{"id":192,"date":"2009-07-02T05:08:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/death-of-a-genius\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T05:08:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T05:08:07","slug":"death-of-a-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/death-of-a-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not wanting to blog about this particular topic, it&#8217;s got to the point where I can no longer hold-in my grief. A true genius of marketing passed away under tragic circumstances this week, and many people are in mourning. I am of course referring to the sad loss of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.com\/Billy_Mays\">Billy &#8220;Kaboom&#8221; Mays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the benefit of those outside the US, Billy was a marketing wizard who managed to fulfill the American Dream by becoming a millionaire using his own skills&#8230; which essentially involved going on TV in a blue shirt, grinning, shouting, and then saying &#8220;But that&#8217;s not all!&#8221; before throwing in some tasteless dollar-store[paaaahnd shop] crap as an enticement.<br \/>\nDespite being one of the purest sources of human irritation on the planet, he still managed to become very rich. Funny old world.<\/p>\n<p>But beware! His lifestyle appears to be fraught with danger: he died only weeks after his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iWRGRZCvLmg\">arch enemy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iWRGRZCvLmg\">Vince Shlomi<\/a> got sent to prison for beating up a prostitute. What next ? Barry Scott getting caught claiming a ladyboy on expenses ? <\/p>\n<p>Hell in a handcart, what mugs we are etc and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>[but it does provide an excellent excuse to link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA\">Slap-Chop remix<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not wanting to blog about this particular topic, it&#8217;s got to the point where I can no longer hold-in my grief. A true genius of marketing passed away under tragic circumstances this week, and many people are in mourning. I am of course referring to the sad loss of Billy &#8220;Kaboom&#8221; Mays. For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}