Happy birthday, Billy Mays

[anarky]

Too bad you're dead, and stuff.

I find it disturbing that they still air his ads and say, "He would have wanted it this way." Maybe the viewers don't want to see a guy who just died hawking crap. Geico and State Farm were at least smart enough to pull ads using Michael Jackson songs within a few days of his death. (Of course, I found it weird that competing insurance companies were both using Jackson's music in ads that sometimes literally aired back-to-back.)

[Ran]

I could understand the Pitchmen marathon on the Discovery channel a couple weekends ago. It has been about a week since I've seen a Billy Mays ad. Last night I saw an OxyClean commercial without him in it.

I guess I never noticed the Michael Jackson songs in the other commercials. How is Geico still running both the lizzard and caveman ad campaigns? That has to be expensive.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

Seeing the Oxi-Clean ads with the quiet female voiceover is disconcerting, but yeah, so is seeing commercials with him still on it. Just have Anthony Sullivan do the new ones from now on, or something.