# Eve’s Roll Call of the Dead, 2005

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eve-s-roll-call-of-the-dead-2005/334584>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 7, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eve-s-roll-call-of-the-dead-2005/334584 "2005-12-07T23:54:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eve-s-roll-call-of-the-dead-2005/334584/21 "2005-12-19T06:47:20Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> I lost five pounds off my fingers alone just from the damned **bold** and _italics_ coding . . .

I think I am the last Doper to discover there is a button that will do this automatically…just highlight and clidk the **B** or _I_ button above…this was pointed out to me when I started a thread showing my ignorance of the fact.

And thanks for the list! I feel like I just watched part of the Oscars…wonder which of the above will be included in the show this year.

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eve-s-roll-call-of-the-dead-2005/334584/22 "2005-12-19T06:55:37Z")

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**Link Wray** - guitar player of Link Wray and the Raymen.  
(Alternately spelled Linc Wray or Linc Ray)  
Shuffled off this mortal coil on Nov 5, 2005 in Denmark.  
He was big in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.  
Still, two of his songs were used in “Pulp Fiction” (1994).

IMDB reference [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942052/](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942052/)

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eve-s-roll-call-of-the-dead-2005/334584/23 "2005-12-20T06:17:05Z")

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Seems you also left out **Ford Rainey** :

> **[Ford Rainey - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707077/)**
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> Ford Rainey, Actor: Halloween II. American character actor of stage, films, and television. A native of Idaho, Rainey was the son of a colorful character who was, among many other things, a champion of local dance contests. As a boy, Rainey was...

Nonetheless, that is a _very_ good list you made. Yes, people say the IMDB has a list of 2005 celebrity deaths but yours is more descriptive.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eve-s-roll-call-of-the-dead-2005/334584/24 "2005-12-20T12:41:14Z")

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> [@Krokodil](#):
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> Not to sound disrespectful or anything, but these lists work a lot better if you think up a new euphemism for “died” for each new entry.

No, they don’t. After the fifth or so euphemism, it becomes distracting.

Look up “Swifties” as a slightly different example of this when you have a chance.

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**Author:** ![Creative\_Munster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Creative\_Munster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creative_Munster)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eve-s-roll-call-of-the-dead-2005/334584/25 "2005-12-20T13:15:41Z")

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I recognized at least one of those names.

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