# Ray Charles dead - Here comes another annoying weekof tributes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688 "2004-06-10T19:45:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/21 "2004-06-10T20:53:29Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > Oh, and the Bush girls are coming to work in my building (which houses the Bush reelection campaign), so we’re going to have more security checks here and more Secret Service hovering by the elevators. Look on the bright side, the cafeteria’s gonna have to start stocking the _good_ liquor. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/22 "2004-06-10T21:27:37Z")
As well, there is the (admittedly remote) possibility that you could nail one of the Tequila Twins. I know your orientation makes this presumably distasteful, but think of the bragging rights… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/23 "2004-06-10T21:33:22Z")
I’m sorry, but I love **Eve’s** post in this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260884](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260884) I’m sad about Ray Charles’s death. He seemed like a nice person ☹ ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/24 "2004-06-10T21:37:38Z")
OMG, I am **so** there! I mean all this shit about Ronnie and stuff has actually _diminished_ gavel to gavel coverage of the Peterson trial! ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/25 "2004-06-10T21:48:23Z")
**wolfman** , That was excellent. As for Ray Charles, He _really_ will be missed. Not like some other recently diseased persons. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/26 "2004-06-10T22:04:05Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I’d 1000 times rather watch a tribute to Ray Charles than a tribute to Reagan. > [@lieu](#): > > I’m guessing Ray would have expressed exactly the same sentiment. Are you going for some kind of Yogism, there? I would guess most people would rather watch a post-mortem memorial tribute to almost anybody else than watch one for themselves! _If you don’t go to other people’s funerals, they won’t come to yours._ - Yogi Berra ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/27 "2004-06-10T22:08:57Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Are you going for some kind of Yogism, there? I would guess most people would rather watch a post-mortem memorial tribute to almost anybody else than watch one for themselves! > > _If you don’t go to other people’s funerals, they won’t come to yours._ - Yogi Berra Or it might be because Ray was blind. Either way, or both, it’s pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/28 "2004-06-10T22:48:43Z")
I would rather listen to hours of Ray Charles tunes on the radio than have dozens of hours of pre-empted news and entertainment so that CBS can have live coverage of someone staring at a box with a dead President in it. News? Sure. A week ago. Now it’s a pointless waste of time and resources genuflecting over a box with a corpse in it. What, are we waiting for someone to spit on it, or for Al-Qaida to try and blow it up or something? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/29 "2004-06-10T23:30:07Z")
I’m with **wring** on this one: I’d rather watch 1,000 Ray Charles tributes than one more second of the Laci Petersen trial, or the Kobe Bryant trial, or whatever the fuck else is being passed off as “infotainment” on cable news for 99% of the broadcast day. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/30 "2004-06-11T00:07:42Z")
We’d better hope somebody VERY famous dies when during Michael Jackson’s trial, because that’s going to drag on forever and we’ll need a break… of course the Petersen trial will last a long time too, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/31 "2004-06-11T07:42:31Z")
Ray deserves a week of tributes more than Ron does, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/32 "2004-06-11T09:58:09Z")
Ugh. MTV refered to him as “former pop idol, Ray Charles”. Why not just call him “former Davey Jones knock-off and Clay Aiken groupie”? Damn, MTV, how can you, as a music channel, be so fucking clueless? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/33 "2004-06-11T10:06:43Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Damn, MTV, how can you, as a music channel, be so fucking clueless? If MTV was really a music channel, that would indeed be very confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/34 "2004-06-11T14:17:54Z")
> [@gum](#): > > As for Ray Charles, He _really_ will be missed. Not like some other recently diseased persons. [Beetlejuice] That’s _deceased_. [/Beetlejuice] ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688/35 "2004-06-12T21:55:15Z")
Originally posted by **Lord Ashtar** > [@](#): > > \*[Beetlejuice] That’s deceased. > [/Beetlejuice] \* I’m sorry, Mylord. Now, might be a good time to say my English sucks… “My English sucks”. Excuses for that. 🙂 [Betelgeuse] Let’s turn on the juice and see what shakes loose. [/Betelgeuse] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-charles-dead-here-comes-another-annoying-weekof-tributes/249688.md?page=1)