Ken and Me

I'm sure by now everyone has heard about Ken Jennings bashing Jeopardy and Alex Trebek.

'Jeopardy' Champ Says He Wasn't 'Bashing'



NEW YORK - "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings says recent comments he posted on his Web site about the long-running game show and host Alex Trebek weren't "bashing."

"I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings said of Trebek in a July 19 letter titled, "Dear Jeopardy!" Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984.

Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak on "Jeopardy!" in 2004. He 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."

After reports of his comments appeared in the media Tuesday, Jennings countered on his Web site that his letter was meant to be "a humor piece."


Well, I like the show and I liked Ken when he was on the show and when he returned for the tournament.

I was pretty upset as you can imagine, so I thought I should give ol' Ken a call and ask whaaaaaaaaaaaatssss up.

Long story short, Ken told me that the world outside of Utah doesn't understand his humor.

We started discussing the power of the Internet and I told him "Heck, I'm not even famous like you are, and I am getting somewhere around 1,200 to 1,300 readers a day."

I told him I had to put a disclaimer on my blog telling people it was for fun, but told him since he is famous, he has to choose his words carefully and not try to explain later.

We chit chatted a little more about Wag's blog. He said he was real interested in checking out such a well-read blog.

I thought what a great opportunity for me to gather from Ken some trivia for my 1,200 to 1,300 daily readers to enjoy.


Ken shared the following with me. See how many you know.


In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.

55% of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.

The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."

Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

25% of women think money makes a man sexier.

The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

Hot water weighs less than cold water for a given volume.

Your system of blood vessels is over 60,000 miles long. That's long enough to go around the world more than twice!

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

The average person laughs 13 times a day!

The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

People share their birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.

Americans ate eight million more orders of French fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2nd, burns a gallon of diesel for each 6 inches that it moves.

It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.

The hairs on a polar bear are not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.

The average person spends 2 weeks of his/her life waiting for a traffic light to change.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs, it will let you go instantly.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

It is impossible for a human to lick their elbow.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

The heart beats about 100,000 times each day.

Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches a day.

There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

The average person spends 2 weeks of his/her life kissing.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every single day.

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. You have been warned!

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight (120 feet/36 meters).

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph!

Until the 1960s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head!

The major air-polluting industries are iron, steel and cement.



Now aren't you glad I called Ken to give him advice. Look at how much more you know now!!!!



Be nice to yourself today!!!! Wag's out!!!