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May 3, 2003


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Comedian, actor and writer Al Franken

This Week's Panelists:

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

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The latest pastime in Washington, D.C.: Extreme Legislating; A Hallmark-less birthday greeting; This summer s must read book.

» Music Cue: "Stand By Your Man"
Artist: The Nashville Super Guitars
Composer: Wynette/Sherril
CD Title: Country Hit Kit
Label: CMH Records



Opening Round (Listen)
The frothing Saint; Al Fresco Air; A battle of the sexes reality check.

» Music Cue: "Button Up Your Overcoat"
Artist: Helen Kane
Composer: Brown/DeSylva/Henderson
CD Title: Legendary Entertainers
Label: Fanfare Records



Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
The Best Thing Since E-Bay: Three stories of advances in shopping.

» Music Cue: "Shopping"
Artist: Pet Shop Boys
Composer: Tennant/Lowe
CD Title: Actually
Label: EMI



Not My Job! (Listen)
Humorist Al Franken joins us to talk about the White House Correspondents Dinner and plays our game called "You Look Absolutely HOT In That Velvet Fur-line Bikini": three questions about Frederick's of Hollywood.

» Music Cue: "The Stripper"
Artist: David Rose and his Orchestra
Composer: Rose
CD Title: Bachelor Pad Pleasures
Label: Rhino



Panel Round (Listen)
The latest in hip slang, according to the Wall Street Journal.

» Music Cue: "Shad Up Yer Face"
Artist: Burt Holiday
Composer: Holiday
CD Title: Gotta Laugh Gotta Sing
Label: Overture Records



Round 3

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The Bush Administration adopts Clintonian manipulation of language; A senator takes the family to Iowa for vacation; Finally, some well-behaved athletes.

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
Environmentalism gone too far?; Town meeting regulations that make no scents; Advances in rodent semiotics.

» Music Cue: "Signs"
Artist: Five Man Electrical Band
Composer: Emmerson
CD Title: Have a Nice Decade
Label: Rhino



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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What will be the juicy tidbit that didn't make it into Hillary Clinton's memoirs?

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