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Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
I hate when this happens. Every now and then, a whole clump of people start dying. It's weird.

I got back from a vacation with my family last Friday, and ran into a friend that afternoon at the grocery store. He told us that a friend of ours had passed away. And that his mother wasn't doing very well. She died Sunday morning, I think. And a guy I used to go to synagogue with passed away today.

I just hope the clump is over.
 

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Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
Low-frequency Poisson-distributed events are quite likely to appear in clumps. It's a rather counter-intuitive result, though.
 

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Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
 
My friend said once that people always die in three's.
 

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Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
I would hope your friend said that people always die in threes.
 

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Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
 
*mental note to self, stay away from three's*
 

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Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
 
No doubt! Three is always serving me questionable seafood, I dread my weekly visits to his house.
 

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Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
 
Hey, I like Three! We hang out on the weekends.

Lisa,
Hang in there. Also, the idea of "death season" or "clumps" probably isn't the best way to look at things. It depresses me just thinking about it. I suggest you try to let go of those kinds of ideas and adopt something a little more optimistic.


On a lighter note, the first thing that popped in my head when I saw the thread title was "Duck season! Fire!"
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 

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Originally posted by MEC:
*mental note to self, stay away from three's*

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And superfluous apostrophe's.
 

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Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
 
Rather than thinking that people die in threes, I like to think that they tend to be alive in clumps of 6 billion or so.


Wabbit Season!
 

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Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 

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Originally posted by MEC:
*mental note to self, stay away from three's*

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Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:

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Originally posted by MEC:
*mental note to self, stay away from three's*

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And superfluous apostrophe's.

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Originally posted by MightyCow:
Rather than thinking that people die in threes, I like to think that they tend to be alive in clumps of 6 billion or so.

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Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
 
My sympathies Lisa. It always seems to go that way for me too, and usually around January/February time.
 

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Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lisa:

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Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:

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Originally posted by MEC:
*mental note to self, stay away from three's*

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And superfluous apostrophe's.

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You forgot the apostrophe in superfluou's.

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S'uperfluou's?
 

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Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
You all misheard it, people die in TREES. Don't you listen to Durkon??

(proven right)
 

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Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
 
It's August for me. Every year I hope the trend won't continue, but tragedy seems to have a thing for the end of the summer.

I do like Mighty Cow's view however.
 

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Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
 
Oh...sorry.
 

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