# Women Do You Like Billy "Mr Infomercial" Mays **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 28, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429 "2009-01-28T20:07:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/21 "2009-01-29T00:39:09Z")
Is this a trick question? Just NO. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/22 "2009-01-29T00:52:11Z")
He’s probably the greatest centerfielder of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/23 "2009-01-29T01:27:26Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > He’s probably the greatest centerfielder of all time. …Did the [Colorforms hair, beard, and brows](http://marooncouch.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/billymays.jpg) help? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/24 "2009-01-29T01:34:17Z")
Good lord, man no. My daughter (she’s 10) says that he’s the definition of “oxymoron” (“mom- the guy that sells the oxyclean stuff”). ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/25 "2009-01-29T01:37:47Z")
I’ll vary the monotony a bit and say ICK instead of ew… Grown men who use little boy names (Billy, Jimmy, Bobby etc) are not grown men (neither are Cindees, Katies, or Mindys for me). I don’t like the way he sculpts his facial hair–it looks glued on and artificial. He looks and acts like he’s on something. He couldn’t sell me my own children. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/26 "2009-01-29T01:40:55Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > God, no. He’s like Al Borland, if AB was in the habit of drinking 100 cups of coffee. Al Borland is at least cuddly. Billy Mays makes me want to pull his genitals right off his body and shove them down his throat. Robin ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/27 "2009-01-29T01:51:54Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > He couldn’t sell me my own children. I \*\*love \*\*this line. As for Mr. Mays, not a chance. I would, however, buy Mr. ShamWow a drink. He looks fun. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/28 "2009-01-29T03:40:35Z")
Billy Mays scares me. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/29 "2009-01-29T03:52:56Z")
Beards that look like a black carpet climbing up the guy’s face just squick me the hell out. Another example is that Ellis guy from _Die Hard_. Ick no. (Mr. S has a very nice beard, nothing like carpet-face.) ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/30 "2009-01-29T04:47:45Z")
I wouldn’t fuck him with your vajayjay. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/31 "2009-01-29T04:56:07Z")
Holy crap is the shamwow guy’s name really Vince? He SO looks like a vince ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/32 "2009-01-29T05:36:45Z")
> [@toadbriar](#): > > No, he’s way too excitable. Good grief, if he gets that excited over epoxy putty, can you imagine how he’d react to a handful of boobie? He’d have to use oxyclean on his pants. Quote of the day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/33 "2009-01-29T07:05:48Z")
Vince Offer is the name of the ShamWow Guy Link to [Wikipedia Article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Offer) I know in the gay community he has a following among guys who like the “bear” types. I am kind of suprised so many of the women hate him. I thought more than one of you would’ve gone for a bear type. I guess it’s only gay guys LOL 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/34 "2009-01-29T07:51:25Z")
My mother in law thinks he is attractive. She likes guys with beards. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/35 "2009-01-29T08:16:20Z")
Nothing about the guy is his. Thousands of dollars worth of marketing knowledge have gone into the selection of the guy hmself, the styling of his hair and facial hair, and the pitch/voice in which he does the commercials. That is, unless he’s engaged to Mr Oxyclean’s, (CEO of Oxyclean) daughter and the company wants to see the young couple off to a happy start. So all the ladies here saying Ick is an interesting phenomenon. What demographic are the commercials directed at? ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/36 "2009-01-29T11:30:17Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I thought more than one of you would’ve gone for a bear type. I guess it’s only gay guys I _like_ bear types, especially bare bear types. My first love was so hairy a guy once wrote welcome on his back with Nair and my husband may be hairer still. To me, however, Billy Mays is completely unattractive. When I think of him, his voice and his constant yelling come across so loudly I have a hard time even picturing him, and a guy’s got to have more than looks alone to be attractive to me. If Pierce Brosnan or Antonio Banderas yelled the way Billy Mays did, to me they’d go from really, really good-looking men to loud guys I don’t want anything to do with. Put me down as a “No way!” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/37 "2009-01-29T12:44:19Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Billy Mays makes me want to pull his genitals… Hee hee. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/38 "2009-01-29T12:54:20Z")
I once tried to write on my ass (a la Bart Simpson, you pervs) so I appreciate how difficult it was to DEPILORATE A WORD into his own back. ---
**Author:** ![RunSilent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RunSilent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunSilent)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/39 "2009-01-29T13:00:53Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > He’s probably the greatest centerfielder of all time. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 29, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429/40 "2009-01-29T16:32:20Z")
Well, he’s no [Vince from Sham Wow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4mnmNBk1Y)… Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-you-like-billy-mr-infomercial-mays/483429.md?page=3)