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Alex collateral victim of Kim Jong-un

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Had Poe lived in the 21st century, he could have written a story called The Purloined E-mail. If seems that along the trove of dirty laundry revealed by North Korean hackers, the less-than-public face of Alex Trebek has surfaced:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... 934_624961
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Re: Alex collateral victim of Kim Jong-il

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Il, Un, what's in a name...
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This thread title had so much promise.
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Re: Alex collateral victim of Kim Jong-il

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NY Daily News wrote:Alex Trebek threatened
Alex Trebek wrote:It's not a threat
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Re: Alex collateral victim of Kim Jong-il

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Isn't this the same article that was posted in another thread?
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Yet another dupe thread that could have been avoided through actual descriptive thread titles. An important lesson has been learned this day.
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zakharov wrote:Yet another dupe thread that could have been avoided through actual descriptive thread titles. An important lesson has been learned this day.
Hey, say what you will about Sage, I've always enjoyed his imaginative and punny, albeit lacking in description, thread and post titles.
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A Tale of Two Kimmies

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Thanks. And as for Kim Jong-il versus Kim Jong-un (versus Kim Kardashian, who surely gets more press than the other two combined), if there'd been no Jong-il, there never would have been a Jong-un, now would there?
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Re: Alex collateral victim of Kim Jong-un

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Please continue any discussion in the original thread.
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