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Re:RIP Michael Jackson by icey on Thursday June 25, 2009 @06:41PM (#674533)
Look, I was a HUGE Michael Jackson fan when I was a kid; I bought all of his tapes as soon as they came out and wore more than a few of them completely out.

But when you look at these things in comparison:

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and

    RIP Michael Jackson
It just seems out of place. Clearly it's important to everyone here, given the sheer number of submissions it's gotten. I guess things have just changed here, that's all.
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Re:RIP Michael Jackson by aristoxenus on Thursday June 25, 2009 @06:58PM (#674571)
Maybe it depends on how old you are: to some of us, this guy dying is almost like Earth being hit by an asteroid. He's deep in the psyche of a lot of people on this planet, and it sortof transcends "topics".
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Re:RIP Michael Jackson by axod on Thursday June 25, 2009 @06:45PM (#674544)
MJ died today. The rest of the usual HN fodder will still be around tomorrow. The chances of him dying 2 days in a row are slim.
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Re:RIP Michael Jackson by thingie on Thursday June 25, 2009 @06:56PM (#674569)
I guess there are enough pop singers to die in a row to keep HN cluttered with news about them for quite a long time.
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Re:RIP Michael Jackson by axod on Thursday June 25, 2009 @07:06PM (#674588)
I expect MJ's death will open the flood gates for 'copy cat' pop singer deaths...
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Re:RIP Michael Jackson by dinkumthinkum on Thursday June 25, 2009 @09:43PM (#674785)
It's just hand-wavy to say that any exception leads to a slippery slope or opens the flood gates.
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Re:RIP Michael Jackson by icey on Thursday June 25, 2009 @06:56PM (#674565)
I don't discount the importance of it. I am just questioning the relevance of it.
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