I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN A YEAR ALREADY. I miss you, Billy Mays.

[Ace Boobtoucher]

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I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN A YEAR ALREADY.

WILLIAM DARRELL "BILLY" MAYS, JR. WAS AN AMERICAN TELEVISION DIRECT-RESPONSE ADVERTISEMENT SALESPERSON MOST NOTABLE FOR PROMOTING OXICLEAN, ORANGE GLO, AND OTHER CLEANING, HOME-BASED, AND MAINTENANCE PRODUCTS. HIS DISTINCTIVE BEARD AND IMPASSIONED SALES PITCHES MADE HIM A RECOGNIZED TELEVISION PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. MAYS WAS BORN IN MCKEES ROCKS, PENNSYLVANIA, AND BEGAN HIS CAREER AS SALESMAN ON THE ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK. HE TRAVELED ACROSS THE UNITED STATES FOR 12 YEARS, SELLING VARIOUS ITEMS BEFORE HE WAS HIRED TO SELL OXICLEAN AND OTHER PRODUCTS ON THE HOME SHOPPING NETWORK. HIS SUCCESS AS A TV PITCHMAN LED HIM TO FOUND MAYS PROMOTIONS, INC. ON APRIL 15, 2009, THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL BEGAN AIRING PITCHMEN, A DOCUMENTARY SERIES THAT FEATURED MAYS. ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 28, 2009, MAYS' WIFE FOUND HIM DEAD IN HIS HOME. AFTER AN INITIAL AUTOPSY ON MAYS' BODY ON JUNE 29, DR. VERNARD ADAMS, THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA MEDICAL EXAMINER, STATED THAT MAYS SUFFERED FROM HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE AND THAT HEART DISEASE WAS THE LIKELY CAUSE OF HIS DEATH. ACCORDING TO A TOXICOLOGY REPORT RELEASED AUGUST 7, 2009, HEART DISEASE WAS THE "PRIMARY CAUSE OF DEATH" AND COCAINE WAS LISTED AS A "CONTRIBUTORY CAUSE OF DEATH." IN RESPONSE TO THE RELEASE OF THE TOXICOLOGY REPORT, THE MAYS FAMILY ISSUED A PRESS RELEASE STATING, "WE ARE EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED BY THE PRESS RELEASE RELEASED BY THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE. WE BELIEVE IT CONTAINS SPECULATIVE CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE FRANKLY UNNECESSARY AND TEND TO OBSCURE THE CONCLUSION THAT BILLY SUFFERED FROM CHRONIC, UNTREATED HYPERTENSION..." AND SAID IN THE RELEASE THAT THEY WERE CONSIDERING "AN INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE AUTOPSY RESULTS". MAYS' FUNERAL WAS HELD ON JULY 3, 2009 IN HIS HOMETOWN OF MCKEES ROCKS, PENNSYLVANIA. THE PALLBEARERS FOR THE FUNERAL WORE BLUE SHIRTS AND KHAKI PANTS AT THE FUNERAL, MUCH LIKE MAYS WORE WHEN HE ADVERTISED HIS PRODUCTS.

Not much more for me to say but GODSPEED MR. MAYS. WE HARDLY KNEW YE!

 

[Bearded_Menace]

BIG CITY SLIDERS!! OXY CLEAN!! WOOOOO-HOOOOOOOO:nanner::nanner::nanner:

 

[roronoa3000]

Sham Wow guy put a hit out on him. Now he's king of infomercials.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

TV has not been the same since the loss of the great Billy Mays.

 

[24788]

HI billy mays here selling you anything under the sun and I know with a little excitement you'll buy it.

 

[meesterperfect]

MP HERE TO TELL YOU THAT I DON'T MISS HIS BIG MOUTH ONE BIT.
but i wish he didn't die so young too.

 

[Bearded_Menace]

Sham Wow guy put a hit out on him. Now he's king of infomercials.

Yeah, but he lacks Billy's charisma and swagger. Plus, that half dazed look he has in his eyes suggest to me that he is a really shady character behind closed doors much like Pee Wee Herman was....Bad example.

 

[shayd]

CHEERS TO BILLY, WE MISS YOU!

Yeah, but he lacks Billy's Charisma and swagger. Plus, that half dazed look he has in his eyes suggest to me that he is a really shady character behind closed doors much like Pee Wee Herman was....Bad example.

He also has an affinity for beating hookers.

 

[tapeLover69]

WE MISS YOU BILLY MAYS....IF YOUR KIDS EVER NEED TO GET LAID TELL THEM TO GIVE ME A CALL AND FOR THE SMALL PRICE OF $19.95 MY EROTIC DATING SITE WILL ENSURE THEIR SATISFACTION

 

[LukeEl]

It's sad you know, everytime I clean my bathroom and get to those hardwater stains in my bathtub that I just can't seem to get out with an ordinary cleaner...I expect Billy with his dwarf king under the mountain beard to walk right in with a big ol' bottle of OxyClean but alas I keep scrubbing away and away with that generic cleaner and not even that can wipe the tears from my tattered soul.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

:wtf: I can't cap lock?

 

[bustybbwlover]

i can't believe anyone misses billy mays (family excluded) that fucker was always yelling at me

 

[sporty_carr]

Sham Wow guy put a hit out on him. Now he's king of infomercials.

The Sham Wow is pretty awesome though.

Now that I' have a Sham Wow, I don't ever need to use paper towels anymore. I use my Sham Wow to wash my dishes, wipe up the counter, blow my nose, and even to pleasure myself.

Thanks Sham Wow! :thumbsup:

 

[roronoa3000]

He now sales tiny battery powered fans in Hell.

 

[johnjansen]

DUBBED. (REST IN PEACE BILLY.)

 

[DJCowboy]

I actually liked his show on Discovery Channel

 

[lurkingdirk]

I know you don't believe it's been a year, but CALL RIGHT NOW, AND YOU'LL GET AN EXTRA DEAD CELEBRITY YELL FEST! THAT'S RIGHT, GO BACK TO YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF BILLY, AND HE'LL YELL AT YOU FOR NO EXTRA CHARGE, OVER AND OVER.




Also, does anyone else think that maybe the shamwow was created to clean up the gulf oil spill? I think that's brilliant...

 

[Shifty]

Baseball is just not the same without him.

 

[pornophile]

His death was a coverup, he was actually killed by Chuck Norris because Billy once boasted that his beard was more beautiful.

 

[D-rock]

I was always surprised by how much Billy Mays really did research and often believed in the products he tried to help sell, even if I didn't like all of them.