Jeopardy ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million US during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show – and dapper host Alex Trebek."I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled Dear Jeopardy, on his website."Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can’t get the mustache right, by the way)." Jennings also takes aim at the show’s "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format."You’re like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "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."Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on Jeopardy in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg.Trebek, 66, who grew up in Sudbury, Ont., has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his website, Jennings offers an apology of sorts."We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek’s robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a ‘cyborg,’ not a ‘robot.’ "
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