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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAm I Fucking out of my mind? Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin from West Virg.was just on the weather channel.
Earl Ray Tomblin; Earl Ray!....... Was he actually named after the murderer James Earl Ray?
Or is Earl Ray in W.V. as common as a Justin or Tiffany in Ca.?
cali
(114,904 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Second: James Earl *Jones* is an actor. As far as I know there isn't any James Earl Ray Jones.
As to your question:
Uncle Joe
(58,426 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)But that's OK.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Are you thinking James Earl Ray who killed MLK?
Are you confusing him with James Earl Jones, the actor.
At any rate, Tomblin was born years before James Earl Ray killed MLK.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)In the 1980s he was briefly the CEO of Jennifer Love Hewlett-Packard Bell and Mr. and Mrs. Howell.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)CanisCrocinus
(109 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)More than 16 years before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Ray_Tomblin
Am I Fucking out of my mind?
I don't know, but your reaction to the man's name is not really logical.
PCIntern
(25,591 posts)Kitchen tables are interesting places....or workplace desks.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Honey, you can't fling a cat in the South without hitting an Earl, a Ray, an Earl Ray, a Ray Earl, or a Rayette Earlene. Don't sweat that stuff. There's work to be done.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Remembrance of the death of MLK is still a painful thing to many of us. Take care.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)It all makes sense now.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Bow-chika-wow-wow.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)No that was James Earl Bones
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)dueling banjo land. Some of the name are pretty cute.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)I'd never heard of a Joe Tom before that.
Tikki
(14,559 posts)Meat Puppets...Get On Down
Tikki
H2O Man
(73,622 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)It would hurt his feelings.