Sunday, June 28, 2009

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Now....


Billy Mays
"and the secret is in the ..... "

Television's loudest pitchman died in Florida for reasons unknown other than he was on a US Air flight that experienced some serious inflight turbulance and Mr. Mays might have suffered a bump on the head. Sometimes, those bumps can be not as innocent as they seem as recently witnessed by the untimely passing of Natasha Richardson after a seemingly uneventful stumble at the Quebec Mont Tremblant resort.

Mays has been seen on television selling everything from laundry products to ESPN programming and has probably been the number one source of TV viewers pressing the "mute" button as his approach was loud, louder, loudest.

As obnoxious as Billy Mays' pitches could be, there was something undeniably friendly about the guy that garnered some measure of sympathy no matter how annoying his ads were.

So now the advertising torch gets tossed to a new "hawker." Step forward Vince Shlomi, the infamous "Shamwow guy." This guy is surreal!!! Unfortunately for him, his marketability might be compromised by a late winter encounter with a prostitute who beat the crap out of him and apparently vice versa after a little rough recreation.

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