I love The Tree. In case you hadn't noticed, he's one of the inner circle sycophants over at the ministry, and represents one of the very few stores to carry the Preacher's cane juice rums.
I was doing a search on Tommy Bahama for current pricing (yes, it keeps falling) when I happened upon a Shillery thread on this subject. Lew Barrett had just gotten done trashing Tommy on the basis that "I generally view products so branded with suspicion from the outset, and never more than when a designer or celebrity label is attached to the package.".
This is the kind of brave and powerful statement that pile on experts just love to jump in on, and there is no better than The Tree, the man of the lower case "i":
But hey, let's be fair!The Tree: "i am so with you on that..
i would include 'over-packaging' as a disincentive to purchase, but that is another story..."
The Tree, er man, has the right to such an opinion. At least until you consider his complete reversal when he gushes over Ron de Jeremy, "Coming soooon!", celebrity label rum. Which unlike TB, actually has a picture of big-dicked Jeremy right on the bottle.
But hey, let's really be fair.The Tree: "i will agree with Adam! Don Pancho is the man . . . behind the Ron de Jeremy.... and Don Pancho ROCKS, , so i say bring it on! i am WILLING!"
Do adjectives like hypocritical or opportunistic uh, come to mind? Or to hand for that matter? To be fair this is par for the course over at the zoo. When a website is dominated by a (forgive me) handful of insider pros - all desperate for reputation enhancing attention...
They are likely to to jump in, join in and elbow their way to the front of the parade...
