PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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SAGAL: We'll tell you how. Hi, you're on WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!
KIM SNIPES: Hi, this is Kim Snipes, calling from Dennison, Texas.
SAGAL: How are things in Dennison, Texas?
SNIPES: Cold, it's winter again.
SAGAL: Oh boy, that was a brief spring. What do you do there?
SNIPES: I'm a biologist at Austin College, down the road in Sherman, Texas.
SAGAL: OK. And what do you study?
SNIPES: Well, with my last name it was kind of inevitable. I study birds.
SAGAL: Your last name is what?
SNIPES: Snipes.
SAGAL: Your last name is snipe?
SNIPES: Yes.
SAGAL: Do Boy Scouts hunt for you?
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SNIPES: No, not yet. My grandfather had the best line in that he said his daughter, my mom, was the only person to go on a snipe hunt and actually bag one.
SAGAL: There you go, well done.
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SAGAL: Grandpa. Welcome to the show, Kim. You, of course, are going to play the Listener Limerick Challenge. Carl here will recite three limericks for you. The last word will be up to you. Ready to play?
SNIPES: Yes.
SAGAL: Here we go. Here is your first limerick.
CARL KASELL: When will baby and I have some funsie? Is the pooping and crying all donesie? Your mood I'll compute with this lovely new suit. You are measured and probed by this?
SNIPES: Onesie.
SAGAL: Yes, indeed, the onesie.
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SAGAL: Parenting just got a little creepier, thanks to the Exmobaby onesie. This suit has built in sensors that send you, the parent, a text message or email telling you why your baby is crying.
AMY DICKINSON: No.
TOM BODETT: Oh lord.
SAGAL: So you're messing around on your iPhone, right, and your baby is messing his diaper, and you get a little note from his onesie, saying, oh, baby has messed his diaper. And then you can immediately send a text to your wife informing her the baby needs changing.
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BRIAN BABYLON: So hold on, Peter, are you now telling me there's an app for crap?
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DICKINSON: Yeah.
SAGAL: All right, very good, here is your next limerick.
KASELL: For small baked goods there's sneaky uptakes. It's a cash machine? No, it is a fake. I don't care what it's costing, it sells creamy frosting. it's a vending machine for a?
SNIPES: Cupcake.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: For those of you who can't make it to the cupcake bank before it closes, you'll be happy to know that now there is such a thing as a cupcake ATM. Sprinkles, in Beverly Hills, was the first bakery to install a cupcake ATM on the wall outside. It'll probably be the last once people learn that they have to pay a $3 ATM fee if it's not their bakery.
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SAGAL: Here is your last limerick.
KASELL: I am sad to see doggy's young grace drift. So he'll get what I think is an ace gift. He will regain his pluck with a nip and a tuck. I am getting my doggy a?
SNIPES: Facelift.
SAGAL: Yes, a facelift.
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SAGAL: Have you ever looked at your dog and thought, "Gosh, he's got a huge nose. If only plastic surgery for dogs existed." If so, what the hell is your problem?
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SAGAL: But it does exist. According to the ever-reasonable Daily Mail Newspaper in Britain, doggy plastic surgery is on the rise. One British couple reportedly spent nearly $20,000 on a facelift for their bloodhound.
BODETT: No.
DICKINSON: No.
SAGAL: Think about that. That's the breed of dog with the big droopy face, like, hello, how are you.
BABYLON: What did they get tucked?
SAGAL: Yeah.
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DICKINSON: That is really sad.
BABYLON: Like now he looks like a what, a collie now?
SAGAL: Maybe they think it's for the dog's benefit. The dog will be more cheerful if it looks a little younger.
BABYLON: He can be at the doggy park. Then when he sniffs a tree, he can do it with confidence.
BODETT: Get that little doggy trout pout thing going.
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SAGAL: Carl, how did Kim do?
KASELL: Kim, you had three correct answers, so you win our prize.
SAGAL: Well done.
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SAGAL: Thank you, Kim for playing.
SNIPES: You're very welcome. It was a pleasure.
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