http://www.durvy.com/2009/06/28/daily/no-one/ Mostly trashy, sometimes classy. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:07:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.durvy.com/2009/06/28/daily/no-one/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Aaron Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:54:27 +0000 http://www.durvy.com/?p=594#comment-360 Recently, I was watching TV and a Billy Mays advertisement came on. At first I thought "Well, I think this might be mildly inappropriate, to continue to use a salesman's selling power even after he's died. Isn't that kind of extortionist?" But then, at the end of the commercial, there was a one-second black screen with the words "In Memoriam: Billy Mays 1958-2009." Really? I feel like that may not be enough to justify the use of a dead tv-personality to make money on late-night television... Recently, I was watching TV and a Billy Mays advertisement came on. At first I thought “Well, I think this might be mildly inappropriate, to continue to use a salesman’s selling power even after he’s died. Isn’t that kind of extortionist?” But then, at the end of the commercial, there was a one-second black screen with the words “In Memoriam: Billy Mays 1958-2009.” Really? I feel like that may not be enough to justify the use of a dead tv-personality to make money on late-night television…

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