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If one were to use Felicific calculus to total up the amount of pleasure and pain this guy brought to the world, I can guarantee he would be in the deep red... likely to such a degree that he would rank near some of the most evil people in history. For his sake, I hope that God, Allah, Anubis or whoever makes that call is using a different moral system (namely one that treats each commercial he made as only one evil act instead of the sum of hundreds of millions of acts of severe annoyance).
 
So sad. His commercials were a tad annoying, but Pitchmen and his other personal interviews made him seem like a really nice guy. We'll miss him!
 
If one were to use Felicific calculus to total up the amount of pleasure and pain this guy brought to the world, I can guarantee he would be in the deep red... likely to such a degree that he would rank near some of the most evil people in history. For his sake, I hope that God, Allah, Anubis or whoever makes that call is using a different moral system (namely one that treats each commercial he made as only one evil act instead of the sum of hundreds of millions of acts of severe annoyance).

You seriously equate "annoying" with "evil"? He didn't hold a gun to anyone's head and make them buy whatever he was pitching. He didn't even prevent them from changing the channel.
 
Deaths come in 3s, so who's next?

David Carradine
Ed McMahon
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Billy Mays
???

I read yesterday that Walter Cronkite is on his deathbed, my guess is he'll be next to complete the second group of 3.

Karl Malden recently shuffled off this mortal coil as well.
 
we need a billy mays video game in memory of him
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Maybe this was already mentioned, but I saw a commercial with him in it this week! I was shocked that they would run it after his death.

I didn't wish the guy any ill, but I always grabbed the remote when he came on and either switched channels or muted it.
 
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