Fans Mix It Up in the Stands at a Baseball Playoff Game

No candidates for a spelling bee were they.

The six young men, attending a Long Beach Wilson High playoff game at Dodger Stadium, rose to their feet and proudly took off their shirts, each displaying a single letter scrawled on their chest. Then the rooters lined up so that they spelled out: LWISON

Speaking of scrambled letters: John Nichols of Santa Paula found an eatery that has a sign problem, unless a new dish has been added (see photo). Pointed out Nichols: “CFK could stand for Chicken Fried Kippers.”

Guide to Adventurous Dining (cont.): Today’s other items du column (see accompanying) include:

* A dish for those who want to put someone else’s foot in their mouth (Robin Price of L.A.)

* Some rather informal directions on a bottle of tamarind paste (Susan Carter and Richard Sutch of Riverside)

* And, in the awkward translation department, an eye-catching name for a straw at an airport in Shanghai (Al Wiseman of Playa Del Rey).

Must not have been a skyscraper: The crime log of the Rancho Santa Margarita News reported that a youth “drove a building” near the corner of Antonio Parkway and Avenida de las Banderas. The newspaper added: “There were no serious injuries.”

L.A. Insult of the Day: After the Dodgers first said they might adopt a mascot, then abandoned the idea, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Scott Ostler wrote that the club’s turnabout occurred “when the best idea their people could come up with was Smoggy the Lung Lesion.” Smog joke No. 6,530,241.

Speaking of the home team: In the many clips of Ronald Reagan movies played over the last couple of days, I caught one from “The Girl From Jones Beach” (1949), in which he played a mischievous photographer who poses as an Eastern European immigrant to meet a pretty schoolteacher.

In his adult class, she asks him who fought in the Civil War. He looks puzzled.

She adds, “The Yankees and ... ?”

He brightens up and responds: “The Dodgers!”

miscelLAny: The media website ronfineman.com caught Channel 2 saying a recent Lotto winner “has CBS2 News to thank” and expressing pleasure that “we were able to help.” Well, what happened, wrote webmaster Ron Fineman, was that the lucky fellow had seen a KCBS-TV van outside a liquor store and wandered over thinking a customer had already won. But the van was there for a story on gasoline prices next door. So the guy bought the Lotto ticket.

Practically makes Channel 2 deserving of a Good Samaritan award, don’t you think?

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