# Idle musing: was the Sham Wow guy set up? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113 "2009-03-28T19:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/21 "2009-03-29T16:46:59Z")
Vince has moved on from the ShamWow to the [Slap Chop](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPKtBM99kAc&feature=related) with the Graty. Never see the ShamWow commercials anymore… must have oversaturated the market and run its course. You’re going to love his nuts. Tacos, Fettuccini. linguini, Martini, Bikini… ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/22 "2009-03-29T18:31:22Z")
After watching the Slap Chop vid, I had Vince Offer confused with Billy Mayes. Durr. In other news, Pampered Chef has had a version of the “Slap Chop” out for years. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/23 "2009-03-29T21:31:28Z")
I wonder if ShamWow was able to mop up the blood? > [@Chanteuse](#): > > I was wondering if I was the only one to think this. You know, just because he’s male and she’s female doesn’t mean he’s got to take abuse from her without defending himself. If she really did do that, then I don’t blame him a bit for hitting until she let go–it’s not as if he could just peacefully walk away with someone’s teeth sunk into his tongue! At least it was only his tongue she bit! (One wonders if she had a seizure, perhaps?) Yeah, I’m going to hell, I know. (And I heard he was only charged with soliciting a prostitute) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/24 "2009-03-29T23:38:58Z")
If he’s staying in $750 rooms and renting $1000 hookers, I’d say he’s pretty damn well set up. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/25 "2009-03-30T01:27:56Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > If he’s staying in $750 rooms and renting $1000 hookers, I’d say he’s pretty damn well set up. I [didn’t realize he actually OWNS the items](http://http://www.cnbc.com/id/28880253)he’s selling. He’s not just the pitchman. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/26 "2009-03-30T02:19:57Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I [didn’t realize he actually OWNS the items](http://http://www.cnbc.com/id/28880253)he’s selling. He’s not just the pitchman. [Link Fixed.](http://www.cnbc.com/id/28880253) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/27 "2009-03-30T02:36:48Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I [didn’t realize he actually OWNS the items](http://http://www.cnbc.com/id/28880253)he’s selling. He’s not just the pitchman. I had no idea. He must be a trillionaire… Joe ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/28 "2009-03-30T02:49:58Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I [didn’t realize he actually OWNS the items](http://http://www.cnbc.com/id/28880253)he’s selling. He’s not just the pitchman. :eek: Jesus Palomino! Thanks for that astro (and the link Todderbob). No wonder he’s had plenty of money to sue the cult! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/29 "2009-03-30T07:47:27Z")
At some point in time several months ago I read his bio as someone that the CoS had screwed… But I don’t recall the ShamWow segment. It was a long list, I may have just skimmed the first couple paragaphs. I laughed when I heard about it in the first place, the whole ShamWow guy gets busted for prostitution… But now I feel sorry for the guy. And I’m not usually a tin foil hat wearer but the story does kinda smell a bit fishy. In any case he is a rich dumbass, 800 dollar rooms and a grand for a hooker… Yup, a dick… But to be screwed by the CoS in the past, well, I feel sorry for him in that sense. Hope this blows up in their faces eventually. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/30 "2009-03-30T17:34:04Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > In any case he is a rich dumbass, 800 dollar rooms and a grand for a hooker.. Yup, a dick.. Oh now, if you had a zillion dollars as a self-made man you’d stay in luxury hotels too, and that price is not outrageous for a hotel room. That’s like low-rent for rich people. And they say something or other like men often go to prostitutes because they’ll go away after the sex: no long drawn-out flirty games to play beforehand, and no romantic entanglements after the semen dries. I don’t think those things make him a dick. And it’s not even like he’s married or anything. As far as I’ve heard, he’s not. Yeah, I feel sorry for him too. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/31 "2009-03-30T17:52:18Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > …that price is not outrageous for a hotel room. I missed the edit window. Of course it’s outrageous for me and maybe you. I’m a person who thinks a YMCA or hostel room is good enough, but then, I’m not rich. If you have lots of money, it’s not outrageous. We once got bumped off a flight and the airline put us up in a _nice_ hotel. The only room they had was probably somewhere in that price range or somewhat less. Boy it was nice to feel how the other half lived, if for only one night. That was a couple of decades ago. I’m sure airlines wouldn’t do that now. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/32 "2009-03-31T06:19:36Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Shamwow! Now it’s wiping out Scientology! Sometimes I wish we had voting for favorite thread comments. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/33 "2009-03-31T19:42:35Z")
Wow, he really [beat the crap](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0330091newsham1.html?link=rssfeed) out of her. He [didn’t look so hot](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.html) either. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/34 "2009-04-01T02:17:20Z")
You have to figure out what kind of a hooker was she. $1,000 bucks is an extremely large sum to pay for sex. A thousand for a regular prostitute usually means an overnight stay (or 8 hours). Prostitutes will not cooperate with cops because they usually have other legal problems. You could be risking the cops looking too deeply into things you’d rather the cops not know about like drugs. Cash for sex = DRUGS I know people that have gotten teeth broken because of tongue stud “earring” or whatever you call them when they are in your mouth. If she had one it’ could’ve caught on to him and because they were both using alcohol it got out of hand. You see how panicky people get in a Chinese finger trap. Despite all the romantic movies where the “hooker with the heart of gold,” is only doing it to get through college, in truth, prostitutes do this to get money for drugs, or for drugs themselves. Perhaps he was selling them or using them. Who knows, there’s so much you don’t know because people are too drunk to remember or trying to hide other illegal things ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113/35 "2009-04-01T02:33:07Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Cash for sex = DRUGS This isn’t true. Many times people who need money for drugs turn to prostitution, however those who are professional, nice looking, smart ‘escorts’ or ‘companions’ or whatever they want to call themselves (still sex for money), do it because it’s good, easy money. > [@Markxxx](#): > > Despite all the romantic movies where the “hooker with the heart of gold,” is only doing it to get through college, in truth, prostitutes do this to get money for drugs, or for drugs themselves. This simply isn’t true. > [@Markxxx](#): > > Perhaps he was selling them or using them. Perhaps you’re speculating based on a false premise. > [@Markxxx](#): > > Who knows, there’s so much you don’t know because people are too drunk to remember or trying to hide other illegal things Or, because Cops just _don’t like hookers_, and people who do illegal things for a living _don’t like cops._ Often times, one illegal thing and other illegal things go hand in hand. However, the majority of… this class - expensive - sexual service sellers are not doing it for drug money. They’re doing it for a living, and a damn good one at that. This girl could’ve been making 200,000 a year, tax free, with a 5 night a week job that she might enjoys the hell out of, with repeat customers, it’s more likely that she enjoys it, depending on the type of sexual servicer she is. _ **And** _ she gets two weeks (admittedly non-payed) vacation for her 200,000 a year. And, once again depending on the type, she gets to go on fancy trips. No, I don’t know this from contracting services, I know this from being friends with more than one ‘hooker’ in my life time – from different walks of life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-musing-was-the-sham-wow-guy-set-up/491113.md?page=1)