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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 691211)

The whole celebrities dying in threes is so true it's scary. I mean just look at the recent list:

David Carradine
Ed McMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson

Yup, three of them every time. You can set your watch by it.

this just means you can expect 2 more deaths, Walter Cronkite & Elizabeth Taylor... watch!!!

I think with MJ as sad as it is it's not tragic on the level of "he could have created so much more great music". We have the best he would have or could have done, Cobain and Lennon most likely had a lot more great music up their sleeve.

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Originally Posted by Comus (Post 691248)

But Lennon was prett much forgotten.

You really live in your own fantasy land do you? :laughing:

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 691225)

How can you remember something that happened several years before you were even conceived?

I'm just talking about all the old news footage of people freaking out over the news of his death and how I've never seen reactions like that again up until today.

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Originally Posted by boo boo (Post 691257)

I'm just talking about all the old news footage of people freaking out over the news of his death and how I've never seen reactions like that again up until today.

That's what I figured you meant. I was just enjoying giving you a hard time. :p:

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Originally Posted by bungalowbill357 (Post 690646)

Never heard that before, it's probably just you.

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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Originally Posted by catbird (Post 691077)

I do not think he was king of pop at all - this is a silly title that belongs to no one. Maybe king of over-processed bubblegum pop? Was not a fan of his super hyper muted over produced pop sound. The song 'thriller' gave me hives every time it came on the radio; it sounded like music for pre-teens or children.

Just keep listening to your Foghat grandpa.

Can't say I like his music at all, but RIP nonetheless.

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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Originally Posted by cnn

"Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson," a Google spokesman told CNET, which also reported that Google News users complained that the service was inaccessible for a time. At its peak, Google Trends rated the Jackson story as "volcanic."

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."

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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Originally Posted by Patton (Post 691300)

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.

It's probably because celebrities always die in fives.