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.

She has been married four times — her first husband's surname was St. Croix, her second husband was named Popeil ( a reference to the American culinary businessman / entrepreneur Ron Popeil ), her third was Stan Walker ( married since 1995 ), and she was married for 20 minutes to Lyle Finster ( John Cleese ) in May 2004, although she is still married to Stanley ( see below ), who has two children of his own, Olivia and Mason.

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

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.

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

Ron Popeil founded the company in 1964, and commercials for the company's products soon became pervasive and memorable, in part thanks to Popeil's personal sales pitches.

In August, 2005, Popeil announced his sale of the company to Fi-Tek VII, a Denver holding company, for $ 55 million.

" ( 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.

The names " Ronco " and " Popeil " and the suffix "- O-Matic " ( used in many early product names ) became icons of American popular culture and were often referred to by comedians introducing fictional gadgets.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

* Popeil Pocket Fisherman.

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.

*" 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 ).

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.

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`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.

In recollection he has said: `` Natural or man-made objects kept coming into my head, but I would suppress them sternly ''.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

`` Some guys bothered me '', Mercer has said.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.

`` He has lost much blood '', he said.

`` Conservatism '' and `` traditionalism '' seem implied by what has just been said.

`` This '', he said, `` is exactly what has been happening between the politically free nations in the postwar world.

In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

The same can be said of shaving yet the electric razor has proved useful to many men.

The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.

Equally significant, Pope John has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian disunity.

Noting all the difficulties that stand in the way of reunion, he has said that they ought not to discourage anyone.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

N.C. has said something important so well that this preacher will many times be tempted to quote the whole piece.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

`` I suppose it has to do with the property '', Mark had said over the telephone when they had discussed their receipt of the letters.

And he said, `` The same fellow who has been running it, Sam Rayburn ''.