Monday, June 29, 2009

Hi, Billy Mays here!

This has been a rough time for celebrities. It started with Ed McMahon. If you've never heard "Here's Johnny!" , then you must not have ever watched a TV. Then there was Farrah Fawcett. Her story had been known for a while as she battled cancer. It's a shame that her death was overshadowed by Michael Jackson's sudden demise and subsequent channel-clogging news frenzy. Interesting that we as humans tend to glorify the positive and overlook the negative when someone dies. The shocker was Billy Mays. At least in the US, he was as well known as Jackson and even more so, depending on how old you are and how much TV you watch. You didn't have to see the TV to recognize the voice. I got the impression, after watching his show "Pitchmen", that he genuinely tried to help people get their inventions and products marketed. What was cool was that he pitched life insurance just like he pitched OxyClean! That's a true pitchman. We're going to miss you, Billy Mays.
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  1. woubieJune 29, 2009 at 7:16 PM

    I'm sad about Billy. I know people made fun of him for being loud & boisterous, but you can't deny how good he was. When M was 3 she said we really needed to buy some Might Putty to fix things. And when she got paint on her clothes last year she said could use OxyClean & it wouldn't ruin the clothes, but it would fix the paint stains. Just proves he got his point across.

    I told her yesterday that he had died and she said, "Wow. That's pretty sad that we won't see no more commercials of him."

    Plus, he was cute and I wanted a miniature version of him to carry around in my pocket, so I could take hom out and let him walk around on my hand. Like the Quidditch players in the Harry Potter books.

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  2. woubieJune 29, 2009 at 7:19 PM

    PS - Damn spelling errors and missing words. Apparently I'm no better than all of the people we complain about when it comes to spelling and grammar.

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  3. woubieJune 29, 2009 at 7:21 PM

    Okay, this is my last comment, I swear. You know how you have to type in the secret code before you can post a comment? Well, the last time the words was "lamwortr". I think we should come up with a cool definition for that word.

    "God, you're such a lamwortr!"

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  4. the mother of this bunchJune 29, 2009 at 11:24 PM

    okay, how about lamwortr: a layabout making work trite! or maybe it is a person who reminds you of a fuzzy wort - lamb-wort-er

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