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  • Re: who is ray jay johnson?

    From Form is Function@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon May 8 14:53:22 2023
    On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 9:26:27=E2=80=AFPM UTC-7, jbowd...@gmail.= com wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 27, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Grand Moff Tarkin wrot=
    e:=20
    who the hell is that guy? please explain the joke to me=20

    dan kushner=20
    =20
    Not a deep catalog, but it must have made an impression on Bob Dylan=20
    as can be heard in the=20
    lyrics of =E2=80=9CGotta Serve Somebody=E2=80=9D=20
    [a song by Bob Dylan from his 1979 studio album Slow Train Coming]:=20
    =20
    You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy=20
    You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy=20
    You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray=20
    You may call me anything but no matter what you say=20
    Still, you're gonna have to serve somebody=20
    =E2=80=A6.=20
    =20
    =20
    FWIW!

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  • From Form is Function@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon May 8 15:05:19 2023
    The guy from the 1970's was Bill Saluga, just now died at age 85. Born in 1= 937. In a 1979 interview Bill said that he thinks the origin of "you can ca=
    ll me Ray," was from an old Vaudeville or Amos and Andy episode. I agree. I=
    n fact I saw a black and white Mighty Mouse cartoon from the the early 1940=
    's where the bad guy fires a "liquidator ray" at MM. As the bright ball of = energy is speeding toward the mouse it sprouts a face and says, "you can ca=
    ll me Ray, or you can call me liquidator..." At the time of Mighty Mouse Bi=
    ll Saluga must have been maybe 7 or 8 years old. I have a vague recollectio=
    n of seeing an African American actor in a b & w film doing the whole "Ray"=
    thing. Some film buff somewhere knows the details of You can call me Ray.=
    =20

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