Deane’s world: Someone has been affixing stickers...

Deane’s world: Someone has been affixing stickers to the self-congratulatory posters and billboards of a certain L.A. County supervisor.

“It must be a fan of ‘Wayne’s World,’ ” theorized Mike Kerrigan of Torrance, referring to comics Garth and Wayne, whose trademark is a statement followed by the word not.

Richard Creamer of Hollywood also spotted the appended Deane Dana ads (see photo).

Such shenanigans aren’t, of course, new. Supporters of onetime Sen. Barry Goldwater and his son, onetime Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr., used to alter the Coldwater Canyon Boulevard signs. Liberal types, meanwhile, have posted BUSH stickers beneath the lettering of STOP signs.

With an election coming up, it’s time for the Dana forces to take action. They can paste on their own stickers that say, “Is too!”

Did Ken know, Barbie?Local tidbits concerning the life of Michael Milken, the Beverly Hills junk bond felon, from James B. Stewart’s best-selling “Den of Thieves”:

* A high-strung Milken employee once “started raving hysterically when his phone line went dead during an important conversation with a client.” It turned out that the employee had “chewed through the phone cord.”

* A stripper, hired by Milken’s staff as a gag birthday gift, was dancing around his desk when his phone rang. To escape the stripper, “Milken ducked down under the desk, still gripping his phone.”

* During the 1985 “Predators Ball” of corporate raiders at the Beverly Hilton, a special show was staged by Mattel, then a client of Milken’s Drexel Burnham Lambert firm. The mostly male attendees were treated to a “parade of buxom models dressed in full-size counterparts of Oscar de la Renta’s new line of Barbie doll evening gowns.”

* A public relations team, hired by Milken to spruce up his image when he was under investigation, asked him to list his principal achievements. Among those mentioned: “Winning a dance contest in fifth grade.”

Dueling takeouts: Diners at an El Pollo Loco in Sherman Oaks were amused to see a delivery man show up with a Domino’s pizza for the restaurant workers. The deliveryman didn’t leave empty-handed. He left with an order of pollo .

What’s Latin for ‘Your book is overdue’?Our mention of small mysteries along the streets of L.A. prompted Robert Sharp of South Pasadena to ask the meaning of this inscription on the temporarily closed Central Public Library: Et Quasi Cursores Vitai Lampada Tradunt.

“My daughter is taking Latin,” Sharp continued, “but the best she could some up with was: And As Though Why Sister Avoid Life. “

That sounded good to us. But, just to be safe, we checked. Librarian Tom Owen quoted a 66-year-old publication that gave a different translation: Like Runners Passing On the Lamp of Light.

As for his daughter’s version, Sharp added: “It’s just as well. She is unlikely to meet many Romans on the streets these days.”

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The sermons of L.A. evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson were broadcast in the 1920s over radio station KFSG, which stood for Kalling Foursquare Gospel (the name of her church).

RICHARD CREAMER / For The Times