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Forget Michael Jackson! Our paid programming TV Advertiser is dead!

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and he died at 50... just like MJ... dun dun duuuuunnnnnn

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Sheesh, lots of big names dead this month.

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jeeeze. I could see the shitting on michael jackson thread but this guy was genuinely a nice guy. I saw him on Conan I think it was and the guy seems to be really nice. I know that he falls into the realm of puke on TV but he was just making a living and didn't hurt anyone in the process.

And actually, I feel like he championed some actually good stuff that turned out to be well-accepted by the mainstream.

He was selling Oxi-Clean when it was a new idea. Now lots of major laundry detergent manufacturers have an "oxygen-powered" product or otherwise include sodium percarbonate in their formulation.

That Orange-Glo stuff really did clean well. Of course, we gearheads already knew orange oil from our experience with Gojo. But still. Now many household cleaning product manufacturers have an orange oil cleanser product, or, again, use orange oil as an ingredient in their cleansers.

And the Grip Wrench. Craftsman sells a series of them now.

I consider his commercials to be among those that should constitute assault. They come on suddenly at triple the volume of the programming with him screaming. Loud sounds annoy the shit of me, pushing a button that instantly ignites the kind of rage that only noise and stupidity-caused traffic can do. His commercials to me were like a fire alarm at 3AM or those damned Muslim prayers over the PA system in Egypt every sun up.

I'll give you that at least he didn't seem like a douchebag like that Vince Sham-wow guy. Maybe the next hooker will do more than just bite that bastard's tongue.

Hmm. By almost never watching TV I suppose I have insulated myself from the most troublesome aspects of Billy Mays.

It was much better when I didn't have cable. I basically use TV for the background noise (yes, I'm complicated—I can't stand silence, yet loud sounds drive me nuts) and as long as it's fairly innocuous, I'm happy.

I'm sure he was a pretty ok guy. Who the F doesnt go to the doctor after you get smacked in the head with a falling object. Probably had some kind of internal bleeding or something in his brain area

Just wanted to insert a voice of reason here - a man died and left behind a family. He was likely a pretty good man, or at least I never heard any allegations about him being a crook, pediphile, murder, etc., etc.

Come on people, show a little respect.


Furthermore - let's do a small hand raising excerise on how many people have been hit in the head either working or playing and never gone to the doctor. How many people here have taken slight concusions due a ski accident or a bike accident and not gone to the doctor. Again, let's keep things in perspective. If you get hit in the head and don't go unconcious from it, do you go to the doctor?

I agree. Dumping on someone who just died, especially someone with a grieving family, seems pretty ghoulish to me. There's plenty of living people (and long-dead assholes) to make fun of. I personally always kinda liked Mays...I thought he was one of the few people on TV who wasn't trying to be anyone special, just a Coney Island pitch-man who made it on television.

And just for the record...Billy Mays did NOT die from any head injury, it was from heart trouble. It's all over that evil television thingy

skid542 wrote: Furthermore - let's do a small hand raising excerise on how many people have been hit in the head either working or playing and never gone to the doctor. How many people here have taken slight concusions due a ski accident or a bike accident and not gone to the doctor. Again, let's keep things in perspective. If you get hit in the head and don't go unconcious from it, do you go to the doctor?

Interesting you should bring up the head thing. Just last thursday I was riding my new wakeboard and brand new boots and even a carbon fiber brand new accurate wake handle and I did a wake2wake 180 and caught an edge smacking my head very hard on the water. I thought I broke a couple ribs it hurt so bad. Knocked the wind out of me and when I got back in the boat I began to realize I couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember how I got to the lake, what day it was, who I was, how I got the new gear. Basically forgot my whole life up until that crash.

Scary shit. Being in the state I was in, going to the hospital never even crossed my mind. 20 mins or so and my memory slowly came back and I called my GF to come pick me up and I went straight to work with a killer headache.

Stupid. I've never been to the hospital for anything before though.

Apparently cocaine was involved in his death.

Story here.