This flirt’s taken aback by doctor’s delivery

A 50ish visitor to a Laguna Hills hospital seemed to be flirting with every woman on the floor. He boarded an elevator and found himself standing next to a young woman in surgical garb.

“Are you a nurse?” the flirt asked, smiling.

“No, I’m a doctor,” she said.

“What kind of doctor?” he asked.

“Gastroenterologist,” the doctor said. “Don’t turn your back to me.”

The flirt, his smile gone, was silent for the rest of the ride.

Ho! Ho! Horror!

Irene Guimera of Manhattan Beach noticed that a furniture store in Gardena seemed to have recycled a Halloween zombie into Santa Claus, complete with haunted eyes and green face and hands (see photo).

I don’t even want to know what happened to the reindeer.

Does Fritz know about this?

Even in December it can get warm in the Van Nuys area, Andrea Mahr discovered (see photo). Really warm. Santa won’t like that.

One-stop shopping

Sean Holt of Burbank found an address where actors can get two visits to specialists out of the way in one trip (see photo). They might run into some writers.

Maybe they misheard the name of the building

After receiving a report of possible trespassers in a USC dorm, campus cops discovered two students in a storage room, as well as a pipe and a baggie containing marijuana beneath a floor board.

Not a total surprise.

The building was Stonier Hall.

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Organized crime is returning to Vegas, in a way. Having raised about $15 million, the city plans to open a mob museum in 2010 -- seriously.

“Despite the sort of edgy theme, this museum will be historically accurate and it will tell the true story of organized crime,” former FBI agent Ellen Knowlton, head of the project, told the Associated Press.

One of the stars, of course, will be Benjamin (Don’t Call Me Bugsy) Siegel, a Vegas pioneer whose Flamingo Hotel opened in 1946.

Alas, Siegel was shot to death in 1947 while reading The Times in the living room of a rented Beverly Hills home. The sniper was hiding in the shrubs outside. Poor Bugsy just came along too soon. In the 21st century, he might have been out of the gunman’s sight, reading the Web version of the paper in the study.

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