NationStates Jolt Archive


Why Ken Jennings is kicking so much ass in Jeopardy...

Leung Kwok-hung
20-09-2004, 20:38
My theory is rather simple:

The average Mormon is not particularly intelligent due to some agreement between Joseph Smith and God to create a "Super Mormon" that would make up for the community's aggregate lack of intelligence.

Ken Jennings is that Super Mormon.
Superpower07
20-09-2004, 20:40
No offense but that sounds a wee bit racist
Texan Hotrodders
20-09-2004, 20:41
No offense but that sounds a wee bit racist

That's not racist. It's religion-based discrimination.
Kleptonis
20-09-2004, 20:43
I just thought that the people who own Jeopardy give him all the answers for their own publicity. Then when it starts to get really boring, they give him the boot and pay him to keep his mouth shut.
Superpower07
20-09-2004, 20:44
Kwok-hung, I would like to refute your point:

In many of my Honors classes is a girl who is MORMON! I rest my case
Chodolo
20-09-2004, 20:46
LMAO @ the "racist" comment. :p


btw, doesn't Ken have to like tithe 10% of his earnings to the Mormon church?

Wouldnt that be a shitload of cash?

If I were him, I would definately be thinking of converting to some other random religion right about now. Although the polygamist benefits of Mormonism are tempting...

oh wait, they stopped that.

mostly...
Copiosa Scotia
20-09-2004, 20:47
Mormons rock. And they wear the coolest T-shirts.

Exhibit A, a T-shirt reading:
I can't. I'm Mormon.

Exhibit B, a T-shirt reading:
Modest girls are hot.
Keruvalia
20-09-2004, 20:51
I thought Mormon was a book ... I didn't know a person could be a book.
Keljamistan
20-09-2004, 21:01
Kwok-hung, I would like to refute your point:

In many of my Honors classes is a girl who is MORMON! I rest my case

it....was....a....joke....
Chodolo
20-09-2004, 21:07
Let me explain Mormonism...


okey, Jesus was reincarnated in Utah into this guy named Joseph Smith, who was really good at Jeopardy, so he wrote on this gold tablets and smashed them over some gay dude's head and put the dust into Noah's ark. Then the rain turned to blood and Mohammed took the commandments of Buddha and commanded his people to stop worshipping cows and not to drink caffiene, although polygamist orgies were okey dokey. Anyhow, the Dalai Lama said Utah had to give up polygamy to join the United States, and Joseph Smith got like cremated or something and his teeth were saved with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Then The Pope found the Shroud of Kirshna which sorta looked like a really dirty guy had made snowangels on it. But then Jesus got reincarnated into this woman, and Abraham killed his son Isaac after he ate that damn apple he knew he wasn't supposed to, shortly after losing the coat of many colors. But then he got drunk and made love to a goat who had caught its antlers in a burning bush, and the child was this wierd mythical greek god with a flute, I forget his name. Then Yahweh threw down a lightning bolt, Zeus style, and fried Ken Jennings. And then these irritating Mormom dudes on bicycles and ties came up and tried to get me to convert. I offered them lemonade...spiked with soda!
BastardSword
20-09-2004, 21:13
Let me explain Mormonism...


okey, Jesus was reincarnated in Utah into this guy named Joseph Smith, who was really good at Jeopardy, so he wrote on this gold tablets and smashed them over some gay dude's head and put the dust into Noah's ark. Then the rain turned to blood and Mohammed took the commandments of Buddha and commanded his people to stop worshipping cows and not to drink caffiene, although polygamist orgies were okey dokey. Anyhow, Utah had to give up polygamy to join the United States, and Joseph Smith got like cremated or something and his teeth were saved with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Then they found the Shroud of Kirshna which sorta looked like a really dirty guy had made snowangels on it. But then Jesus got reincarnated into this woman, and Abraham killed his son Isaac after he ate that damn apple he knew he wasn't supposed to, shortly after losing the coat of many colors. But then he got drunk and made love to a goat who had caught its antlers in a burning bush, and the child was this wierd mythical greek god with a flute, I forget his name. Then Yahweh threw down a lightning bolt, Zeus style, and fried Ken Jennings. And then these irritating Mormom dudes on bicycles and ties came up and tried to get me to convert. I offered them lemonade...spiked with soda!

You know that is a load of Bush. I like to think Bush and bull are symnomis.(are same thing)

But I'm betting most of your words were sarcasm if not bs.
Soda is good...they drink a lot of that stuff in the teaching area. They get classes on this and usually learn a foriegn language while living in dorm like institutions. Many drink sodas and stuff while there.
You are to reduce not eliminate caffiene. Big diufference. Same way people should reduce gasoline not elimanate this.

Back to the point: the guy is doing so well because Latter Days Saints are told to be smart. They are told to get as much knowledge and wisdom as possible.
Ken is just a good LDS. Not all LDS are smart but then they aren't good LDS members.
Chodolo
20-09-2004, 22:37
dude, I wrote an essay on this shit.

Trust me, I KNOW what I'm talking about. :rolleyes: