Aaron Glover, Evening MBA Student at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta GA, completes the Listener Limerick Challenge on the May 7 2011 broadcast of NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (Link to NPR Transcript)

PETER SAGAL, host:

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Hi, you're in WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!

Mr. AARON GLOVER: Hi, this is Aaron Glover, calling from sunny Atlanta, Georgia.

SAGAL: Hey, beautiful Atlanta. How are things there?

Mr. GLOVER: Oh, it's pretty nice. We just had finals at Georgia Tech, so very peaceful.

SAGAL: Oh really, are you a student there?

Mr. GLOVER: I am. I'm studying for my MBA.

SAGAL: Oh really, so you're going to go into business. What are you going to do with that degree? What do you want to do?

Mr. GLOVER: Not crash the economy.

SAGAL: All right, that would be good. You might be the first with that ambition, as far as I know. Aaron, welcome to the show. Carl, of course, is going to now perform for you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. Fill in that last word or phrase correctly on two of the limericks and you will be a winner. Ready to go?

Mr. GLOVER: Sure am.

SAGAL: Here's your first limerick.

CARL KASELL, host:

At hirsute Hindi soldiers they thrust cash. Hairy lips show we're many, not just brash. To show that we're brave, we're paid not to shave. Extra cash for a big, curly?

Mr. GLOVER: Moustache.

SAGAL: Right.

(Soundbite of bell)

SAGAL: A police chief in India believes police with moustaches get more respect. In law enforcement, that's know as the Magnum PI theory.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: So he's paying his cops to grow 'staches. While the public reaction to the mustachioed force has been positive, they're reporting a 10,000 percent increase in incidents of police officers being mistaken for strippers dressed as police officers.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. MO ROCCA (Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning): It has to be a particular kind of mustache. It can't be like a handlebar mustache.

Mr. BRIAN BABYLON (Comedian/Host, Vocolo.org): Yeah, it can't be a hipster curlicue.

Mr. ROCCA: Right, or like a...

SAGAL: A manly mustache.

Mr. ROCCA: Yeah, not like a Snidely Whiplash.

Ms. AMY DICKINSON (Columnist, Ask Amy): Like a...

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. ROCCA: No, I mean I like Snidely Whiplash but and you'd think he's a bad guy and not a good cop.

SAGAL: It's got to be a good guy mustache. All right.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: Here is your next limerick.

KASELL: My companion is whom you have met. Don't demean him or he'll start to fret. He's small, soft, and furry, but he'll start to worry if you merely call him my?

Mr. GLOVER: Pet.

SAGAL: Yes, pet.

(Soundbite of bell)

SAGAL: Just because your pets have no idea what you're saying doesn't mean you should continue to offensively refer to them as pets. Animal rights advocates now say pets are from now on to be called animal companions and you are their, quote, "human carrers." Get it right. But why stop there? If we're going to be really sensitive about this, we should start referring to dog walks as conjoined strolls.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. BABYLON: Peter...

SAGAL: Leashes as obedience scarves.

Mr. BABYLON: I want my country back.

SAGAL: I know.

Mr. BABYLON: I want my country back, man. What's going on here?

Mr. ROCCA: Animal companion is very 1950s. Shouldn't it be animal partner?

Mr. BABYLON: Yep.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. BABYLON: Yep.

SAGAL: All right, here is your last limerick.

KASELL: We monkeys are forced to conclude that the way you mix flavors is crude. It's got bland mouth appeal, and the plating's surreal. We're refined when we talk about?

Mr. GLOVER: Food.

SAGAL: Yes, food.

(Soundbite of bell)

SAGAL: When you think of a hairy ape savoring its food, you think of Mario Batali, not actual apes.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: But a team of Scottish biologists has found that bonobos, those are related to the chimpanzee, they have a set of sounds devoted solely to reviewing food. Low pitched yelps means "oh mundane, why bring this unimaginative morsel to my mouth? It's a waste of opposable thumbs."

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: A high pitched bark though, well that's a four-star review on Ape Yelp.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. ROCCA: I was trying to think of some sort of simian that rhymes with Zagat or something like that.

(Soundbite of laughter)

Mr. BABYLON: So bonobos are the ones with the big snozzes, right?

SAGAL: No, actually, bonobos...

Mr. ROCCA: This sauce is a little too orangutan-gy.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: There you go.

(Soundbite of applause)

Mr. BABYLON: There you go.

Ms. DICKINSON: Woo.

SAGAL: Carl, how did Aaron do on our quiz?

KASELL: Aaron, you had three correct answers, so I'll be doing the message on your voicemail. Congratulations.

SAGAL: Well done.

Mr. GLOVER: Yes.

(Soundbite of applause)

SAGAL: Thank you so much for playing.

Mr. GLOVER: Thank you.

SAGAL: Bye-bye.