Resident Says Dog Is Guarding Temporary Home Too Well
I’ve heard of pets taking over households, but this is ridiculous.
The crime log of the Seal Beach Sun reported that a resident who was watching a friend’s dog complained that the animal “would not allow the resident to enter her own home.”
While we’re on the subject: Claire Chessman saw an ad for a “boarder” collie. I suspect it was supposed to be the “border” variety (unless it referred to the pooch in the first item).
Fountain of youth? “I found where I want to go for day care in my autumn years,” wrote Elizabeth Johnston of Granada Hills (see photo).
“It is supervised, in case I break a hip going down the slide.”
This is really a dirty job: Chuck Christ of West Hollywood was one of several readers who noticed that the description of the young lady in a Halloween costume ad indicated she had gone underground (see accompanying).
“Maybe she’s a spy,” Christ said.
Holy smokes! In Cornwall, England, Linda Hall chanced upon a sign that probably wouldn’t get many laughs in Vatican City (see photo).
Actually “Popes” is the name of the real estate agent.
Palisades’ complaint of the week: In the Palisadian-Post, an irritated resident wrote that children should be forbidden to ride their bikes in neighborhoods between 1 and 3 p.m. because they’re too noisy.
Welcome to L.A.! In the new detective movie “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” Midwesterner Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) arrives in L.A. and is promptly beaten up, shot at, mutilated (part of his finger is chopped off), visited by a dead body in his hotel room and grabbed by kidnappers who strap electrodes to his body.
Then one of the kidnappers says to him: “I hope you don’t judge Los Angeles based solely on your experience tonight.” What? Like this wasn’t a typical night in L.A.
miscelLAny: Mention was made here that Pomona has no functioning movie theaters. But a reader informed columnist David Allen of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin that that’s only true of the Pomona in L.A. County.
Pomona, Australia, has what is billed as the world’s oldest silent movie house.
The rural town’s motto is: “Luckily, progress has largely passed Pomona by.” Seems to be true of more than one Pomona.
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