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"It slices! It dices!"
Regards Tanta...!
Mr. Popeil, we're in trouble!
Need your assistance, on the double!
Had no idea that Ronco had gotten into subprime lending too.
The Popeil Lend-O-Matic ?
Three to one debt to equity- guess nobody was minding the store when it came to handing these guys credit-
RP made out though!!!
Someday this war's gonna end...
So should Weird Al's Mr. Popeil be the Saturday Rock blog.
"bass-o-matic" to "mozill-o-matic"
My mother graduated from Story High in Manchester MA with Harry Lemmons in a class of about 11. He was voted "must likely to succeed." Go figure!
Where am I going to get:
-a machine that scramble eggs inside the shell
-spray to cover my bald spot
Guess I have to get on the flight to Tokyo.
What is the most interesting is to know WHEN they got the last credit.
I wanna know how much Ron got. I bet it was a lot. The guy is brilliant.
Wooo! Ron got $40m in cash, and a $16m note for further inventions. They still owe him $11.7m, so he's got an additional $4m since.
Billy Mays, top THAT.
Fraudelent conveyence anyone?
The combined project, "Fishy Pocket Veg-o-Matic" had too many personal injury suits (and I mean really personal)--that's what brought the company down.
First it's the Clinton's, now it's Rupert Murdoch.
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For those of you who don't go there very often, Centre Island is a gated village on the goldest of Long Island's gold coast.
Read the article carefully. There's trouble at the top. These houses should be selling like hotcakes.
It ain't just Spanish-surnamed Americans who can't get their nut.
My Mom bought me a Popeil Pocket Fisherman for my 12th birthday. I still haven't forgiven her.
Does Ronco make a mechanical pencil?
Yeah, yeah, laugh it up at Ronco's demise.
You won't be laughing when you try to re-order your next bald-spot-spray-can.
Hope you stocked up!
Stay out of the rain!
Does Ronco make a mechanical pencil?
The Write-Down-O-Matic! They're ordering them by the case on Wall Street.
Ronco Liquidity Injector
Inject it directly into the core, thereby passing through the volatile food.
Neal,
The combined project, "Fishy Pocket Veg-o-Matic" had too many personal injury suits (and I mean really personal)--that's what brought the company down.
The advertising slogan probably didn't help either.
Is that a Fishy Veg-o-Matic in your pocket or are you just unhappy to see me?
I think I'm going to cry.
"It slices! It dices!"
It even peels!
"It slices! It dices!"
It even peels!
My favorite line was from his '70s TV commercials...
"And it really, really WORKS!"... referring to the 'Cap Snaffler'.
Anytime one of my buddies would say that - even years later in college - we'd all squirt beer out our noses, elephant-like.
Ron, an American Icon, we'll miss ya.
One last Ronco moment...
When flyfishing... whenever one of my buddies would go off into the weeds to pee & took too long he'd always get the following...
"Hey [insert name], you got a problem or you just playing with your pocket fisherman again?"
Boys just never grow up.
Apparently, companies owned by Mr. Popeil are the biggest creditors of Ronco. In the end, he might end up running the company again.
"The problem with buttons is they always fall off. The Problem with BUTTONS is they always fall off. THE PROBLEM with BUTTONS IS they ALWAYS fall OFF."
Before Many Patinkin in The Princess Bride, there was the Ronco Buttoneer, a product I still desperately need, but cannot find, even at the "As Seen On Television" store.