ALAN writes:

Here are a few things I have seen since the year 2000:

— A jewelry store is selling “braclets.”

— Sign on movie theater building that is closed:  “CLOE.”

— Sign at meeting hall:  “Large crowd excepted.”

— Sign on church:  “Enterance.”

— I can find “RASIN BRAN” cereal on sale at Walgreens.

— A newspaper death notice reports that a woman has “joined the angles.”

— Sign at doctor’s office:  “No controlled drugs are kept on these premesis.”

— A Burger King restaurant is offering “Crossiants.”

— American astronaut Alan Shepard was a national hero in 1961.  An exhibit in 2008 at the Missouri History Museum referred to him as “Alan Shephard.”

— St. Louis Public Library writes about its “odessey” not just once but three times in the same newsletter.

Apparently people who work in such places and perpetrate such things are unable to find a dictionary.

— Sign on door of business:  “This office will be closed in osbervence of Presidents’s Day.”

— Sign at Walgreens:  “Get Christmas Gift Cads Here.”

— Sign on wall in copy store:  “Tardiness will not be tollerated.”

— Sign at Metro Link platform informs passengers of summer activities involving the “St. Loius Cardinals.”

— Sign at church:  “Jesus Really Love’s You.”

— TV news reporter “Stephanie” reports a crime that took place on “South Ground Boulevard.”  There is no such location.  It is “South Grand Blvd.”

— Signs at Metro Link stations in downtown St. Louis inform passengers that elevators at five stations will be closed for five months for repairs.

— A book published in 2001 tells us that the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is built of “shinny stainless steel.”

— A photograph in the same book has this caption:  “This is Third Street…..in the early 19th century”  — even though streetlights and automobiles are plainly visible in the picture.

— Recorded messages on National Weather Radio in St. Louis inform listeners that storm warnings include “Lakeeshur” and “Estee Clair County.” There are no such places.  “Lakeeshur” is Lakeshire and “Estee Clair County” is St. Clair County.

— In Jan. 2004 at a busy intersection, an electronic time/temperature sign gives temperature as 62 degrees. Actually it was 20 degrees.

— In Aug. 2004, the same sign gave temperature as 29 degrees.  Actually it was 74 degrees.

— One day when I was on a bus, the flashing electronic sign on the bus read “10:37 a.m.”  Actually it was 4:15 p.m.  But in one of those inexplicable marvels of the universe, it remained “10:37 a.m.” for the next half hour. Advanced technology in the hands of barbarians.

— An automobile service company in south St. Louis hangs a sign on its building reading “NOW HIRING. HELP WANTED.”  It has been there for four months.

Huge buildings were conceived, designed, and built by American men in St. Louis a hundred years ago.  Washington Avenue, the main street downtown, is lined with such buildings.  They were used as office buildings, factories, department stores, wholesale and retail businesses, hotels, private clubs, and warehouses with huge storerooms below ground level.  Elegant lobbies and architectural detail on building exteriors are silent testimony to the talent and capability of those men.  Many such buildings now stand half-empty or vacant for years; some are in disrepair; few are appreciated.  Such buildings were once included on walking tours downtown.  But such tours are not given anymore because it would be too dangerous—because what is called “The Law” in St. Louis makes it that way by its neglect, incompetence, coddling of criminals, and hatred of accountability, not to mention its top-to-bottom corruption by feminism.

On Fourteenth Street in St. Louis, a monument commemorates the founding of the American Legion in St. Louis in 1919.  It includes a perpetual flame and the words “LIBERTY IS NOT LICENSE.”  It stood there in a park-like setting, two blocks from City Hall, with no barriers around it for a hundred years. But recently an iron-link fence was erected around it—because bums and other degenerates kept sitting on it and loitering around it.  An iron-link fence is a feminized response to rule-breaking.  It is another proof of the moral rot that characterizes “The Law” in St. Louis.

We can learn many things from such absurdities.  In the 1950s, elevators not working would have been repaired within days.  If an elevator in Tokyo is not working today, Japanese men—competent and confident as American men once were, before they agreed to become feminized—would have it working tomorrow.

That a company is looking for hired help for four months indicates there are no men left who are competent to do the job or who want to do it or that the competent ones have all moved away to escape from a dying city.

— Comments —

Michael writes:

Regarding the Gateway Arch: well, I always did want to give it a kick in the shin to see if it would say “ouch.”

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