Just bark no: Dr. Goodpet Laboratories of...
Just bark no: Dr. Goodpet Laboratories of Inglewood recently shipped two containers of its Maximum Protection nutritional supplements to Jane Gardener, a dog owner in Ottawa, Canada.
Gardener was stunned when a Canadian official mistakenly told her that she would have to pay a tax on Maximum Protection. Why? Canadian law “requires duty to be paid on all condoms.”
How about weather-casting?Terese Schwartz found a beauty salon in Encino that does nails and palms.
List of the day: Just so you won’t feel left out of the inauguration excitement, watching from afar in our little rain-soaked pueblo, we offer some L.A.-related presidential trivia.
* University High in West L.A. was originally called Warren G. Harding High. (No, we don’t know whether the school nickname was the Teapot Dome.)
* Richard M. Nixon made his famous you-won’t-have-Nixon-to-kick-around-anymore speech at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
* In Monterey Park’s Neighborhood of Obscure Presidents, you can experience the thrill of motoring on Polk Way, Tyler Drive, Van Buren Drive, Harrison Road, Buchanan Place, Pierce Place and, of course, Fillmore Drive.
* When Rutherford B. Hayes announced that he would become the first President to visit L.A. in 1888, the City Council quickly allocated funds for a banquet in his honor: $25.
* John F. Kennedy was nominated for President at the L.A. Sports Arena.
* George Bush was once in such a hurry to play tennis here that when he exited the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, he left behind his Secret Service bodyguards as well as the military aide who carries “the football”--the top-secret codes needed to launch a nuclear attack.
* When President Theodore Roosevelt came calling in 1903 he spoke at one of the most beautiful spots in the city--Pershing Square.
And you thought the holidays were over: Susan Liby just received her latest Cerritos College calendar of events, which advertises a Feb. 14 round-trip package from the school to the Costa Mesa performance of the Cirque du Soleil as “the perfect Christmas gift.”
(On the other hand, we still haven’t taken down our Christmas lights.)
We get the idea, Mother Nature: Joe Fox’s new play, which explores the feelings of residents caught up in the L.A. riots, is called “And It Never Rains . . . “
The title symbolizes the myth that life is always sunny in Southern California--a myth nicely underscored by the current onslaught. But, on a practical note, the play does open Wednesday night at the L.A. Theatre Center on Spring Street. And dry freeways would help attendance.
“Enough symbolism,” Fox pleaded with the heavens Monday. “God, I hope it stops raining before Wednesday.”
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Nicholas Lowe of the UCLA School of Medicine, who will deliver a lecture on “Ultraviolet Weather-Casting” today, is among the delegates to the 73rd annual--and very timely--American Meteorological Society convention at the Disneyland Hotel.
