If he's smart he'll rush "Ken's Ka-Ching Secrets of Jeopardy" into print and make millions on the book/video and free talkshow PR while the getting is good. Once he's defeated, he'll still be the record holder for a while, so he can sell the same book and still make another million or two, but the limelight is now, and if he wants to bootstrap a biz, he'd best get it into the media trough while the frenzy is feeding.
Ditto his endorsement value... he's worth more as a winner than as 'former champ'.
Try Ken's Kitchen Mega Brain Food - Kipper, Radish, and Snake Bile Energy Bars.
I mean, if Ken weren't that famous smart teevee answering guy, nobody would eat that crap.
If he's smart he'll rush "Ken's Ka-Ching Secrets of Jeopardy" into print and make millions on the book/video and free talkshow PR while the getting is good. Once he's defeated, he'll still be the record holder for a while, so he can sell the same book and still make another million or two, but the limelight is now, and if he wants to bootstrap a biz, he'd best get it into the media trough while the frenzy is feeding.
Ditto his endorsement value... he's worth more as a winner than as 'former champ'.
Try Ken's Kitchen Mega Brain Food - Kipper, Radish, and Snake Bile Energy Bars.
I mean, if Ken weren't that famous smart teevee answering guy, nobody would eat that crap.
Naw the book deal here is for Alex, call it "We Fooled you! how Ken Jennings and the Jeopardy people scammed the veiwers."
This is why. It seems dangerous to have no time limit on a champion. Think about it. He's going to play until someone better than him comes along to beat him. But Jeopardy isn't such a game of chance. It's not "any given Sunday". He's proven he can beat just about anyone else. So how good is the guy gonna be who finally beats him? Good enough to put together a similar, if not longer, streak. Ditto for the guy who beats him. And on. In fact, it's probably even worse than that, since playing for such a long streak gets you very used to the buzzer, and probably makes you more comfortable with being on stage and questioning the type of answers told. It's like if you do the Times crossword every day, you start to catch patterns and "in" clues. So being on longer makes you even harder to beat, which means the guy who finally does beat you has to be that much better, and will be that much harder to beat himself.
Someone needs to come up with a mathematical model for this.
It'll be a woman, in spite of Towel's prediction to the contrary.
they changed that rule sevral years ago now the dont get a car after 5 days but they do get to keep going. Ken is a "software designer" so he probly hates macs.
I wouldn't be so sure. The only people who "hate" macs are the bottom-feeders of the tech world. . . the IT folks. And that's because macs aren't a part of their certification classes, so it's more of an ignorance thing that an actual hate thing.
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Ditto his endorsement value... he's worth more as a winner than as 'former champ'.
Try Ken's Kitchen Mega Brain Food - Kipper, Radish, and Snake Bile Energy Bars.
I mean, if Ken weren't that famous smart teevee answering guy, nobody would eat that crap.
Originally posted by curiousuburb
If he's smart he'll rush "Ken's Ka-Ching Secrets of Jeopardy" into print and make millions on the book/video and free talkshow PR while the getting is good. Once he's defeated, he'll still be the record holder for a while, so he can sell the same book and still make another million or two, but the limelight is now, and if he wants to bootstrap a biz, he'd best get it into the media trough while the frenzy is feeding.
Ditto his endorsement value... he's worth more as a winner than as 'former champ'.
Try Ken's Kitchen Mega Brain Food - Kipper, Radish, and Snake Bile Energy Bars.
I mean, if Ken weren't that famous smart teevee answering guy, nobody would eat that crap.
Naw the book deal here is for Alex, call it "We Fooled you! how Ken Jennings and the Jeopardy people scammed the veiwers."
Originally posted by Towel
This is why. It seems dangerous to have no time limit on a champion. Think about it. He's going to play until someone better than him comes along to beat him. But Jeopardy isn't such a game of chance. It's not "any given Sunday". He's proven he can beat just about anyone else. So how good is the guy gonna be who finally beats him? Good enough to put together a similar, if not longer, streak. Ditto for the guy who beats him. And on. In fact, it's probably even worse than that, since playing for such a long streak gets you very used to the buzzer, and probably makes you more comfortable with being on stage and questioning the type of answers told. It's like if you do the Times crossword every day, you start to catch patterns and "in" clues. So being on longer makes you even harder to beat, which means the guy who finally does beat you has to be that much better, and will be that much harder to beat himself.
Someone needs to come up with a mathematical model for this.
It'll be a woman, in spite of Towel's prediction to the contrary.
Originally posted by xterra48
they changed that rule sevral years ago now the dont get a car after 5 days but they do get to keep going. Ken is a "software designer" so he probly hates macs.
I wouldn't be so sure. The only people who "hate" macs are the bottom-feeders of the tech world. . . the IT folks. And that's because macs aren't a part of their certification classes, so it's more of an ignorance thing that an actual hate thing.