Author Lynne Truss
Author Lynne Truss


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Insuring Success: For the Summer Olympics. Insuring Success: For the Olympics.

Toronado: Now just a memory. Toronado: Now just a memory.

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'Jars of Hope': Goodbye Estée Lauder. Jars of Hope: Goodbye, Estée Lauder.



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May 1, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Author Lynne Truss

This Week's Panelists:

• Correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates from NPR's Day To Day
• Performer and proprietor of Felbers.net, Adam Felber
• Writer for The Boston Globe, Charlie Pierce


Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
No one knows what goes on behind closed doors; Lautenberg unleashed; Flag fashion tips with Carson Kressley of Queer Eye.

» Music Cue: "Herzensfreude Polka"
Artist: Woadhauser Musikanten
CD Title: Oktoberfest in Germany
Label: Delta Music

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
Einstein's hobbies.


Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"Catch me if you can!" -- Three stories of small revolutions in law enforcement.

(See the real story.)

» Music Cue: "Bad Boys"
Artist: Inner Circle
Composer: Inner Circle
CD Title: Bad Boys
Label: Atlantic

Not My Job! (Listen)
Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, plays a game called "Put a little of this on your cheeks, darling, and you'll glow like a bride" -- Three questions about the life and times of the late Estée Lauder.

Second Panel Round (Listen)
From sneeze guards to security guards at the Chuck-a-Rama.

» Music Cue: "Meat Man"
Artist: Jerry Lee Lewis
Composer: Vickery
CD Title: The Jerry Lee Lewis Anthology
Label: Polygram Records


Round 3

Third Panel Round (Listen)
Comic book training drills in Iraq; The Army asks for its cannons back.

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The job nobody wants; One man looks forward to late-night TV; The fading smile of an icon.

» Music Cue: "Mona Lisa"
Artist: Nat King Cole
Composer: Capitol Records
CD Title: Nat King Cole's Greatest Hits
Label: Capitol Records

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What are they really going to call Bill Clinton's autobiography?

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