Get Me to the Rink on Time
The flower girl sprinkled hockey pucks, not rose petals, in the path of the bride on the carpeted ice.
“Who gives this woman to be married to this man?” asked the minister, who wore a hockey referee’s striped shirt.
“Arf, arf,” responded the mascot of the Long Beach Ice Dogs.
Such was the tender scene at the wedding of Jeff Munson, 29, and Missy Garcia, 26, during an intermission of the Ice Dogs-Kansas City Blades game at the Long Beach Arena.
“We both love hockey,” explained Munson.
After the I Do’s, the spectators were invited to join an arm-flapping dance known as The Chicken with the happy couple.
The only hitch in the proceedings came later, during the second period of the game, when Garcia attempted to throw her bouquet to the spectators and part of it fell on the ice. Thus followed what could be the first interruption of a hockey game for the cleanup of flowers.
Oh, yes, the Zamboni ice-resurfacing machines carried “Just Married” signs.
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FOR HAIR-RAZING EXPERIENCES: Sarabeth Rothfeld and Alan Frisbie found haircutting businesses with multicultural names.
Actually, the owner of Ricardo’s Kosher Barber Shop told Frisbie that by “kosher” he meant “orthodox or traditional” to show that his is “an old-fashioned barbershop.”
Mary Harris of West L.A., meanwhile, spotted an offer from a third hair salon that seemed directed toward those who had just been subjected to bad hair cuts (see accompanying). That also sounds kosher to me.
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ANOTHER Y2K ISSUE: Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, who won a Grammy here last week for their comedy album, “The 2,000 Year Old Man in the Year 2,000,” were asked for some tips for living to the age of 2,000 by Modern Maturity Magazine.
“Number one: Never run for a bus,” Reiner said.
“Number two: Never touch fried foods,” Brooks added. “Eat plenty of garlic so the angel of death won’t kiss you.”
Brooks’ 2,000 Year Old Man, by the way, is a 1,950-year subscriber to Modern Maturity
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BLAME IT ON A GANG OF SCRIPTWRITERS: Every time Rick Rofman of Van Nuys hears of another robbery of Wells Fargo on KNX-AM radio (1070), he wonders how the bank feels about the negative publicity.
The recent crime wave has included the holdup of a Wells Fargo office on “Gunsmoke” on Feb. 12, a $200,000 stickup of a Wells Fargo stagecoach Feb. 22 on “The Lone Ranger,” and the robbery of a Wells Fargo office on “The Six-Shooter” on Feb. 24. All reported on the “KNX Radio Drama Hour.”
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YOU THINK PANHANDLERS ARE NEW HERE? Nearly half a century ago Times columnist Gene Sherman wrote: “Trees around Southern California impressed Tony Marez, a vacationer from New York. Who observed the other day that he noted a number of varieties of palms, hereabouts. Including the outstretched.”
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THE SUSPENSE WAS BUILDING: On the Saturday afternoon sports show of KCBS-TV, Channel 2, a scoreboard graphic indicated that the basketball teams of USC and Washington State were tied 0-0 at “19:55 First (Half).”
Meaning that the game was 5 seconds old.
Amazing isn’t it, how quickly vital information can be transmitted these days?
miscelLAny:
My daughter Sarah and I attended a stage production of “My Fair Lady” at the stately Alex Theater in Glendale and enjoyed it hugely. Only an 11-year-old would point out that the curtain backdrop representing Prof. Henry Higgins’ brick mansion began flapping at an inopportune time--just as Eliza Doolittle’s suitor sang, “I have often walked down this street before, but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before. . . . “
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