Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

#1

Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 10:47am

No one REALLY believes this do they? Every time I hear this stupid superstition it makes me enraged. You might well say that when you sneeze, it's your soul trying to escape and saying god bless you stuffs it back in.

Updated On: 6/29/09 at 10:47 AM

#2

re: Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 10:48am

At the rate they are dropping in the past few weeks, I think they come in eights or ninths.

#3

re: Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 10:50am

Union rules.

#4

re: Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 10:52am

It's human instinct to perceive (or create) patterns in things. And three is a symbolic number in lots of cultures.

But no, I doubt anybody REALLY believes it.

#5

re: Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 10:55am

Bluemoon, brilliant!!!

#6

re: Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 10:57am

I think everyone with an AFTRA or SAG card breathes easier once number 3 occurs.

#7

re: Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:06am

There used to be a joke in the 70s that Helen Hayes would get very nervous until the 3rd death was announced.

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#8

re: Celebrity Deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:13am

As of this writing we're up to four.

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#9

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:20am

recent celebrity death trifecta:

ed, farrah and the pale pedo

current pending celebrity death trifecta:

billy mays, fred travalena and ??????

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#10

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:22am

Gale Storm

#11

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:23am

boom, and we're ready for a brand new one!

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

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#12

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:28am

Atropos is paid for sets of three. If she only snips one or two threads before the end of the pay period, she doesn't get paid (and they can't carry over to the next pay period). Follow the dollars, always.

#13

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:28am

Well, Bernie Madoff might as well have just been sentenced to death.

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#14

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:29am

jg2, never, ever assume, hun. you know that.

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

#15

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:31am

I am learning that daily. Nothing left to believe in anyway. lol

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#16

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:32am

Actually, unless it's a plane crash or something similar, your average celebrity death comes one at a time.

#17

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 11:43am

now, now, jg2. i believe in your former avatar.

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

#18

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 9:45pm

David Carradine kicked this round off. The second two have up to 30 days (everything in multiples of 3). Farrah closed the first trio and MJ started the next one.

#19

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/29/09 at 9:47pm

This was the first I heard about Fred.

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#20

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/30/09 at 4:07am

Were Bea Arthur and Natasha Richardson part of the previous three?

#21

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/30/09 at 8:10am

I think my dad was fraternity brothers with Fred Travalena.

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#22

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/30/09 at 12:37pm

Not on the level of MJ or some of the others
Pina Bausch Dies at 68

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"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

#23

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/30/09 at 5:33pm

Very much depends on who you're talking to, Eris. I daresay Bill T Jones, Madonna, Michael Jackson and many others owe a great deal to Pina.
A bit of Pina's choreography. Look for more. It's worth it.

#24

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 6/30/09 at 6:32pm

Yes, but where are the people waiting in line for three hours or more to put flowers on her star on the walk of fame? Where are the people crying in the streets? That's kinda what I meant. MJ and some of the others have gotten such a huge amount of coverage while Pina is a secondary story on Theatermania

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"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

#25

celebrity deaths come in threes?

Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:38pm

Karl Malden now

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"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".