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#242968 - 30/11/2004 23:59 Ken Jennings Loses!
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 524
Loc: Oklahoma
Finally! I have been waiting to see him finally loose! And to a chick! Right on!
Now the winnings can be spread around a bit! I mean it was really cool to see the faces when the challenger relized that she had won!

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#242969 - 01/12/2004 00:15 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: Ladmo]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
I wish you hadn't posted that. I haven't had a chance to watch Jeopardy today, and I'd rather have been surprised.

And I can't think of a way to edit it to avoid the spoiler, either. "Jeopardy spoilers" is too obvious. Anything not obvious enough and I'd still have read it.

Oh, well.
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#242970 - 01/12/2004 00:29 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: Ladmo]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
Is that the guy that's been going for months and months now? How long has he been there and how much were his winnings up to? And, worse yet, doesn't he loose the winnings, or part of them?
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#242971 - 01/12/2004 00:33 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: FireFox31]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
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Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Yes, way more than a season, $2.5 million, and no, he doesn't lose any of it, except to Uncle Sam.
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#242972 - 01/12/2004 01:41 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: wfaulk]
time
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Registered: 20/11/2000
Posts: 279
Loc: Pacific Northwest
Yup, no way around it... It was fairly inevitable--heck even ATC on NPR ran an ET "Could the roomers be true?" style piece on it this afternoon which all but gave it away. Quite a stint.

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#242973 - 01/12/2004 03:07 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: time]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
They were asking people who were rooming somewhere about this?

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#242974 - 01/12/2004 03:10 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: wfaulk]
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 524
Loc: Oklahoma
Well, it was all over the media, from our local news/talk radio (KVOR), to ET and just about everything in between. As well as quite a few of the newslines and blogs out there...Did not think anyone would mind. Watch the show, it was pretty good, even knowing the ending. I won't spoil it further and tell you that it was only between two constants...oops! Guess I did. So much for Toast!
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#242975 - 01/12/2004 05:11 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: Ladmo]
Waterman981
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Registered: 14/02/2002
Posts: 804
Loc: Salt Lake City, UT
It was in the news here locally (as he is from the Salt Lake area) a couple of months ago that he finally lost. The shows were filmed during the summer.
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#242976 - 01/12/2004 05:11 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: wfaulk]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
Ok, I've obviously been living in a cave for the last year. I saw the subject line and thought "Who's Ken Jennings?"
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#242977 - 01/12/2004 06:01 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: Daria]
time
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Registered: 20/11/2000
Posts: 279
Loc: Pacific Northwest
Doh! OK. "rumors" (#$%@ spell checkers that lack context checking...)

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#242978 - 01/12/2004 18:36 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: time]
burdell1
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 931
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
it seems like a question he should've easily gotten right....it seemed staged to me......

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#242979 - 01/12/2004 18:43 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: burdell1]
tfabris
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Loc: Seattle, WA
<cue opening titles to "Quiz Show">....
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#242980 - 01/12/2004 18:44 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: burdell1]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
It's approaching Christmastime for us, so it's easy for us to avoid looking at Christmas for the answer. But this was filmed months ago. Ken knows that they like to do things that have relationships to the viewing season, and he figured out that it was going to be shown near Christmas, give or take. So he probably was thinking Christmas the whole way.

That's just my guess. Or he could have thrown it. He just crossed $2.5M. Maybe he decided that he was done.
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#242981 - 02/12/2004 04:17 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: time]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
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Doh! OK. "rumors" (#$%@ spell checkers that lack context checking...)


Whoops! 10 points off for being the first to spell the word correctly after the trend was set!
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#242982 - 02/12/2004 04:24 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: gbeer]
jimhogan
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Registered: 06/10/1999
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Loc: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Ok, I've obviously been living in a cave for the last year. I saw the subject line and thought "Who's Ken Jennings?"

Ken is Barbie's fabulously rich boyfriend...her roomie.
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#242983 - 02/12/2004 10:46 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: wfaulk]
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 524
Loc: Oklahoma
I read on one of the news feeds that he was trying for like 100 or 200 or so wins...I can't remember what the number was now, so I don't think he threw it...I think he just gnarfed it....crap happens...but I for one, was still glad to see his run come to an end...he seemed to be getting a bit full of himself...But who won last night? The woman who beat Ken?
Hmmm.
But don't worry 'Kenny fans'...I'm sure we'll see him on the tournament of champs!

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#242984 - 02/12/2004 13:28 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: Ladmo]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
No. She was a one-time champ. Another woman won last night, handily.
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#242985 - 03/12/2004 01:35 Re: Ken Jennings Loses! [Re: tfabris]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
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<cue opening titles to "Quiz Show">....


They don't have to give any one the answers on a show like that. Just lower the quality of the opponents a bit, that'll do it.
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