Daylight saving time is the new standard time

Today’s thought: “With the early changeover this Sunday, we will be under daylight saving time for almost eight months of the year,” points out David Chan of L.A. “ ‘Standard’ time will only be in effect for a little over four months.”

He asks: “Shouldn’t daylight saving time now be designated ‘standard’ time?”

It’s a strange world: The latest evidence (see accompanying) includes:

* A condo whose owner bragged about the vocal stylings of the canine tenants (from Kim Airs).

* A no-drinking sign outside a bar with spelling that made photographer Lew Weiss wonder “if the sign-maker sampled the wares inside before making the final product.”

* A computer’s threatening note to William McEwan that amounted to much ado about nothing.

Unexpected sight-seeing: The Star News, an L.A. County Sheriff’s publication, reported these three 911 calls received from bus drivers or passengers:

* “Female, topless, refused to pay fare.”

* “Male wearing white T-shirt, black boxers, took off pants and hung them on bus mirror. States parts of his anatomy are burning.”

* “People are filming a porn movie next to the tracks by the riverbed.”

Who says that traveling by bus is dull?

As if newspapers aren’t facing enough challenges: USC campus cops were “flagged down by a security guard who advised them that he observed a student pick up a newspaper and throw it back at a newspaper delivery woman after she had thrown it on the front porch” of a frat house, the school’s crime site said. “The student also threatened the woman and challenged the guard to a fight before fleeing on foot.”

When apprehended, the student admitted throwing the paper at the woman “because he believed she had thrown it at him.” Officers determined that the student “was intoxicated.”

miscelLAny: Two Long Beach men suspected of being the “English major bandits” were arrested the other day -- their nicknames coming from the numerous spelling and grammatical errors in their holdup notes, the South Bay Daily Breeze said.

Which reminded me of the Woody Allen character whose bank robbery attempt fails in “Take the Money and Run” because the teller can’t figure out what the holdup note says. “Does this look like ‘gub’ or ‘gun’?” the teller asks a colleague.

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