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Billy Mays Dead
Yep, seems to be true!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. |
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Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep
those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. I can hear him hollering in the coffin as they lower it into the ground |
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Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. ****, there goes my latest marketing plan for my secret gadget. I was going to try to get it on "Pitchmen." |
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Red Green wrote:
Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. New product: "Mighty Mourner" The solar powered automatic mourner that conveniently clamps to any headstone. TDD |
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The Daring Dufas wrote in
: Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. New product: "Mighty Mourner" The solar powered automatic mourner that conveniently clamps to any headstone. TDD Mighty Mourner! Love it. That did get an audible chuckle. The solar aspect should get the approval of the granola heads. Pricing? 19.95 or x-EASY payments of 19.99? |
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:55:06 -0700, "Rudy"
wrote: I can hear him hollering in the coffin as they lower it into the ground I can hear the guy selling fold-up "Mighty Pearly Gates". |
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Red Green wrote:
Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. Let's all stand for a minute and yell at our TV's |
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"Red Green" wrote in message ... Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. His plane had a very rough landing the afternoon before, resulting in overhead luggage or some other object to konk him on the head. Probably intra-cranial pressure from the blow to the head. |
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Frank wrote:
Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. Let's all stand for a minute and yell at our TV's I didn't stand up, but I just yelled at him a couple of hours ago. Undoubtedly, he busted a blood vessel from YELLING so darn much ) |
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On Jun 28, 11:55*am, "Rudy" wrote:
Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. I can hear him hollering in the coffin as they lower it into the ground Yes...but can he do the Moon Walk ?! |
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Red Green wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote in : Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. New product: "Mighty Mourner" The solar powered automatic mourner that conveniently clamps to any headstone. TDD Mighty Mourner! Love it. That did get an audible chuckle. The solar aspect should get the approval of the granola heads. Pricing? 19.95 or x-EASY payments of 19.99? Which brings up a question: Are we still going to be seeing the commercials featuring Billy Mays on the tele? I for one hope we do. Jon |
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:55:06 -0700, "Rudy"
wrote: Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. I can hear him hollering in the coffin as they lower it into the ground "Wait!... There's MORE!!!" |
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Jon Danniken wrote:
Red Green wrote: The Daring Dufas wrote in : Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. New product: "Mighty Mourner" The solar powered automatic mourner that conveniently clamps to any headstone. TDD Mighty Mourner! Love it. That did get an audible chuckle. The solar aspect should get the approval of the granola heads. Pricing? 19.95 or x-EASY payments of 19.99? Which brings up a question: Are we still going to be seeing the commercials featuring Billy Mays on the tele? I for one hope we do. Jon The companies will show his commercials unless it turns out he had illegal drugs in his system or something odd about his death that would put him in a bad light. His wife needs the money and people will buy the products he advertises in sympathy for his death. His wife and the companies will be well off. |
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"Jon Danniken" wrote in
: Red Green wrote: The Daring Dufas wrote in : Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. New product: "Mighty Mourner" The solar powered automatic mourner that conveniently clamps to any headstone. TDD Mighty Mourner! Love it. That did get an audible chuckle. The solar aspect should get the approval of the granola heads. Pricing? 19.95 or x-EASY payments of 19.99? Which brings up a question: Are we still going to be seeing the commercials featuring Billy Mays on the tele? I for one hope we do. Jon I just saw one on ABC-TV,during America's Funniest Videos. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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"Hipupchuck" wrote in message Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? Most of what he sells works as advertised. The Oxy Clean works better than anything my wife has ever tried in the laundry. Our grandson asked her to try washing a white hoodie he wears when riding his dirt bike and the Oxy got it as clean as new for the first time. A lady in work just bought the What Odor and says it works too. |
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On Jun 28, 5:57*pm, Hipupchuck wrote:
Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. Get your Mighty Head Stone. Kids can't tip it over. Withstands hammer blows and kicks. Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? The Orange Cleaner really does work fine. Excellent product. |
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On Jun 29, 6:29*am, " wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:57*pm, Hipupchuck wrote: Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. Get your Mighty Head Stone. Kids can't tip it over. Withstands hammer blows and kicks. Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? The Orange Cleaner really does work fine. *Excellent product. I'd rather see him than Ron Popeil ! |
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Hipupchuck wrote:
Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? I'm sure they did because he hawked products that were pretty good and which sold at a reasonable price. Everyone seems to be down on him because he was loud. You may not have noticed but *LOTS* of TV commercials are loud. Mays was very good at what he did and he did it with style and enthusiasm. Additionally, he provided a venue for aspiring inventors...some place they could actually market their idea/creation. I admired him for both.. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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Bob Villa wrote in
: On Jun 29, 6:29*am, " wrote: On Jun 28, 5:57*pm, Hipupchuck wrote: Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. Get your Mighty Head Stone. Kids can't tip it over. Withstands hammer blows and kicks. Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? The Orange Cleaner really does work fine. *Excellent product. I'd rather see him than Ron Popeil ! ....or Bob Villa |
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"dadiOH" wrote in
: Hipupchuck wrote: Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? I'm sure they did because he hawked products that were pretty good and which sold at a reasonable price. Everyone seems to be down on him because he was loud. You may not have noticed but *LOTS* of TV commercials are loud. Mays was very good at what he did and he did it with style and enthusiasm. Additionally, he provided a venue for aspiring inventors...some place they could actually market their idea/creation. I admired him for both.. Oh I agree. And you left out smart but that's implied by his bottom line. |
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Red Green wrote: Oh I agree. And you left out smart but that's implied by his bottom line. But may be countered by cause of death. -- Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. Jimmy Buffett |
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Bob Villa wrote in
: On Jun 29, 6:29*am, " wrote: On Jun 28, 5:57*pm, Hipupchuck wrote: Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. Get your Mighty Head Stone. Kids can't tip it over. Withstands hammer blows and kicks. Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? The Orange Cleaner really does work fine. *Excellent product. I'd rather see him than Ron Popeil ! Here's one you can print and frame. http://www.getback.com/gallery/it-sl...ices/2986934/6 Also at that link is a vid that will go in the historic classic archives. "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" |
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Kurt Ullman wrote in
: In article , Red Green wrote: Oh I agree. And you left out smart but that's implied by his bottom line. But may be countered by cause of death. the news is saying he got hit in the head while flying commercial air,a "rough landing" where overhead stowed baggage came out and flew around the cabin. He apparently didn't think anything of it at the time,but later felt ill,before dying. It must have been a pretty hard whack to cause an epidural hemorrhage. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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"dadiOH" wrote in message ... Hipupchuck wrote: Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? I'm sure they did because he hawked products that were pretty good and which sold at a reasonable price. Everyone seems to be down on him because he was loud. You may not have noticed but *LOTS* of TV commercials are loud. Mays was very good at what he did and he did it with style and enthusiasm. Additionally, he provided a venue for aspiring inventors...some place they could actually market their idea/creation. I admired him for both.. -- dadiOH I just want to know how much time and money he spent keeping every hair BLACK BLACK BLACK. Steve |
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"SteveB" wrote: I just want to know how much time and money he spent keeping every hair BLACK BLACK BLACK. Steve I hope not a lot, since it always looked like he took black shoe polish to hair and beard. -- Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. Jimmy Buffett |
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Jim Yanik wrote:
Kurt Ullman wrote in : In article , Red Green wrote: Oh I agree. And you left out smart but that's implied by his bottom line. But may be countered by cause of death. the news is saying he got hit in the head while flying commercial air,a "rough landing" where overhead stowed baggage came out and flew around the cabin. He apparently didn't think anything of it at the time,but later felt ill,before dying. It must have been a pretty hard whack to cause an epidural hemorrhage. Latest news is he had heart disease and did not know it. Lou |
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Ed wrote:
"Hipupchuck" wrote in message Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? Most of what he sells works as advertised. The Oxy Clean works better than anything my wife has ever tried in the laundry. Our grandson asked her to try washing a white hoodie he wears when riding his dirt bike and the Oxy got it as clean as new for the first time. A lady in work just bought the What Odor and says it works too. Some of the products he pitched have produced a lot of consumer complaints, Orange Glow and the Awesome Auger being two examples that come to mind. Aside from the products not working properly there are complaints about warranties not being honored, misleading advertising and unauthorized charges on credit cards. There's always somebody willing to complain about any product, but at some point the number of similar complaints add up. Like they say, where there is smoke there is maybe some combustion going on. |
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On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:42:03 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote: I just want to know how much time and money he spent keeping every hair BLACK BLACK BLACK. I don't know, but when I see a person without a hair out of place I git really suspicious. |
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Oren wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:42:03 -0600, "SteveB" wrote: I just want to know how much time and money he spent keeping every hair BLACK BLACK BLACK. I don't know, but when I see a person without a hair out of place I git really suspicious. Not unusual. He (or one of his colleagues) used to sell spray-on hair. |
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On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:10:19 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote: Oren wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:42:03 -0600, "SteveB" wrote: I just want to know how much time and money he spent keeping every hair BLACK BLACK BLACK. I don't know, but when I see a person without a hair out of place I git really suspicious. Not unusual. He (or one of his colleagues) used to sell spray-on hair. The guy could have as easily been blond. |
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"SteveB" wrote in
: "dadiOH" wrote in message ... Hipupchuck wrote: Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? I'm sure they did because he hawked products that were pretty good and which sold at a reasonable price. Everyone seems to be down on him because he was loud. You may not have noticed but *LOTS* of TV commercials are loud. Mays was very good at what he did and he did it with style and enthusiasm. Additionally, he provided a venue for aspiring inventors...some place they could actually market their idea/creation. I admired him for both.. -- dadiOH I just want to know how much time and money he spent keeping every hair BLACK BLACK BLACK. Steve who cares? It's HIS time and money.He earned it. I'm just jealous he had a full head of hair. I just took the big leap and shaved off what was left of mine. Now I'm aerodynamic,streamlined. ;-) Downside;while out riding my bicycle on my daily exercise loop,I got stopped by police as a suspect in a local bank robbery,Saturday around noon,couple of weeks ago. ;-( -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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"SteveB" wrote in
: "dadiOH" wrote in message ... Hipupchuck wrote: Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? I'm sure they did because he hawked products that were pretty good and which sold at a reasonable price. Everyone seems to be down on him because he was loud. You may not have noticed but *LOTS* of TV commercials are loud. Mays was very good at what he did and he did it with style and enthusiasm. Additionally, he provided a venue for aspiring inventors...some place they could actually market their idea/creation. I admired him for both.. -- dadiOH I just want to know how much time and money he spent keeping every hair BLACK BLACK BLACK. Steve Steve boy that popped a memory bubble! Many years ago there was a pitch on TV for male hair color/restorer/grower/thickener [I think they sold it as a rust inhibitor too on other pitches]. They showed a guy a good part bald with very thin hair. A can of spray on his scalp they put and, on TV, it looked like "magic". Looking at it repeatedly you could see they basically spray painted his hair & scalp. Must have looked ridiculous when you actually saw someone who tried it. |
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Red Green wrote:
"SteveB" wrote in : "dadiOH" wrote in message ... Hipupchuck wrote: Did anybody really ever buy that crap he pushed? I'm sure they did because he hawked products that were pretty good and which sold at a reasonable price. Everyone seems to be down on him because he was loud. You may not have noticed but *LOTS* of TV commercials are loud. Mays was very good at what he did and he did it with style and enthusiasm. Additionally, he provided a venue for aspiring inventors...some place they could actually market their idea/creation. I admired him for both.. I just want to know how much time and money he spent keeping every hair BLACK BLACK BLACK. Steve boy that popped a memory bubble! Many years ago there was a pitch on TV for male hair color/restorer/grower/thickener [I think they sold it as a rust inhibitor too on other pitches]. They showed a guy a good part bald with very thin hair. A can of spray on his scalp they put and, on TV, it looked like "magic". Looking at it repeatedly you could see they basically spray painted his hair & scalp. Must have looked ridiculous when you actually saw someone who tried it. That promotion was wonderful. It really made me chuckle.I have a significant reflection issue from the top of my pate but I don't let it bother me. I might if I spent hours watching such daft commercials as do many of the other half who come from a different planet! |
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Jim Yanik wrote:
who cares? It's HIS time and money.He earned it. I'm just jealous he had a full head of hair. I just took the big leap and shaved off what was left of mine. Now I'm aerodynamic,streamlined. ;-) Downside;while out riding my bicycle on my daily exercise loop,I got stopped by police as a suspect in a local bank robbery,Saturday around noon,couple of weeks ago. ;-( Did you scream: "You'll never take me alive, John Law," and pedal off as fast as you could? Pulling the cop's chain can be very entertaining. My best one was the following: Cop: "I can give you a lift to the gas station, but before you get in the car, I have to ask: Are you carrying any weapons?" Me: "Yes, I have a five-shot revolver in my back pocket." Cop: (taking a step backward) "You're kidding! Right?" Me: "No, but on second thought, I think I'll walk to the gas station." Much hilarity ensued. |
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Red Green wrote: Yep, seems to be true!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html Let's hear some suggestions for new products like Mighty Wormer. Keep those pesky worms out of your rotting cavities. Ghastly hand blasts through the dirt near the headstone, holding a spray can. "But wait, I'm STILL not done. Order Coffin-Fresh NOW, in the next ten minutes, and I'll send you TWO cans. That's right! But one, GET ONE FREE!!! Never put up with a smelly coffin again!" |
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