Swear to God, this was in our letter to the Editor page this morning:
Note to self: do not get on Michael Douglas’s bad side.
I’d throw Bea Arthur out. I’d only take note of a pattern if celebrities die within a few days of each other, usually in a one week period. Ed McMahon died on June 23. Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died on the 25th, so McMahon’s death would start the pattern. Gale Storm was certainly notable. She passed away on the 27th, and Billy Mays died yesterday, the 28th. That makes five widely known celebs in less than a week. That’s certainly a more noticeable pattern IMO than celebs dying weeks and months apart. I might concede Carradine, since he died in the same month as the most recent celebs, but to include Bea Arthur in this latest pattern, to my way of thinking, is certainly a reach.
I remember a similar trifecta in 1990. Jim Henson and Sammy Davis, Jr. bothed died on May 16, 1990, which coincidentally was my birthday. Jill Ireland, the actress and spouse of Charles Bronson, died two days later, on May 18, 1990.
He worked hard his life, made an honest buck and was a good family man. It is a true shame.
Can someone please explain to me the difference between a ShamWow and a Zorbeez?
So you’re saying Bea Arthur is past her expiry date?
Vince.
Vince is the difference.
Well, they’re both like an Absorber, but not.
One’s made in Germany. (The Germans make great stuff.)
I think the main difference is the Zorbeez is just louder. And of course, there’s Vince…
The epitaph on his tombstone should be…
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE…
Yeah, I am. As I said, noticing a pattern between celebrities passing away six weeks apart from each other is really reaching for one.
By the way, Fred Travalena died on Sunday. So that makes six in just six days, with two of them passing on Thursday and on Sunday.
I had to look him up. The name is familiar, but I don’t think I ever saw him.
That was awful.
Yet I laughed.
Hey, the Shamwow guy gets a bit of a pass for me since he actually successfully left $cientology and I believe, even got some of his money back. There are rumors the hooker thing was an attempt by $cientology to discredit him under their policy of “fair game.”
My container of OxyClean is wearing a black band of mourning, but I still would change the channel when he came on. My husband was watching that pitch man show and he seemed pretty ok. Some folks are just bigger than life. There’s much worse things to be. He seemed like a decent enough guy, selling a decent enough product. RIP
I saw the Garden Auger commercial today - and I actually felt kind of sad. And I hated his commercials!
If the Oxycotin doesn’t kill you, I guess the Oxyclean will.
Wow. That was SO COMPLETELY unexpected. I feel oddly relieved that he was a cokehead. Normal people just … aren’t that way.