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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/06/28/ap6595202.html Who gives a shit about Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett. The superior human, Billy Mays is dead. -- 5/4/07, 5/25/07, 9/14/07, 10/19/07, 2/1/08, 2/15/08, 2/29/08, 4/25/08, 9/5/08, 9/12/08, 10/31/08, 11/14/08, 4/24/09, 5/1/09, 6/12/09 'Well that's a stupid question!' -Bill Maher
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 5:04 PM
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> > Never heard of him before.
> >
> > I understand from the news that he was a
> pitchman of
> > sorts.
> >
> > Its not like he had talent- or ethics.
> >
> > Was he a doper too?
>
> Just considered the best pitchman of our/possibly all
> time selling billions of dollars worth of products.
And I thought that I wasted time watching a lot of shit TV.
But, I'll tell you one thing for free- I never watched a fucking informercial for any longer than it took to click the remote and remove the odious trash.
There must be a bunch of stupid SOBs out there if leeches like that Billy Mays could prosper.
BTW- it seems Billy had heart disease from sniffing Oxycotin or something...
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 5:01 PM
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> > that cocksucker tony robbins can die
> > too
>
> Tony Robbins lives in SD....
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> true story,
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> around thanksgiving 1991, I was at a bookstore in La
> Jolla, Ca and who's there signing books? Tony
> Robbins...
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> it was almost closing time and there were no cameras
> or press in the store
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> there was a small line of customers waiting for him
> to autograph his latest book. In the line was a
> raggedly, homeless looking man. He didn't have a
> book, just a piece of paper. When he got to the
> front, I watched as Robbins interacted with the man.
> Robbins made eye contact, smiled and shook his hand.
> The man then rambled on for about 10 minutes about
> some sort of deluded conspiracy theory that he
> believed in. Robbins not only listened intentely, he
> offered some feedback, signed the guy's paper and
> wished him a good day....
>
> I woldn't buy any of Robbin's products but he seemed
> like a sincere guy the day that I saw him.
Now that was nice. See some people are just good on the inside. There are so few, its easy to judge by whats on the outside. I don't care for him either, but that gives me hope in people. (Silly I know)
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 4:55 PM
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> that cocksucker tony robbins can die
> too
Tony Robbins lives in SD....
true story,
around thanksgiving 1991, I was at a bookstore in La Jolla, Ca and who's there signing books? Tony Robbins...
it was almost closing time and there were no cameras or press in the store
there was a small line of customers waiting for him to autograph his latest book. In the line was a raggedly, homeless looking man. He didn't have a book, just a piece of paper. When he got to the front, I watched as Robbins interacted with the man. Robbins made eye contact, smiled and shook his hand. The man then rambled on for about 10 minutes about some sort of deluded conspiracy theory that he believed in. Robbins not only listened intentely, he offered some feedback, signed the guy's paper and wished him a good day....
I woldn't buy any of Robbin's products but he seemed like a sincere guy the day that I saw him.
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 4:46 PM
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Dang PBJ why don't you say how you really feel! LOL, I hate infomercials too.
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 4:42 PM
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> > if tv hadnt been invented billy mays would be
> calling
> > your house around dinner time trying to sell
> shit.
> > fuck his dead damn self
>
> Or maybe dressed like this...
>
> click
>
> trying to convince that Joseph Smith was a true
> American prophet
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> hey jim !
i hate commercials more than anything in life so billi mays buying the last copy aint gonna grieve me... oh yeah , that cocksucker tony robbins can die too
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 4:41 PM
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> if tv hadnt been invented billy mays would be calling
> your house around dinner time trying to sell shit.
> fuck his dead damn self
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> " i thank god...that ronald reagan
> had...a...daring...relationship...with our dog
> millie" g.h.w.bush , june 11 2004
Why couldn't it have been Ron Popeil instead?
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 4:36 PM
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> if tv hadnt been invented billy mays would be calling
> your house around dinner time trying to sell shit.
> fuck his dead damn self
Or maybe dressed like this...
click
trying to convince that Joseph Smith was a true American prophet
hey jim !
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 4:29 PM
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if tv hadnt been invented billy mays would be calling your house around dinner time trying to sell shit. fuck his dead damn self
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 29, 2009 4:06 PM
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> I guess Slap Chop Vince is now number one. He's also
> the Sham Wow guy. I have to say that I really really
> want both the shamwows and the slap chop after he's
> done with his pitch.
> Martini, bikini. lOL And don't you love the way he
> wrings out those sponges and the cola comes pouring
> off? He looks just like the pizza maker at my local
> shop.
before 'Sham Wow' Vince and Billy Mays there was 'Easy Andy'
...classic scene From a Martin Scorcese masterpiece..
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Medical Examiner: Mays Likely Died of Heart Attack in His Sleep
Jun 29, 2009 3:32 PM
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The county medical examiner's preliminary findings, pending toxicology results, are that there were no signs of head trauma and that Billy Mays likely died of a heart attack in his sleep:
Examiner: Mays likely died of heart attack - Famed TV pitchman found dead at home in Florida
MSNBC
June 29, 2009
"TAMPA, Fla. - Television pitchman Billy Mays likely died of a heart attack in his sleep, but further tests are needed to be sure of the cause of death, a medical examiner said Monday.
Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams said Mays suffered from hypertensive heart disease, and the wall of the left ventricle of Mays? heart and the wall of one of his arteries were enlarged. The boisterous, bearded 50-year-old known for hawking OxiClean and other products on national commercials was found dead Sunday by his wife in their Tampa condominium.
?The heart disease is perfectly consistent with sudden death,? Adams said.
An official cause of death will be issued after toxicology and other tests are completed in eight to 10 weeks.
?While it provides some closure to learn that heart disease took Billy from us, it certainly doesn?t ease the enormous void that his death has created in our lives,? his wife, Deborah, said in a statement. ?As you can imagine, we are all devastated.?
Mays told wife he didn't feel well
Adams said Mays was taking the prescription painkillers Tramadol and hydrocodone for hip pain, but there was no indication of drug abuse. Mays had planned to have hip-replacement surgery Monday.
Mays told his wife he didn?t feel well when he went to bed sometime after 10 p.m. Saturday. Earlier in the day, he said he was hit on the head when his flight from Philadelphia had a rough landing at Tampa International Airport. The airline said no passengers reported serious injuries.
Adams said the autopsy showed no evidence of head trauma.
In a 911 tape released Monday, a frantic woman tells emergency operators she found Mays cold and unresponsive. The woman isn?t identified, but police have said Deborah Mays found her husband dead.
When asked what had happened, the caller says she doesn?t know.
A second person got on the phone as the operator encourages them to get Mays on the floor to start CPR.
?We can?t get him up, ma?am,? the woman says. ?He?s gone.?
Born William Mays in McKees Rocks, Pa., on July 20, 1958, Mays developed his style demonstrating knives, mops and other ?As Seen on TV? gadgets on Atlantic City?s boardwalk. For years he worked as a hired gun on the state fair and home show circuits, attracting crowds with his booming voice and genial manner.
After meeting Orange Glo International founder Max Appel at a home show in Pittsburgh in the mid-1990s, Mays was recruited to demonstrate the environmentally friendly line of cleaning products on the St. Petersburg-based Home Shopping Network, now known as HSN.
Commercials and informercials followed, anchored by the high-energy Mays using them while tossing out kitschy phrases like, ?Long live your laundry!?
HSN released a statement Monday morning, praising Mays as a ?legend in the electronic retail history whose personality, entrepreneurial spirit and thoughtfulness for others have always been larger than life.?
'I enjoy what I do'
His ubiquitousness and thumbs-up, in-your-face pitches won Mays plenty of fans for his commercials on a wide variety of products. People lined up at his personal appearances for autographed color glossies, and strangers stopped him in airports to chat about the products.
?I enjoy what I do,? Mays told The Associated Press in a 2002 interview. ?I think it shows.?
Mays liked to tell the story of giving bottles of OxiClean to the 300 guests at his wedding, and doing his ad spiel (?powered by the air we breathe!?) on the dance floor at the reception. Visitors to his house typically got bottles of cleaner and housekeeping tips.
Besides his wife, Mays is survived by a 3-year-old daughter and a stepson in his 20s, police said."
Here's the link:
MSN.com 6/29/09 - Preliminary Findings are Mays Likely Died of Heart Attack in His Sleep
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 28, 2009 11:10 PM
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> I understand from the news that he was a pitchman of sorts.
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> Its not like he had talent- or ethics.
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> Was he a doper too?
Don't get much cable, do you, Cynicalogy?
Nonetheless, your comment does your screenname justice.
He was one of the best pitchmen, unapologetic about what he was, and his hard work and talent for the business allowed him to reach the top of his profession. Along the way he took many who had great ideas but no concept of marketing into the winner's circle and made millions for them. From what I know of him, he was a focused, hard working man who believed in his work and was admired by all he worked with. Aside from an affinity for red wine, I know of no issues with him and drugs.
It will be interesting to see if the head trauma he suffered in that rough landing at the airport Saturday night may have caused a hematoma or other injury that presaged his death.
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 28, 2009 9:42 PM
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> Never heard of him before.
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> I understand from the news that he was a pitchman of
> sorts.
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> Its not like he had talent- or ethics.
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> Was he a doper too?
Just considered the best pitchman of our/possibly all time selling billions of dollars worth of products.
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 28, 2009 9:41 PM
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What is this...."I'm a celebrity, Get me outa here" ?
Ed Mc Man
Farah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Billy Maze
So much for "They go in threes".
Looks like an A lister is next. Someone of a more recent celebrity and probably older and a woman just going by the semi random pattern forming. Death has a sense of humor as morbid as it is.
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Re: Screw the world, Billy Mays is DEAAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 28, 2009 8:28 PM
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> I guess Slap Chop Vince is now number one. He's also
> the Sham Wow guy. I have to say that I really really
> want both the shamwows and the slap chop after he's
> done with his pitch.
> Martini, bikini. lOL And don't you love the way he
> wrings out those sponges and the cola comes pouring
> off? He looks just like the pizza maker at my local
> shop.
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> Edited by beachy at 06/28/2009 4:46 PM PDT
He's very entertaining. LOL.
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