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July 25, 2006
I'll Take Arrogant Ingratitude for $1000, Alex
It seems that everybody's least favorite smarmy, flyover country living, geeky nobody -- Ken Jennings -- has started believing his own press just a little too much, and he's bitten the hand that feeds him. Jennings, who won $2.5 million on Jepoardy a while back, is on a blog snarking at the show that made his pipsqueak ass rich, and Alex Trebek as well.
In the posting, Jennings went on to say about Trebek: “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).”... He also took aim at what he said were the show’s “effete, left-coast” categories and “same-old” format. “You’re like the Dorian Gray of syndication,” he wrote. “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.”
Okay... I will reveal a deep dark secret of mine: I was on Jepoardy once. In 1997. (I gacked an easy question in Final Jepoardy after being totally in position to win the whole thing and dominating Double Jepoardy.) It's a bitter memory, failing so ignominiously on national television. I thought Trebek was stuck-up, mean to the production staff, and generally not a nice guy. So if there's anyone who's inclined to bash Jepoardy and Trebek, it's me.
But I don't, generally. And if I hadn't gacked an easy question (name the only country that has the same name as an American state), but had instead won $2.5 million, I'm quite sure that I'd keep my mouth shut. Especially if I were a geeky pissant from Utah who didn't get laid until I was 33 years old, had the personality of a ball of dryer lint, and got lucky and got my 15 minutes and life's fortune from a game show. If I was that big of a loser, I'd shut my mouth and be glad for my fortune.
"Effete, left-coast?" Yeah, that's what the coastal engines of the US economy want -- to be told off by some cult-belonging, backward, narrow-minded, mountain time zone cletus. Be thankful you have a job and some game show money, Poindexter.
(For the record, I have nothing against the non-coastal regions or the mountain time zone. I just hate the attitudes of pissants like this guy... so I'm reaching for whatever insult I can grab hold of.)
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The only other country that shares the a name with a state is Georgia. Just in case you were wondering. And I knew that, I didn't google it.
Posted by: A Disturbingly Cynical College Student at July 26, 2006 10:29 AM
