# Dopers, please reassure me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-reassure-me/502307 "2009-07-08T06:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-reassure-me/502307/21 "2009-07-08T19:17:34Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > If you think Jeff Buckley has had an impressive posthumous recording career, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet! Slight hijack of my own thread but, even though I’m not familiar with Jeff Buckley’s work (unless I’ve heard his songs and didn’t know it was him), I keep seeing his name pop up often enough that I thought he was alive.[/hijack] So, MJ might be joining the likes of Buckley and Tupac. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-reassure-me/502307/22 "2009-07-08T19:25:46Z")
**Little Nemo** by a hair over **don’t ask**. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-reassure-me/502307/23 "2009-07-09T15:31:48Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Please tell me that Michael Jackson won’t stay in the media for the next 10 years the way lady/princess Diana stayed in the news for 10 years after she died \ :eek: Sadly I think you’re going to have to pray someone else megafamous dies to wipe it off the front page. Queen Elizabeth is your closest option at the moment, but considering she’s ‘only’ 83 and her mother lived until about 102, you might have 20 odd years to wait. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-reassure-me/502307/24 "2009-07-09T19:13:28Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Sadly I think you’re going to have to pray someone else megafamous dies to wipe it off the front page. Queen Elizabeth is your closest option at the moment, but considering she’s ‘only’ 83 and her mother lived until about 102, you might have 20 odd years to wait. I can see it now; CNN: “We have breaking news. After 20 years of being the 24 hour a day Michael Jackson channel, we’re now the 24 hour a day Queen Elizabeth channel.” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-reassure-me/502307/25 "2009-07-09T19:15:01Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Slight hijack of my own thread but, even though I’m not familiar with Jeff Buckley’s work (unless I’ve heard his songs and didn’t know it was him), I keep seeing his name pop up often enough that I thought he was alive.[/hijack] > > So, MJ might be joining the likes of Buckley and Tupac. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am. Actually I just now realized he was dead. I’m sure I’ve been told he was dead, but it just didn’t take. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-reassure-me/502307/26 "2009-07-09T19:41:12Z")
Michael is a thousand times more famous than Anna Nicole Smith and it took about a year for all her media hype to die down. We’ll be hearing about him for quite some time but here’s hoping he will stop being the top news story soon. “Our top story tonight, Michael Jackson is still dead” Michael is going to be the next dead Elvis, he will never really go away. People will be reporting seeing him working in a 7-11 in some small Kansas town in no time. Even I saw a possible Elvis in a Sam’s Club Warehouse store. I would have been more convinced if he was buying a massive jar of peanut butter and a huge bunch of bananas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-please-reassure-me/502307.md?page=1)