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Billy Mays is dead!
« on: June 28, 2009, 02:06:54 pm »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062800820.html?hpid=moreheadlines

I can't believe it! June is shaping up to be a bad month. :( Rest in peace, Billy Mays. I'll miss his enthusiastic ads.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2009, 02:17:04 pm »
Good god...I'm really curious what happened, since I'm sure some people will say, "hey had such a high temper; he was so loud and forceful; it was probably a heart attack" or something like that.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2009, 02:19:39 pm »
Wow, now that's something I really didn't expect. The guy had a sort of competition show lined up, too.
Rest in peace, man.

I bet it was shock over hearing about MJ and Farah.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2009, 02:31:55 pm »
Such a bad year. I dunno how many bad thing will happen this year.This will be a memorable year of good and bad, concerning huge loss and tragic event. May next year be better than before.


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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2009, 02:43:41 pm »
One by one, everybody who refused to donate to the Lord J Esq Appreciation Fund is dropping dead in cosmic justice!

Bye, Billy! Alas...television won't be the same.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2009, 03:41:01 pm »
RIP Billy!

We'll miss you!

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2009, 03:59:38 pm »
I just read about this a minute ago. Talk about unexpected. I thought it was a joke...

Another link, for those interested.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2009, 04:52:28 pm »
Damn, this is working against the laws of nature! Celebrities are supposed to die in threes(Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson), not fours!

Unless...this is the start of another cycle.

Crap. RIP Billy. At least you had some enthusiasm for your career.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2009, 05:15:39 pm »
That's coo coo banana's.

However, he lived and died having stood for something; his legacy lives on through his convenient home-item miracles, such as OxyClean and OrangeGlo.  Thanks, Billy!

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2009, 05:34:09 pm »
 I suspect foul play in the death of Billy Mayes. Not so much the others, but something seems off here.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2009, 06:28:41 pm »
but I thought 5 celebs died... cant name em all but I know that more than 4 did.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2009, 06:46:59 pm »
What most likely happened here is that he had a stroke? Did you pay attention to the part about the ceiling in the aircraft hitting his head? Someone I knew, his dad died the same way. He was pistol-whipped on the head and died a couple days later. You don't notice if a clot forms and then BAM you just die. I bet that's how it happened.

Poor Billy Mays : (. This just keeps getting suckier and suckier..

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2009, 07:54:02 pm »
What most likely happened here is that he had a stroke? Did you pay attention to the part about the ceiling in the aircraft hitting his head? Someone I knew, his dad died the same way. He was pistol-whipped on the head and died a couple days later. You don't notice if a clot forms and then BAM you just die. I bet that's how it happened.

Poor Billy Mays : (. This just keeps getting suckier and suckier..

Yeah. I read about that and was gonna post but people keep dying and other people keep posting before I can get to a computer!

Anyways, I second the idea that it was due to head trauma. His plane landed and the front wheel exploded, it's not like it was just turbulence in the air or something. It was a forceful impact.

This one's different.

Michael Jackson was always a genuinely strange guy, and everybody expected him to go out just as mysteriously as he came in.
Farrah Fawcett was in a losing battle with cancer. It's sad, but not surprising.
Ed McMahon was very old, and lived a good, full life.

But Billy Mays was on Conan's show five days ago. I just watched that last night. The guy may have been on drugs, that's not for me to say. But it's just as likely that he wasn't on drugs, in fact moreso. This celebrity death seems like a true freak accident.

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2009, 09:43:40 pm »
Dear god.....(and I'm not even a Christian)...

What has become of this month? My this is getting out of hand!

The natural process of Life and Death is bloodthirsty this month! My, oh my.

*blinks*

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Re: Billy Mays is dead!
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2009, 11:13:00 pm »
but I thought 5 celebs died... cant name em all but I know that more than 4 did.
Yeah, the first triad was David Carradine, Ed McMahon, and Farrah Fawcett.

The currently ongoing triad is Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, and ...???