The top search on Yahoo! yesterday was for Sinbad.  He was #3 today.  It seems that last week somebody on Wikipedia edited Sinbad’s biography by announcing his death.  Hundreds of people contacted Sinbad’s management, including Lionel Ritchie (who ironically died on the inside in 2003).

Sinbad was quoted saying things like, “I wish that people would’ve called me back like this when I was alive. I gotta die more often. I’m writing a movie about this now… Seriously, my death is gonna be my comeback.”

He’s not kidding.  Remember, the #2 search was the NCAA Tournament.  And usual top searches like American Idol, Britney Spears and the WWE paled in comparison.  It’s ridiculous.  And Sinbad’s only claim to fame since Jingle All the Way (in 1996) is NOT dying. 

Sinbad has failed to die since 1956.  

I’m not sure how many people were looking up Sinbad on search engines prior to the death rumor, but I’m positive it was in the realm of zero to three.  But as soon as the man DOESN’T die, he’s the most interesting person on the Internet.  Move over dead sex symbols like Anna Nicole Smith, we have a not-dead not-sex symbol to Google.

Sinbad is the most famous person to not die since Rasputin. 

You know that wacky Russian guy they stabbed, poisoned with insane amounts of cyanide, shot four times, clubbed, and finally had to throw in an icy river - just to find in the autopsy that he drowned?  You remember that guy?  Yeah, nobody fucking Googled him last week.

Sinbad is messing with my head. 

22/03/2007
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