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'Infomercial King' Billy Mays Found Dead in Home (UPDATE)
FOX NEWS ^ | 06/28/09 | FOX

Posted on 06/28/2009 12:42:56 PM PDT by Doogle

Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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To: Califreak

Is Vince the Slap Chop guy out of the hospital/jail yet?

He was arrested when he got into a fight with a prositute who tried to bite his tongue off.


21 posted on 06/28/2009 1:12:49 PM PDT by Ikemeister
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To: Doogle
The other day I dropped a sauce covered meatball on one of my favorite white shirts. It didn't wash out, instead leaving a massive orange stain.

Suddenly I though of Billy Mays and Oxy Clean. I wondered if my oxygen based sanitizer I used for home brewing might work on stains too.

It did.

Many thanks Billy, rip.

22 posted on 06/28/2009 1:13:05 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: higgmeister

Now, if Vince can manage to survive the hookers and street people he runs with he’ll be king of the hill. Ron Popeil is fading away and Billy is gone. The other pretenders to the throne are so forgettable........


23 posted on 06/28/2009 1:14:41 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache.)
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To: Manic_Episode

I use it with my whites....


24 posted on 06/28/2009 1:14:41 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle; 1000 silverlings
Mays was on board a US Airways flight that blew out its front tires as it landed at a Tampa airport on Saturday, MyFOXTampa.com reported.

US Airways spokesman Jim Olson said that none of the 138 passengers and five crew members were injured in the incident, but several passengers reported having bumps and bruises, according to the station.

Authorities have not said whether Mays' death was related to the incident.

That's weird.

25 posted on 06/28/2009 1:14:59 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Rodebrecht
Did you ever notice that you NEVER saw Billy Mays and Dick Cheney at the same time?

I'm just sayin’...

26 posted on 06/28/2009 1:16:33 PM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: Doogle

7,000,000 SUSPECTS!


27 posted on 06/28/2009 1:17:52 PM PDT by classified
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To: Califreak

To bad. May he rest in Peace.

Anthony Sullivan was better in my opinion, Mays was too in-the-face - like used car salesmen of old.

The Slap Chop Guy and the Sham Wow Guy just don’t have what it takes to move into the Big Leagues.


28 posted on 06/28/2009 1:23:33 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Doogle

29 posted on 06/28/2009 1:25:25 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Doogle
It's like everyone says, these things always come in 4’s...
30 posted on 06/28/2009 1:28:49 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Doogle

Billy Mays dies and Keith Richards is still breathing and Richards looks dead for the last 15 years.


31 posted on 06/28/2009 1:30:57 PM PDT by CurlyQ
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To: Doogle

Update? You mean he’s still dead?


32 posted on 06/28/2009 1:33:43 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: CurlyQ

lol. Richards is still room temperature. I’m not sure he’s breathing.


33 posted on 06/28/2009 1:38:54 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: count-your-change

see 6


34 posted on 06/28/2009 1:39:18 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

He was just another guy who wanted to build himself up in America. You can say his pitch was annoying but he wasn’t slick and shady like that shamwow guy. He was a real dude and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was at a tea party to stick up for all the Joe the Plumbers that are getting shafted by Obama.


35 posted on 06/28/2009 1:46:51 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: K-oneTexas

everyone has to start from somewhere...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SXxRJPKzU


36 posted on 06/28/2009 1:49:11 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: Doogle

Mere injuries don’t feed the public appetite for grief and gore, it’s gotta be death and the more weird, the tastier.


37 posted on 06/28/2009 1:49:18 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: ari-freedom

Now ... a pitchman for Micro$oft!!!


38 posted on 06/28/2009 1:51:24 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Clara Lou
I have a slap chop that I bought from a Williams Sonoma catalog back in 1980, or so. Guess they’re not so new.

Yeah, but does yours open up like a butterfly for easy cleaning in the dishwasher so nasty germs can't grow in the crevasse's??? huh? HUH??

HUH?!!?

I DIDN'T THINK SO.

39 posted on 06/28/2009 1:53:31 PM PDT by Marie
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To: K-oneTexas

yeah who knows...Billy Mays could’ve been a billionaire if he survived. He was just about to do something for taco bell.


40 posted on 06/28/2009 1:53:39 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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