Columnist Gregg Easterbrook

This Week's Panelists:

•BBC and Times of London correspondent Sue Ellicott
•Humorist and author Roy Blount Jr.
Only a Game and Esquire contributor Charlie Pierce

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
The blue light goes out; pretzel systems back to normal, thanks; a fevered farewell.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
A chair nobody wants to sit in; men get their due on the calendar, but not by posing; a journey someone had to take sitting down.

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
Why does that pig have curly green ears? Au revoir Ronald McDonald; a long cab ride.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Slate's Tuesday Morning Quarterback, Gregg Easterbrook, plays "You're the Peeper of Record"--about errors in the New York Times.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Thrifty terrorists; the magazine cover no one would pose for.

Round 3

Who's Carl II? (Listen with Real Audio)
Enron's fall continues to surprise people who must have known better; all that Glitters isn't gold; Mike Tyson bites again.

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
Your Legislators at Work: three unlikely legislative tales.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
Kmart's last ditch effort to revive itself.

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