Mandy Patinkin

Mandy Patinkin
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Heard on the show:

Mars Space Madness: Don't miss your chance to see the little white dot!

Gas Gas Stations: They take cash, major credit cards and the deed to your house.

Scientists Marriage: career suicide for male scientists and criminals?

Medical Slang Medical Slang: Now we can all know what those docs are saying on ER.

Tennessee Something's Rotten in the State of Tennessee: It's the city employees. Whoo-wee.

Aussie Bible The Australian Bible: Replete with parables about the Good Bloke and a very special Sheila.

SUV The Feather Duster as Aphrodisiac: Men who help with the cleaning clean up in the sack.

Bagpipes Bagpipes: Bad for what wails you?

Bagpipes Socks and Sandals: Turns out the Romans are to blame for that one.




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August 30, 2003


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HOST: Peter Segal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Actor and singer Mandy Patinkin

This Week's Panelists:

• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section reporter
• Adam Felber, Writer and performer
• Paula Poundstone, Comedian

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
"Look to the skies!!!"; the next George McGovern; the great Labor Day conspiracy?

Opening Round (Listen)
What Einstein and Billy the Kid had in common; How local government can solve an odorous situation; suffrage for the Kinderegg set.

Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"You're Not Really Going to Wear That Are You?" Three stories of fashion faux pas through the ages.

Not My Job! (Listen)
Mandy Patinkin, star of stage and screen, plays our game called "Hmm...what we have here, doctors, is a severe UBI." Three questions about medical slang.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
An anniversary being celebrated by beach going middle-aged European men and a good read for a wallaby.

Round 3

Carl Cassell's Countdown (Listen)
A bad-to-the-bone agency; a man who would not be moved; the man who once thought everybody and verything was beautiful.

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
The Spic and Span seduction method; the latest Modest Proposal from Ireland health ministry; the danger lurking in the Scottish highlands...



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


Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What will we discover about Mars now that it's so close to the Earth?

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