This sign appeared today in the Bryants Hardware Store window.
The hardware store closed recently and the building is now controlled by Union State Bank.
Bank President John Sturd said today the sign is a joke.
He said he was not aware of the sign when he first heard about it, and walked down to the store to see the sign.
He said as far as he knows, there is no plan at the moment for anyone to start a business in the building.
Sturd said the building is being cleaned up and prepared for rental or a lease. He said as far as he knows, there is no business planning on opening there in the near future.
A Google search turned up no businesses called Amherst Spirits, Amherst Cigars or Amherst Tobacco.
I get the joke, and I think it is hilarious. The items listed all appeal to a certain 'sect' of the population. Humidor...hand-rolled cigars...fine wine. Those people have p!ssed off sign man. The words are all spelled correctly, so signman isn't ZB. WHO IS SIGNMAN?!?!
ReplyDeleteHow about "Amherst Uppercrust with no idea what middle-class is like," I think that is the point.
ReplyDeleteGeez you people read way to much into things. It was a joke, humor, no political commentary, nothing but a &#$% joke. Lighten up Francis....
ReplyDeleteWeird!
ReplyDeletetruly we have entered the realm of the surreal
ReplyDeleteJoke, yes. Political commentary? Hell yes. It didn't say "Beer and cheap generic smokes." It was by design. And hilarious. Can't get much lighter than that.
ReplyDeleteIt is a pretty good joke once you think about it.
ReplyDeleteAmherst is a fancy dancy college in Massachussetts.
It looks like a second grader wrote that. I bet a second grader could have run that store better than the previous owner.
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ReplyDeleteWas it inside the store? If so, then someone had to have access to the store to put it up? I guess anyone that goes inthe gun shop has access though. My money is on Zach. He seemed to be getting better at using a dictionary when he was last on here, so it's not inconceivable that he could have spelled all the words right.
ReplyDeleteI saw a sign posted behind the Ag building. It said "Opening Soon - Winfield Correctional Facility Training Grounds...Drugs, Fights, Selfish Sociopaths who feel the world owes them something"
ReplyDeleteI tried to get a pic, but when I returned with my camera, someone had vandalized the sign! Then, when my back was turned, someone had stolen it!
What was that all about??
Maybe its a trend.
ReplyDeleteLets keep our eyes open for signs. If you see one let me know.
@12:23
ReplyDeleteGood one. Although I wouldn't lump them all in the same group. I have taken my son to the winfield skate park, and he is an honor student with good manners who knows right from wrong. No everyone who likes to skateboard is a delinquent.
Speaking of which, I still see them on the sidewalks all the time and the cops do nothing about it. From what I hear the cops say they are too busy, or have better things to do, so maybe Zach got his way after all.
They are still out there, but I don't see as many as I used to.
ReplyDeleteSigns, signs everywhere are signs.
ReplyDeletedo this don't do that can't you read the sign
It is obvious who did it. The sign was on the inside, so the NRAers had the access. The short one, Chris I think, is the brains of that outfit. And he's kinda funny, too. No laws were broken, nobody got hurt, and a point was made. I'd say "Good one, Chris."
ReplyDeleteYes Criss the towheaded one, he looks so innocent, I under stand he was on operator in Delta. Now he has moved deeper in to the black opps world. It’s said that this shop him and his ‘brother’ have is only a cover for a clandestine training base for mall cops, yes I said it. We should pass a law, but that may anger them! So when you have to pass by “the shop” don’t make eye contact.
ReplyDeletemall cops? hardly
ReplyDeleteI hear they train an elite squadron of Casino Security Forces. The CSF squadron aka "the Slot Dogs" are first called when a casino needs locked down and, shall we say, "cleaned".
During Katrina the army sent 3 Blackhawk helicopters to Strother field to take the CSF to New Orleans and secure all the casinos down there.
There is no way the CIA or Pentagon would let Ark City pass a law, the CSF is just to important for national casino defense
I have been in a Mall of America, and Mall Security Forces (from what I have seen) are more than a match for your “all mighty” Slot Dogs.
ReplyDeleteLet me tell you Mr. Anonymous I could see it in their eyes, and there swaggered gait. I have often thought of that line of work, you know, being an operator with the MSF and all that, but it’s only a pipe dream, man those guys are something.
You see Katrina is just a girls name to the MSF
Oh PUHHHHHHHHlease mall cops my Aunt Fanny.
ReplyDeleteWhat do mall cops deal with? teeny bopper mall rats and elderly folks walking for excercise. Wow, real dangerous work there huh Skippy?
Slot Dogs on the other hand help keep hundreds of thousand dollars safe, deal with drunks and bitter people who lost money on the machines. They lead a life of danger, and above all honor. It takes a person of strong will to gaurd the money and not be tempted.
Mall wimps are just wannabe's who couldn't hack the casino beat.
Ha Ha GI Jane, you only know what the man wants you to know and you know its best you don’t know you know cause I do know ya know?
ReplyDeleteSo you and the little slot pups keep it real in your little world of penny slots and bus loads of geriatrics.
Stemper mallalis amigo
You are as useless as a frozen bottle of cheez-whiz
ReplyDeleteAll you deal with are the acient 100 year old people that walk the mall for excercise. In between going to their city commission meetings.
Casinos are the heart of the action, you have flashing lights, loud noises, and crowds of people. Yet you still have to keep your concentration among the confusion.
If you squaw cops are so tuff go to the gun store and see what is going on. Better be nice otherwise you may never come back, i hear tell there are several bad dudes that hang around there.....
my buddy austin went in there and he ain't never returned.
What about campus cops.
ReplyDeleteBobby we better not go there, what you call “campus cop”, is known as Tactical Academia Reaction Division or TARDS for short. Man oh man sometimes they are called the unspoken ones.
ReplyDeleteThey are on par with MSF but a different line or what you civilians’ types would call similar but different.
One word of caution; Don’t call Criss a TARDS, he may go off and you will be in a ranger choke hold before you could count to 14, just a word to the wise. The word is that Delta and the TARDS got in to it at some big mall food court, I guess it was pretty messed up in fact the MSF had to step in and bust some heads
You know what the difference is between the Girl Scouts and the MSF/TARDS?
ReplyDeleteThe Girl Scouts sell cookies once a year...
I ain't afraid of Criss, or any other gun shop commando, I say bring it on.
Hay that’s bold talk from an anonymous girl scout I would say!
ReplyDeleteMSF and the TARDS only sell you the chance to sleep in and eat those little cookies made with girl scouts day after day.
10:56
ReplyDeleteI think Criss would make you scream like a little girl scout.
this is a stupid thing to argue about everyone knows who the ultimate spec ops warriors are
ReplyDeleteWal-Mart Dorr Greeters (WDG) take names and kick ass. All they need is a freshly charged battery for their electric scooters, a loaded rifle, and a carton of Depends and they are ready to roll.
Last week I saw a WDG left a man up off the floor and give him a Darth Vader neck choke, all the while still handing out shopping carts with his other hand. "Thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart" really means.. "You made it out of here alive this time, punk".
Rumor is that the WDGs are genetically engineered to be super human. The CIA pumps full of Geritol and Centrum One A Day viatmins, giving them extra strength and endurance.
I would match a platoon of WDGs against any challengers, be it TARDS, Slut Dogs, Squaw cops, or gun shop commandos.
You people (yes I said “you people”) don’t have a clue, not one of you posers have ever been killed in mall protected by the MSF, I rest my case.
ReplyDeleteYou make sport of the fine men and (to a lesser degree) woman who stand on the wall, so shop in peace, ingrates.
I salute you MSF - SAA LUTE (2’)
To the gun store commando comment; You better stay anonymous
Hay mister Criss and the dude with him, that wasn't me I swear
ReplyDeleteMajor Bat Guano