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May 25, 2002


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Chip Rowe, the Playboy Adviser

This Week's Panelists:

• P.J. O Rourke, humorist and author
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section writer

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
President "Pootie Poot"; If they get to our co-ops, they have won; A mini-skirt we won't be seeing on Fox anymore.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
A color that you can't buy at Pottery Barn; Rep. Barney Frank steps on our turf; Japan gets help from Elmer's to stop soccer hooligans.

Round 2

Historical Reenactment Theater (Listen with Real Audio)
Iran gets all teary and grateful; I'm not Sonny Bono...and I'm not Eugene O Neill; Sammy the Shredder.

PhotoSee a photo of U2's Bono with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Chip Rowe, The "Playboy Adviser" plays a game called: You're 109 Years Old, But Men Still Covet You." Three questions about the NHL's biggest prize: The Stanley Cup.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
Yet another funny voice featured on All Things Considered; And the award goes to...a fungus!

Round 3

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
Catch my wave, and you die; A truly fowl story; "Red light, three, four, Green light, three four, stop, turn, jazz hands."

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
Foiled: stories of David overcoming modern-day Goliaths.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
Where will Ally McBeal turn up now that her show has been cancelled?

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