Given that Margaret Thatcher breathed her last in the London Ritz Hotel yesterday, we're due a round of a dark guessing game. That old “rule of threes thing,” as Jimmy Fallon put it while outsmarting said rule in a “30 Rock” cameo, needs satisfying.
But will it happen? Is the rule even real? Do celebrities actually pass away in sets of three?
The short answer is, sort of. A small number of well-known trios have unambiguously bitten the dust together -- most famously, in the late fifties, when the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the singer/songwriter nicknamed the “Big Bopper,” spun into a cornfield after takeoff, killing everyone on impact. (Legend has it this is when the notion of the rule first arose.) In 1970, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison followed suit, leaving the world in quick succession 27 years after they each arrived.
Still, death-in-triplicate is rare.
But will it happen? Is the rule even real? Do celebrities actually pass away in sets of three?
The short answer is, sort of. A small number of well-known trios have unambiguously bitten the dust together -- most famously, in the late fifties, when the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the singer/songwriter nicknamed the “Big Bopper,” spun into a cornfield after takeoff, killing everyone on impact. (Legend has it this is when the notion of the rule first arose.) In 1970, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison followed suit, leaving the world in quick succession 27 years after they each arrived.
Still, death-in-triplicate is rare.
- 4/9/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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