Googling By Numbers

Step back mourners of Alexander McQueen…

The man who invented the Frisbee has stolen your limelight!

In the last two days we were tragically robbed of two great people, Alexander McQueen and Walter Frederick Morrison.

Maybe you’ve heard of one of them. Maybe you’ve heard of neither of them… beats me.

But seeing as I like to think I’m doing some great duty to mankind, I’ll be glad to fill you in.

Alexander McQueen was a seriously talented British fashion designer loved for his quirky and sometimes macabre sense of style, which saw him send a crippled model on wooden legs down the runway in one show and models that resembled rape victims in another.

He was named Britain’s best designer four years in a row and had recently sold half of his very chic fashion label to Gucci.

He was also responsible for that frightening reptilian jumpsuit and platform heels that Lady Gaga wore in the Bad Romance film clip (see right).

Quite simply he was a fashion god. Struck down with grief over the loss of his mother, Alexander took his own life yesterday.

Walter Frederick Morrison was, on the other hand, a man I’d never even heard of until I checked Google trends.

All I know is that he invented the Frisbee and passed away today of cancer aged 90.

I also know that he managed to make it onto Google trends… today… surviving what Alexander McQueen’s tragedy could not… the onslaught of the Winter Olympics.

(Yeah so they opened today, hooray, but does everyone need to Google them?)

But I digress, Walter managed to stay in there, number 11 and 17, proving that Frisbees are just as exciting as the Olympics… while Alexander McQueen proved that not even death can keep you in the world’s Googling psyche… not one mention of him today!

Although I’m starting to think my blog is becoming a tribute to dead celebrities and/or living celebrities dead careers.

I always wonder though, why some dead celebs make it into our Googling psyche are other don’t?… and more precisely how the hell did Walter’s death manage to strike up so much interest?

He wasn’t old, he wasn’t even famous and few people knew he invented the Pluto Platter (the Frisbee’s original name)  in 1957.

I wonder if his family released some sort of statement and that’s how the media got on to it. After all, I can’t exactly see the world’s journalists noticing that Walter was gone… he was incredibly old.

I loved the Frisbee when I was a kid but I didn’t even know people still played with them. I thought video games killed all that outdoor, manual labour kind of fun.

The whole Walter situation leaves me with questions I can’t shake. Why didn’t we care about Walter when he was alive? Why didn’t we hear anything about him or his cancer until now? And why do we care?

Beats me.