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The Official Billy Mays is Dead Thread.
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    Posted: 28 Jun 2009 at 5:00pm
Someone just told me Billy Mays died today, i googled and the only thing i found was his WIKI page said it. Friend claims it was on the news.

anyone can validate or discredit this for me?Confused


EDIT: yes, Billy Mays has died. Confirmed via TMZ:

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/28/billy-mays-is-dead/
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I just saw it on the news.
 
Judging by some of the vicious comments (and "violent fantasies") directed at him by some people at CIH, I would assume this will make many people here happy.  Just do a search; you'll find people here wanting to "kick that douchebag in the balls" and others actually wishing him dead!  Shocked
 
 
BILLY MAYS...RIP!!!
 
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I was one of the few who liked Billy. :(
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Yup...it's true.
Wouldn't you know SOMETHING was about to overshadow Michael Jackson's passing...
 
R.I.P., 'PitchMan'...No matter what ANYONE has said - know YOU were the best; YOU set the 'Standard'...May Your Family find Peace and Solace in these toughest of times.
 
 
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The most unbelievable bit of news I could imagine for today, Billy Mays died at his home in Tampa at the age of 50
 
He seemed like a really nice and likeable guy and certainly drove the industry for direct sales for many years.
 
The market won't be the same anymore.
 
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Love him or hate him, you hate to see news like this about anybody:
 
 
Many of us found his style obnoxious, but you have to admit he had found his little niche in the world and was good at what he did. As much as I cringed at the thought of his own show on Discovery, I must say the one episode I watched gave me a new respect for the man.
 
First David Carradine, then Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, now this. What the heck is going on in the celebrity world? Confused
 
RIP, Billy.
That's a bleepin' dead alien body if I ever bleepin' saw one.
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My condolences to all who knew and loved him,
 I'm glad that "pitchmen" showed the world a softer side of the man .
Billy, you won't be forgotten , that's for sure.

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RIP!

(can't say I'll miss him though)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays
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Everyone is either trying to outdo each other, or, well...maybe everyone is 'jumping on the bandwagon'.
Actually, Thor made a pretty good point about how so very many 'BabyBoomers' are getting closer to a 'precarious age'...not all of us can be young and healthy.
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So far, four threads on this.  Definitely something Billy Mays would do.   He'd be proud.  LOL
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Originally posted by WheelieKing

RIP!

(can't say I'll miss him though)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays
 
Come on wheelieking...I know  we have fun on this board, but that last line was not cool...I try to have some degree of decorum and rexpect for the dead..as much as we hated the commercials the man was still someone's husband and father and those people are in shock and  hurting today .
Just my 2 cents worth.....
 
RIP Billy.....
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I didn't realize there was already a thread going! Sorry about that!
 
Hey PaWolf, good to be seen! I've been pretty remiss in posting lately and missed the old crowd here.
 
 
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I guess I should've said  I won't miss his commercials. I'm probably not in the minority. I paid my respects, hence "RIP".

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Billy was one of those who people loved to hate. RIP Billy. 
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Ditto here. I give my condolences to his Family, even though (IMO), his Commercials were a pain in the Censored. I'm sure God is showing him how many people bought TIVOs because of the way he did his Ads.LOL
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An article out of Florida posted his Twitter account link:
 
Notice the next to the last entry is about a third hip replacement.
Hope that hard landing Saturday didn't shake a blood clot loose.
 
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Wow! I couldn't believe it when my son came in and told me. We always made fun of the guy, but gee whiz! I'll bet it's related to the bumpy landing, he was quoted as saying that stuff was flying around and hit him in the head.  RIP Billy! You were certainly one of a kind!!!!
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Originally posted by Neil R

I didn't realize there was already a thread going! Sorry about that!
 
 
 
 
 
Don't worry about it.  Considering there've probably been 30 or 40 Billy Mays threads started here over the past few years, 4 or 5 for his death seems reasonable.  LOL
 
 
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I was just reading on CNN about Mays. It said there was a hard landing on his plane and something hit him in the head. So he says I didn't worry about it my head it pretty hard. Um if something hit's your head go to the Dr's. That's just common sense. Yeah I didn't like his commercials but I wouldn't wish this on anyone ya know. I know if something like luggage hit my head I would go to the Doctors right away. R.I.P Billy.
 
http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=04fdfdef-397d-4eeb-a566-b8a8b1e7de99 Here is the link of the video where he says I have a hard head.
 
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Originally posted by Thor

I just saw it on the news.
 
Judging by some of the vicious comments (and "violent fantasies") directed at him by some people at CIH, I would assume this will make many people here happy.  Just do a search; you'll find people here wanting to "kick that douchebag in the balls" and others actually wishing him dead!  Shocked
 
 
BILLY MAYS...RIP!!!
 


I found two pages worth of threads, with his name in the title.
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I cannot BELIEVE this! What is up with the world? Why are people dropping like flies all of a sudden?

As much as I hated his ads, it's really sad that he died. Now what are we going to complain about here?

Seriously, this is really sad and shocking news (as if we didn't already have plenty of that last week). My heart goes out to his family. CryCry
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Dang Billy's dead huh? He didn't seem ill or anything on his show.
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HOLY CRAP!!!!
 
I was probably one of the few that wasn't really bothered by his commercials.
 
I wonder what he will be trying to sell in heaven?
 
RIP Billy
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Dang Billy's dead huh? He didn't seem ill or anything on his show.
 
There was no indication Micheal was about to go either. When your number's up It's UP!
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