PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about the week's news. Charlie, the city of Trenton, New Jersey was gripped by a crisis this week. If it had not been resolved at the last minute, no city buildings would have had any what?
CHARLIE PIERCE: Calamari.
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SAGAL: No.
PIERCE: I don't know. No city - water?
SAGAL: No. Even more important.
PIERCE: Air.
SAGAL: No.
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PIERCE: I'm going to need a hint on this one, Peter, unfortunately.
SAGAL: It would have just been bare cardboard tubes everywhere.
PIERCE: Oh, they ran out of toilet paper.
SAGAL: The City of Trenton ran out of toilet paper, almost.
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PIERCE: What, do they only get like one delivery a month?
SAGAL: Apparently. No, what happened was is that the City Council had repeatedly rejected a contract with Trenton's paper product provider and supplies were running dangerously low in city facilities.
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SAGAL: Fortunately, the city made an emergency purchase of toilet paper, which is, when you think about, that's probably what the phrase emergency purchase was invented for.
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SAGAL: Anyway, everybody in Trenton is happy they won't be moving forward with the backup plan which was to have the city firefighters open up the hydrants to create co-called power bidets.
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FAITH SALIE: Oh mercy.
ROY BLOUNT: When you start seeing that tube shining through, you got one layer left, you know.
SAGAL: Yeah.
BLOUNT: And there's nobody - you know, you don't know anybody within miles.
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PIERCE: You may already be a redneck.
SAGAL: On the other hand...
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SAGAL: On the other hand, I just thought of a use for those unsold Encyclopedia Britannicas.
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