Hold the anchovies:The journal, “The Chronicle of...

Hold the anchovies:

The journal, “The Chronicle of Higher Education,” receives high marks in our book for reprinting a wacky typo that appeared in a UC Riverside study. The Riverside writer confused Pepperdine University with a pizza topping.

Of course, pizza does have a prominent place in our culture. A while back, a Westside elementary school student was asked to name the subject of the movie, “Amadeus.”

She responded, “Wolfgang Puck.”

LEARNING CURB: In Encino, Wayne Henderson came upon a notice that informed residents that a group would be painting house numbers on the curb and that a donation of $10 would be gladly “accept.”

The notice included a reminder that painted numbers help police and “emergence” vehicles. The group added that it’s “non prophet,” and said it was made up of students trying “to support their Education.”

No doubt they have their eyes on Pepperoni.

THE AGENCY MUST BE ORANGE--FACED: Joy Muraoka of Gardena, meanwhile, gives Caltrans a bad spelling grade for a sign that popped up on the Harbor Freeway. Or maybe it was subcontracted to the Encino house-number painters. Anyway, it has since been corrected.

THE CASE OF THE SIDEWALK WITH TWO RED SHOES (CONT.): Kathleen Tobin of Sierra Madre thinks she may have a clue in the mystery, which recently was brought to light in a photo by Carolee Snyder. The photo showed a pair of fashionable, but abandoned shoes on a street corner in Pacific Palisades.

Tobin spotted a crime report in a Sierra Madre newspaper that included this item:

“Theft . . . Unknown person(s) stole a pair of dancing shoes from an unlocked vehicle parked in a residential driveway.”

She speculates that “the dancer-thief” could have nabbed the wrong size--”thieves must take whatever is available”--then “abandoned them when his/her feet swelled up.”

While she’s on the subject, Tobin feels that the newspaper’s crime log is unique in that it even “tells the thieves what they forgot to take.”

One report of another theft recounts what was stolen but adds that “the suspects did not take numerous power tools locked in the open bed of a pickup truck.” Says Tobin: “It’s sort of ‘Na-Na-Na-Na-Na’ in print.”

NO--BUT WE MET A GUY IN A BAR WHO HAS ONE: A colleague of ours received a call from the San Francisco Center for Investigative Reporting, which wondered if The Times had a phone number for the National Rifle Assn.

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There are a lot of sticklers for accuracy in the Southland, and we find it reassuring that they have other targets besides Only in L.A. Take the star honoring a famous rock group on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The group is identified only as “Beach Boys” on the bronze plaque. A fan with a grease pencil has added “The” to the name. In its defense, we should point out the Walk of Fame is a non prophet group.