RIP Billy Mays

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I'm sorry to see him go, but my thumb isn't. This is going to save me several thousands pushes of the mute button.
 
Wow

I just saw that guy along with his buddy from the Pitchmen show on one of the late night talk shows - Conan or Letterman. Just this past week.

I can honestly say I found most of his stuff to be annoying. But I have to admire his success at his chosen career.
 
I liked him. He is gone way too soon. He had star quality, and I'm sure he was destined for wider fame.
 
He was certainly energetic, but I'll never understand his advertising technique. Do some people enjoy being screamed at?
 
Male and 50

Guess I should be glad to be facing 53 next month, saw today was the day Rod Serling and Frank Sutton both died at age 50, I lost my cousin John back in January at age 50 also....all heart attacks.....not to mention Michael....
 
Can't say I'll miss his screaming at all.

But the one that REALLY grates on my nerves is that awful "ShamWOW" guy...he's got the vibe of a total sleazebag. Just seein' that dude makes my skin crawl!
 
RIP Billy Mays

He may have been loud, but boy, did he sell a lot of OxiClean and Hercules Hooks! And he may have been straight, but oh, what a bear! Another true American success story.
 
WOW

That's sad. He could talk you into buying anything. He could almost talk me into buying a DieSoon (Dyson) vacuum....Bill in Az.....
 
He was a hot looking man in spite of the dyed hair and all of the barking he did. On that talk show it was refreshing to see him sitting still and talking in a calm and oh-so-much-sexier tone of voice. And while sitting there he'd flash an occassional understated and super killer smile that seemed to display some actual depth--soooo sexy. I wish that he'd not have worn an undershirt all the time. I'll bet there was a thick mat of chest hair to drool over. I guess we'll never know now. I suppose it was a strategy aimed at females who would find so much chest hair threatening. Is it any wonder why I'm becoming more and more miltant in my misogynistic views?

Between him and Ken Caminitti a couple of years back there aren't a lot of high profile bears left to enjoy on mainstream media.

This would be #5 if we're keeping track of recent losses and include Ed Mc Mahon and David Carradine, although Billy wasn't in the same league with the other four.

Ralph
 
Update

Billy Mays was a passenger on the US Airways flight that blew a couple of tires on landing in TPA on Saturday. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt upon landing either, and got hit in the head. The FAA is already stating that passengers MUST wear their seatbelts for takeoff and landing. It could end up being a delayed head injury.
 
I liked him, moreso than MJ, saw him the other night on Conan as well. Wonder if it turns out to be a brain aneurysm or something from that bump on the head kind of like what's her name who died a few months ago at the ski resort.
 
I used to joke about how I would've liked to lock him in the trunk of a burning car with Vince the Shamwow guy and push it off a cliff. Not really so funny now. I admire him for making his money in entrepreneurial way, even if he was obnoxious about it.

And, guys, I'm not gay, but Billy Mays? Really? If that were a joke, it'd be funnier than the "Cowboy Billy Beans" thing from a couple of weeks ago. I guess that there's someone for everybody...
 
Every once in a while the universe does a "housecleaning". Don't know why these latest who passed away were chosen, but it looks like there are some major earth changes coming!

He was annoying as hell, but apparently effective!
 
Yes Ralph, it took me almost 6pages of images of him before I found one WITHOUT an undershirt. and what was displayed looked like it had been manscaped (crap & YUCK) vs. what I'd seen poking out from under said undershirt over the years!!!! Yes I'd hit the mute button too, just so I could watch that hot man. all man!!!!
 
My gawd Bob and Ralph need to get a room..lol. I didnt find anything sexy about that man...my image of him in the bedroom would be him shouting out commands on how things should be done. That would kill it for me. I wonder if the medtechs tried the Mighty Mend it to bring him back and they had to use OxyClean to clean up the mess. Or maybe that gawd awful hook thingy....
 
According to news reports, stuff from the overhead compartments hit him on the head during the landing. How would a seat belt keep you from getting hit on the head?

I was annoyed by posters poo-pooing him on this RIP thread, then I remembered that he annoyed the hell out of me too! But he grew on me. I thought he was a doll!
 
I too, thought

he was very nice to look at.

Last time I was in the hospital for a LONG time (2005), I enjoyed watching him with the sound off.

Oh, and Massman, about him shouting in the bedroom, there are ways to get around that. All I'm sayin'.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
I thought he was SIZZLING HOT when he was demonstrating the shaver, on himself, and turned his beard into a MEGA DADDY with that GOATEE!...GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL!!!

I've been in the woods...MEN like him don't grow on trees, but a few swing from them...lol

and as for the screaming in the bedroom, to each his own, but there's something about a BIG BEAR commanding a little CUB....

Who's your DADDY?

If you guys get a chance..YOUTUBE.COM...search/click--BEARFORCE1...and drool, there's a colorful bear for everyone....FLY THE BEAR FRIENDLY SKIES!!!
 
How would a seat belt keep you from getting hit on the head?

When you wear your seatbelt, your head only goes so far forward. This wasn't a real forward motion landing, but hard on the vertical end of things so I doubt people were pulled forward while landing. In this case the seatbelt keeps you in your seat and when your head is near the back of the seat items falling from the overhead lockers will likely hit the back of the seat rather than directly on your head. Additionally, it's an FAA requirement that all passengers have their seatbelts fastened snugly for taxi, take-off and landing.
Normally the last things F/A's do just before taking their jump seats for landing is walk down the aisle making sure everyone is strapped in. I wonder how Billy got missed during this inspection.
 
Every flight I've been on in the past 10 years, the FA's just go through the motions. I lay the two belts across each other without fastening them half the time (when I'd rather take my chances, and get my stuff together during landing), and they've never noticed the difference. Not once.
 

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