Just So Long as the Mortuary Next Door Doesn’t Get the Wrong Customers
Talk about questionable product placement. Jeri Anderson spotted a Palmdale mortuary that was adjacent to a carpet company billboard carrying the slogan: “We’ve Got You Covered.”
The Pleiadeans are coming! The Pleiadeans are coming! Ever notice that flying saucers have a pretty rotten ETA record?
A few years ago, for instance, I wrote that the El Cajon-based Unarius Federation had announced that spaceships from the Pleiadean cluster of planets would plop down here in 2001 to induct Earth into the Interplanetary Confederation. (Surely, you attached that clipping to your refrigerator as a reminder, didn’t you?)
The group’s Web site (https://www.unarius.org) said the Pleiadeans were “Space Brothers . . . working for the benefit of humankind.” I was hoping the Space Brothers might get their message across through some interstellar rock tunes.
But 2001 is dwindling away. So I phoned Unarius to see if anything was up, or down. Spokeswoman Carol Robinson assured me that her group learned through “mental contacts” in October that the landings are near, though she couldn’t give an exact date.
And, she added, their arrival will be communicated “through the media.” I’m betting on the supermarket tabloids to get this scoop.
Third rock from the Sonny? Robinson mentioned that the Pleiadeans “don’t look that much different from ourselves,” and said some “may be” wandering among us now.
Funny thing. I studied the likeness of the Space Bro who appears on the Unarius Web site. And I got to wondering if it could have been a cleaned-up Pleiadean who posed for the recently unveiled statue that is supposed to show the late singer-legislator Sonny Bono (see photos).
Who’s sorry now? Richard Bye of Orange wondered whether a bank was apologizing to the customers or the employees for being open (see accompanying).
New cheer-lifting charges: My investigation into who originated Caltech’s “Tangent-secant-cosine” cheer has taken a dramatic turn. You’ll recall that in our last episode an MIT grad alleged that his school had it before Caltech did.
Now comes the testimony of Matthew D. Walker, who says that when he attended Carnegie Mellon University in the 1990s, “we had an old cheer book from the 1920s that we used in the band.”
It contained the same chant along with “a reference to C-I-T [Carnegie Institute of Technology], which merged in the 1950s with Mellon Institute to form Carnegie Mellon.”
Looks like Mellon deserves the credit, any way you slice it.
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I close today with a rousing cheer you’ll never hear at Caltech. John Scott of Sherman Oaks remembered it from his days at UC Davis, the noted veterinary school. All together now:
Bossy Cow Cow!
Honey Bee Bee!
Oleomargarine!
Oleo-butterine!
Alfalfa!
Hay!
I’m not sure that would alarm any rival teams, but it might scare off flying saucers.
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