… I’m returning to “Wait Wait” this week. I’m excited - it’s been more than three months since my last appearance, but tomorrow morning I’ll be on a plane bound for Chicago and my ol’ pals. Mo will be there as well, and between the two of us that means we have at least a 5% shot at an “FA” victory this week.
So… what’s gone on in the world since my last “Wait Wait?” Anything? You can catch me up on the past few months in the Comments below.
Fanny Roborat
26 comments
Jonathan
December 13, 2006 at 4:28 pm
1Yay!!! We’ll be tunin’ in!
Steve
December 13, 2006 at 4:37 pm
2Adam requests: “You can catch me up on the past few months. . .
For starters, they added an extra “p” to Philippines.
gillian
December 13, 2006 at 5:24 pm
3Adam, buddy, you forgot the Terminator - “I’ll be back!”.
I’m looking forward to your being back on “The Show”, and with Mo to boot. Yippee! Let the fun begin!
I know you have dozens of sites to get up to speed on the week’s news. Here’s another - http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp
siobhan
December 13, 2006 at 5:29 pm
4Adam, what we really want to know is: Will you be in Berkeley??
Allison
December 13, 2006 at 5:37 pm
5Yaay! WaitWait hasn’t been the same without you, Adam. I actually haven’t been as anal about catching it every week for the past few months. Sacrilege, I know, especially for one who has Carl Kassel answering her phone.
Looking forward to hearing you again, Adam!
Rebecca
December 13, 2006 at 6:24 pm
6Yay! My two favorite panelists in one show!
Past two months, huh? Well, since you got to sort of shamelessly plug WWDTM, I’m going to shamelessly plug my alma mater’s college basketball team: a completely unranked team that won the NIT Season Tip Off tournament, beating Indiana, Notre Dame, Tennessee, and Gonzaga on its way there. (Oh, and they also started 10-0. It was cool.) And two years ago this time, I just happened to be in (and probably sleeping through) a physics class with the tournament MVP.
David
December 13, 2006 at 6:55 pm
7All right, Rebecca. If I remember correctly, it was Butler my Gators beat in 2000 on a last-second incredible basket by Mike Miller on our way to the championship game, which we lost to Michigan State. So I’m not surprised you guys done good in the NIT. Sending a little Gator respect your Butler Bulldogs way.
Mo and Adam together again on WW, DTM. Does it get any better than that?
David
December 13, 2006 at 7:19 pm
8Off thread: Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle strikes with a magnificent vengeance (I am still giving the man a standing ovation for this one).
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1213-24.htm
dee
December 13, 2006 at 7:32 pm
9So Adam, are you going to be all “My book is #76,769 on amazon.com but it’s good to be back with all you little people” ?
Cuz that would be kewl.
amiee
December 13, 2006 at 8:06 pm
10i’m so tempted to call in and vote for you or mo in bluff the listener just so you get points. is that wrong of me?
ice weasel
December 13, 2006 at 9:44 pm
11aimee, do you mind? There have been a few of us extorting about twenty bucks a week from Adam to do just that. And let me tell you, we won’t have anyone horning in our little gravy train doing our work FOR FREE. Ok, so back off.
Adam, we all expect those payments to resume promptly or you’re going to be Paula Poundstone territory quicker than you can say, “Bigfoot pleasuring a unicorn”.
-Disclaimer, Paula, I love you. Just a little jocularity, ya know?
You know, on second thought (and bong hit) maybe the bigfoot thing was funny.
I’ll get back to you on that.
SeattleDan
December 13, 2006 at 10:12 pm
12Stop reminding of that song! I’m going to go to my grave hearing that song!
What’s been going on at WWDTM since Adam has been away. Well, replacing Peter with Gene Simmons as host was deemed to be a big mistake. No one really wanted Diane Rehm’s voice on their answering machines. And hiring Rummy (currently unemployed) to take over as producer for Berman has met a certain amount of resentment. Restore the order of the Universe, Adam.
As to the book, at least Schrodinger’s Ball will show up at Jackson Street Books bestselling fiction paperback list this year at number One!
tess
December 14, 2006 at 12:24 am
13Whee! Adam’s going to be back! Now I have something else to look forward to on the weekend other than the end of school! (and then spending the rest of my weekend scrambling to get my thesis done).
dee
December 14, 2006 at 5:38 am
14(and then spending the rest of my weekend scrambling to get my thesis done).
Oh thank you, tess, for reminding me of something else to celebrate this holiday season — that I never, ever, ever have to do that again.
Rebecca
December 14, 2006 at 8:09 am
15David -
Thanks for the respect. And to be honest, I’m young enough that I hadn’t even heard of Butler in 2000. Oh, and thanks for the link. My favorite line from the article goes a little something like “…and isn’t Dubya still standing there, brow scrunched and confounded as a monkey clinging onto a shiny razor blade” - I had to stifle the chuckles at work.
Tess -
Thank you for reminding me why I got out of my college’s honors program in time to not have to write a thesis.
Rusty
December 14, 2006 at 2:33 pm
16Izzat the Indianapolis Butler Bulldogs?? Congrats. I’m an ex-Hoosier and old IU grad myself, but I used to love all Indiana basketball. Best in the country until IHSAA changed it to a class system. Sorry, this has nothing to do with the topic or (thankfully) unicorns.
Ibid
December 14, 2006 at 3:04 pm
17Well, aliens blew up Chicago Public Radio but that kind of got overshadowed by the Congressional Ethics Committee investigating Democrats for their overzealous victory dances.
Hougan Francois
December 14, 2006 at 4:35 pm
18Mr. Dick say me come here and make Ceremony of Dead for Senator Mr. Tim Johnson. I start now, but maybe Mr. Dick not clear on what this will do to Senator. He also want me to put toxin from puffer fish into Mr. Tim’s IV, make him zombie. I told him this would hurt de Senator, make him very sick; Mr. Dick laugh and say YES!!!. Mr. Dick have scary laugh; I think he not practice it very much. He want me to make hex for Mr. Tim, too. I don’t understand. Mr. Dick is politician like Mr. Tim, but it does not sound like he want Mr. Tim to get better. I make hex now. Where I kill chickens? Here okay?
Rebecca
December 14, 2006 at 6:21 pm
19Rusty - yep, that’d be them. I’m always happy when people know about my small little alma mater!
GW
December 14, 2006 at 6:53 pm
20“Mr. Dick”. That’s funny. Mr. Cheney wanted me to give that nickname to him, but Laura was already using it for something else. Hee hee!
Amina
December 15, 2006 at 5:06 am
21Re: SeattleDan’s notion of “hiring Rummy” for WWDTM…can’t you just hear the answering machine message?
“Did you make a phone call? Absolutely. Has anyone answered? Doesn’t look like it. Do you want your friend to know you called? Probably. Should you leave a message in the form of an annoying questions-and-answer-session-with-self at the tone? Sounds like a good idea.”
*shudder*
Just another reason to be grateful for Carl.
Becca (and Brian)
December 15, 2006 at 5:37 am
22Amina-
That was brilliant.
Becca
vox clamantis in red state
December 15, 2006 at 6:28 am
23stop the war. Now.
GW
December 15, 2006 at 9:18 am
24v.c. - oh great, another pointy-headed, intellectual, book reading, wimp-wristed, Liberal cut-&-runner…
Jim (OJNTNJ)
December 15, 2006 at 1:02 pm
25Actually, when I was browsing the comments, I initially misread vox’s name as waterfowler (must be the lack of upper case letters), and my brain nearly exploded.
Amina
December 16, 2006 at 6:53 am
26Thank you Becca–I credit tea for early morning brilliance. Caffeine rushing oxygen to the brain and all that….