Billy Mays is dead

[george94]

He is dead and here is the link http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/2009062 ... _eo/131653

[Dekard]

i wonder if the priest will scream his last rites and eulogy?

[jfko6]

RIP
This dude was cool after all.

[spinhouse247]

[kman]

Not making fun...more of an honor to his style...this came across my desk this morning:

Celebrity deaths always come in threes...

But leave it to Billy Mays to throw one in ABSOLUTELY FREE!

[spinhouse247]

I actually feel the worst for him and his family out of all four. Here's a guy that started his life on the boardwalk in Jersey pitching products to make a living. He finally makes it to TV and even gets his own show then boom hes dead. I'd say only the good die young but I think Michael Jackson put a damper on that phrase.

[jfko6]

On the day MJ passed I also heard another celebrity death - Luke Skywalker (Mark Hammil)

Apparently, according to the blogs going around he was killed in a car crash.

One: This story was completely buried.

Two: This story is however completely unverified.

http://www.therestrainingorder.com/?p=2074

[kman]

WTF? Mark Hammil died? I gotta do some googling on this one!

UPDATE: Ok - looks like a hoax. The comments on that page pretty much say the same thing - including a link to a snopes.com message board talking about his accident (from many years ago):

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ulti ... 001029;p=1

[housil]

I saw today at the news, that internet traffic spiked, all over USA 4 Mios sms per minute (!) were sent when Michael Jackson died. Amazon etc. was sold out with Michael Jackson stuff.

So that morning many other rumors at twitter about the death of actors, singers etc occured... like Briney Spears died

Did you know she tried to sale her Villa in LA?! (without succsess yet )

[DangerousDave]

Good one, Kman. A free bonus.