Signaling That Peace Is Probably Not Just Around the Corner

Jeff Bliss, a visitor from Palo Alto, spotted a bumper sticker in Santa Monica that declared: “World peace begins with turn signals.” Judging from all the Westside drivers he saw slashing in and out of traffic, Bliss fears that world peace may be a way off.

Blame it on the I-5: Speaking of traffic, ex-Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda recently told USA Today: “Somebody asked me once if it was the stress of managing that put me in the hospital, and I said no. It was the stress of driving on the freeways.” Lasorda had to make the trek to Dodger Stadium from his home in Fullerton -- too much to ask of any man.

Now this sounds really stressful: On a visit to Honolulu, Karl Kime of Glendale noticed an ad for a hair-braiding salon that offered one procedure in which an opening is made in the customer’s skull (see accompanying). And no, I don’t know what “cornrolls” are either.

This is also hard to swallow: Jay Berman of Manhattan Beach saw a Cuban brand name that he figures “might not make it in the U.S., what with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and all” (see accompanying).

A choice, not an echo: Harold Durlan of Claremont points out that one angle overlooked in the recent elections was the imaginative proposal by a council candidate in that city to examine the scientific and commercial uses of misshaped little people (see accompanying).

A neighbor who’s too un-noisy? The Seal Beach Sun carried a police blotter item about a resident who “reported that another resident stays inside his apartment for a long time. The resident felt that something must be going on inside.”

Where the customer’s always wrong: Raymond Kissack of Santa Monica spotted a defiant note to diners in one Cabo San Lucas restaurant (see photo).

Just wondering: My gas station is advertising a drawing for a giveaway of a purple-and-gold “Lakerized” 2005 Scion. Does being “Lakerized” mean it will run out of gas every night?

miscelLAny: In the current issue of San Diego magazine, Padres broadcaster Jerry Coleman, a Baseball Hall of Fame member, denied one malapropism attributed to him years ago.

Coleman supposedly said at the time that a pitcher was “throwing up in the bullpen,” adding, “Of course, if you pitched like him [the player in the bullpen], you’d be throwing up too.” In reality, Coleman told the magazine, “What I said was, ‘He’s out there throwing them up.’ ”

I’m glad Coleman didn’t deny my favorite line of his: “There’s a fly to deep centerfield. Winfield is going back, back! He hits his head against the wall! It’s rolling toward second base!”

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