I'm debating whether to explain who Harvey Ray is. Yes... No... Yes...
Harvey Ray* was a fellow who stood on the corner of Beltline Blvd and Two-Notch Road in Columbia, SC over 30 years ago in our youth. He sold peanuts and trinkets. Many people knew him only as "the Peanut Man". Rain or shine, without regard to current events, Harvey Ray was there, selling those peanuts. This is for him.
WMD is really hard to say in the meter. Pronounce it “DubyemDee”.
HARVEY RAY
wmh - 12 December 2006
Triple A, DMV
GPS, SUV
PMS, SOB
DUI, IUD
ICU, EKG
MRI, EMT
PCP, STD
HIV –––– RIP
RBI, NBA
MLB, STP,
PGA, MVP
GDP, GMT
HGH, THC
IRS, CPA
FBI –––– DOJ
CBS, BBC
CNN, PBS
MTV, F-O-X
FDR, LBJ
LHO, JFK
ATF, MLK
APB –––– Harvey Ray
DOD, MRE
DOA, RPG
DMZ, WMD
PDQ, A-OK
I just spotted
Harvey Ray
P.S. I don't know why, but it's bugging me extraordinarily that I could, after quite an exhaustive search, find only this one reference on the web to Harvey Ray, and it's an anecdote in the comments section of a post about a different business on that same street corner. The more I think about it, the more glad I am that we have a song for Harvey Ray. He deserves one.
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