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> Tag: Ken Jennings

I can’t believe how many of these things I’ve said to my kids

Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids by Ken Jennings

April 2, 2019 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

Yes, that Ken Jennings — who won all those Jeopardy! episodes and has apparently written quite a few  books. He wrote this book to debunk the many, many myths we grew up hearing from parents, teachers, and other adults who were probably okay with lying a little bit in order to get us to behave. In fact, even after reading that sitting too close to the TV will NOT destroy your eyeballs, I’m still going to tell my kids that it does because I hate […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ken Jennings

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:24 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Ken Jennings ·
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Our culture might be in jeopardy and I still had to make the damn pun

Planet Funny by Ken Jennings

October 8, 2018 by octothorp 1 Comment

Bingo entry 4 – my “so shiny” book is appropriately from Ken Jennings, because he’s now in the “I’ll buy a book about ladders if they wrote it” category for me.  After having read Because I Said So, Maphead, and my favorite, Brainiac – a book about his Jeopardy experience and the popularity of trivia that includes actual trivia questions.  Be still my heart – I’ll read anything he writes, much less something as attuned to my own interests as a book about how humor […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, humor, Jeopardy, Ken Jennings

octothorp's CBR10 Review No:43 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, humor, Jeopardy, Ken Jennings ·
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