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She was also the youngest of the Golden Girls by eleven years. The other three were all about the same age.

 

Originally, Rue was going to play the naive Golden Girl with Betty White playing the slovenly one. The roles were switched because Rue had already done the naive part on Maude and Betty had done the slovenly part on Mary Tyler Moore.

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First Gary Coleman, then Dennis Hopper, now Rue McClanahan. The law of 3's stays intact.

I thought Art Linkletter was 3. Law of 4's?

One of the only things that drives me more crazy than a 'Chuck Norris' joke is when someone goes on and on about how 'celebrities go in three's'. They do seem to go in streaks, but I've never noted a 'law of 3's'. What constitutes the time period of a law of threes? Going further, how 'big' in pop culture does someone have to be before they qualify under this rule?
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The only "law" is that people will make any situation artificially fit. Linkletter was 3, so when someone else passes, they have to change it to make it fit. If not Hopper and Rue, it would have been Coleman, some guy who guested on Star Trek once, and a commercial actor.

 

It's almost as fascinating as our strange obsession with round numbers. 2997 hits, cool. 3000...history!

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Coleman, Linkletter, and Hopper. Then McClanahan, Wooden, and whoever the next remotely famous person that passes away makes the second trilogy. Unless a slightly more famous person passes away shortly thereafter, which renders the previous person again not famous enough. That's usually how it seems to work for those that subscribe to such a theory (see Linkletter, Art).
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First Gary Coleman, then Dennis Hopper, now Rue McClanahan. The law of 3's stays intact.

I thought Art Linkletter was 3. Law of 4's?

One of the only things that drives me more crazy than a 'Chuck Norris' joke is when someone goes on and on about how 'celebrities go in three's'. They do seem to go in streaks, but I've never noted a 'law of 3's'. What constitutes the time period of a law of threes? Going further, how 'big' in pop culture does someone have to be before they qualify under this rule?

Did it have to be in blue? Seems like a minor diatribe for something that should viewed as tongue and cheek as it's obviously not a law. But hey, let's not have any fun with a light hearted thread.

 

However, since I did miss Linkletter it must now be called the law of 4's (or 5's if you want to count Wooden). Thank you for the heads up Bork! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

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