# Poll: Who is the "Man In Black" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 4, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711 "2004-01-04T23:20:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/61 "2004-01-06T01:49:11Z")
whether you like it or whether you don’t like it, you need to learn to live with the fact that there can be only one _ **Man in Black** _… and that man is Johnny Cash. The name will now be retired. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/62 "2004-01-06T03:20:38Z")
How is it possible after almost two pages that I’m the first to suggest Roy Orbison? ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/63 "2004-01-06T04:11:30Z")
roy orbison wore black… who knew? ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/64 "2004-01-06T08:46:50Z")
**bluecanary** – would you believe I just now spotted your location? This quiz wasn’t on BBC Radio Newcastle was it? I only ask because I know that they do programme for a more… er, _mature_ audience. In fact I was once told that they have trouble getting reliable listening figures, because their listeners keep dying before they can count them. 😃 Either way though, you wuz robbed – Johnny Cash may not be the only right answer, but it’s definitely _a_ right answer. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/65 "2004-01-06T14:17:09Z")
It was on the NightOwls programme on Metro Radio. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/66 "2004-01-06T15:21:05Z")
Ah. Alan Robson. You were cheated. Robson knows exactly who Johnny Cash is, and that that’s the answer 99 people out of a hundred would have given. Not my favourite radio “personality”, is Mr Robson. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/67 "2004-01-07T00:00:39Z")
The only Man In Black that ever mattered was [Tofik Bakhramov](http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/02/en/pf/h/cg/eng_frg_1966.html) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/68 "2004-01-07T12:42:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by burundi \* > \*\*Yup, it’s Johnny Cash. That’s a bit like asking “Who’s The King?” and expecting an answer besides Elvis. \*\* Or Richard Petty. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/69 "2004-01-07T13:05:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*Or Richard Petty. \*\* Or Clark Gable. ---
**Author:** ![Kyann22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@Kyann22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyann22)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/70 "2004-01-07T13:34:12Z")
Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/71 "2004-01-07T19:51:06Z")
First thought, briefly, Stephen King’s character in the stand Second thought, for real, Johnny Cash Third thought, in passing, Dale Earnhardt ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/72 "2004-01-08T01:16:30Z")
**WotNot:** Yeah, I used to listen to Night Owls regularly, but now I just try to catch the Bladerunner Super Quiz. This was from there. I must ask, what is it you don’t like about Alan Robson? (apart from pretending he doesn’t know who Johnny Cash is ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rex_fenestrarum/32/7265_2.png) [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/73 "2004-01-08T07:46:07Z")
Oh Gawd! It’s JOHNNY CASH, people! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711/74 "2004-01-08T12:56:24Z")
Oh dear, I knew shouldn’t have said that. Is the ginger ’tache not enough? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-is-the-man-in-black/222711.md?page=3)