August 18, 2004
THERE AIN'T NO GOLD AND THERE AIN'T NOBODY LIKE ME:
L.A. takes silly string seriously (Reuters, 8/18/04)
"Silly string," a colorful aerosol foam that children spray on each other, is not so silly after all, at least not in Los Angeles.The city council gave preliminary approval Tuesday to an ordinance that would ban the use of the string-like plastic derivative in Hollywood on Halloween because of environmental and security concerns.
Liberal use of the stringy foam by Halloween revelers had sparked fights in years past on Hollywood Boulevard, officials said.
"People get a little crazed at the end of the evening and they shoot the spray into each other's faces," said Jane Galbraith, spokeswoman for ban sponsor Councilman Tom LaBonge.
He may be a nut, but my cabana boy husband is, sad to say, quite right about the Time Zone Rule. Posted by The Wife at August 18, 2004 11:14 AM
No one named LaBonge should be on a city council anywhere.
Posted by: jim hamlen at August 18, 2004 11:51 AMTime Zone rule?
Posted by: Brandon at August 18, 2004 12:18 PMOJ doesn't travel out of the Eastern Time Zone unless absolutely necessary. I beieve that the last time he ventured out of The Zone was to attend a friend's wedding in California...a marriage which ended up lasting less than 2 years. On the bright side, both Brothers Judd were able to visit the Reagan Library.
Posted by: at August 18, 2004 12:33 PMThat's dumb.
Posted by: Brandon at August 18, 2004 12:40 PMBrandon
It's not dumb - it's nutty. Very different concepts.
Uh, why?
Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at August 18, 2004 1:14 PMUh, why not travel out of the Eastern time zone>
Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at August 18, 2004 1:15 PMAli:
Why would one?
Wife:
Keeping tossing around compliments and concessions like that and we can retire the Margaret Thatcher Slumber Wear and break out that John Kerry Professional Model Pumice Stone!
Posted by: oj at August 18, 2004 1:16 PMOrrin, your wife is *way* hotter than Margaret Thatcher. I still don't want to know anything about your bizarre sex life.
Posted by: Governor Breck at August 18, 2004 2:12 PMI can understand completely. My goal is to be able restrict my movements to the Mountain Time Zone.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at August 18, 2004 2:15 PMGov:
There's not a woman alive who doesn't look way hotter in tweed and threatening to treat you like General Bellgrano.
Posted by: oj at August 18, 2004 2:22 PMThe General himself or the namesake warship?
Posted by: Brandon at August 18, 2004 3:00 PMJust keep an eye peeled for those torpedoes.
Posted by: ratbert at August 18, 2004 3:12 PMI suppose after the council voted to remove the cross from the city flag two months ago, banning a ritual of the fall pagan holiday was their way of trying to balance things out a little bit...
Posted by: John at August 18, 2004 5:03 PM