Listening to Rush, and hearing these grating phoned-in ads (local ads, during the breaks) for a company called Frontline Security. This woman who supposedly owns the company has one of the most annoying voices I’ve ever heard. The advertising school of thought that says “it may be annoying but people will remember it” doesn’t work well with me, because indeed I do remember it…and I won’t ever buy anything from them.
Same thing with this Billy Mays character who does the TV ads on Fox and other channels. I wouldn’t buy anything he flacks in a million years.
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Billy Mays — GAAAAAAAAHHHH!
He irritates me on so many levels. First, he starts all of his commercials, “Hi, I’m Billy Mays…” SO FUCKING WHAT? Who the hell are YOU that I ought to care? “Oh, I really wasn’t interested in this product until I discovered BILLY MAYS endorses it.”
Second, WOULD YOU PLEASE NOT SCREAM AT ME? I’m sure that OxyOrange is a fine product, just stop yelling.
Third, I’m sorry, but I simply do not believe that if you grind fifteen kinds of filth into a white carpet and then squirt some of this shit on it that the stain just disappears and the rug is snow white again. Call me skeptical, but I just don’t buy it.
Billy Mays, Carrot Top, Steven from Dell (and all the Dell interns too, especially the chick) and that fucking Mazda “Zoom Zoom” kid should all die slow, painful deaths.
Needless to say, I don’t think any of them should consider a petition any time soon, eh, Jeff? 😉
Well, not in our lodges…
Millersville, maybe. 😉
Billy Mays, Ron Popeil and all the other tv pitchmen have met their match. Check out this site for really odd products and a really odd salesman…
http://www.quatloos.com/brad-c/directory01.htm
The site features my comic attempts to perform reverse scams on Nigerian e-mail con artists. To read about the pitchman who leaves Billy in the dust by selling BarfLogs, etc., click “Murphey Motombo – Ronco Meets its Match” under “Recent Updates.”