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Master and Commander
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Just saw a message that said he was found dead. I didn't like him because he was so loud and usually changed the channel when he came on. Well RIP |
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Plankowner
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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
Sorry he went so young. I, too, detested his commercials and changed the channels. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
Who is Billy Mays? Not that it matters now~ |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1431
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Stoops - 2009-06-28 4:56 AM
Who is Billy Mays? Not that it matters now~
He hawked a bunch of products on tv. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1269
Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
I'll miss him more than I do MJ. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3667
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
Doesn't anyone see what's going on here, Analog TV is pissed off big time! Switch to digital 6/12/2009. McMahon, Carradine, Fawcett, Jackson, Mays....oh, the humanity!! |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
GaryKC - 2009-06-28 3:02 PM
.oh, the humanity!!
Wasn't that expression made famous by the reporter covering the Hindenburg? (and you must listen to GB, eh?) |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1431
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Apparently he was hit hard on the head by falling luggage during a rough landing at Tampa airport the day before he died. Although the news said it was unlikely that the blow caused his death, I think it sounds like he developed a subdural hematoma and that is what killed him. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
RCK - 2009-06-28 4:51 PM
Apparently he was hit hard on the head by falling luggage during a rough landing at Tampa airport the day before he died. Although the news said it was unlikely that the blow caused his death, I think it sounds like he developed a subdural hematoma and that is what killed him.
As if the news would have the slightest idea what facts or truth are. I think most of the talking heads subscribe to what Dex so humorously alleges acts which involve chicken bones and blood, midnight, exotic chants, and throwing bones at midnight, dead cats at the cemetery, etc.
Well, I don't know the guy. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but it's out of my hands............ |
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Plankowner
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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: Here you go Dave
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Here you go Dave
Thanks, Ric....can't say I remember him...................I think I knew more of Johnny Carson's salesmen! |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: RE: Here you go Dave
If you have ever seen an ad for "Oxiclean", you have seen him...or Orange Glow products... |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Here you go Dave
good grief...never watch tv enough to have seen it...>I'm going to sue the NEA, damn their hides..............How could I have missed this important part of my education! I am incensed! I am outraged! I am qualified to be a talking head on national news.....................
Ha ha ha ha ha |
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Old Salt
Posts: 264
Location: Harrison, NJ | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
Like him or not (I did, in a quirky way), he *did* catch your eye and ear. He sold a *lot* of product, so he must have been doing something right.
As I understand it, he honed his skills on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. You have to have a *gimmick* to catch the attention of passers by. His obviously worked.
Add to that that many of the products he hawked actually worked (OxiClean, etc.), and the rest is history.
I'll miss his "HI, BILLY MAYS HERE FOR XXX."
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1603
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RCK - 2009-06-28 4:51 PM .....he developed a subdural hematoma and that is what killed him.
SAY WHAT !!!!! - I was just barely able to qualify on a Guppy III submersible.
Edited by Gil 2009-06-28 11:33 PM
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 877
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Hated the commercials..but he was a Pittsburgh boy.. who done good -
His obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09180/980603-122.stm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09118/965948-67.stm
From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_631468.html
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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Add in Gale Storm (My Little Margie) who just passed away. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Here you go Dave
"Nothing works like 'Kaboom' " |
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Old Salt
Posts: 338
Location: Oak Island, NC | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
I must be in the minority here. I got a kick out of Billy Mays. Vince the ShamWow guy, now that's another story! I wasn't a bit surprised when he got arrested for smacking hookers around on South Beach. He just seemed like a lowlife to me. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1269
Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
rjs2005 - 2009-06-29 2:01 PMI must be in the minority here. I got a kick out of Billy Mays. Vince the ShamWow guy, now that's another story! I wasn't a bit surprised when he got arrested for smacking hookers around on South Beach. He just seemed like a lowlife to me.
..."if we DO IT in the next 20 minutes, because you know I can't hang around all day..."
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Plankowner
Posts: 9164
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
Now I've never heard of this guy... |
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Old Salt
Posts: 338
Location: Oak Island, NC | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
Ric - 2009-06-29 2:23 PM
Now I've never heard of this guy...
In my opinion, you are the lucky one for that... |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 811
Location: NW Connecticut | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
News this evening said he had a Heart Attack.. (enlarged heart).. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2672
Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: Billy Mays Dead
rjs2005 - 2009-06-29 11:01 AMI must be in the minority here. I got a kick out of Billy Mays. Vince the ShamWow guy, now that's another story! I wasn't a bit surprised when he got arrested for smacking hookers around on South Beach. He just seemed like a lowlife to me.
This past Christmas, everyone was giving ShamWows as a joke xmas gift.
Turns out they really suck...and not as in, sucking up water. If you try to dry your car after washing it, you'll have nothing but water spots all over the car. They really, really suck...
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Billy Mays Dead
