From: erickenyonsfg@gmail.com   
      
   The guy from the 1970's was Bill Saluga, just now died at age 85. Born in   
   1937. In a 1979 interview Bill said that he thinks the origin of "you can call   
   me Ray," was from an old Vaudeville or Amos and Andy episode. I agree. In 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 call me Ray, or you can call me   
   liquidator..." At the    
   time of Mighty Mouse Bill Saluga must have been maybe 7 or 8 years old. I have   
   a vague recollection 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.    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)