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PYLdude

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Did you know that Ken Jennings is a Costco member?
« on: August 08, 2014, 03:24:09 AM »
Do you care?

Either way, he's on the cover of this month's Costco Connection, which Costco sends to its members monthly.

Interesting read, I thought. Short for a cover story subject, but interesting.

http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/201408/m1/Page.action?pg=25

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Steve Gavazzi

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Re: Did you know that Ken Jennings is a Costco member?
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2014, 01:35:19 PM »
I find it more interesting than I probably should that the cover shows Ken in front of the old dollar values for Single Jeopardy!, which were never in use while he was on the show.

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Re: Did you know that Ken Jennings is a Costco member?
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2014, 02:15:34 PM »
{photo geek} Looking at the picture quality, that gameboard looks like it was lifted from one of the 90s PC games. {/photo geek}
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Re: Did you know that Ken Jennings is a Costco member?
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2014, 02:15:47 PM »
Do you care?
Less than when reading through Brainiac and Maphead that he would get the Guinness World Records books every year and would relentlessly pepper his family with trivia factoids, but it's a neat thing that humanizes him a little, I guess. It's about ten-ish years too late, though.
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Re: Did you know that Ken Jennings is a Costco member?
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2014, 10:14:33 PM »
I admire what he's done with his life since he was on Jeopardy...he took being the most successful game show contestant of all time (which I still believe he holds rights to, because of the scope of the overall accomplishment) and has built a brand from it.

I also like reading the op-ed pieces he writes every so often.
I suppose you can still learn stuff on TLC, though it would be more in the Goofus & Gallant sense, that is (don't do what these parents did)"- Travis Eberle, 2012

“We’re game show fans. ‘Weird’ comes with the territory.” - Matt Ottinger, 2022