PETER SAGAL, Host:
Coming up, it's Lightning Fill in the Blank. But first, it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme. If you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at 1-888-Wait-Wait, that's 1-888-924-8924. You can click the contact us link on our website waitwait.npr.org. There, you can find out about attending our weekly live shows here at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago, and our upcoming show in Nashville, Tennessee, June 30th. Come see us.
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STEFANIE GREEN: Hi, this is Stefanie. I'm calling from Marietta, Georgia.
SAGAL: Hey, Stefanie. How are things in Marietta?
GREEN: It's very nice here. It was cloudy today, so not too hot.
SAGAL: Isn't Marietta where Newt Gingrich is from or used to represent?
GREEN: I'm originally from New York, so I try not to think about that.
SAGAL: What would you know? OK.
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SAGAL: Stefanie, welcome to the show. Carl Kasell is now going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. Your job, fill in that last word or phrase correctly on two of the limericks. Do that and you will be a winner.
GREEN: Yes.
SAGAL: Ready to play?
GREEN: Yes.
SAGAL: All right, here is your first limerick.
CARL KASELL, Host:
She cleans well and is a good nanny. Her patience is truly uncanny. Advancing in age, she demands a low wage, that's why I am renting this?
GREEN: Granny.
SAGAL: Yes.
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SAGAL: Rent-a-grandma is a new California company so popular it's about to go nationwide. For $20 an hour, exhausted parents can rent a reliable matronly woman, aged 50 or older, to watch their kids, tidy up, and criticize your parenting skills.
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SAGAL: Life choices and no-good husband.
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SAGAL: For an additional fee, they'll leave.
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SAGAL: Here is your next limerick.
KASELL: My bull elephant rolls in the dirt. I am digging his wrinkled gray shirt. He really can wow his elephant cow. He's such a big tease and a?
GREEN: Flirt.
SAGAL: Yes, a flirt.
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SAGAL: If you thought that elephant at the zoo was giving you a come hither look, why, you might be right Representative Weiner.
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SAGAL: According to a decades-long study, elephants in Kenya, they're shameless flirts. They flutter their eyes. And this true, female elephants will glance back over their shoulders in that classic, you know, pinup style pose.
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SAGAL: Once the infatuation, though, wears off, it's, you know, it's the classic, you know, "not tonight, dear, I have to wash my hair with my own nose."
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SAGAL: All right, here is your last limerick.
KASELL: Please take my wife, I'll pay money. Or shall I make jokes much more punny? My audience is squirming. You see, I am German, and that means that I am not?
GREEN: Funny.
SAGAL: Funny, exactly, yes.
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SAGAL: An international poll, conducted across 15 nations, delivered some shocking news this week. Germany is officially the least funny nation on earth.
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SAGAL: What a shock.
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SAGAL: The only people that don't know this are the Germans because the other nations in Europe are afraid to tell them.
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SAGAL: Oh no, you're hilarious, really. Carl, how did Stefanie do on our quiz?
KASELL: Well, Stefanie, you had three correct answers, so you win our prize.
SAGAL: Well done.
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GREEN: Fabulous.
SAGAL: Thank you so much for playing our game.
GREEN: Thank you.
SAGAL: Bye-bye.
GREEN: Bye. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.