Products include the Veg-O-Matic and the Popeil Pocket Fisherman, a product manufactured by S. J.

Ronald M. Popeil ( born May 3, 1935 in New York City ; )

Popeil learned his trade from his father, Samuel, who was also an inventor and carny salesman of kitchen-related gadgets such as the Chop-O-Matic and the Veg-O-Matic.

The invention of the Chop-O-Matic caused a problem that marked the entrance of Ron Popeil into television.

Popeil received the Ig Nobel Prize in Consumer Engineering in 1993.

As of 2006, he lives in Beverly Hills, California, with his wife, Robin Popeil and two of his five daughters.

Although Popeil often receives credit for having been the first to use this phrase, " But wait, there's more ," its origin is attributed to the State Fair JAM Auctioneers.

" ( According to the program Biography, the original product was the invention of Popeil's father and only marketed by Ronco, but as of 2006, Popeil had introduced a redesigned version of the product.

" Popeil has said the inspiration for this product was his lifelong revulsion toward incompletely blended scrambled eggs.

Popeil was voted by Self Magazine readers as one of the 25 people who have changed the way we eat, drink and think about food.

Popeil has been referenced in the music of Alice Cooper, the Beastie Boys, and " Weird Al " Yankovic, who wrote a parody song entitled " Mr. Popeil " which was a tribute to Ron Popeil's father, Samuel Popeil.

Ron Popeil later used this song in some of his infomercials.

In Malcolm Gladwell's book What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Ron Popeil is interviewed and many of his products, most notably the Veg-O-Matic and Showtime Rotisserie, are discussed.

commercial in which a garish, hyper pitchman ( modelled after Ron Popeil ) touts a food blender that turns an entire bass into liquid pulp, " to writers and cast members the ' Bass-O-Matic ' was so exhilaratingly strange that many remember sitting and listening, open-mouthed ... Nobody felt jealous of it because they couldn't imagine writing anything remotely like it.

*" Weird Al " Yankovic parodied infomercials in the song Mr. Popeil, a homage to inventor and infomercial spokesperson Ron Popeil, on his 1984 album " Weird Al " Yankovic in 3-D ( Popeil himself used the song in some of his infomercials ).

Well known pitchmen like Popeil and Billy Mays have been the inspiration for many of these parodies.

Ron Popeil, inventor of the Ronco " Showtime " rotisserie oven, claims that 6 rpm is an ideal speed for cooking a variety of food.

Karen Walker ( née Delaney ; previously St. Croix, Popeil, and Finster ) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Megan Mullally.

Incidentally, one cannot miss the significance of this gesture, for Dickens reintroduces it associatively in Pip's mind at another moral and psychological crisis -- his painful recognition, in a talk with Herbert Pocket, that his hopeless attachment to Estella is as self-destructive as it is romantic.

The vulture-like attendance of the Pocket family upon Miss Havisham is summed up in the hypocritical gestures of Miss Camilla Pocket, who puts her hand to her throat in a feigned spasm of grief-stricken choking, then lays it `` upon her heaving bosom '' with `` an unnatural fortitude of manner '', and finally kisses it to Miss Havisham in a parody of the lady's own mannerism toward Estella.

The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

Singing Lessons: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing, Pocket Books.

* 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.

The most notable attempt to use deep penetration operations in Normandy was at Mortain, which exacerbated the German position in the already-forming Falaise Pocket and assisted in the ultimate destruction of German forces in Normandy.

Pocket sized devices became available in the 1970s, especially after the invention of the microprocessor developed by Intel for the Japanese calculator company Busicom.

These include Pocket Monsters: Blue ( Japan only ), Pokémon Yellow, Pokémon Crystal, Pokémon Emerald, and Pokémon Platinum.

Pocket watch with dodecacimal-based hours, and days of the month and of the week in French Republican Calendar.

It features a color screen and is slightly thicker and taller than the Game Boy Pocket.

The Game Boy Color was a response to pressure from game developers for a new and much more sophisticated system of playing, as they felt that the Game Boy, even in its latest incarnation, the Game Boy Pocket, was insufficient.

* Coghlan, Ronan Pocket Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend.

Pocket Stove, " the two most important pieces of noncombat equipment ever developed.

JUnit Pocket Guide.

Kabuki: A Pocket Guide.

Additionally, there is software for Windows, Pocket PC, Linux, and Macintosh PCs that can decode and display karaoke song tracks, though usually these must be ripped from the CD first, and possibly compressed.

* Pocket knife: Also known as a " multi-tool " or " jackknife ," a knife which may contain several folding blades, as well as other tools.

As the Red Army advanced on Kolberg, most of the inhabitants and tens of thousands of refugees from surrounding areas ( about 70, 000 were trapped in the Kolberg Pocket ), as well as 40, 000 German soldiers, were evacuated from the besieged city by German naval forces in Operation Hannibal.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

In 1988, Topps collaborated with Pocket Comics to create a 54-chapter mini-comic book serialization of the card series.

Pocket Comics Publisher, Mario A. Bruni.