In case I haven't mentioned it before, I love watching all three of the "CSI" shows. My favorite is the Las Vegas show, mainly because I love that city so much, but the Miami and New York City shows are very cool, too. On tonight's episode of "CSI Miami" one of the cases dealt with a subject that hit close to home. The case involved a huge offshore gambling ship. It was kind of like our Glory Of Rome casino boat, but this gambling ship had one game that our Caesar's casino boat doesn't have: it had a celebrity death game. This hit close to home because for the past twenty or so years, some friends and I have kept a celebrity death watch list. Yes, it's morbid, but nobody bets on our list like they were doing on "CSI Miami" tonight.
This shouldn't surprise me that much; people will gamble on anything and bookies will give you odds on anything. But I've read that the cases on all of the "CSI" shows are based on real cases, so somewhere out there, people have been actually gambling on who will be the next celebrity to die. That's just not right.
Our celebrity death watch list started as I said over twenty years ago when some co-workers and I were laughing about one of the local radio DJs who had their own version of the celebrity death watch list. To pass the time during lulls at work, we started adding celebrities who were old or in bad health to our list. We don't wish these celebrities any malice nor ill will - we simply discussed who we thought would be the next celebrity to die. My dear friend MP and I still discuss this. We email and text message each other when we hear of breaking news about a celebrity. My current co-workers are in on it, too; periodically, theyll ask me to email them our celebrity death watch list so they can discuss it among their departments.
We're not the only ones with this morbid curiosity; I did a quick Google search and there are quite a few celebrity death watch websites. So we're not the only sick ones.
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