Man, it’s been a rough week for ‘celebrities’, but just when I thought that nobody could kick off that I would find as pleasing as the demise of that moon-walking freak, we find this story:
Report: ‘Infomercial King’ Billy Mays Found Dead in Home
Sunday, June 28, 2009DEVELOPING: Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday, FOX News confirms.
The guy SPOKE with the ‘caps lock’ key on…
(The “caps lock key” quote is from my brilliant son, the one of my offspring WITHOUT an annoying blog)
I thought these things were supposed to come in threes? Either the ante was upped, or there are two more out there who are dead men (or women) walking! Sheesh!
VW
That is correct. Deaths come in threes. This is not a fourth one, it’s just the start of another triad.
Damn! That sucks. I was actually starting to enjoy the Pitchmen show. His life is certainly more worth celebrating that the so called ‘king of pop’. Mays company helped launch the careers of numerous entrepreneurs, even if is style was somewhat annoying.
I think this is the fifth one.
David Carradine
Ed McMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Billy Mays
I’m putting money on Lindsay Lohan or Amy Winehouse.
I am glad Billy Mays was able to provide for his family and I am sure his kids and wife loved him and I hope he is at peace. However, to us in Europe, he was the perfect example of the crude, loud and horrible American, exactly the sort that the civilized world despises.
Whenever Americans ask me “Why does the world hate America?”; one easy answer was “Billy Mays and his like”. If you sell your soul for crude profit as he did, how are we going to make the world more civilized??
Watch Billy selling his Big Blue Balls
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I admit, I’m not a Billy fan. However, I would recognize his voice anywhere. Its hard to believe that a reality show (they’re terrible anyway) would be created for a guy who’s main talent is speaking in a loud cadence.