PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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AUTUMN O’TOOLE: Hello, my name Autumn O’Toole from Huntington, W. Va.
SAGAL: Well, how are things in Huntington, W. Va., Autumn?
O’TOOLE: Oh, they're good.
SAGAL: And what do you do there?
O’TOOLE: I am a person that finds kids foster homes.
SAGAL: Oh, you do?
O’TOOLE: Yes.
SAGAL: Well, that's an important thing to be doing. Welcome to the show, Autumn. Chioke I’Anson right here is going to read 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 two of the limericks, you'll be a winner. Are you ready to play?
O’TOOLE: Yeah.
SAGAL: Here's your first limerick.
CHIOKE I’ANSON: Though hotel guests say grody and nope, on handwashing day, we give hope. We take slightly used bars, remove hairs, burnish scars, and, voila, we're recycling old...
O’TOOLE: Soap.
SAGAL: Yes, soap.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Hilton announced this week their new eco-friendly business practice - recycling soap. Here's how it works. They collect all the partially used soaps from their hotel rooms. Then bars of soap are made out of these previous guests' privates - I mean, soap.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Soap. And I should mention the new soap is sanitized before it's formed into new bars. Unfortunately, they clean it by rubbing it with another used bar of soap.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Hilton hopes to produce one million bars of recycled soap by October 15, which is Global Handwashing Day.
ADAM BURKE: (Laughter).
SAGAL: Anybody else worried we're just setting aside one day a year to wash our hands?
(LAUGHTER)
BURKE: Let's go back to the good old days when soap was made out of the guts of a whale.
SAGAL: There you go. Here is your next limerick.
I’ANSON: Though space flight is meant to inspire us, one side effect's less than desirous. Low gravity scares up a herpes 2 flare-up 'cause space flight will wake up a...
O’TOOLE: Virus.
SAGAL: Yes, exactly right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: A virus.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: Astronauts are reporting weird and surprising flare-ups of herpes in space. That's right - space herpes.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: So we finally understand the Red Spot on Jupiter. Apparently...
(LAUGHTER)
MO ROCCA: And those rings.
SAGAL: Oh, my God.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Apparently, there's something about space travel that causes dormant viruses to resurge, right? So, all of a sudden, the astronauts reporting outbreaks. You've got to feel for Houston. They're getting calls from astronauts like, Houston, I have a problem, and...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...You might want to get checked out, too.
(LAUGHTER)
ROCCA: I hope we don't end up recycling their soap.
SAGAL: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
BURKE: Space hotels are disgusting.
SAGAL: That's absolutely true.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Here is your last limerick.
I’ANSON: I don't know which way high fashion leans. For my pants' legs, I'll choose in-betweens. Get them skinny or wide? Oh, I just can't decide, so I'll get me some lopsided...
O’TOOLE: Jeans.
SAGAL: Yes, jeans.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Very good.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: The new hot thing in jeans - asymmetry. One leg is really tight, the other is loose and flowing. It's like one leg belongs to a skinny hipster. The other leg belongs to Barack Obama.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: They're perfect for anyone whose left leg has just been stung by a swarm of bees or for anyone who has some serious shoplifting plans. In any event, the designer says this is definitely an artistic choice and not the result of a massive manufacturing error at the factory.
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SAGAL: Chioke, how did Autumn do on our quiz?
I’ANSON: She got them all right, a perfect score.
SAGAL: Congratulations, Autumn. Well done. Thank you so much for playing.
O’TOOLE: Thank you.
SAGAL: Bye-bye. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
