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Aug. 19, 2006

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Who's Carl This Time?

Quote 1

Carl: "You gotta be the kind of guy who can don a powder blue helmet, arm yourself with meager weapons you're not even allowed to use, step out into that war zone and say, 'Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey you there! Whoa! Whoa! Easy!"

That's The Daily Show's Rob Corddry describing the qualifications for a certain task in the news this week... what?

• Answer 1

Quote 2

Carl: "It's a 'No Ice Ball Left Behind' policy."

That's astronomy professor Mike Brown in The New York Times summing up the policy announced this week that allows what to keep its planetary status?

• Answer 2

Quote 3

Carl: "You gotta say BLEEPin snakes on a BLEEPin' plane... cause that's what's happening. And you've gotta be able to say BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP and all the stuff that snakes make you say."

That is actor Samuel L. Jackson talking about some of the key dialogue from what much-anticipated movie?

• Answer 3

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