BILL KURTIS, HOST:
From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT ...DON'T TELL ME the NPR News quiz. I'm Bill Kurtis. We are playing this week with Adam Felber, Paula Poundstone and Roxanne Roberts. And here again is your host at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va. Peter Sagal.
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PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Thank you everybody. Thank you so much. In just a minute - in just a minute, Bill heads out on the Rhyme-alachian trail to hunt for limericks.
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SAGAL: It's the Listener Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-9248-924. Right, now panel - some more questions for you from the week's news. Paula, a new company - this is great - a new company has finally solved one of the worst aspects of owning a cat. They're selling a brand-new product that does what?
PAULA POUNDSTONE: Decorates your cats butt.
SAGAL: That's exactly right.
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SAGAL: Paula - and I know this is something of an overgeneralization, but you don't know anything, and you knew that.
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SAGAL: That's both impressive and shocking.
POUNDSTONE: Every cat owner, Peter -
SAGAL: Yes, Paula.
POUNDSTONE: Has to make that decision.
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SAGAL: What decision?
ADAM FELBER: What to do about that one part of your cat that's not cute.
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SAGAL: Well, here's a solution. As we say, cats are constantly walking around with their tails in the air, putting their butts in your face. Enter Twinkle Tush, a new product that claims to solve the problem by bedazzling your cat's backside. Don't get alarmed. What it is is it's basically a little flat Christmas ornament type thing that is on a loop that you put over your cat's tail and turns what was once unsightly into a work of one-of-a-kind art.
FELBER: I hope at least one of them is just a little evergreen.
POUNDSTONE: You know, that's a great idea. We in the Poundstone home have been doing something similar to this in a lot less expensive way for many years, which is I just snatch the do not disturb sign from any hotel I'm in.
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SAGAL: Just hang it right there off the tail.
POUNDSTONE: Hang it right over the cat's tail.
SAGAL: That would work.
ROXANNE ROBERTS: How drunk would you have to be to sit around and come up with that?
SAGAL: How drunk would you think you are if you're at a friends house and you see one of these walk by?
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FELBER: Yeah.
SAGAL: I just hit bottom. That cat's butt was twinkling.
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SAGAL: All right, Adam. It is time for a new game we're calling...
KURTIS: I've Got Good News and Bad News.
SAGAL: We tell you the good news. You tell us the bad news.
FELBER: Excellent.
SAGAL: You ready?
FELBER: Sure.
SAGAL: The good news is there is a new very promising treatment for enlarged prostates. What is the bad news?
FELBER: It shrinks all the surrounding bits.
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SAGAL: Once you had an enlarged prostate. Now you are a very tiny man.
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SAGAL: I'll give you a hint. It's the buzz in all the medical journals.
FELBER: You have to get stung by bees?
SAGAL: Well, it is bee venom. We'll give it to you.
FELBER: Bee venom. OK. All right.
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SAGAL: It just so happens the last place you want a bee to sting you is the place it might actually do you some good.
FELBER: Wow.
SAGAL: Bee venom him has suppressed enlarged prostates in tests. In a corollary finding, 9 out of 10 men who stopped to think about what this means involuntarily crossed their legs.
FELBER: Yeah, I did too.
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SAGAL: But if you think being stung by a bee 8-inches up your colon sounds like the worst thing ever, think how the bee feels about it. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.