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laogaiguk
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 Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject: 'Jeopardy' champ Jennings jabs show |
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'Jeopardy' champ Jennings jabs show
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'Jeopardy' champ Jennings jabs show
$2.5 million winner takes a few digs at quiz
Tuesday, July 25, 2006; Posted: 5:55 p.m. EDT (21:55 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show -- and dapper host Alex Trebek.
"I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site. (Click hereexternal link for the "Jeopardy!" entry; click hereexternal link for the blog.)
"Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)."
Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format.
"You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think 'change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so."
In a posting Jennings made Tuesday, he calls the entry "a humor piece."
A call by The Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately returned Tuesday.
Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg.
Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts.
"We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.' "
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. |
I never liked the guy (Jennings) while on the show, even less now. |
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blaseblasphemener
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| Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Alex Trebek, another famous Canadian!  |
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RACETRAITOR
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| Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like he's just being playful. But to a Mormon, maybe that's really insulting or something. |
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Guri Guy
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| Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Jennings was an ass when he was on the show. After those idiotic comments, he is now a complete ass. If he b*tches about the show so much, why doesn't he make his own? |
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Sounds like he's just being playful. But to a Mormon, maybe that's really insulting or something. |
Yes, it does, but it isn't. He was an a$$ on the show too. |
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djsmnc
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| Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I bet he likes to get jabbed |
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flakfizer
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| I have a feeling that a lot of people found him to be annoying after that learned he was a Mormon. |
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| I have a feeling that a lot of people found him to be annoying after that learned he was a Mormon. |
I honestly didn't even know that until this thread. He was an a$$ on the show. There is a much better chance people started hating him after he became an a$$, which no one is in the first few shows. After getting comfortable and realizing he was sort of famous he became an a$$. |
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captain planet
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| it was a joke letter. if you read the thing, you'd know that. it wasn't particularly funny, but it was obviously meant to be humorous and not serious. check his blog, whatever it is. look it up. |
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mithridates
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| flakfizer wrote: |
| I have a feeling that a lot of people found him to be annoying after that learned he was a Mormon. |
I honestly didn't even know that until this thread. He was an a$$ on the show. There is a much better chance people started hating him after he became an a$$, which no one is in the first few shows. After getting comfortable and realizing he was sort of famous he became an a$$. |
It's okay, you can write ass on the board. Ass ass ass ass ass. Not t!ts though. |
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