Keep it up you two, you are hillarious !
The Facebook page certainly looks like a real “The City of Saint Louis” effort, all official-looking and government-sounding.
But then you run across an item like this one, from Thursday:
“At this time we would like to remind you that our citizens treat stop signs as yield signs. So please do not text and drive, you will need all the situational awareness you can get.”
Or maybe this notification from Wednesday:
“Due to the influx of butt-hurt we have received today, all safe spaces have now been put at the bottom of the Mississippi river to insure drowning. Once again, we don’t care about your hurt feelings. Thank you.”
As you may have guessed, this is not an official site of the city of St. Louis. (The abundance of humor should have been your first clue.)
Rather it is a collection of snarky, smart-alecky, satirical, snotty postings poking fun at everyone’s favorite Mississippi River city that is not a part of a county.
And it’s the brain(?)child of two north St. Louis County 20-somethings, now living in St. Charles, who admit they have a lot of time off and are easily bored.
“I’m laid off right now, so I’m kind of busy looking for things to fill up my time,” electrician Bruce Sweeten, 27, said. “And hey, I’ve been trolling the internet since ’96, so I thought why not?”
His partner in comedy is Alex Hanratty, 22, who described himself as “a laborer, with long weekends.”
Sweeten said he came up with the idea, then immediately took it to Hanratty, “because Alex is the funniest guy I know,” he said.
The two agreed to forge ahead with their under-analyzed, virtually planning-free effort. “I think we started it the day after the night we came up with the idea,” Sweeten said.
Take note that if the site offends or angers you, the pair doesn’t care. They have no problems throwing pointed barbs as well as broad ones. For example, this comes from Sunday:
“In an effort to quell police brutality, all officers will now be equipped with comically oversized boxing gloves.”
But the pair also advise against taking any of it too seriously.
“We love St. Louis, and that’s why we poke fun at it. If we didn’t love it, there wouldn’t be any tongue-in-cheek to our criticism,” Hanratty said.
Sweeten said the page has picked up 175,000 views and 2,400 likes, with an age demographic between 18 and 50 and a high percentage of first responders.
“I guess we should try to figure out a way to make money out of that,” he mused.
Both Sweeten and Hanratty did rush to make one fact clear.
“This is not politically motivated in any way. We’ve posted things that have made people call us Democrats and call us Trump supporters, in the same day,” Sweeten said.
Said Hanratty, “You can’t pay me enough to taint the page with a political party.”
Sweeten concluded, “We’re not here to cause divisions, just to have some fun.”
Then what about this post from Thursday?
“A reminder for your commute this morning: If you maintain the posted speed limit in the passing lane, and do not move over for faster traffic, the entire city hates you. You will be forcibly relocated to Illinois with the other inept drivers.”
Not wanting to causing divisions?
Said Sweeten, “OK, maybe when it comes to Illinois … ”
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