Tip for Groom: Treat Her Like a Thoroughbred and She Won’t Become a Nag

Beverly Cheeseboro noticed that a horse crossing in South Pasadena was labeled a “bridal” path. The spelling was later corrected but why so soon? This is the month for weddings.

And while we’re at it: Clint McCarty saw a sign in a building thanking visitors for their “patients,” but the notice was appropriate, in a way, since it was in a Fountain Valley hospital.

Reverse snob appeal: I mentioned the Amsterdam eatery with a sign that bragged about “lousy food and warm beer.” Well, Byron Myhre of Palos Verdes Estates found a modest grill in Salt Lake City (see photo).

Still on the restaurant beat ... : Lance and Becky Larsen of Irvine spotted a restroom sign on Catalina Island that makes sense when you realize it’s for the Buffalo Nickel Restaurant (see photo).

Such a deal: I’m nervous about ordering products online anyway--and even more so since Bob Lewicki of Blue Jay sent me the bill he received (see accompanying).

School daze: After examining the date on her parking stub at Pasadena City College (see accompanying), Sarah Hall of South Pasadena wrote: “I guess it’s no wonder that some students feel that school never ends.”

Anti-secessionist tunes: Karen G. phoned in her nomination of the Four Seasons’ “Let’s Hang On (to What We Got)”--though I’m not sure I could bear to hear that song one more time. Just repeating the title was bad enough.

Ooh L.A. L.A.: David Daniel of Encino recalled that James Taylor’s “JT” album included the song, “Honey Don’t Leave L.A.” OK, it was about a lover departing for a place even more romantic than the Valley.

The lyric goes: “Honey, don’t leave L.A./That Riviera is so far away/Begging you s’il vous plait/They don’t know nothing down in St. Tropez.” But substitute “Reseda” for Riviera and “Sun Valley” for St. Tropez and I think we have a hit.

I hate uninvited guests, too! The police log of the Los Alamitos News-Enterprise reported that a woman “refused to leave church because the devil was in her house.”

It won’t even demand a lawyer: The newspaper’s police log also carried an item about some youths who “left a dummy on the side of the street, which police detained and brought to the station.” They’ll never make it talk.

miscelLAny: The restroom signs say “Monguys” and “Mongals” at B.D.’s Mongolian Barbeque in Irvine.

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