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Adieu to Ken Jennings
IllogicalStudent writes "The Toronto Star is reporting that the episode of Jeopardy where Ken Jennings (a.k.a. 'The Jeopardy Guy') finally loses aired this evening. It came down to a 2-person finish (3rd had -2600 at the end of Double Jeopardy, and was eliminated) between Ken and opponent Nancy Zerg, with the final category being Business & Industry. Ken answered 'Fed Ex' to the question 'Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year,' when the correct answer was 'H&R Block.' Ken finished his record-streak with just over $2.5 Million."
1. Thanks for telling me AFTER it aired! Now I missed it!
2. Thanks for spoiling! Now I know what happens!
For our fallen nerd hero.
Those of on the west coast haven't seen this episode yet.
Those of us on the West Coast with TiVo won't see it for hours yet.
Thanks, I've been following this for months, now you spoil it.
Pinheads.
The correct incorrect answer is "Who is FedEx?"
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> Does anyone else think he just got burned out and decided to be done?
Either that or his earpiece implant malfunctioned... ^_^
(imagines Ken being swarmed by thousands of tiny Nancies....)
"...you can steal my woman, but you ain't done nuthin' smart."
that apparently Ken does his own taxes :)
You've killed Kenny!
sigs, as if you care.
I, for one, welcome our new Zerg overlords.
Except we'd have to do it in reverse. We'd select the top 10 answers, and he'd respond with the appropriate questions.
> Uh, EST and CST aren't most time zones. You've still got MST and PST, plus Alaska and Hawaii.
Note to Americans: there are just a few more zones than that.
I live in Greenwich Mean Time AND my surname is Jennings AND I've never seen Jeopardy. What the hell is going on?
As Trebek's common-law husband, Jennings has rights, doesn't he???
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That's 2.5 million before taxes. Uncle Sam will take about a third. Then Ken being the clean cut Mormon that he is will tithe 10% to the church. Then he will buy his mother a gold cadillac like Elvis did along with other assorted gift giving leaving him with a little over 1 million.
Then... if we believe that luck is distributed randomly throughout space and time; Ken has flipped the coin 75 times and it came up heads every time. Now he is in luckdebt. His current wife leaves him taking half of the million he has left. Fedex sues him for defamation and inciting labor unrest which burns up the rest of his winnings on attourney fees. Examination of video footage shows that Ken had a squarish hump in the back of his suit jacket ala George Bush in the first debate which prompts an FCC investigation into gameshow fixing leading to his becoming the most reviled man in America. Desperate for fifteen more minutes in the limelight, Ken drives to LA and mocks Gary Coleman with "Whatchoo talkin bout Willis?" until Gary loses his cool and bitch slaps him. The police refuse to file his complaint and the press ignores the incident leading to his complete mental breakdown and a six week bender on peppermint schnapps and cheap wine ending in Ken waking up signed to a one year merchant marine contract on a supertanker headed for the persian gulf. He jumps ship in Mumbai India and spends the next 5 years writing crappy vbscript for an offshoring firm and trying to save enough money to buy a forged birth certificate and plastic surgery so he can re-enter the U.S. under a fake name. Ken gets his wish at long last but is picked up by the Office of Homeland Security at the border and spends the rest of his life at Guantanamo Bay Cuba refusing to acknowledge his true identity but paradoxically answering everything in the form of a question.