Hear, hear!The awards ceremony at Newcomb Academy...
Hear, hear!
The awards ceremony at Newcomb Academy for Academic Excellence was held up briefly when a kindergartner failed to come up to receive his commendation. After his name was called a couple more times, the Long Beach lad finally came forward to accept his award.
For being a “Good Listener.”
MYSTERY OF THE WEEK: It concerns 2,000 garments from Hong Kong that were donated to the Beacon House rehab facility in the Port of L.A.
“Some company must have ordered them and gone out of business,” said Art Vinsel of San Pedro-based Beacon House. “So they sat in the warehouse for a year or so and then were given to us.”
But what are they? Their neck sizes seem too small for infants.
Executive Director Mary Proper, who has grandchildren, theorized that they might be teddy bear sweaters.
Volunteer staffer Robert “Scotty” Meighan speculated that they could be pajama bottoms for female dogs. (Is there a Frederick’s of Doggywood in L.A.?)
Beacon House will find a use for them, Vinsel said, if only as rags for carwashes.
RARE BIRD: It’s been five years since the Penguin Cafe breathed its last in Santa Monica. But the restaurant’s tuxedoed mascot has not left its perch.
When a dental clinic moved in, the bird was kept as a historical marker at the request of residents.
Who cares if it’s a questionable symbol for a dentist? A penguin is, after all, toothless.
THANKS FOR THE WARNING: Jeff Jost of West Hills spotted an ad for a house whose features include “walk-in fireplaces.” Comments Jost: “It’s been on the market for a while. Could be the prospective buyers are entering the ‘walk-in fireplaces’ and never making it back out.”
LIST OF THE DAY: Here are a couple of suggestions from the Halloween Club, which is a chain store--and a whip store, a bludgeon store and, well, you get the idea:
* “Decorate your living room with your own electrocution chair.” The $6,900 hot seat comes with a dummy that screams at the appropriate moment.
* “Have your personal pendulum/ax.” A $2,500 display that includes a 10-foot-tall swinging pendulum along with a figure who loses his head.
SAFETY TIP: Methodist Hospital in Arcadia reminds pumpkin sculptors: “Don’t drink alcohol and carve. Appoint a designated carver.”
WE KNOW DON QUIXOTE. DON QUIXOTE IS A FRIEND OF OURS: A colleague phoned Ticketmaster to ask about the performance schedule of the Bolshoi Ballet at the Shrine Auditorium.
“ ‘Swan Lake’ on Friday night, on Saturday ‘Don Q-u-i-x-o-t-e’ will be there,” said the clerk, spelling out the name letter by letter. “And he’ll be back for another show on Sunday. . . .”
Now you know why Ticketmaster has such high service charges--supplying that kind of expertise costs money.
miscelLAny:
The program director of KMEN radio in San Bernardino is Harley Davidson. Naturally, the station plays rock ‘n’ roll.
