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CHRISTINA WISE: Hello, Peter. This is Christina Wise calling from Boulder Creek, Calif.
PETER SAGAL, HOST:
It's so exciting to hear from you, Christina, 'cause you are so excited. Where is Boulder Creek? I've never heard of it.
WISE: Boulder Creek is about an hour and a half south of San Francisco if other people are driving or about an hour south of San Francisco if I'm driving.
SAGAL: There you go. Everybody I know who lives in California says they drive faster than everybody else, which is mathematically impossible.
WISE: (Laughter).
SAGAL: Christina, welcome to the show. Bill Kurtis is going to perform for you three news-related limericks, crafted by our own limericist Philipp Goedecke. If you can fill in the last word of each on two of them, you will win our prize - Carl Kasell's voice on your voice mail. Are you ready to play?
WISE: I am so ready. Let's go.
SAGAL: Whoa.
BILL KURTIS: Jeez.
SAGAL: Don't keep her waiting.
KURTIS: A beard's passe since I began one. With long hair, I might have some damn fun. But as fashion trends go, it grows far too slow. So I'll clip on a hipster-y (ph) man...
WISE: Bun.
SAGAL: Yes, a man bun.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Very good.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: These are, of course, you know, where you - a man takes his long hair and he sort of styles it up in a little bun. It's the latest thing. And now a company is selling clip-on man buns for people who can't grow it naturally. If you don't know what it looks like, take one of Princess Leia, you know, from "Star Wars" - take one of her side buns, remove it, put it on top of a guy's head. That's a...
BRIAN BABYLON: Yeah, it looks like - it looks like a hipster and a samurai...
SAGAL: Yeah.
BABYLON: ...Like, mashed up.
SAGAL: If you're good looking and you're tall and you've got that stern face, you can look like a samurai. If you're anything else, you just look like a poop emoji.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: The clip-on man bun is perfect for the guy who doesn't have the time to grow his hair long but wants to look like a jagbag right away.
MAZ JOBRANI: Immediately.
SAGAL: Immediately. All right, here is your next limerick.
KURTIS: The villains in "Bond" films have lots of style. Their plans help our prisons stay locked a while. Our cold-blooded guards won't take bribes in the yard 'cause we're filling the moats with some...
WISE: Oh no.
SAGAL: It's a rhymes with lots of style, locked a while. There's a mention of moats, cold-blooded guards.
KURTIS: Filled with...
WISE: I really can't think of so - crocodiles.
SAGAL: Yes, crocodiles.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
KURTIS: Yes, my goodness.
SAGAL: Very good.
KURTIS: Crocodile - how'd you think of that?
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SAGAL: Indonesia is frustrated that in their prisons, prisoners keep bribing their guards. So they proposed getting new guards - crocodiles. They're perfect for the job. They're hard to intimidate. They have very thick skin. You can insult them, right? They don't mind. You can pierce them with a shiv. They won't mind. And, says one official, you can't convince them to let you escape. That's true. Your best bet, if you're in a prison guarded by crocodiles, convince a fellow prisoner to escape and then use him to bribe the guards. Here, eat Jeff.
BABYLON: You know what they don't like?
SAGAL: What?
BABYLON: They don't like to be called alligators.
SAGAL: No, they really don't like that. All right, here is your last limerick.
KURTIS: In bags of chips, chips are quite rare. They're packed with too much room to spare. More than 80 percent of my cash is ill spent. I am paying for bags filled with...
WISE: Air.
KURTIS: Air.
SAGAL: Air, yes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: We all know about this.
KURTIS: Christina.
SAGAL: But a British man decided to investigate it. He was frustrated every time he bought a bag of chips and he got only two or three of the damn things at the bottom. So he did a study. He determined that the average bag of chips is just 14 percent chips, 86 percent air. When he protested, the chip company told him that it was actually buying a bag of cool ranch-flavored air and the chips were just included as packing material. They said, what, you're not eating them, are you? Bill, how did Christina do on our quiz?
KURTIS: Three and 0.
SAGAL: Well done, Christina. Hey. Thank you so much for playing. Bye-bye.
WISE: Bye. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.