Biggest celebrity deaths in threes

lawtig02 said:
That's pretty amazing. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams dying on the same day, which happened to be July 4, has always been the standard for me, but this may be like the debate over whether three of a kind should really outrank two pair.
Click to expand...
Among Adams’ last words: Jefferson still lives.
 
finesse said:
I don't give a shit about wrestling or Hulk Hogan.

I don't give a shit about internet celebrities. I have no way to or interest in measuring their comparative popularity and doubt that you do.

It's hard to not count him as an internet celebrity since it's only the globalization of entertainment through the internet that he's been known as long and as well as he is.

Any more stupid questions a fifth grader should know?
Click to expand...
I hate fake wrestling and I am always surprised to hear how many people here were into it as a child. (That said, I kind of felt the same about monster truck shows and then my son seemed to perk up when one came on the TV so we took him to one and he had a blast. I'd do that again in a heartbeat if it makes him that happy.)

But our opinion on the fake sport says nothing about the relative popularity of Hulk Hogan and internet celebrities. I can't speak for the celebs that the younger generations follow but in the '80s Hulk Hogan was nothing short of an icon. Whether you or I got into that is irrelevant.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
I hate fake wrestling and I am always surprised to hear how many people here were into it as a child. (That said, I kind of felt the same about monster truck shows and then my son seemed to perk up when one came on the TV so we took him to one and he had a blast. I'd do that again in a heartbeat if it makes him that happy.)

But our opinion on the fake sport says nothing about the relative popularity of Hulk Hogan and internet celebrities. I can't speak for the celebs that the younger generations follow but in the '80s Hulk Hogan was nothing short of an icon. Whether you or I got into that is irrelevant.
Click to expand...
The main points I was trying to make was just how do you know who's more popular, personal perceptions and parochialism aside and how do you not consider him to be also an internet figure. It's not like pro wrestlers generally had a lucrative post retirement career before the World Wide Web.

I took off on CF a little because I was amused at how blase he was in his assumption of Hogan's worldwide and enduring fame. While he might well be right, that whole "How do you know and why do you assume" nags.

That last bud I just got in the mail is really good, too.
 
Carolina Fever said:
I just don't know how you wouldn't know that Hogan is a lot more famous than internet celebrities.
Click to expand...
My son has never heard of him. Nor Malcolm Jamal Warner.

The problem with the "deaths in threes" is that by the time you hit middle age, we commit so many celebrities to memory. We think of them as big stars because they impacted our childhood. Well, guess what? As we get older, those celebs are going to start dying in spades.

Saying that celebs die in threes is like talking about how nursing home residents die in numbers. Yeah, that's what nursing home residents do.

Do twenty somethings have any idea who Shelley Long is? Not many. But I'd bet you'd post something if and when she died. Kelsey Grammar had a career after Cheers, but I doubt my son has anything but the most passing familiarity with him and certainly doesn't give a shit. I know he knows Ozzy but I doubt his Taylor Swift and hip-hop listening gf does, or would remotely care.

I watched Chips when I was young. I liked Erik Estrada. He's a celeb to me. But I doubt my younger brother has any idea who he is.
 
superrific said:
My son has never heard of him. Nor Malcolm Jamal Warner.

The problem with the "deaths in threes" is that by the time you hit middle age, we commit so many celebrities to memory. We think of them as big stars because they impacted our childhood. Well, guess what? As we get older, those celebs are going to start dying in spades.

Saying that celebs die in threes is like talking about how nursing home residents die in numbers. Yeah, that's what nursing home residents do.

Do twenty somethings have any idea who Shelley Long is? Not many. But I'd bet you'd post something if and when she died. Kelsey Grammar had a career after Cheers, but I doubt my son has anything but the most passing familiarity with him and certainly doesn't give a shit. I know he knows Ozzy but I doubt his Taylor Swift and hip-hop listening gf does, or would remotely care.

I watched Chips when I was young. I liked Erik Estrada. He's a celeb to me. But I doubt my younger brother has any idea who he is.
Click to expand...
That's why, after further reflection, I'm sticking with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. With Independence Day being the third member of the triumvirate.
 
lawtig02 said:
That's why, after further reflection, I'm sticking with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. With Independence Day being the third member of the triumvirate.
Click to expand...
Yeah, can't argue with that. Nor CS Lewis, Aldous Huxley and JFK. I mean, Huxley is a bit weak but for a third star, he's fine. Like Horace Grant to Pippen and Jordan. Good enough to make a triumvarate.

I mean, I get it: people want to have stuff to talk about. And politics isn't a great conversation topic because there is little conversation to be had. It's so black and white. Political affiliation is little more than a metric of personal depravity.

But if we're going to have an argument about it, we appear to be in agreement.
 
superrific said:
Yeah, can't argue with that. Nor CS Lewis, Aldous Huxley and JFK. I mean, Huxley is a bit weak but for a third star, he's fine. Like Horace Grant to Pippen and Jordan. Good enough to make a triumvarate.

I mean, I get it: people want to have stuff to talk about. And politics isn't a great conversation topic because there is little conversation to be had. It's so black and white. Political affiliation is little more than a metric of personal depravity.

But if we're going to have an argument about it, we appear to be in agreement.
Click to expand...
Huxley wasn’t even the third star at a family gathering.
 
BlooVooDoo said:
Huxley wasn’t even the third star at a family gathering.
Click to expand...
Well, Brave New World is considered an all time great novel. It sold well. It established him as a major literary figure. It was republished several times in his lifetime and he even wrote a follow up essay.

And also he inspired the creation and naming of The Doors.

So I'd say he's a third star.
 
superrific said:
Well, Brave New World is considered an all time great novel. It sold well. It established him as a major literary figure. It was republished several times in his lifetime and he even wrote a follow up essay.

And also he inspired the creation and naming of The Doors.

So I'd say he's a third star.
Click to expand...
I said at a family gathering. The Huxleys had a deep bench. Andrew, Julian, Thomas. That’s some gravitas. Even the lesser Huxleys were quite an accomplished lot.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top