Another dead celebrity

[H8RADE]

Billy Mays, best known for his high-energy infomercials, has died at the age of 50.

Police have confirmed that he died Sunday morning. He was found at home by his wife at 7:45 a.m.

Police said there was no sign of a break-in, and they do not suspect foul play.

The coroner's office expects to have an autopsy done by Monday afternoon.

Mays became famous for his amped-up infomercials and spots on the Home Shopping Network. His ads featured him shouting about the virtues of products like OxiClean and Orange Glo while demonstrating their efficacy.

Most recently, he teamed up with fellow pitchman Anthony Sullivan for the Discovery Channel documentary "Pitchmen."

Mays was a passenger on the US Airways 737 aircraft that took a hard landing at Tampa International Airport on Saturday, an airport spokesperson has confirmed.

Mays posted about the incident to his Twitter account.

"Just had a close call landing in Tampa," he wrote. "The tires blew out upon landing. Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air."

Officials have not said if his death is connected to that incident.

Mays' wife, Deborah, released a statement Sunday.

"Although Billy lived a public life, we don't anticipate making any public statements over the next couple of days. Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times."

Mays' son, Billy, posted to his Twitter account this morning, "My dad didn't wake up this morning.. I'm sure you'll all hear about it. It hasn't yet hit me but it's about to."
http://www.wtsp.com/genthumb/genthumb.ashx?e=3&h=240&w=320&i=/assetpool/images/090628114021_billymays.jpg

[Irish]

Wow.

[H8RADE]

Fox News reporting he is really dead, at 50.
:stare

[Karps TA]

Wow.

Sham-wow

http://cdn.oliviamunn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/picture-14.png

[Rocket Power]

Wow was just watching some of "pitchmen"

[Deggy]

Is this really true?

[Rocket Power]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html

[Deggy]

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-billy-mays29-2009jun29,0,6116879.story

[Goat Roper]

But wait....theres more


Well actually no I guess there isn't

[84hurst]

Wow, this is really wierd... If I were a celebrity I think I would be getting worried!

[Deggy]

This is really weird, 4 dead celebs in less than a month.

[Goat Roper]

This is really weird, 4 dead celebs in less than a month.

5 if you count the dude with the rope around his nuts who hung himself

[TurboMutantNinjaBug]

Wow....What's going on with all these celebrities? It's like they're dropping like flies...

[Deggy]

5 if you count the dude with the rope around his nuts who hung himself

Who?

[H8RADE]

Who?

David Carradine
http://www.celebricious.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/david_carradine_polanski_unauthorized.jpg

[Deggy]

David Carradine
http://www.celebricious.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/david_carradine_polanski_unauthorized.jpg

Damn, I didn't even hear about him.

[MoCkiN U]

Patrick Swayze is really sick from his pancreas cancer and was reported a few weeks ago to have said "going home to say bye to friends" wouldnt be surprised to hear about him passing but at least him and farrah you knew were coming the others were surprises

[Brian98GTP]

Yeah, Michael Jackson was number 4. That left 2 more to go, if you go by the whole 'celebrities always die in 3' thing..... so with Billy Mays being found dead this morning, there's still one more that's going to be happening. :wow

Who's going to be #6..................................

[badass88gt]

Wow. I guess it kind of makes you think, you really never know when your time is up.


Now would be a good time to tell you loved ones how you feel, just because.....you never know.

[jbiscuit]

rough couple of weeks for hollywood. Well the Sham-wow guy's stock just went up today

[Goat Roper]

"Sadly, on June 28, 2009, Mays was found dead at home after being strangled with a shamwow."

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Billy_Mays&oldid=299135489

[Prince Valiant]

Though they are saying there was no connection to the hard landing and his death, we might have another case like Natasha Richardson; in which a hit to the head/sudden jarring that wasn't terribly hard or left the victim immediately incapacitated may end up being the cause of death.

[Goat Roper]

Agreed. Oh have pity on US Airways if so.

[Holeshot]

I think BCM should start is own celebrity dead pool

[Goat Roper]

I liked the suggestion that june 28th is now and forever caps lock day in honor of billy and is far too loud for the situation voice.

EDIT: WHICH BY THE WAY THIS BOARD WILL REVERT THE TEXT TO LOWER CASE EVEN IF YOU TYPE IN ALL IN UPPER CASE...WELL AT LEAST IT DID THE FIRST TIME

[GTSLOW]

Wow was just watching the episode of pitchmen where they're selling the spray paint fertilizer for your grass.

[TheRX7Project]

Gale Storm was just found dead. She was the star of 1950's TV show "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062801451.html

#5...

[Deggy]

Gale Storm was just found dead. She was the star of 1950's TV show "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062801451.html

#6...

Fixed. :goof

[TheRX7Project]

Oh yeah I thought about that after I jumped in the shower.

[H8RADE]

Gale Storm was just found dead. She was the star of 1950's TV show "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062801451.html

#5...

She was 87 fuggin' years old and in declining health.
Not even remotely the same as Mays, Jackson, or Fawcett.

[Got Boost]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/mays.death/index.html?section=cnn_latest thats 4 in a week and a half ... I liked the show pitchmen

[dr doom]

http://brewcitymuscle.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39410

[H8RADE]

OMFG....
Really???!?!? (http://brewcitymuscle.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39410)

[Goat Roper]

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo97/Superfag101/Billy_Mays_Shut_Your_Whore_Mouth.jpg?t=1246233223

[Goat Roper]

Please oh please let the Jonas Brothers be next. If there is a god it will be the Jonas Brothers.

[Got Boost]

http://brewcitymuscle.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39410
sorry dident see the other topic

[That_Guy]

"in honor of billy mays"

WHEN I FIRST HEARD THAT BILLY MAYS WAS DEAD THE FIrST THOUGHT THAT CAME TO MIND WAS..

http://hammerwielder.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/kaboom.jpg

WITH A VISUAL OF THIS IN MY MIND..

http://www.freewebs.com/rubberduck125/KABOOM.jpg

[Brian98GTP]

Fixed. :goof


I was thinking the same thing.... BUT, if you look at the Gale Storm article, she died yesterday. So Billy is actually #6 since he died this morning.

I guess we'll have to count her death as a celebrity death. This round of 3 is over. :)

[Rocket Power]

Wasn't there some talk about David Carradine(sp?) not having done himself in but someone else doing it?

[Goat Roper]

Wasn't there some talk about David Carradine(sp?) not having done himself in but someone else doing it?

Somebody may have helped him rig it up but that was all about him roping up his jimmy and getting off.

[-stew-]

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm279/lith3/BillyMays.jpg

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee40/ilssthnthree3u/adfasdfasdf.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d109/Rzoref/BIllymays.png

http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp27/wjw5/450px-Billy_Mays_underage_girls.jpg

[URLOZIN]

Scott, almost everyone of your comments made me lol...

[jon_we4]

He was supposed to do commercials for Microsoft. Its weird because he's been more visible lately. Just on Conan and with his new show.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/satire-toms-hardware-news-reviews,7931.html

[Doc Brown]

I think you can add the Grabit to that list. It's a pack of three different sized drill bit heads that you use to drill a special hole into a seized screw, and then use the other side of the bit to grab the screw and reverse it out. On the infomercial Billy Mays cut off the head of a screw, and still got it out no problem.

I need to buy one because i have 3 seized screws on the delorean that PB Blaster and WD-40 can't help, but I thought I seen them at Walgreens recently so i guess I'll get one to try it out..

[gottwins?]

Billy mays was somewhat my idol..."Buy this shit because my face is on it, bitch!"

[michelle]

I was thinking the same thing.... BUT, if you look at the Gale Storm article, she died yesterday. So Billy is actually #6 since he died this morning.

I guess we'll have to count her death as a celebrity death. This round of 3 is over. :)

They say bad things come in threes. Leave it to Billy Mays to throw in one extra COMPLETELY FREE!

(Assuming, of course, you count McMahon, Fawcett, and Jackson.)

[subliminal1284]

This would make 5 David Carradine also.

[TraceDaddy]

And now...Fred Travalena

[lordairgtar]

Fred Travalena was an awesome impersonator. Man of a thousand faces.

[badass88gt]

It wasnt the plane crash.. It was a pulmonary embolism. Head trauma had nothing to do with it.

http://www.popeater.com/television/article/billy-mays-dies/546990

[JBs92Lude]

It wasnt the plane crash.. It was a pulmonary embolism. Head trauma had nothing to do with it.

http://www.popeater.com/television/article/billy-mays-dies/546990

No since it was a blood clot in the lung it most likely did not have anything to do with any sort of hear trauma. Although, any head trauma should be checked out since brain hemorrhaging occurs slowly and with few signs. However, is it now shown that long plane flights can put a person at high risk for pulmonary embolisms. Therefore, it was most likely that the plane ride caused the clot to move from somewhere in the body (most likely the legs) to move to the lungs and killing the guy. Usually its not fatal, especially if caught right away, but he must have been alone.

[Z Speed]

im just glad im not some celebrity... they all seem to be dropping like flys

[Doc Brown]

No since it was a blood clot in the lung it most likely did not have anything to do with any sort of hear trauma. Although, any head trauma should be checked out since brain hemorrhaging occurs slowly and with few signs. However, is it now shown that long plane flights can put a person at high risk for pulmonary embolisms. Therefore, it was most likely that the plane ride caused the clot to move from somewhere in the body (most likely the legs) to move to the lungs and killing the guy. Usually its not fatal, especially if caught right away, but he must have been alone.
Great point. My dad had a clot travel to his lungs after a flight to Japan late last year. He collapsed suddenly in April while walking to a fish fry, and it nearly killed him. The only thing that saved him was a very powerful anticoagulant, one which they reserve for only the most serious cases. So I can definitely see the similarities here. Too bad Billy Mays didn't catch his in time. Had he collapsed while he was awake and around others, he might of had a chance, but it happened while he slept, without any indication.

[JBs92Lude]

Great point. My dad had a clot travel to his lungs after a flight to Japan late last year. He collapsed suddenly in April while walking to a fish fry, and it nearly killed him. The only thing that saved him was a very powerful anticoagulant, one which they reserve for only the most serious cases. So I can definitely see the similarities here. Too bad Billy Mays didn't catch his in time. Had he collapsed while he was awake and around others, he might of had a chance, but it happened while he slept, without any indication.

I am glad your dad is ok, and they caught the clot in time.

[Doc Brown]

yeah, but he's not able to do some of the physical stuff like he used to, not by half.

so now when he comes over to help with a project he pretty much assumes the role of "supervisor" :)

still, thanks for bringing that subject up, if for no other reason than to raise awareness of this increasingly common health issue.

[JBs92Lude]

yeah, but he's not able to do some of the physical stuff like he used to, not by half.

so now when he comes over to help with a project he pretty much assumes the role of "supervisor" :)

still, thanks for bringing that subject up, if for no other reason than to raise awareness of this increasingly common health issue.

Well, at least he is well and you are still able to spend time with him, even if its a supervisory role. haha. And no problem on bringing it up, I'm going to school for it so its nice to be able to help bring some more awareness to others about such medical problems.

[Myles]

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[Myles]

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[Holeshot]

Thats funny as hell

[Myles]

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[Myles]

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[Myles]

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[Holeshot]

Dude LOL

[Bobby "Big Daddy" Flay]

Myles, those are great, hahaaha

[Myles]

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[Holeshot]

That's the best one yet.