# Amy Winehouse is dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-winehouse-is-dead/590088>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 23, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-winehouse-is-dead/590088 "2011-07-23T16:41:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-winehouse-is-dead/590088/202 "2019-03-03T05:09:18Z")

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[Chevy Chase] Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. [/Chevy Chase]

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**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-winehouse-is-dead/590088/203 "2019-03-03T06:43:12Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Back to the subject of the bump, the “holograms” referred to are a singularly unimpressive technology: It’s basically just projection onto a screen, except the screen is partly transparent so it’s not noticeable except where the projection is.

It’s barely technology at all; Pepper’s Ghost has been around for what? A couple of centuries, at least? It’s the same thing that makes the ghosts appear in Disney’s Haunted Mansion.

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-winehouse-is-dead/590088/204 "2019-03-04T15:50:22Z")

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> [@TimeWinder](#):
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> It’s barely technology at all; Pepper’s Ghost has been around for what? A couple of centuries, at least? It’s the same thing that makes the ghosts appear in Disney’s Haunted Mansion.

?? They do it with mirrors. Or at least they used to.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-winehouse-is-dead/590088/205 "2019-03-04T15:54:41Z")

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Which makes these “holographic concerts” even less impressive. Pepper’s Ghost (which, yes, they do with mirrors) is 3-dimensional, but these concerts are 2-d.

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-winehouse-is-dead/590088/206 "2019-03-04T18:52:38Z")

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**re: Franco jokes**

Nahhhhhhhh…too easy.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-winehouse-is-dead/590088/207 "2019-03-04T19:00:41Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> **re: Franco jokes**
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> Nahhhhhhhh…too easy.

**Thudlow Boink** and **Siam Sam** both beat you to it.

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