Say hello to Frank and Little Beige Sambo.
Reports of her untimely death nearly caused a bases-loaded home run at
Google Hot Trends yesterday:
Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
Subject: Did brittany murphy die, or something?
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:51:31 -0600
Message-ID: <4B2EAA73...@spamcop.net>
Several days ago, Google Hot Trends search results dwindled down to 20
displayed topics from 40. It originally started out a year or more ago
displaying the Top 100 searches. They reduced that to 40 a few months ago.
With the news that Brittany Murphy died, it appears that she nearly
knocked Google Hot Trends on its ass by hitting the majority of the 20
hot searches. Number 13 is related to her in the physical sense. #11 is
a (voiced) character she portrayed. I'd include #'s 5, 16, and probably
9 on the list below as being related to her regarding search topics.
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http://google.com/trends/hottrends
Hot Searches (USA)
Dec 20, 2009 - change date
Updated 27 minutes ago
1. brittney murphy
2. simon monjack
3. brittany murphy dead drugs
4. did brittany murphy die
5. cardiac arrest
6. britanny murphy
7. brittany murphy heart attack
8. brittany murphy simon monjack
9. celebrity deaths 2009
10. brittany murphy king of the hill
11. luanne platter
12. brittany murphy movies list
13. angelo bertolotti
14. nathan myhrvold
15. brittany murphy cardiac arrest
16. ashton kutcher twitter
17. brittany murphy cause of death
18. brittany murphy eating disorder
19. alaina reed
20. snookie punch video
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Shortly after posting that I discovered, and posted as a follow-up, one
more definite connection to her, her husband:
Oops, I overlooked #2 as being related to her, as well.
> http://google.com/trends/hottrends
>
> Hot Searches (USA)
>
> Dec 20, 2009 - change date Updated 27 minutes ago
>
> 2. simon monjack
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"Think with your dipstick, Jimmy."
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"Think with your dipstick, Jimmy."
> How disappointing. The wrong Brittany died.
The other one is actually Brittney, yo!
> On Dec 21, 12:30 pm, teak <t...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>> How disappointing. The wrong Brittany died.
> The other one is actually Brittney, yo!
I believe you mean, Britney. (the) ho!
The goofy names parents give their kids these days. Who can possibly
tell one from another.
> progea <pro...@hotmail.com>, on Mon Dec 21 2009 20:49:35 GMT-0600
> (Central Standard Time), spoke thusly:
>
>> On Dec 21, 12:30 pm, teak <t...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>>> How disappointing. The wrong Brittany died.
>
>> The other one is actually Brittney, yo!
> I believe you mean, Britney. (the) ho!
>
> The goofy names parents give their kids these days. Who can possibly
> tell one from another.
After posting the previous comments I discovered a link to the following
regarding the Britney to whom I was referring:
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"The Year in B.S."
12/21/09 at 10:00 PM
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/12/britney_spears_presents_the_ye.html
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Upon reading that topic heading, I gotta ask, "You mean the guy didn't
pull out for 12 whole months?!
> This poor "kid" had diabetes & when
> you combine that with anorexia or bulimia, it often leads to an early
> grave.
I know little about her and haven't been reading any of the hundreds or
thousands of articles recently written about her, but, I had the
impression that she was a habitual drug abuser. Or, is that some
residual impression I have from one her her early film roles? I don't
know the answer to that question.
All I know is that I was very surprised to read of her passing and feel
she had a presence in film beyond that of simply being the cute girl du
jour like so many air-headed bimbos.