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06-28-2009, 08:41 PM
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06-28-2009, 08:42 PM
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It's more like alphabetical order, David Ed Farah Michael William(Billy) Strange. I correct myself, David Carradine was actually John Arthur "David" Carradine Still strange though. Last edited by tucker rocky : 06-28-2009 at 08:57 PM. |
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06-28-2009, 08:50 PM
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06-28-2009, 09:00 PM
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Still kicking, birth date is 1917. |
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06-28-2009, 09:11 PM
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I knew he attended WVU, but just found out that he was briefly on the football team as a walk-on.
Sad news -- 50 is way too young to go. RIP Billy Mays |
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06-29-2009, 12:37 AM
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This is no reflection on Billy Mays and I don't mean this to be a slight, particularly towards the dead.
However, to put him in the same sentence as Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon, or even Farah Fawcett is just laughable and I've heard it quite a few times today. SI
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06-29-2009, 12:50 AM
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He is certainly more contemporary than any of the others. |
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06-29-2009, 07:05 AM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Interesting that he was on the US Air flight that landed hard and he got hit on the head by falling luggage or something. That was Saturday. Then that night he told a friend he wasn't feeling well and was groggy. Then he dies overnight. Wonder if this was a Natasha Richardson-type injury?
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06-29-2009, 07:57 AM
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That's what I was wondering after hearing about his flight (my son, who was pretty down about this, wanted something to happen to the pilot of the plane...I didn't know what he was even talking about at first).
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06-29-2009, 08:00 AM
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is that because he wasn't being careful that contents may have shifted during flight like they warn you once you land?
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06-29-2009, 08:10 AM
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Most people under 35 have only a vague idea of who Michael Jackson was, and they likely have no idea who Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon were. They all know who Billy Mays was.
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06-29-2009, 08:12 AM
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I caught an episode of pitchmen. Suprisingly good show.
RIP Billy. |
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06-29-2009, 08:42 AM
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06-29-2009, 09:01 AM
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Yeah, I'm with Jeebs here. I think you picked a bad age. This article says anyone after say 1982. I think that's more accurate. Someone born in 1982 would be 27 years old. I'm 30. If anyone the same age as me doesn't have a very good understanding of who Michael Jackson, they need to be punched in the face.
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06-29-2009, 09:11 AM
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I'm 32. My wife is 26. Now while my wife was hit much harder by MJ's death, I grew up listening to him. My wife and I know who Farrah Fawcett is, and certainly Ed McMahon. And all I know about Billy Mays is that he did infomercials, though I probably couldn't name a product other than OxiClean.
Probably 90% of the people I work with are under the age of 30...hell, 75% are probably under 25. And just about every single one of them have been talking about MJ and Farrah the past few days (there was one girl, though, an 18 year old who asked who Farrah Fawcett was)...
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06-29-2009, 09:12 AM
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Okay, I'll go with 27 for Michael Jackson  But by God, I'm sticking with 35 for Ed McMahon 
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06-29-2009, 09:19 AM
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Jesus. I'm 26, currently working with a bunch of new hires, 22 years old and fresh out of college. We were just talking about how the weekend was a constant stream of MJ music among our groups of friends. I was in Central Park yesterday and all kinds of young people blasting his music. Maybe it's a geographical thing.
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06-29-2009, 09:20 AM
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Plenty of people younger than 35 know about him from Star Search...
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06-29-2009, 09:58 AM
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Forgot about that. Okay, I give.
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06-29-2009, 10:00 AM
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A lot of factors come into play here. I think a lot depends upon where you live and what you grew up exposed to. I am familiar with all of the people who have died in the past week and a half (albeit less with David Carradine than the others). I also think there are different levels of being a celebrity. Obviously, Billy Mays is not at the same level as MJ or even Ed McMahon, but is he a celebrity in his own right? No question. When his commercials come on tv most of us know immediately who he is and what he does. The same can be said when we hear an MJ song on the radio (or video on MTV before the network decided to suck balls). So, it is all just really a matter of perception I guess.
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06-29-2009, 10:08 AM
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Ed McMahon is a lot like Jerry Lewis, in a way. A lot of younger people will know who he is and identify him with something specific, but few will know him for what made him a star to begin with. I'm almost 40, and to this day, Jerry Lewis - to me - is some cruise ship singer-looking guy who does a telethon every year. I'm aware of his past, of course, but when he goes, I bet most young people won't know or care much about it. Although, I have no doubt there will be tons of press about it.
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06-29-2009, 11:50 AM
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My Way News - Medical examiner: Pitchman Mays had heart disease
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Florida medical examiner says television pitchman Billy Mays likely died of a heart attack but further tests are needed. Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams said Monday the boisterous, bearded 50-year-old known for hawking Oxiclean suffered from hypertensive heart disease. He was found dead Sunday in his Tampa home. A day earlier he bumped his head during a rough landing on a commercial airliner, but Adams says there there was no evidence of head trauma. He says Mays was taking the prescription painkillers Tramadol and hydrocodone for hip pain. But Adams says there was no indication of drug abuse, and pill counts showed Mays had been taking the correct amount of the drugs.
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06-29-2009, 12:14 PM
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I'm 34, and I have no idea who Billy Mays is other than what I've gleaned from this thread. |
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06-29-2009, 12:51 PM
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NOW I WON"T HAVE TO LISTEN TO HIM YELLING AT ME TO GET ME TO BUY SOMETHING!!!
RIP BILLY MAYS!!!!
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06-29-2009, 01:15 PM
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06-29-2009, 01:36 PM
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06-29-2009, 02:13 PM
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That's kind of a laughable statement. I'm 29, and I hang out in bars with a number of under 35 crowd. We all know Michael Jackson (and did a few shots for him with Jackson music coming from the jukebox). We all also knew Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. Billy Mays is that yelling telemarketer guy, yes, but less of a knowledge that the other three. Hell, if you go by Twitter, which trends young, on the day Billy Mays dies, he's trending below Michael Jackson right now, who has been dead for a few days now.
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06-30-2009, 11:06 PM
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So wrong yet funny:
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07-09-2009, 07:49 PM
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My Way News - Billy Mays remains a TV pitchman, even in death
NEW YORK (AP) - Death won't still the voice of Billy Mays or his mighty powers of persuasion. Viewers will continue to find the boisterous, bearded TV pitchman hawking household products for the indefinite future. And at least one of his commercials is being introduced posthumously. "Just stretch, wrap and it fuses fast," says Mays, demonstrating a product called Mighty Tape on a kitchen drain pipe in the new commercial. Moments later, he's seen, still wearing his signature sport shirt and khaki slacks but accessorized with scuba gear, as he repairs a hole in another diver's air hose underwater using Mighty Tape. The commercial will begin airing July 20. Mays' advertising for other products in the Mighty brand line returned to the air earlier this week. The commercials were pulled after Mays' death June 28 of an apparent heart attack. "Our feeling is, everyone wants to have Billy go on," said Bill McAlister, president of Media Enterprises, a sales and marketing company based in Trevose, Penn. "This is what he would have wanted." Besides Media Enterprises, the 50-year-old Mays had worked with several other companies as the yell-and-sell spokesman for products with rousing names like OxiClean, Awesome Auger, WashMatik and Orange Glo. It's not yet certain which among Mays' product pitches will continue to be broadcast, and for how long, said his attorney, Roger Pliakas. "We're waiting to hear what the companies want to do," said Pliakis, who declined to specify the firms with which Mays was associated when he died. "It's not a legal conversation but an informal conversation" with each company, Pliakas said. "We don't know all the specifics. We're just hoping it's all done in a tasteful manner." On Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT, Discovery Channel will air a one-hour documentary, "Pitchman: A Tribute to Billy Mays." Mays had been featured in a 12-part series on the network called "Pitchmen."
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07-09-2009, 07:58 PM
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I enjoyed the Pitchmen show, even if it was some kind of weird meta-infomercial for infomercials. Billy came off as a real dude....not like a real 'nice', or 'good' guy, but pretty much exactly what you would expect a dude like that to be off camera, a lot of ego, an obvious need to be liked AND heard, but he seemed to know exactly where he fit in the world. I got the feeling that Billy and Sully still thought of themselves as some version of 'carnies', despite the Bentleys and private planes. On the other hand, I believe he did have some hand in producing the show, so it's not surprising that the picture it painted was overwhelmingly positive.
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07-09-2009, 08:22 PM
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I saw a big city slider ad today.
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I had a feeling all of that loudness and energy wasn't completely natural.
Cocaine contributed to pitchman Mays' death, autopsy report says
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08-07-2009, 04:34 PM
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I'd guess this will be the straw that gets the commercials removed from the air?
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Some, probably not all to be honest about it though. The cost of producing a new one will cause at least some to leave them on the air assuming they have that option.
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I don't believe it for a second. If Billy Mays was using coke, I am sure that everyone that watches TV at 3am would have known about it, and probably would have bought some.
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