are you kidding me? does anyone NOT know about this?
how many times can this exact article be written?

/i clicked b\c i wanted to blast subby for linking a ten year old article....but alas, the media has come around full circle

yeah, i remember when i learned about this in 1994.

This is news to anyone born in the '90s. I wasn't born then, so this is the most old-hat article I've ever read.

Also, this line kind of pissed me off:
She didn't always read comics though - she was very literate.
Apparently you must go 'full-retard' to read comics.
Tsk, tsk.

remember the old hippies who used to say that MOrrison, Joplin and hendrix all died within the same period as part of an FBI conspiracy to kill off the hippy movement?

Yeah, they did ALL the good acid

You know what else is 27 years old?

This story.

Colonel_Debugger: You know what else is 27 years old?

This story.

haha, nice.
lold

yeah, well, i'm 27, and this article depressed the shiat outta me. i wasn't before but now i'm friggin suicidal.

The other day a homeless guy stopped me in the park. He asked what my job was. I told him that I'm a history teacher. He proceeded to quiz me on various historical facts, fishing for a dollar. One of the questions was "How old was Custer when he had his last stand?" I remembered the rule of 33/27: many famous people did big things when they were 33, and many rock stars died at 27.

33: Jesus died, Jefferson wrote the Declaration, Alexander conquered the Mediterranean, etc.
27: See TFA

/I gave him the dollar anyhow.

EZ1923: I remembered the rule of 33/27

I have always wondered why the toughest years for me were 27 and 33.

I was destined for greatness and missed it somehow.

I won a dead pool because of this. I picked 6 months after Kurt's 27th birthday, playing the odds. Spent my winnings on a GnR CD.

bales: yeah, well, i'm 27, and this article depressed the shiat outta me. i wasn't before but now i'm friggin suicidal.

No need to be depressed, those people were ridiculously talented and tragically died at 27. You'll probably see 90.

the_be_sharps: bales: yeah, well, i'm 27, and this article depressed the shiat outta me. i wasn't before but now i'm friggin suicidal.

No need to be depressed, those people were ridiculously talented and tragically died at 27. You'll probably see 90.

The funniest thing I've read all day. Thanks.

platts42: The funniest thing I've read all day. Thanks.

I aim to please.

*small bow

Mugato: I won a dead pool because of this. I picked 6 months after Kurt's 27th birthday, playing the odds. Spent my winnings on a GnR CD.

On the bright side, there may just possibly be another (1 to 4) GnR CD(s) coming out soon.

the_be_sharps: bales: yeah, well, i'm 27, and this article depressed the shiat outta me. i wasn't before but now i'm friggin suicidal.

No need to be depressed, those people were ridiculously talented and tragically died at 27. You'll probably see 90.

+1

Of far more relevance is the list of musicians whose career died at 27, yet they lived on to just become pathetic shadows of their former greatness:

Elvis
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Brian Wilson
David Crosby
Etc...

Nothing But Net: Of far more relevance is the list of musicians whose career died at 27, yet they lived on to just become pathetic shadows of their former greatness:

Elvis
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Brian Wilson
David Crosby
Etc...


"Bad" was released when Jackson was 29. 32 Million copies sold worldwide, the only album in history to have 5 #1 singles.

Madonna had only released two (of eleven) albums by age 27, "Madonna" and "Like a Virgin."

I don't know if you can include artists who were part of a much bigger group early in life and then went solo. I agree about the Elvis part. He was pretty much done by '62.

I'm 27 and in a rock band so I'm... crap!

How old is Whinehouse? Are we there yet?!??!?!?!

Colonel_Debugger: You know what else is 27 years old?

This story.



+1.

probably just as dead (In case the joke needed further explainin')

Yeah, not only is this old news, but they were all also overrated...burn me if you want, even though I do like most of them.

Now Arthur Lee! HE was an songwriter! And a pretty good singer. I didn't realize this until two years ago just after he died, though. I would've loved to see him live in concert. "You Set the Scene" and "Alone Again Or" are my two favorites, although I think the latter song is actually written by his Love bandmate Bryan Mclean, who died ten years ago (and was a good musician as well)Arthur Lee.

Ok, I`ll probably get flamed for this, but this is how the whole 27 thing was explained to me - by a smokin hot hippy chick at Big Bad John`s in Victoria BC one amazing drunken night back in the 90s

When we turn 27 Saturn returns to the point where it was at the time of our birth (shut up). This apparently means drastic change in one`s life. Don`t ask me why, I`m not an astrologer. For most of us it means we`ll change direction in our lives (for me it meant I crossed the hall to change jobs. I know that gave you chills ) but it means that change means death for some people.

Anyway, that`s my drunken understanding of it.

/misses Big Bad Johns
//misses Victoria almost as much
///loves hippy chicks
////not as much as slashies

Mugato: I won a dead pool because of this. I picked 6 months after Kurt's 27th birthday, playing the odds. Spent my winnings on a GnR CD.

Way to turn a win into a massive fail.

StuckInTO: /misses Big Bad Johns

it's gone? damn. i got yelled at there for putting my feet up on the burlap. good times, good times.

Oh yeah? Well John Belushi, Chris Farley and Jesus Christ all died at 33!


/Just stating more well-known facts.

Juniper Jupiter: Yeah, not only is this old news, but they were all also overrated...burn me if you want, even though I do like most of them.

Now Arthur Lee! HE was an songwriter! And a pretty good singer. I didn't realize this until two years ago just after he died, though. I would've loved to see him live in concert. "You Set the Scene" and "Alone Again Or" are my two favorites, although I think the latter song is actually written by his Love bandmate Bryan Mclean, who died ten years ago (and was a good musician as well)Arthur Lee.

at first I though you said Alvin Lee
and I was leik wtf he's not dead yet!

Shoot the editor. Worn out.

my facebook status a couple weeks ago was "is older now than kurt cobain ever was"

life isn't nearly as cool when you think about it like that...

There's a big difference between risky drug abuse and eating a friggin shotgun. That moron doesn't belong in the same club. They earned their way into The Stupid Club; he gatecrashed.

syrynxx: There's a big difference between risky drug abuse and eating a friggin shotgun. That moron doesn't belong in the same club. They earned their way into The Stupid Club; he gatecrashed.

Paul McCartney was 27 when the Beatles broke up.

/not really the same
//he looked much older

I used to believe this. Then I turned 28.

mavrick45: at first I though you said Alvin Lee
and I was leik wtf he's not dead yet!

No...Alvin's not dead yet...he feels fine and getting better!!

*Yawn*

/Went through a Joplin/Morrison/Hendrix phase when I was 12
//That was 27 years ago

ekdikeo4
Mugato: I won a dead pool because of this. I picked 6 months after Kurt's 27th birthday, playing the odds. Spent my winnings on a GnR CD.

On the bright side, there may just possibly be another (1 to 4) GnR CD(s) coming out soon.

Please review Mr. Brownstone again, identify the phase that Axl's life has currently entered and reconsider your suggestion that he will produce anything more musical than a fart.

Wow...what an edgy story that no ones ever told before. Thanks subby...for being exactly 20 years behind everyone else. Know what else is fascinating? The series finale of Dallas! Who shot JR!?

Who are all these people?!?!? What is the 27 club???

Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat died at 27. I wish Morrison could have just died twice instead.

CoachBlack: *Yawn*

/Went through a Joplin/Morrison/Hendrix phase when I was 12
//That was 27 years ago

Wow, you're so cool. Link to your Tips For Being Ultra Hip Like Me website please.

bales: yeah, well, i'm 27, and this article depressed the shiat outta me. i wasn't before but now i'm friggin suicidal.

Hey the Colonel didn't start franchising KFcoontil he was 65. You still got some time to do something successful.

Danielsan: Paul McCartney was 27 when the Beatles broke up.

/not really the same
//he looked much older

You mean, Paul didn't die?

Glenechocreek: You mean, Paul didn't die?

!luaP deirub I

If OLDmitter is 27, I say he does us all a favor and joins the club

subtlehavok: Wow...what an edgy story that no ones ever told before. Thanks subby...for being exactly 20 years behind everyone else. Know what else is fascinating? The series finale of Dallas! Who shot JR!?

JR was shot!? How about a SPOILER warning, pal; my DVR is backed WAAAY up...

/anachronism FTW

Mugato: I won a dead pool because of this. I picked 6 months after Kurt's 27th birthday, playing the odds. Spent my winnings on a GnR CD.

I call BS. Kurt died less than 2 months after his 27th birthday.

/sad that I know this, but i was 12 at the time.

You forgot Pigpen.

and D Boon.

bales: yeah, well, i'm 27, and this article depressed the shiat outta me. i wasn't before but now i'm friggin suicidal.

If you wanna feel really bad about yourself, Buddy Holly died at 22. And his impact on the music industry has lasted nigh on 5 decades now.

sonicboris: This is news to anyone born in the '90s. I wasn't born then, so this is the most old-hat article I've ever read.

Also, this line kind of pissed me off:
She didn't always read comics though - she was very literate.
Apparently you must go 'full-retard' to read comics.
Tsk, tsk.

I think your reading comp may need a little tuning up.

This guy is saying she read comics AND she's literate ... therefore, he's acknowledging that some comics readers aren't full retard.

What he's probably implying is that if all you read are comics, maybe you are illiterate. Don't try to see things that aren't there.

Inigo_Montoya: You forgot Pigpen.

and D Boon.

FTA: Ron McKernan, the alcoholic Grateful Dead bassist.

They remembered, they just put the wrong instrument in his cold dead hands.