I thought it was the premise of the upcoming third Bill and
Ted movie, but is there any so-called “mathematical merits” of Jeopardy’s 69 ban?
By: Ringo Bones
I have no idea when it started, but it still surprises me
that middle-school kids still giggle whenever the number 69 is uttered in an
unguarded moment. But during the last week of April 2019, a new ruling on the
iconic TV game-show Jeopardy has been divulged preventing contestants from
betting $69 on the Final Jeopardy stage of the game citing the awkward sexual
nature of the number.
It is not only the number 69 that got the axe on Jeopardy
– it also includes the so-called “Number of the Beast” – i.e. 666 as in $666
Final Jeopardy bets. The betting ban also includes numbers of Neo-Nazism
significance, like the number 88, the number 14, and the number 1488 – odd since
before the Obama Administration era episodes of Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News,
the only “Nazi significance” I know of the number 88 was the 88 millimeter
shell used by Nazi era Germany. Outside of joining Richard Butler’s Aryan
Nation, it was probably Glenn Beck who made Neo-Nazi numerology more or less
common knowledge. Fortunately, a $420 Final Jeopardy bet is still valid.
