# Ken Jennings - What a Sore Winner! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-jennings-what-a-sore-winner/366002 "2006-07-25T20:12:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-jennings-what-a-sore-winner/366002/21 "2006-07-28T02:33:59Z")
[Link to the blog post in question.](http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=70) That was hilarious! It’s very, very rare for me to actually laugh out loud at something I read, but I did at this: > [@](#): > > Whenever Alex says “Correct!” to a contestant, he should do the two-index-finger point, like Isaac in the Love Boat credits. The list of suggested categories “that middle America actually cares about” was pretty good too. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-jennings-what-a-sore-winner/366002/22 "2006-07-28T02:39:25Z")
In the PC _Jeopardy!_ game I have, I once heard Alex use the phrase “pull a Claven.” I keep waiting for him to use it on a real show. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-jennings-what-a-sore-winner/366002/23 "2006-07-28T02:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] I don’t feel like doing the research, but I have to assume that Jennings is right about it. [/QUOTE] I felt like doing it, and he is. > [@Othersider](#): > > In the PC Jeopardy! game I have, I once heard Alex use the phrase “pull a Claven.” I keep waiting for him to use it on a real show. As I mentioned in another thread, there was at least one instance in the actual show where a contestant didn’t know the Final Jeopardy! question and wrote a variant of the “people who have never been in my kitchen” repsonse. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-jennings-what-a-sore-winner/366002/24 "2006-07-28T03:18:14Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] As I mentioned in another thread, there was at least one instance in the actual show where a contestant didn’t know the Final Jeopardy! question and wrote a variant of the “people who have never been in my kitchen” repsonse. [/QUOTE] I remember that. I also remember a show when one contestant was way ahead before final Jeopardy, so that he couldn’t be caught, and Trebek said something like, “And so-and-so couldn’t be caught, of course… unless he’s done like Cliff Claven and bet everything.” But the guy hadn’t, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-jennings-what-a-sore-winner/366002/25 "2006-07-28T04:16:12Z")
It was all a joke. And a funny one, too, I thought. I liked his “correction” later, in which he concedes that Trebek is, in fact, a cyborg, and not a robot. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-jennings-what-a-sore-winner/366002/26 "2006-07-28T06:55:53Z")
I don’t see the big deal, even if it is genuine (I’d gladly wager the damn house that my sister’s come up with wackier ideas). Heck, these days anyone who doesn’t need a flood of gutter language or unbelievably old, unfunny jokes gets at least a C+ in my book. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-jennings-what-a-sore-winner/366002.md?page=1)