They're dropping like flies!

[Scooter's Mom]

I'm old enough to remember Gale Storm but I mistakenly thought she had passed years ago. I guess that's because of her advanced age and she hasn't done any theatrical work in some time.

If it does come in threes as I've always known it to, then it would appear we have yet another one coming because David Carradine started the ball rolling. Add the 4 that have just passed and that leaves one more.

Are you forgetting Ed McMahon?

David Carradine (by your count)
Ed McMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Billy Mays
Gale Storm

That's six.

[Medusa]

Are you forgetting Ed McMahon?

David Carradine (by your count)
Ed McMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Billy Mays
Gale Storm

That's six.

Nope, I didn't forget Ed McMahon. I apparently just can't count.

[RICHARD]

"Three on a match" is another adage regarding bad luck and was supposed to have come from WWI.

Enemy snipers would look across the lines and see men lighting cigarettes - The glow from the fire and people trying to get three ciggies lit, would give him just enough time to sight and fire at the area illuminated by the match.

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The strange part about these people passing is the level of 'famous-ness'
that each had. DC was and enigma, EM was an icon, FF an all-time sex symbol, MJ was bigger than the planet? BM? Someone you liked or chose not to notice......GS? That was a stage name!

It's like Carradine started it and it just ballooned...I got two phone calls about Billy Mays, One for MJ an no one mentioned Poor Old Ed.

Gale Storm stopped the "age trend" They were getting too young there, for a minute!

[cloverfdx]

Nice thread title .

[happylabs]

I have always heard the thing about things happening in 3's. Apparently we just had two sets of 3's this time.

We always said babies came in 3's when I worked at the Department of Public Welfare years ago. It seemed there were always 3 women pregnant at the same time - LOL.