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Holy cow! I've been watching "Pitchmen" lately. He seemed like such a great guy. A real success story. Man oh man.

Now it's reported he flew into Tampa on Saturday on a U.S. Airways flight that had a landing accident. It blew out the front tires when it touched down. A spokesman for the airline said the worst injurues were "bumps and bruises" but in being interviewed after getting off the flight, Billy Mays said he hit his head pretty hard. He laughed it off with a comment about how he had a hard head. It is now suspected that he may have suffered a concussion and instead of going to the hospital to get checked out he went home instead. He went to bed with a headache and never woke up again.

To our international members, Billy Mays was a "Pitch Man". That is, he sold household product by doing live demonstrations of the product. While there are thousands of such pitchmen in the U.S. and around the world, Billy's high energy delivery and the high quality of the products he sold made him a stand out among his peers. He was most certainly a minor celebrity but just about everyone had heard of him or seen one of his commercials. He also had a reality show on The Discovery Channel that showed how he and his partner went about selecting the products they pitched and made the advertisements and such. He always seemed like a very genuine guy and was a tribute to how hard work can pay off with success.

I have a theory that the Iranian government is whacking American celebs to divert attention from their election turmoil.

Actually I don't really believe that but once it is said someone inevitably quotes it and reposts it until twenty years from now there is a History Channel special on it.