Could Separate Bedrooms Be in These Honeymooners’ Future?

It sounds like a Vince Vaughn/Will Ferrell movie plot. Steven Edward sent me a clipping from the Burbank Leader about a couple who united in marital bliss and then “took separate honeymoons.”

The bride, a Cal State Northridge grad, “traveled to Europe, and the groom went hunting. Upon returning, the couple have made Phoenix their home.”

I guess they’ll have separate honeymoon scrapbooks.

It’s been cursed for a long time: For an unassuming town, Ontario seems to attract its share of knocks.

You may have heard about the minister who stood up at a City Council meeting the other day and placed a curse on the city manager, his wife and children -- although he doesn’t have any. (The minister has been feuding with the city.)

There was the time at the L.A. County Fair in Pomona when singer Jackson Browne summed up the city’s attractions this way: “Ontario is where they re-route you if you’re fogged in at LAX.”

Then there was the case of the snafu on the Weather Channel’s website in 1998, when the city was inexplicably attacked (see accompanying). Sure, it gets a little hot in the summer but....

Harvey’s Hall of Oddities (cont.): These exhibits include:

* A laundry that offers a strange freebie, snapped by an anonymous reader (see photo).

* Evidence, unearthed by Dan Fink of L.A., that the price of a square foot of deck has gone through the roof (see accompanying).

* And, in the unclear-on-the-concept category, a piece of mail that business manager Al Sanchez received at a mission (see accompanying).

Something else to squawk about: A Seal Beach resident phoned police after hearing “screams, possibly those of a child, [that] had been going on for the past hour,” the Seal Beach Sun reported. The cops investigated, and discovered “the screamer was not a child -- but a parrot.” Someone give that Polly a cracker.

miscelLAny: The most hard-boiled crime log around could be Steve Propes’ “Community Scanner” in Long Beach’s Beachcomber newspaper. Consider this item: “Tuesday, June 6: At about 11 p.m., a woman stepped out of her residence to have a smoke, returning to find her computer missing.

“An already costly enough habit suddenly got that much more expensive.”

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