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But Jeopardy! is a TV show, with ratings and advertisers. Some seem to be characterizing it as the academic-intellectual Olympics, but in all reality it could very well be more like the academic-intellectual Pro Wrestling.

Ken appears to be smart, that's a fact. But being TV, and not having direct access to Ken, or any objective criteria by which to measure his wits (it would be circular to consider Jeopardy! as such under this consideration), it's not for me to determine. Ken could be a trivia master, or he could be a very clever scammer/social engineer/hacker. People have devised systems to exploit contests, and even quiz shows before. It's distinctly within the realm of possibility. Ken could also be working in league with Sony, or with Alex and the Jeopardy! crew.

When I look back at all my mistakes and regrets in life, all of them were caused by innocence and naivete. Machiavelli knew what he was writing about in The Prince. While I'll keep an open mind and consider that Ken might be genuine, without evidence beyond what is presented on a TV show, or by the vapid celebrity/meta-media, I'm not considering this anything more than bread and circuses.

Yes, a few of those would go well with the Pimpbot 5000 .

Go, Monkey Boy, go!

They had Nuclear Powered Limbs way back in 1974! I specifically remember Steve hacking his nuclear battery out of his arm! :)

You're both right:

http://www.tvacres.com/weapons_ammunition_uranium. htm

... I would have thought it was the death of the longtime SpokesCharacter for Charmin Toilet Paper.

What I still can't understand is what is holding their stock price up?

One word: Upsidaisium.

I, like Al Bundy, prefer magazines simialar to Big 'Uns.

I'm imagining this scenario happening with the Serta counting sheep. rofl.

that's sweet bippy, you insensitive clod!

BIP

No, not Ponch & Jon: My favorite app for these smart road studs is displaying spacers between cars in a lane, dependent on their speeds, showing necessary braking distance. Especially good in foggy and rainy conditions, with reduced visibility, that contribute to massive car pileups. The same app could even indicate a gradual slowdown zone, approaching stopped traffic from collisions or construction. It would offer the same guidance to any driver, regardless of their onboard equipment. Certainly worth the investment in savings in healthcare, throughput to economic productivity, and reducing various roadrage contributors.

Or when the news anchors themselves commit suicide.

Lock Bill Gates into an American Tourister and throw him in a cage with Steve Ballmer?

I suspect it was inspired by this rover.

After a tragic accident while chasing the X-prize, I had the capability to become the world's first bionic man. When I upgraded myself to the 2.6 kernel and added the ability to address more than 4 GB of memory, I became better, faster, stronger. Unfortunately, there are no open source drivers available for my robotic penis. Maybe sourceforge or freshmeat can help me out.

Here's some '80s Zeitgeist for all my all homies back in the day, who like me wasted too much time in fronmt of the TV:

Sit Ubu, Sit!

Didn't Captain Kangaroo invent the Ping-Pong ball avalanche back in '55??

Yes I'm an idiot. My memories are fuzzy :(
Mr. Moose was the ping poing ball guy.

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If you don't get the joke, you're too young :)

The whole thing about Jared losing all that weight eating Subway is true. I subscribe to Men's Health magazine and every month they have a feature where people write in and tell how they lost weight. Then the editors analyze the program, what's good and bad about it, and tell you how it can work for you.

Anyway, a few years ago, Jared wrote something in a college newspaper and it got sent in to MH to tell his story. He said he liked the low fat sandwiches and so he ate them for lunch and dinner every day for a year. He didn't exercise much except for walking regularly.

Long story short, he lost a bunch of weight, someone at Subway read the article and their PR department picked up on it and now he's famous. There's a history thingy here

Actually, that annoying thing was a dagit

It appears discovering new colors is a common TV phenomenon. Here's another reference:

Bleen

I still can't find that site selling tshirts and computer monitors to display this "new color." It was very funny. Google is great sometimes, but other times it's just hopeless.

Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon

Just to clarify: I don't think the voice of Foghorn Leghorn was intended to parody a particular living or dead politician.

From some random website I found through Google

Foghorn Leghorn - Large, white windbag of a rooster seen in a number of Warner Brother cartoons over the years. Foghorn Leghorn (inspired by Kenny Delmar's Senator Beauregard Claghorn from Bighorn character, a Deep South politician from THE FRED ALLEN SHOW on radio) premiered in the Warner's animated feature Walky Talky Hawky (1946). His popular catchphrases are "I say, I say there!", "Pay attention, boy!" and "Now listen here!" In his book That's Not all Folks (Warner Books, 1988) Mel Blanc, the voice of this boisterous loudmouth southern rooster, relayed a confusion that arose about the initial inspiration for the voice of Foghorn Leghorn. "Delmar claimed he based the voice not on my (Mel Blanc) character's, but on that of a Texas rancher he'd once hitched a ride from. Bob McKimson claimed Foghorn's voice was derived not from Senator Claghorn's but from someone on another old-time radio program, BLUE MONDAY JAMBOREE. And I claim I first heard the accent at a 1928 vaudeville show at San Francisco's Pantages Theater when I was twenty. As I recall it, in one of the skits an actor played a clownish hard-of-hearing southern sheriff."

That is, Foghorn Leghorn's voice was based on some vaudeville act, and his name seems to have been derived from a *fictional* senator, the character of which appeared on the Fred Allen Show, whose accent may have been similar.