RIP Billy Mays Options

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No, I'm not kidding; the great product-hawker Billy Mays died unexpectedly over the weekend. From Wikipedia:

Mays was found unresponsive by his wife in his Odessa, Florida, home on the morning of June 28, 2009. He was then pronounced dead at 7:45 am, appearing to have died sometime overnight. The Associated Press reported that there were no indications that the house had been broken into, and that police did not suspect foul play.

On June 27, Mays had been aboard US Airways Flight 1241, which landed roughly when one of its front tires were blown out. The heavy impact of the landing caused objects from the overhead storage compartments to fall and strike some passengers. Mays told Bay News 9, a 24-hour news station in Tampa, that some of the objects "hit me on the head, but I got a hard head." His wife noted that he felt unwell when he went to bed that night early at 10 pm. The next morning he was pronounced dead at 7:45 am by a local fire rescue crew. According to his official Twitter feed, Mays was scheduled for hip-replacement surgery on Monday, June 29.