Hi, Billy Mays not here

I don't know if he was well known in the UK, but Billy Mays had achieved near iconic status in North America, and it was with Jacksonesque shock that I learned of his untimely death this morning. For those of you that haven't heard of him, Billy Mays was the top pitchman on the infomercial circuit, using his booming voice to hawk such products as Oxi Clean and Mighty Putty, and earning billions of dollars for the companies who employed him; he even had his own show on the Discovery Channel.

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Billy was scheduled for hip surgery later this week; he'd originally only intended to have surgery on his right hip, but fortunately he'd called the hospital within five minutes of seeing their ad and they'd doubled their offer; all Billy had to do was pay packaging on the second hip.

Let's just hope that the hospital has a 30 day money back guarantee.