Billy Mays, King of Infomercials Is Dead

[Tnerb02]

RIP Billy Mays.

This is shocking. He was the man.

[fairweatherfan]

People die every second. Whoopdeedoo

Ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls, whoopdeedoo. 

[cdif911]

and to think I had Shane McGowen in my deadpool 20 years ago....

[BrickJames]

People die every second. Whoopdeedoo

Seriously - this type of comment has no place on an obituary type thread.  Yes people die all the time, but not all of them are well known.  Furthermore while not confirmed, there is speculation that he died from concussion-related brain injury incurred on a rough landing on an airplane just yesterday.  He stated in an interview that stuff on the overhead bins fell out and hit him in the head.  (On a side note, to all those known to make jokes about Scal's multiple concussions *cough*Doc*cough*, maybe you better think twice next time)

Anyways no one is making a judge of character, just stating that he died.  If you don't care about it, don't post.  You're only making yourself look foolish.

[cdif911]

People die every second. Whoopdeedoo

Seriously - this type of comment has no place on an obituary type thread.  Yes people die all the time, but not all of them are well known.  Furthermore while not confirmed, there is speculation that he died from concussion-related brain injury incurred on a rough landing on an airplane just yesterday.  He stated in an interview that stuff on the overhead bins fell out and hit him in the head.  (On a side note, to all those known to make jokes about Scal's multiple concussions *cough*Doc*cough*, maybe you better think twice next time)

Anyways no one is making a judge of character, just stating that he died.  If you don't care about it, don't post.  You're only making yourself look foolish.

I disagree, we make wayyy too big of a deal of celebrities dying, and in this case its a marginal one at best.  Of course its sad, but so is when anyone dies.  People do die every second, and for us to say this death is worth talking about because he sold oxyclean is a little ridiculous.... there's plenty of people who die daily, we obviously can't and shouldn't acknowledge every single one - but we are a celebrity obsessed culture and honestly I think its unhealthy

[BudweiserCeltic]

Wow, I just saw him on Conan... this really came out of nowhere. He was a cool guy.

[crownsy]

turns out it wasen't the bump to the head.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/29/mays.death/index.html