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06-28-2009, 12:36 PM
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Billy Mays Found Dead In His Home
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays
This has been one heck of a week. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and now Billy Mays.
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06-28-2009, 12:36 PM
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I know you're being sarcastic putting him w/ MJ & FF.
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06-28-2009, 12:38 PM
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It really has been a terrible week. A friend at work has been to a funeral the past two Saturdays--so it's not just hitting Hollywood.
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06-28-2009, 12:42 PM
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And Ed McMahn... so nutty.
50 is sooooo young! I know I say that a lot, but it is.
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06-28-2009, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by 33girl
I know you're being sarcastic putting him w/ MJ & FF.
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Haha, whoops - sarcasm was unintentional.
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06-28-2009, 12:47 PM
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06-28-2009, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI
It really has been a terrible week. A friend at work has been to a funeral the past two Saturdays--so it's not just hitting Hollywood.
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My mom has been LIVING at funerals all month! This is crazy. And most of them are people injured by criminals (who randomly attacked them) who died of their injuries.
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06-28-2009, 02:21 PM
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Wow.
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06-28-2009, 02:37 PM
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I'm going to miss him yelling his commercials at 1am which always happen to be louder than the TV shows I've fallen asleep to.
Seriously though, what a crappy week to lose four icons plus chaos in Iran and N. Korea, etc. Can something good/happy happen now please?
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06-28-2009, 04:40 PM
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Random question: Did he have kids or anything?
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06-28-2009, 04:49 PM
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4 big deaths in 1 week. How odd.
And I know he had a wife.. uhhh I don't think he had kids...?
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06-28-2009, 04:51 PM
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From his Wikipedia page:
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Mays had been aboard US Airways Flight 1241 from Philadelphia to Tampa that blew out its front tires as it landed at Tampa International Airport on June 27, the day before his death. None of the 138 passengers and five crew members were reported to be seriously injured immediately following the incident, but several passengers reported having bumps and bruises from falling objects.[2] Mays told a local Tampa television station that some of the objects "hit me on the head, but I got a hard head."[14] It is unclear whether Mays' death was related to the incident.
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Am I the only one who didn't hear about this aircraft incident? I guess the news has been swarmed with Farrah Fawcett/Michael Jackson/N. Korea/Iran lately, but usually news reports stuff like this airplane incident even if there weren't any fatalities
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06-28-2009, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
Random question: Did he have kids or anything?
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From the article on Yahoo!:
His former wife, Dolores "Dee Dee" Mays, of McKees Rocks, Pa., recalled that the first product he sold was the Wash-matik, a device for pumping water from a bucket to wash cars.
"I knew him since he was 15, and I always knew he had it in him," she said of Mays' success. "He'll live on forever because he always had the biggest heart in the world. He loved his friends and family and would do anything for them. He was a generous soul and a great father."
He must've had at least one child - sounds like with his former (first?) wife.
ETA: I hadn't heard anything about the plane incident, either. I'm wondering if there's a connection. (The article says that connecting the rough landing with his death would be pure speculation.)
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06-28-2009, 04:55 PM
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Random question: Did he have kids or anything?
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I know his son is a production assistant on the Pitchmen show.
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06-28-2009, 05:01 PM
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I know his son is a production assistant on the Pitchmen show.
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Yep, as far as I know he only had a son (Billy Mays Jr. I believe, but I'm not sure I only saw the show once)
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