No realtor needed, though:We came upon a...
No realtor needed, though:
We came upon a “Pin Art” display in a Hallmark shop that included earrings in the shape of such miniature objects as a cat, a pair of tennis shoes, a golf cart--and a house.
The house had a tiny “For Sale” sign.
Alas, Hallmark wanted a 100% down payment.
CHEAPSKATE ALUMNI: It’s just a footnote in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” rankings, but it’s our favorite category--the percentage of alumni who contributed to their alma mammy’s fund-raising drives in the last two years. Brigham Young University (56%) had the most supportive grads of the 229 universities that were surveyed.
Southern California schools, by contrast, seem to have turned out more tightwads. Consider these percentages of contributors:
* Caltech: 32%
* La Verne: 23%
* Pepperdine: 15%
* UCLA: 15%
* USC: 12%
* UC Irvine: 11%
* San Diego State: 8%
* UC Riverside: 6%
* UC San Diego: 6%
And, to think, this is the region where the Beach Boys wrote, “Be True to Your School.”
SOMEONE’S WATCHING: Jim L. Roup shot an interesting juxtaposition of signs in Studio City (see photo). Makes you wonder if the patrons of the cocktail lounge/billiard parlor ever notice who’s next door.
BABBLE ON: We mentioned the assemblyman who wrote a constituent an odd note about a “Tichler’s Tax” (we think he meant “tippler’s tax”). Another Assembly member, Arcadia Republican Bob Margett, has just sent out a letter to Katie Cervenka of Claremont and others in his district, announcing that a change in the state speed limit is “emanate.”
Whoa, Assemblyman! Get that proofreader to slow down.
Of course, politicians aren’t the only ones who mangle the language.
Vinnie Piser of Tarzana saw a sign for a “Mooving” sale (Jerseys or Holsteins?). Dean Gatons of Highland snapped a photo of a market advertising “produs.” And J.B. of L.A. found a for-sale notice for a condo with that most unusual of ambulatory units--a “walking closet.” Not to mention a “Yacuzy” (isn’t that the Japanese Mafia?).
But, no one’s perfect. We said that a former Pasadena city councilman had been “censored,” when we meant “censured.” Charles Rozner of Northridge and several other members of the Language Police Irregulars reminded us with Yacuzy-like ruthlessness.
miscelLAny Paul Andrews, developer of the Whole Life Expo (Oct. 6-8 at the LAX Airport Hilton), says he got into the so-called human-potential movement as the result of an “out-of-body-experience.” It happened after he was thrown from a truck that was traveling 70 m.p.h. Have you noticed how every story in L.A. has a traffic angle?