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Hi, you are on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.
DANIELLE: Hi. This is Danielle (ph) from Atlanta, Ga.
SAGAL: Hey, Danielle. How are you?
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SAGAL: People here are applauding, which is great. I don't know the answer to this. Is there a rivalry between Atlanta and Savannah, the two largest cities of Georgia?
DANIELLE: Of course not. Everything else in between is Alabama, so we have to stick together.
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SAGAL: Well, Danielle, welcome to the show. Bill Kurtis is going to read for you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in just two of the limericks, you'll be a winner. You ready to play?
DANIELLE: Yeah.
SAGAL: All right. Let's do it for the pride of Georgia. Here's your first limerick.
BILL KURTIS: A grease stain is worse than a crack, so we'll market a simple life hack. Just crunch up your chips, tip the bag to your lips and voila - it's a one-handed...
DANIELLE: Snack.
SAGAL: Snack - that's right.
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SAGAL: Very good.
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SAGAL: This is a problem we've all got that needed to be solved. You're fist-deep into a bag of Cheetos, and you get a text. And you try to reply, and the next thing you know, your thousand-dollar smartphone is so greasy, it gets acne.
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SAGAL: Well, good news - a snack company in Japan has created a product called One Hand Chips. Instead of grabbing a handful of chips with your fingers, with One Hand Chips, you just tip a cup filled with hundreds of chip bits to your lips, and you kind of drink them down.
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SAGAL: It's the best way to make sure you end up with neither any grease spots or human dignity.
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MO ROCCA: It's called a Pringles can.
PETER GROSZ: Yeah.
SAGAL: Yeah, I know.
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GROSZ: But are the chips really small?
SAGAL: Yeah. The idea is, like, they're small enough so that they can flow gently into your mouth but presumably large enough so you're not just eating dust. That would be a problem.
GROSZ: So then do you have, like, a bag of soda to drink with your can of chips?
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SAGAL: Oh, yeah.
ROCCA: Why not just mix the chips with soda?
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SAGAL: I was about to say that's disgusting, but you know that's going to be on sale next week.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: All right. Here is your next limerick.
KURTIS: With each little step that accrues, I will feel that I win when I lose. My footwear will show when the calories go. I am tracking my weight with my...
DANIELLE: Shoes.
SAGAL: Yes, shoes.
KURTIS: Yes.
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SAGAL: You're good at this.
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SAGAL: Google, we are told, is developing a new pair of smart shoes that will tell you if you need to lose weight, taking the place of the technology we've all been using - dumb pants.
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SAGAL: They call them smart shoes. They're really judgmental shoes.
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ROCCA: Right - smart-ass shoes.
SAGAL: And, of course, it's worse. There're two of them. They talk to each other.
GROSZ: Well, they're like your parents.
SAGAL: Trust us - your weight is the least of your problems.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Are they just, like, oh, ow, ow? No, no. It's fine. You're not too heavy. Oh, ow.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: All right. Here is your final limerick.
KURTIS: For six months, they'll give you some wonder care, but with washing, they soon tear asunder there. My hard-working briefs need frequent relief. It is time to replace all my...
DANIELLE: Underwear.
SAGAL: Underwear...
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SAGAL: Yes.
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SAGAL: Apparently - and this came as a shock to me - keeping your underwear around until, one day, it naturally biodegrades is not...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...The most sanitary idea. I thought it was ecologically conscious. We should be throwing them out every six months. Not six years...
ROCCA: Wow.
SAGAL: ...Six months, right when you've started getting to know each other.
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SAGAL: This advice, by the way...
GROSZ: Yeah.
SAGAL: ...Is from Good Housekeeping.
GROSZ: It's not the underwear counsel?
SAGAL: No. But we know that Good Housekeeping is in the pocket of big brief...
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SAGAL: ...Or, as big brief likes to be called, extra-large brief.
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ROCCA: Oh, wow. So briefs should only be worn briefly.
SAGAL: Exactly. That's why they're called briefs.
ROCCA: That's why they're called briefs.
SAGAL: Exactly.
ROXANNE ROBERTS: I view this entirely from the if you got hit by a bus, and they took you...
GROSZ: Oh, yeah.
ROBERTS: ...To the hospital...
SAGAL: The classic....
ROCCA: Right.
ROBERTS: ...Would your...
SAGAL: ...Mother's advice.
ROBERTS: Would you be proud of the underwear you are wearing? Yes.
GROSZ: That would not be your biggest worry at that moment.
(LAUGHTER)
ROBERTS: You know...
GROSZ: You'll never walk again. That's fine. What did you guys think of the back of my underwear?
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SAGAL: Bill, how did Danielle do?
KURTIS: Danielle, you got them all right. Congratulations.
SAGAL: Danielle, thank you so much for playing.
DANIELLE: Thank you.
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SAGAL: Bye-bye.
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