Search the archive:
YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
 
   
 
Pages: 1 2 
Send Topic Print
TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead (Read 1102 times)
Reply #15 - Jul 1st, 2009 at 3:16am

Hagar   Offline
Colonel
My Spitfire Girl
Costa Geriatrica

Posts: 33159
*****
 
Quote:
burly, bearded television pitchman

Excuse my ignorance but exactly what is a Pitchman?
 

...

Founder & Sole Member - Grumpy's Over the Hill Club for Veteran Virtual Aviators
Member of the Fox Four Group

Need help? Try Grumpy's Lair

My photo gallery
IP Logged
 
Reply #16 - Jul 1st, 2009 at 5:15am

Romulus111VADT   Offline
Colonel

Gender: male
Posts: 5521
*****
 
Hagar wrote on Jul 1st, 2009 at 3:16am:
Quote:
burly, bearded television pitchman

Excuse my ignorance but exactly what is a Pitchman?


Definitions of Pitchman on the Web:

•an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something
•peddler: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

•A salesman, especially, one who aggressively markets wares from a street stall, or a carnival or side show act
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pitchman

•Pitchmen is a docudrama television program produced for the Discovery Channel in the United States. The show follows infomercial producers and ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchmen

Pretty much the same as a "Hawker".... Wink
 

"I have a place where dreams are born, And time is never planned. It’s not on any chart, You must find it with your heart."

Albert Einstein - "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Martin Luther King Jr. - “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”

Mark Twain - “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
IP Logged
 
Pages: 1 2 
Send Topic Print