Prep School Might Offer a Crash Course for Would-Be California Governors

Mark Scott of Chino Hills reports he drove by a prep school near Boston that seemed like an “appropriate training facility” for the candidates in California’s recall election (see photo).

First, the worm alert ... : Now, points out Cammy Kingan of El Monte, there’s evidently another creature invading the Internet (see accompanying).

Faith and begorra! Judi Feutz of Stanton says it only appears that one airport in Ireland boasts the world’s most expensive pay toilets (see photo).

Ah, smack him with a broomstick: Jeanne Duncan of Moorpark sent along a typo that she thought “was pretty funny until my stepson said one witch was enough in our house” (see accompanying).

Fiscal solution? The report that apologetic adulterer Kobe Bryant had purchased a $4-million diamond ring for his wife prompted this in Tom FitzGerald’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Gov. Davis is hoping for a few more Laker affairs.... The sales-tax revenue from the diamond-ring purchases will take the budget deficit off his back.”

Something smelled: Mention was made here of Upland’s Nose-Holding Man, a sort of reverse greeter who would brandish his cane at passing motorists while gripping his schnoz in disapproval.

The anti-pollution activist would yell “Put the tailpipe in the dash” at drivers who stopped at his traffic light.

Then the Nose-Holding Man disappeared from his morning corner.

Columnist David Allen of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin sniffed around and came up with a shocker: Nose-Holding has been holding the steering wheel of a truck he now drives.

One cafe owner told Allen that when Nose-Holding stopped in “he was frustrated with his truck because it wasn’t working right.” Observed Allen: “Wait’ll his vehicle license fee triples. Then we’ll see frustration.”

miscelLAny: I spotted a car with a bumper sticker that said, “You all laugh because I’m different. I laugh because you’re all the same.” The rugged individualist was driving a Chevrolet.

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