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Pitch Man Billy Mays, 50, RIP

 (The Spokesman-Review)
(The Spokesman-Review)

Pitch man Billy Mays fires a burst of bugs at a windshield while filming an infomercial for a new windshield wiper blade on June 5 in Safety Harbor, Fla. Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50. Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead. AP Photo/ St. Petersburg Times, Jim Damaske)

Question: How often do you watch infomercials?



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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