Former Co-Anchors to Give a Wide Berth

You wonder if it’ll work out better this time.

A full-page ad in Senior Life magazine, touting an entertainment-themed AARP convention, shows a director’s clapboard with these words: “Location -- Anaheim ... Date -- Oct. 26-28 ... The Anchors -- Dan Rather and Connie Chung.” Yes, the one-time odd couple of network news, together again!

You may recall that they didn’t get along so well during the two years they were co-anchors at CBS in the 1990s, a relationship that ended when Chung was sacked from the team.

Now that the careers of both are on the wane, it will be interesting to see if the two patch up things. One can almost imagine Rather whispering to himself beforehand, “Courage.”

Cut! Take 2.

A check of the AARP website shows that, despite what the ad implies, Rather and Chung will speak on separate days.

Just two ex-anchors, passing in the night.

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Win nothing! After seeing a sign in Commerce, Jeff Harris of Seal Beach commented: “I’m not sure how long the lines were for purchasing lottery tickets” (see photo).

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What did that say? Hagerty Collector Network, a network of specialty services for car and boat collectors, asked its customers to photograph “America’s wackiest road signs.” Several of the candidates (see photos) were spotted in Southern California, including a parking lot that was full of empty spaces.

Alas, none of L.A.’s entries placed in Hagerty’s top 10.

The Midwest supplied the winner -- a notice about a cow that had a little mileage on it -- and a runner-up -- a duck crossing that sure didn’t look like a duck crossing.

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Unclear on the concept: Lately I’ve talked about folks who embellish the familiar red octagonal traffic signs so that they say: “STOP Eating Animals.”

And others who have lengthened those signs to say “STOP Eating Animals Without Steak Sauce.”

But it isn’t only activists and jokesters who come up with confusing stop sign combinations, as Rolf Berschneider of Westwood found.

Sometimes traffic agencies are the culprits (see photo).

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He likes his own better: Emmanuel Salazar, a third-grader at San Rafael Elementary School in Pasadena, wrote an essay about a visit to Universal Studios where the scary attractions included an opportunity to “go in the Mummy’s tomb.” Added Emmanuel: “I always want my mummy when we go in there.”

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miscelLAny: In the thanks-for-the-warning department, Leonard Grayver saw an ad in a real estate publication for a house-to-share plan in Westwood that offered “hostile-style” living.

Now, hostel-style living, I could see.

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