The Official Billy Mays is Dead Thread. |
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yosnos 
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 Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 5:30am |
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Well you only have 6670 posts, so you're still cool - watch out though - that 10,000 plateau is just a few clicks away
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yosnos
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Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 5:38am |
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Jesus dude - I thought I had anger issues. What, did they just say to hell with it and start replacing the municipal water supply with Jim Beam there in good old Savannah Tennessee?
Or maybe it's just lead poisoning from all the shot in the opossum meat... |
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yosnos
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Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 5:41am |
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I'd just like to point out that it's the other members who started talking shi* to me first - I thought the whole point of this site was to vent anger about commercials - Billy Mays was the Hitler of TV!
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NathanAlexander
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Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 3:10pm |
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In your 9 posts you've demonstrated that you simply don't know when to stop.
That's what moderators are for. Please hit the road. |
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Big Momma rocks this house.
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Tiz
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Posted: 11 Nov 2009 at 12:29am |
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Hi!! Billy Mays here to demonstrate the awesome auger!!!!
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FaithSF
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Posted: 11 Nov 2009 at 12:37am |
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It's a good thing that bed is just off the floor, and not high up (like mine)!
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You're just jealous 'cause the voices only talk to me--and Yutolia!
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PaWolf
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Posted: 11 Nov 2009 at 12:42am |
 Has this thread offcially lost a few posts? Seems to me, it HAS...how murky and muddy...
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TC57
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Posted: 14 Dec 2009 at 2:50pm |
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I just found this site and this thread, so I am late to this party.
I wouldn't bother with old news like this normally. But this forum allows
me to say what I have wanted to say publicly for a long time.
I feel for his family. The loss of a father and husband at a young age
like this is a terrible thing.
And what follows is not meant in a mean spirited way.
I liked his first commercial, the one for Orange Glo or whatever that cleaner was.
He seemed like he was genuinely excited about this incredible product, and
I am sure that generated a lot of sales for the manufacturers.
 But everything after that really got on my nerves, for a couple or so reasons:
1- he must have had some marketers school him on the key elements that work so well selling things. All of his subsequent commercials had a contrived look to them.
2- he seemed cocky in all of his later commercials. He was in great demand to sell all kinds of
"as seen on TV" stuff.
3- he seemed full of himself. I believe he thought it was a little funny, we (TV viewers) were
too easy to manipulate, and he could make us call now in a paint by numbers kind of way.
4- he shouted everything, twice as loud as the program he cut into!
5- did I say it was canned? He even created a sense of urgency using a slight "I gotta pee!" movement. Advertising is now a science which uses conversational hypnosis, neuro linguistic programming, subliminals, and other elements of persuasion sciences.
They do work, but it is rare to see someone intentionally utilize them and appear really genuine while doing it.
All that said, I think the most annoying thing about his commercials was the initial volume blast, used to draw attention. If you were watching a history documentary and had the volume up a little to hear the commentary, his commercials hurt your ears!
  I am relieved that since his passing I don't have to go through that 'wince and hit the mute' routine so often.
I don't mean it in a bad way. He was most likely an all around good guy, he seemed that way to me. I know his family misses him, and I wish them well.
He made his mark in the marketing field. But I wish he had stayed the way he was in that first commercial.
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mttyflynn
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Joined: 04 Feb 2009 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 97 |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2009 at 9:29pm |
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I loved Billy Mays, but I think the Kharma got him, so much ill-will sent in his direction for so long, what 10 years of vile intent towards him. You do not have to be a bad person for people to hate you or you to be a victim of ill-will.
I know the day before he died I was watching one of his commercials and I even said:"Somebody needs to shut this Mutha- F***a up!, my bad sorry Billy, I may have been the final straw.
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Please, somebody, stop Chris Berman and the screaming Staples' idiots PLEASE!!!!!!!
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FaithSF
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Posted: 22 Dec 2009 at 1:26am |
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I forgot what product it was for, but it was previously hawked by Billy Mays. Now there's a woman in training to be the female version. She's yelling, too.
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You're just jealous 'cause the voices only talk to me--and Yutolia!
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