modern YORK -- "Jeopardy!" ace view...

modern YORK -- "Jeopardy!" ace view Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a not many unkind words to say about the point out to -- and dapper host Alex Trebek.

"I know, I know, the elderly folks love him," Jennings writes in a novel posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" upon his Web site.

"Nobody knows he died in that fiery traffic crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I behold your engineers still can't gain 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 pretend to think 'change' means replacing a dispirited polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of cerulean polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so"

TREBEK'S A CYBORG, NOT A ROBOT

A call through the Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately turn backed Tuesday.

Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins forward "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten according to challenger Nancy Zerg.

Trebek, 66 has legioned the show since 1984. In a "correction" employmented Monday on his Web site, Jennings presents an apology of sorts.

"We repentance the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot and has been since 2004 Mr Trebek's robotic frame does still contain a certain number of organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, likewise this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot' "

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