Untruth in Nonadvertising

by Kieran Healy on March 2, 2007

Via Gruber, comes a post about The Boring Store, which sells nothing of utility and definitely does NOT contain assorted spy equipment. Here’s a part of the awning:

{ 10 comments }

1 swampcracker 03.02.07 at 6:33 pm

Subversiveness after my own heart. Add not a penny to our capitalist economy (while making fun of crassholes at the same time).

2 Chris Bertram 03.02.07 at 7:04 pm

Casati & Varzi?

3 Richard Zach 03.02.07 at 7:04 pm

Looks even better than the Pirate Supply Store.

4 abb1 03.02.07 at 7:31 pm

What the hell is an underwater voice amplifier?

5 eudoxis 03.02.07 at 7:32 pm

Great website, too.
TheBoringStore.com

6 Claire M. 03.02.07 at 7:49 pm

This could be used as aversion therapy for compulsive spenders.

7 Richard 03.02.07 at 8:33 pm

This is the best one so far. Even better than the superhero supply store in Brooklyn.

8 Uncle Kvetch 03.02.07 at 9:26 pm

And the Grot was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

9 bill in Turkey 03.05.07 at 2:56 pm

So what exactly am I supposed to do if I need a gimlet (or other boring tool)? Contact a civil engineer, as the Yellow Pages used to suggest in Britain?

10 ajay 03.05.07 at 5:04 pm

Boring – see Civil Engineers

And the other Yellow Pages joke that Erection Engineers are found between Escort Agencies and Earth Moving.

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