Monday, July 27, 2009

What the Hell is Going On?


Something seriously is going on here. The celebrity death toll keeps rising. If you think this is just a coincidence, then you are obviously entitled to your own opinion. Me something is definitely is going on and it's not good for the celebs out there. I mean can anyone agree with me that this has easily been the biggest stretch of celebrity deaths in such a short time that the United States has ever seen? Let me show you the list and you be the judge...


Ed McMahon started things off on June 23rd at the age of 86, he had one of the more recognized voices in the country and was filthy rich then went bankrupt, still didn't die from stress that had probably overcame him. He still had no money, was still living in the same house because Mr. Trump bailed him out and was doing better than strangely passed and no one knew why because they thought that he was getting healthier. The very next day at 58, Ed Thomas was not as lucky. Dying almost instantly, from being shot by a crazed former player. He was not as recognized as McMahon because he didn't seek the public, but he was a very recognized high school football coach by his peers and beloved by many in his community.


Then on June 25th the nation which was almost expecting her death, Farrah Fawcett died at the age of 62 of cancer. When you heard the news, you had a feeling that the Fawcett family would absolutely love the attention that she will get now and then a couple of hours later a the biggest star that could ruin that dies in Michael Jackson of cardiac arrest. Are you serious? And let's not forget a voice that we have heard on commercials forever in Billy Mays on June 28th. The nation in every which way in overwhelmed in just 5 days. The death tolls slow down for about a week then it comes and hits us again, hard.


Steve McNair takes center stage on the Forth of July but many of us did not know or could care less to know that the creator of WD-40 past a day earlier in John Barry. Then two days after, a guy named Oscar Mayer Jr. goes. How can the executive of a company that gives us hot dogs die just after all we Americans do is eat his product to celebrate our nation a couple days earlier? Then the oldest living employee in America, bee-keeper Waldo McBurney, dies at the age of 106. Followed by Arturo Gatti, why he past is still in question, however it was he was way too young at 37. The former president of ABC passes on suddenly as well in Mark Mandala, then a man some people thought was already dead in Walter Cronkite, without much publicity. Then that damn Taco Bell dog dies of a stroke, Gidget, what the hell!!! Then most recently former boxing champion Vernon Forrest dies on July 25th in an attempted car robbery.


Way too many people in way too short of a time. Why is this happening? I haven't got the clue. But I can tell you that many celebs will be very happy to see the months with J's in them take a break until January.

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