Monday, June 29, 2009

The Last Pitch.

The man I called the Hyper-Active Megaphone died Sunday. Billy Mays was a pitchman for various, direct response products. He was loud, annoying, obnoxious and became rich by using a 'Yell and Sell' tactic to push near useless/novelty/fringe products to millions of gullible, late night TV watching folks. I mean come on, Mighty Putty...wtf? I never finished my psych degree but man, what makes people buy into this, I still don't understand.

To quote Aristotle " Nature abhors a vacuum". We will see another Billy Mays soon enough.

1 comments:

  1. The Economist article:
    http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13938317&fsrc=rss

    The YouTube parody:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dBqur_xS7I&feature=fvw
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