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UPDATE: Someone found this blog post today by performing the following search:
Eleven days removed from Movember and the namesake of our mustache-growing/ass cancer-beating team — Alex Trebek — has had a heart attack.
The longtime host of Jeopardy! was admitted to an LA hospital on Monday night with a “minor” heart attack. I know there is a medical explanation for suffering a heart attack of varying degrees, but saying he had a “minor” one is like saying he only got punched in the nutsack by a 10-year-old. Still sucks, man.
There are many reasons why this 67-year-old man might have a heart attack. Bad diet? History of heart disease? when you think the cameras aren’t rolling? I don’t know. To me, though, there’s only one reason why Alex’s ticker “minorly” gave out:
My Movember team members prematurely shaved their mustaches.
I apologize, Alex. I’m truly sorry. I’m sorry the Committee for the Restoration of Trebek’s Upper Lip Hair let you down. I’m sorry we got rid of these annoying soup-straining mouth slugs the very moment we could.
I know what people will say. That I’m a superstitious moron who seemingly hasn’t realized that you no longer have a mustache. That apologizing to you for not having one is like apologizing to Jesus for me being Jewish.
I know you no longer have a mustache. But my Movember bros and I named our team after your legacy. We raised $4,100 to fight prostate cancer while taking a chance of not getting laid for a month. By turning our backs on our month-long effort, though, we showed only our severe callousness. We should have kept these ’staches growing.
I hope you recover soon, Alex. I hope you continue being the pretentious quiz show host I watch every night when I don’t have to stay late at work. If it makes you feel any better, my mustache has been growing back. Sure, I also have a goatee and it doesn’t look half as great as yours once did, but I’m doing my best, Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek.
If you don’t do it for us, do it for Ken Jennings. That millionaire bastard needs something to live for.
Comments
someone’s gonna ask if that’s a real t-shirt…
“i’ll take ‘the pen is mightier’ for $200, alex.”
I can’t believe you flubbed this one, Jess! It’s “penis mightier”.
That video clip reminds me of that scene in the opening credits of “Anchorman” where he was saying all kinds of random jubberish and talking shit
“The Human Torch was denied a bank loan”
I do with that pretentious bastard a speedy recovery, because I love Jeopardy and hope to one day get a chance to go on there. As long as I get ONE question right and take home some money, it’s worth it!
An old friend/acquaintance from elementary school, one of the smartest people I’ve ever met who is now an astrophysicist, tried out for the show. And failed.
Apparently, the test to get on the show is harder than the “answers” on TV because the want it to be accessible to their viewers.
Damn…I left all kinds of typos in my comment. I hope Jepoardy doesn’t have a spelling test…If so, I’m fucked!
i knoooowww. you’re supposed to *read* it that way if you’re sean connery, not alex trebek! clearly, you’re sean connery.
I’m going to take that as a compliment.
my mom is superstitious like that too. she used to live in the same small town ronald reagan was born in and when she moved away they gave her a t shirt that had reagan’s head on it and the name of the town. she found it the night before she found out reagan died as she was going thru boxes. when she found out he was dead she called me thinking it was more than a coincidence.
Did she burn the T-shirt?
See, there is definitely something to these superstitions. The same logic applies to sports.
This made me sad when I read it yesterday. I heart Jeopardy. It wouldn’t be the same without that crazy canadian.
The Princess and I are getting the Jeopardy home edition for Chrismakkah. The electronic one in which we can buzz in for the answer.
So if Trebek can’t host Jeopardy who should be the new host?
One vote for John Tesh right here.
I tried out for Jeopardy, um yeah, I think I got 7 out of 50.
14% isn’t bad. I once got 13 out of 115 on a chemistry test (11.3%), which was multiple choice!
Through our collective sins, we all gave Alex Trebek a heart attack. And Canadians eat too much pork.
Yeah, but they just call it bacon.
some guy that went to my high school (actually, he graduated with the guy who was the bachelor) was not only on Jeopardy, but he was one of those super huge winners. He was also one of those kids on quiz bowl and whatnot.
Did he have an awesome mustache?
no, i took it the next time i was home. maybe i’ll wear it next time we hang out.
Good idea, fascist.
A kid from my high school went on Jeopardy and won. He was ahead so much in the end that he put his best friend’s name as the question in final jeopardy.
What was his name?
no, he didn’t. he went to vandy, too. blech.
but you should hang out with your friends who went to smart schools (me, Baby Bien) more often. clearly, we’re cool.
And Jewish.
wow, youtube has everything! this is the clip of the kid from my school.
“wow, youtube has everything!” Welcome to the Internet.
Welcome to the what????
What is five-o-clock shadow?
I’ll take anal bum covers for $400
Made Thursdays Express…
This is my favorite line in the first 50 pages of the Mitchell report.
As with Jose Canseco, Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Lenny Dykstra was the subject of several articles speculating about his possible use of steroids.199 The first appeared at
the start of the 1990 season, when Dykstra credited “real good vitamins” for adding 30 pounds of muscle to his frame during the off-season.