Freedom of Peach? Someone’s a Little Fuzzy on Their Facts
OK, class, come to order. Time to review high school teacher Juel Goldstock’s latest collection of student-mangled phrases:
* Of all the freedoms, my favorite is the Freedom of Peach.
* He was born in Taxes.
* I’ll see you at the Mary Queen.
* She bought two bags of candy -- M&M;’s and Reese’s Recess.
* We’re reading “Lord of the Fries.”
* Mr. Goldstock, thank you. Your class helped me develop writting skills. It improved my speling and punctuation.
Hey, at least the kid knew how to spel “punctuation.”
A new direction in one’s life? No, actually, the sign that Brad Alan Lewis of Garden Grove spotted in London signified that the right-of-way situation ahead had been altered (see photo).
Delicious mystery: Mary Anderson of Culver City spotted a flier about a missing tortoise who I suspect may have run away to avoid being eaten (see accompanying).
Sort of difficult to see through: Cal Porter of Malibu found a house with some unusual glass (see accompanying).
Ride-along or ride-alone? Did you hear about the 20-year-old man who allegedly went joy-riding in an L.A. County sheriff’s car early Wednesday?
Earlier in the evening, he had presented himself as an Explorer Scout with the Long Beach Police Department, Associated Press said. No such record of his name has been found.
Anyway, he talked his way into a ride-along with a deputy.
When the deputy’s shift ended, the alleged Scout -- identified as Steven Funderburk -- asked to retrieve his bag from the unattended car in the parking lot. He then allegedly sped off and was finally talked into surrendering after a chase that went through Compton, Long Beach and Westminster.
At least authorities didn’t have to chase him all the way to Taxes.
History comes full circle: USC’s decision to ban the sale of beer at its football games at the Coliseum should come as no surprise, points out grad Cliff Dektar. After all, early last century, before becoming the Trojans, USC’s football team was called the Methodists. And, notes Dektar, the Methodists who founded the school looked down on drinking (a view not shared by later generations of fraternity men).
miscelLAny: KFWB-AM (980) quoted an observer who quipped that the world gets a new pope and the Cardinals, Padres and Angels are all off to impressive starts. OK, but seems like the Angels could use a few heaven-sent batters.
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