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Old 06-25-2009, 04:17 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Ed McMahon and Fara Fossett died recently too. Is it just me, or do rather famous people usually die in threes?
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Old 06-25-2009, 04:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Ed McMahon and Fara Fossett died recently too. Is it just me, or do rather famous people usually die in threes?
Never heard that before, it's probably just you.
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Old 06-25-2009, 04:51 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Damn someone bet me to it. I was just watching on BBC News 24 and they were only sourcing from an LA Times magazine but five minutes ago they confirmed he was dead. Only 50 year old as well. Im not a fan of his music, but I do respect him as an artist. RIP Michael.
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Old 06-26-2009, 01:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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No, actually, it does seem to happen a lot in 3's.



I was really shocked. My husband called me from work and told me and I thought he was just joking so I went and turned on the news and wow, I was surprised.


The sad part is that a lot of people seem to be celebrating (in other forums) and it's disgusting to see people react like that. You don't have to like him or his music in any way, shape or form but he did a lot for music and inspired tons of people. No matter how different he was and how strange his life turned out to be, it's still not cool to go laughing and making fun of someone and saying how glad you are that they are dead.
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Old 06-26-2009, 01:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Hey, did any of you read about how Michael Jackson's death has been screwing up the internet? Crazy stuff (full article here):

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As sites fell, users raced to other sites: TechCrunch reported that TMZ, which broke the story, had several outages; users then switched to Perez Hilton's blog, which also struggled to deal with the requests it received.

CNN reported a fivefold rise in traffic and visitors in just over an hour, receiving 20 million page views in the hour the story broke.

Twitter crashed as users saw multiple "fail whales" -- the illustrations the site uses as error messages -- user FoieGrasie posting, "Irony: The protesters in Iran using twitter as com are unable to get online because of all the posts of 'Michael Jackson RIP.' Well done." The site's status blog said that Twitter had had to temporarily disable its search results, saved searches and trend topics.

Wikipedia saw a flurry of activity, with close to 500 edits made to Jackson's entry in less than 24 hours. CNET reported that by 3:15pm PDT, Wikipedia seemed to be "temporarily overloaded."
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Wow, that's weird.....


Did anyone hear that rumour about Jeff Goldblum being dead? A rep confirmed he wasn't but I wonder how the hell that one got started yesterday.
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Hey, did any of you read about how Michael Jackson's death has been screwing up the internet? Crazy stuff (full article here):
Damn, not even the nip-slip at the super bowl was that big. And that was huge online. I know I was trying to get onb LA Times and it wouldn't load. I thought I was one of the first people to hear about it. Well before TMZ promounced him to be dead.
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No, actually, it does seem to happen a lot in 3's.



I was really shocked. My husband called me from work and told me and I thought he was just joking so I went and turned on the news and wow, I was surprised.


The sad part is that a lot of people seem to be celebrating (in other forums) and it's disgusting to see people react like that. You don't have to like him or his music in any way, shape or form but he did a lot for music and inspired tons of people. No matter how different he was and how strange his life turned out to be, it's still not cool to go laughing and making fun of someone and saying how glad you are that they are dead.


I think yours might be broken.
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Ed McMahon and Fara Fossett died recently too. Is it just me, or do rather famous people usually die in threes?
you. i've never heard this before....ever.
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Old 06-26-2009, 10:12 AM   #10 (permalink)
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you. i've never heard this before....ever.
I've heard the 'die in threes' theory before. Quite common actually.
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