I'm actually a bit more torn up over this than I am over MJ's death. Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Are you shitting me...
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
But wait, there's more! ...Actually not.
This guy made the most ANNOYING commercials. His shouting didn't make me any more likely to buy the stuff he was pitching. Quite the reverse, actually. Thank goodness for the mute button!
I have this hilarious mental image of someone secretly placing a loudspeaker into his coffin. He never shut up in life, after all...
(I know, I'm horrible...)
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
So I guess the Slap Chop Guy now reigns supreme.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
No. I refuse to believe that. Anthony Sullivan is still alive, so Vince-the-Headset-guy doesn't need to enter the picture yet. If anyone's annoying, he is...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I hope they bury him in a Shamwow shroud- to absorb his juices, of course.
I can see a pre-recoreded will: I'm Billy Mays for the Oxi-Coffin! Friends, are you tired of worms and bacteria eating your loved ones after death...?"
A modern day carnival barker, that one.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
the Receptionist at our office said "Hey, did you hear, Willie Mays died at age 50." I explained that it couldn't be Willie, she called me later and said "It was Billy Mays"
At least she is pretty.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I don't really know the guy - but a quick check on youtube - I saw him on Conan just last week! WTF!?!
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Omg Billy Mays dead? I saw him just a few weeks ago on Youtube, ordering a drivethru megabreakfast from Mcdonalds. What could possibly have made him pass away before his time like this!?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Heart Disease, according to today's paper. He seemed to be a high-stress sort of fellow too- a bad combonation.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Just heard John Hughes (of Breakfast Club fame etc.) died.
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
Cocaine, eh? I'll be damned.
I just didn't like him because he seemed like a toolbag who yelled far too much. I hated his commercials and would mute or turn, and probably harbored secret fantasies of Chuck Norris seeking him out to declare the One True Beard in combat.
At his death, I was almost feeling bad for such loathing, until I heard the story as reported in the press that even during his wedding he started pitching some crap product to the guests, not as a joke either. It was then that I knew he was a complete and utter tardsack of the first order.
The cocaine use just adds to that. Truly, a useless human being.
Now if only we can get rid of that prostitute-punching dingos-ate-my-alien-space-baby freakshow known as Vince "Offer".
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
Well, Vince is an ex-Scient... erm, ex-Happyologist (got to avoid the vanity-googling lawyer brigade, now), and gives most of the money he earns hawking his crap to groups that fight the "Church." Between that and the fact that my sister's an infomercial junkie whose dog is what we call a "fear-pisser", I'm buying some ShamWow for my sis for Christmas.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by HopefulNebula: my sister's an infomercial junkie whose dog is what we call a "fear-pisser", I'm buying some ShamWow for my sis for Christmas.
My sister used to have one of those- she'd just atke it outside every couple of hours, clap her hands loudly and the dog would pee as if on a remote. Another type of animal that selective breeding has royally fucked up.
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