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It's All Right There in the paystubs. It's All: In the paystubs.

Goodbye Chocolate: Hello, turkey fryer. Swooning for: Turkey fryers.

Scalia defends duck hunting. "It's acceptable practice... Quack, quack."

Out goes Ken. In comes Blaine. After 43 Years: In comes Blaine.



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Feb. 14, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Bill Nye, the Science Guy

This Week's Panelists:

• Mo Rocca, TV personality and contributor to NBC's Today Show
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style reporter
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer


Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The man many have no recollection of ever seeing; first Gephardt, then Lieberman, and this week...; dogs dream of stardom.

» Music Cue: "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
Artist: Baha Men
Composer: Douglas/Prosper
CD Title: Who Let The Dogs Out?
Label: UK Records

Panel Round (Listen)
Good news for the economy... of India; Howard Dean's number one; the mummy who, we suspect, went swimming in cold water.

» Music Cue: "Baby It's Cold Outside"
Artist: Dean Martin
Composer: Loesser
CD Title: Making Spirits Bright
Label: Capitol


Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"Your Message Here" -- three tales of truly inventive advertising. (See the real story.)

» Music Cue: "Green Green Grass of Home"
Artist: Tom Jones
Composer: Putman
CD Title: Tom Jones
Label: Decca Record

Not My Job! (Listen)
Science Guy Bill Nye plays a game we're calling "Hell, no you won't go!" -- three questions about the various ways people dodged military service during the Vietnam War.

Second Panel Round (Listen)
Before we call the police, there's something I'd like you to do.


Round 3

Who's Carl (Second Round) (Listen)
A Supreme conflict of interest?; a mighty mouse meets its match; palimony in the toy box.

» Music Cue: "One"
Artist: Three Dog Night
Composer: Harry Nilsson
CD Title: Best Of Three Dog Night
Label: MCA Records

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
Britain's Parliament considers the problem of that fake butter stuff; Nothing says I love like a power drill; by the slice, or by the pie, it's still very naughty.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What will happen next to the beleaguered Disney?

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