Limericks

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SAGAL: Hi.  You're on WAIT WAIT ...DON'T TELL ME. 

SEAN CARY: (Caller) Hi.  How are you doing? 

SAGAL: I'm fine.  Who's this? 

CARY: (Caller) My name is Sean Cary. 

SAGAL: I can tell from your accent you're from someplace nice. 

CARY: (Caller) Really?  Yeah.  Lexington, South Carolina. 

SAGAL: Lexington, South Carolina.  What do you do there? 

CARY: (Caller) I'm a court reporter actually. 

SAGAL: Are you really? 

CARY: (Caller) Yes. 

SAGAL: So you're the guy who sits at the front with the little Steno machine and types? 

CARY: (Caller) Yeah, except I'm not a Steno machine guy.  I'm the guy - I hold a mask to my face.  I looked even more bizarre. 

SAGAL: Oh, I've seen that.  It's very odd.  It looks like a little Darth Vader guy sitting at the front of the courtroom. 

CARY: (Caller) It does. 

SAGAL: And what are you doing?  What are you whispering into the mask? 

CARY: (Caller) Whatever anyone is saying. 

SAGAL: If you're speaking into a device, and you're just repeating out loud what everybody says, why don't you you just record out loud what everybody says? 

CARY: (Caller) I'm doing that as well. 

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CARY: (Caller) I'm covering my butt. 

SAGAL: Well, Sean, welcome to our show.  Carl Kasell, of course, is going to perform 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 on two of the limericks, you will be a winner.  Are you ready to play? 

SAGAL: According to Chicago vets, the polar vortex not only forced us to sit on the couch and watch every episode of "Cake Boss," it made our dogs fat, too. 

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SAGAL: We didn't want to go outside.  They didn't get to go outside and run around with the dogs.  Fine we all need to start losing the weight.  But the real problem is all the presents the dog left under the bed are starting to thaw out. 

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SAGAL: Here's your next limerick. 

KASELL: Those Taco Bell upper banditos...

CARY: (Caller) Upper banditos. 

KASELL: ...Sucked thoughts out of me like mosquitoes. 

CARY: (Caller) Out of me like mosquitoes. 

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KASELL: This intern did well; dreamed up a new shell.  I came up with using...

CARY: (Caller) Oh, oh, oh, Doritos. 

SAGAL: Doritos. 

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CARY: (Caller) Thank you. 

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BURBANK: He was doing his job. 

SAGAL: Were you transcribing Carl into a little machine? 

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SAGAL: We heard you. 

CARY: (Caller) It's become a habit. 

BURBANK: Your wife has to love that. 

CHARLIE PIERCE: Oh wow. 

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SAGAL: This week, a group of interns enslaved by Taco Bell back in 1995 claimed they can prove they were the ones who came up with the idea for the now hugely profitable Doritos Taco's Locos.  Those are the tacos stuffed inside a giant Dorito, right.  The only problem with their case is that anyone who has ever gotten high and eaten Doritos has had this same thought. 

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PIERCE: Well, that's why it's a class action lawsuits. 

SAGAL: Exactly. 

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SAGAL: All right, Sean, here is your last limerick. 

KASELL: Though known as some slick silk thread gliders, we're also covert gas tank hiders.  Now Mazda's appalled.  Their cars are recalled.  They're ruined because of us...

SAGAL: Mazda is recalling 42,000 sedans 'cause spiders are building webs inside the engines and sometimes cause fires by blocking the flow of fuel.  Now, you might ask why are the spiders just infesting Mazdas?  Is it that Toyota and Honda were smart enough to install birds in each engine? 

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SAGAL: No.  There's a certain valve in the Mazda engine, which is just the wrong shape when it comes to attracting spiders to build their webs.  They should not have made the valve look like a big, dead fly. 

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SAGAL: Carl, how did Sean do in our quiz? 

KASELL: It took some doing, Peter, but Sean...

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KASELL: But Sean came up with two correct answers so he wins our prize. 

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SAGAL: Well done.  Yay, Sean. 

AMY DICKINSON: Yay. 

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CARY: (Caller) Thank you. 

SAGAL: That was a nail biter.  Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.