RIP Ray Charles....#2 man on Deaths hatrick.

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Ray Charles dead of cancer.

They come in 3's. Whos next???? Im putting $5 on Courtney Love.
 
Tmy said:
Ray Charles dead of cancer.

They come in 3's. Whos next???? Im putting $5 on Courtney Love.
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3's ? How about 3,000 or so a day? ( in the U.S. )

A lot of mommies, daddies, brothers and sisters are mourning today, and a lot of them are saying:

" Ray, who? "

" Ronald who ? "
 
Tmy said:
Ray Charles dead of cancer.

They come in 3's. Whos next???? Im putting $5 on Courtney Love.
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Well, I hope it was a Wonderful World, Ray.

I'll miss you.
 
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Diogenes said:


3's ? How about 3,000 or so a day? ( in the U.S. )
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No. Every 3rd you start counting again.
 
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Diogenes said:


3's ? How about 3,000 or so a day? ( in the U.S. )

A lot of mommies, daddies, brothers and sisters are mourning today, and a lot of them are saying:

" Ray, who? "

" Ronald who ? "
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Im not talking about loser everyday people. I mean important (ie famous) people!!!! Whos gonna wait in line 6hrs to vist the casket of some local schlub who crashed his Harley.
 
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Tmy said:


Im not talking about loser everyday people. I mean important (ie famous) people!!!! Whos gonna wait in line 6hrs to vist the casket of some local schlub who crashed his Harley.
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That depends on how spectacular the crash was.
 
Bonafide legend, soulful to the max, could sing almost any song, any genre, a rare talent. Ray, they're playing your music on the radio and I can't keep the eyes dry.
 
Why not just pick the most recent big name that died before Reagan and call the three that person, Reagan and Ray Charles?
 
Number Six said:
Why not just pick the most recent big name that died before Reagan and call the three that person, Reagan and Ray Charles?
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Pshaw- because that wouldn't make any bloody sense! We all know these things come in threes!

JPII is a wise bet.
 
I am lucky enough to have recordings of his that are unavailable anywhere.
"Renaissance" produced by him, vinyl, not released on cd. Opens with a Stevie Wonder (another blind black guy) tune "Living for the City", and ends with a Randy Newman classic "Sail Away" (written from the viewpoint of a slave ship captain conning Africans onto the slave ship).

Also an unreleased version of "Porgy and Bess" with Cleo Laine.

Unfortunate for the theme of the thread to be a "hat trick".
He stood alone.
 
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Tmy said:
Im not talking about loser everyday people. I mean important (ie famous) people!!!!
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Allright. How about Jesus Chahin? He just passed away today. He was really famous. He "discovered" the "Water of Tlacote" (named after his ranch in Queretaro, Mexico). He claimed his water cured more than 100,000 people around the world.

He claimed his water had a lower density that normal water (.956), and it also had a small amount of bicarbonate. Both claims were denied by academic investigators at the time. On one day, the police reported 3 thousand people lining on the street to get this cure-all. No good for his own cancer, apparently.

That makes three. I guess we are saved for the day.
 
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tamiO said:


groan Thanks for reminding me I will have to listen to this idea explored next family visit.
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Actually Tami, I think there's probably a good explanation of why people often perceive such "bunching" tendencies. Deaths, arrival times and many other things are best described by a Poisson distribution. My strong suspicion is that humans subjectively interpret poissonianly distributed variables as somehow "non-random"...
 
Some Friggin Guy said:
Um...Tony Randall? Anyone remember him?
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Of course! There's your three! There you go then. OK this one's done.

What people who believe in this can never seem to explain is where the cutoff points are, ie how long a span of time can there between any two deaths for them to count as part of the "three." I think of all the woo-woo beliefs, this has to be the stupidest. Maybe believers think God orchestrates it this way, you know, one famous death for each member of the Trinity, so there's no fighting or anything.

G: Guys, I've just called in Tony "Felix Unger" Randall.
JC: Lame. Watch the size of this funeral: Fmr. U.S. President Ronald Reagan!
G: Damn!
HG: I've got you both trumped.
G: Not James Randi!
HG: Better, Mr. Ray Charles.
JC: You bastard.
G: Just wait till next round, both of you.
 
OK, someone has to do it:

[AMERICAN] Ray Charles totally copied Stevie Wonder! [/AMERICAN]
 
Evolver said:
OK, someone has to do it:

[AMERICAN] Ray Charles totally copied Stevie Wonder! [/AMERICAN]
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Now that was funny!

I've been waiting for this one: Peter Wolf totally copied Ronald Reagan!:

(It's a stretch, but if you're familiar with the tune, "Mars Needs Women," it might make sense.) :)
 
subgenius said:
I am lucky enough to have recordings of his that are unavailable anywhere.
"Renaissance" produced by him, vinyl, not released on cd.
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Pshaw. You can find Renaissance in used record stores all over the place. Track down a copy of his live album from the 70's that was only released in Japan, and then you'll have something worth talking about. Maybe even something I'd consider trading a copy of his first demo/songwriting session at Atlantic records for. ;)

But seriously, Renaissance is great. Hearbreaking rendition of "It's Not Easy Being Green." (Yes, I'm serious.)

Edited to add: I hope that in the wake of his death, some of this great archival footage of him that I've been seeing on the news will finally be released.
 
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