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Oct. 23, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: On vacation this week

This Week's Panelists:

Boston Globe writer Charlie Pierce
• Roxanne Roberts, style section editor of The Washington Post
• Roy Blount Jr., humorist and author

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
A team jumps the gun a bit; A new high-risk category in the flu shot shortage; and American television faces a dearth of tiaras.

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
The ironic headline of the week.


Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
Sure, I'm working as a toaster, but what I really want to do is direct: Three stories of appliances gone wild.

Panel Round, Part 2 (Listen)
And baby makes four; Now at your nearest department store... Parfum de Subway; Their prefered line of products is Sears Crafts-ape; A tribute to Clinton "Buck" Johnson; A key-chain invention that could get you in trouble; An intimate new use for your cell phone.


Round 3

Second Round of Who's Carl? (Listen)
Someone gets catty about the First Lady; Appearing at the Republican National Convention means trouble in paradise; A star decides it's time to chill.

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
A breakfast king passes on; A state struggles with its catchy slogan; NASA provides a familiar and dirty explanation for how planets form.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What will be the big headline out of the 2004 World Series?

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