A Reunion No-Show With a Good Alibi

County supervisorial aide Cam Currier, a graduate of Muir High in Pasadena (class of ‘63), received a list of alumni not expected to attend the 35-year reunion.

Among the missing: “Sirhan Sirhan . . . prison for life, California.”

ORDER IN THE COURT! ORDER IN THE COURT! A lawyer’s brief, submitted to the state Court of Appeal in Los Angeles, included this statement: “Requests for consolidation upon stipulation of the panties may be, and normally are, granted.”

Perhaps brief was the wrong word to use.

DUELING BUSINESSES: Leon Totten III of La Quinta came across a company that must keep its two products on opposite sides of the factory (see photo).

MAKING A SPLASH AGAIN: The Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific is set to open in June. But an aquatic park predecessor, Marineland, hasn’t been forgotten. Former employees of Marineland, which closed in 1987, are invited to a Sept. 13 reunion on the construction site of the Long Beach Aquarium.

I think the invitation should also be extended to a couple of unpaid jockeys at Marineland--two guys from Rolling Hills Estates who were arrested by guards after sneaking into the park late one January 1987 night and riding killer whales Corky and Orky.

“I was leaning back on the dorsal fin,” one of the men recalled after the incident.

“Then we were standing on the whales and surfing. I don’t think we would have gotten caught but my buddy was getting pretty loud. It was so much fun it was hard not to laugh out loud.”

An L.A. County sheriff’s deputy later said the men were fortunate that they escaped in one piece. “I think the whales were probably a little disappointed that they swam around the tank with them and then didn’t get their mackerel,” he explained.

TALK ABOUT AN UNUSUAL RIDE. . . . : An ad in a weekly newspaper made Jim Lee of Torrance wonder how safe a car with a paperwork transmission might be (see ad).

MILLENNIAL MUSINGS (CONT.): Here I thought I was ahead of everyone else, worrying about what the years 2000 to 2010 will be nicknamed, and it turns out cartoonist Keith Robinson addressed the problem in 1993.

Robinson, whose “Making It” comic strip runs in the Easy Reader newspaper in the South Bay, had one sunbather ask another, “Um . . . OK, if these are the Nineties, what will the next decade be called?”

Second sunbather, consulting his “Stylus-Input Power Notebook Computer With Cellular Modem Link to the 24-Hour-a-Day Trend Council Bulletin Board”: “All right . . . logging on password, ‘Starbucks’ . . . ah yes, here it is: ‘It will be trendy to refer to the year 2000 as Twenty Zip or just Zip for short. The decade will be the Zips or the Zippies, if you prefer.’ ”

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Among the stolen items listed in the Long Beach Press Telegram’s “crime watch,” points out Dana Chavez, was one “lock pick set” taken “from an unlocked car.”

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Steve Harvey can be reached by phone at (213) 237-7083, by fax at (213) 237-4712, by e-mail at steve.harvey@latimes.com and by mail at Metro, L.A. Times, Times Mirror Square, L.A. 90053.