Limericks

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KAITLIN MARTINEZ: Hi, this Kaitlin from Orlando, Florida.

SAGAL: Hey, Kaitlin, how are things in Orlando?

MARTINEZ: Hot.

SAGAL: Oh, yeah, they're going to be that way for a while.

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MARTINEZ: Yeah.

SAGAL: What do you do there?

MARTINEZ: I'm a tech writer.

SAGAL: Oh really? So you write about technical things for technical people I guess.

MARTINEZ: Yeah, it's boring.

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SAGAL: Oh, well, I'm glad you're so filled with enthusiasm for your job. Welcome to the show, Kaitlin. You are going to play the Listener Limerick Challenge. Bill Kurtis is 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, you'll be a winner. Ready to play?

MARTINEZ: Yes.

SAGAL: Here is your first limerick.

BILL KURTIS: Sometimes links to the subjects are rocky, like Magellan skates well though he's stocky. You'll need more than luck like skilled with a puck, this school centers all classes on...

MARTINEZ: Hockey.

SAGAL: Yes, hockey.

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SAGAL: Well done.

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SAGAL: Hockey is a Canadian tradition like politeness or smoking crack.

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SAGAL: And now Cole Harbor High School is moving to an all-hockey curriculum - hockey history, hockey physics, hockey glee club. Here's an example of hockey math. I just hit you four times in the head with my stick. Now how many teeth do you have left?

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KEN JENNINGS: Hold on, carry the one...

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AMY DICKINSON: Ken's doing it. Ken's calculating.

SAGAL: Ken's working on it.

DICKINSON: Yeah.

SAGAL: All right. Here is your next limerick.

KURTIS: With this pet I am never alone, I can find and then blow up a bone. The small unmanned plane arrives potty trained. As a pet I have got my own...

MARTINEZ: Drone.

SAGAL: Drone, yes.

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SAGAL: Very good.

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KURTIS: Very, very good.

SAGAL: Great news for both lovers of pets and government surveillance, the company Falkor Systems has developed a, quote, "pet drone" that follows you around much like a puppy does. It tracks your movements and films you at a safe distance also like a puppy does.

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SAGAL: Developers say these pet drones will be perfect for extreme athletes who can use them to film, you know, base jumps, free falls, extreme skiing. But you'll need another drone to follow around the pet drone with little plastic baggies to pick up its pile of batteries.

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SAGAL: Here is your last limerick.

KURTIS: Though I load up the charcoal with skill, the bacteria I cannot kill. So it's like cooking meat on a hot toilet seat, there are billions of germs on my...

MARTINEZ: Fill?

SAGAL: Fill? Not fill.

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ROY BLOUNT JR.: Oh, I'm not Phil. Oh, yeah (unintelligible)

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SAGAL: Well, let's hear this one again. I think you will get it.

KURTIS: Though I load up the charcoal with skill, the bacteria I cannot...

MARTINEZ: Oh, grill.

SAGAL: Yes, grill.

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SAGAL: Want a side of cholera with your bratwurst? According to British researchers, the average barbecue grill has more than twice as many germs as a toilet seat. This is because people clean their toilets but not their grills. And, you know what it's like, guys, you got a grease fire. You don't have any water with you, there's nobody around...

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DICKINSON: Oh, no.

SAGAL: Bill, how did Kaitlin do on our quiz?

KURTIS: She's a material girl in a material world. She got them all right.

SAGAL: Well done.

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SAGAL: Thank you so much for playing, Kaitlin.

MARTINEZ: Thank you so much.

SAGAL: Bye-bye.

MARTINEZ: Bye.

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