Originally published at: Made-for-TV super salesman Ron Popiel has passed away | Boing Boing
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Where I grew up, we found these by the 100’s every Summer end, frustrated fisherman[s] tossed them in the trash or dropped them in the sand. F’ing useless POS…
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Has he, though?
Popeil : Welcome to this year’s Academy of Inventors Annual Symposium. I’m your host, Ron Popeil, inventor of Mr. Microphone, the spray-on toupee and, of course, the technology to keep human heads alive in jars.
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you mean people actually bought those silly things and tried to use them?!
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Oh man, that Mr. Microphone commercial is hilarious in retrospect.
“Professional musicians use it for rehearsal!”-- NO THEY DON’T!!! Gimme a break.
"Let’s liven up the party. . . " – by having everyone talk through a cheap P.A.? I don’t think so.
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Well done Mr Popiel!
Clap-Clap!
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hey, it was the 70s – we didn’t have all the high-tech gizmos and geegaws you have now!
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I caught my first fish with one of those.
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Sounds like a “whopper”.
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The reading of his will is going to be amazing, but wait there’s more. What if I told you you’re getting 30,000 unsold magic mics if you act now!
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I assume you clubbed it with it?
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The Pocket Fisherman was not designed to be bought and used. It was designed to be bought and given as a gift. At least that’s what the design firm who made it claim.
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Now that’s a gem of a comment. Cracked me up!
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Would it be wrong to post the “coffin drop video” here, with the caption “How often has this happened to you!”? 
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Yes, I count a pair of phony nunchucks in that category.
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