Affecting Change in Montgomery County
As per one of my earlier rants, Bank of America seems to have gotten it together with their “Montogmery County Code” misspelling:
That didn’t take too long. I’d like to think I played a small part in this, but I’d love to know if that was actually the case. If any readers out there have intel on the small impact ThayerAvenue.com played in cleaning up the community, I’d love to hear about it.
On a different note…
After a last-second flurry of bidding activity, I lost the race for the venerable Silver Spring ashtry/bottle opener courtesy of someone up in Maine. I heard through the grapevine that the onscreen alias of the winning bidder actually belongs to the venerable head of the Silver Spring Historical Society. And let it be known that with a mere 5 seconds to go, I had the winning bid. The winning bidder, oddly enough, only submitted one bid with a second to spare. I suspect foul play through the use of an auction sniper program, and I’m not too happy about it. Suck it up and play like a normal person.
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That’s good. Now who’s gonna get the new(ish) bank under twin towers to realize that the person putting up their “ATM ON FIDDLER LANE” window decal was standing all of 15 yards from the street sign that says “FIDLER LANE” when they put it up!
There’s gotta be a superhero for this sort of thing…
It’s Grammar Man/Girl/Woman! Faster than a prepositional phrase. More verbose than a legislator. Able to hit a triple-word score with J, X, and Z in a single turn!
Then the question would be: what serves as “kryptonite?” Crossword puzzles? Sentence diagramming? William Faulkner?
If it makes you feel any better, I was at the antique mall up in Savage, MD this past weekend and I saw the EXACT SAME ASHTRAY, only painted differently with a sign that read “New Orleans” instead of Silver Spring. You could just go up there and get it for $12 and re-paint it to get the exact same thing.
Yeah, I figured it was something like that. Makes me feel better, at least, that my bidding almost doubled the final price paid.
Eric,
I’m happy that the 501(c)3 Silver Spring Historical Society, who purchased the Silver Spring ashtray on eBay, was able to make you “feel better” as a result of your bidding requiring the us to pay more money than we had too.
Once this artifact is received, it will be go on permanent display (along with other Silver Spring advertising memorabilia) in Silver Spring’s restored 1945 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, located at 8100 Georgia Avenue. The station is open the first Saturday of each month, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
I welcome the public to visit the station and view the many pieces of Silver Spring’s heritage that have been returned to our community…many via purchases on eBay but mostly through the generosity of donors.
Sincerely,
Jerry A. McCoy
President
Silver Spring Historical Society
Hey – I’m just trying to help a brother out, you know? I would have paid up to $40 for it at the time, but how was I to know my $33 bid would get sniped out from under me at the last second? Price gouging wasn’t my goal – just an unfortunate consequence of your bidding strategy.
Kryptonite: improper use of the “apostrophe-s”. Or perhaps the letter K, as in “Kountry Kitchen.”
Or bastards who mooch on a kick-ass scrabble word by adding an “s” at the end.
Scrabble mooches rock. Especially when the “s” is added to a triple word score.