With Names Like These, It Would Be Hard to Play Good Cop, Bad Cop

I noted here that the LAPD has a Lt. Joel Justice and a Sgt. Bill Justice, who don’t, by the way, work together. Retired officer Terry Schauer of Sherman Oaks, however, recalled a couple of sets of longtime partners who were destined to be together -- officers Parrot & Kenary, and officers Sweets & Darling.

“The latter team was often accused by citizens of wearing ‘phony’ name tags when they worked the Hollywood area together,” Schauer said.

Sort of a Silicone Valley: When an L.A. actor settles on a West Virginia farm in the movie “Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!” a resident scoffs: “A farmer? He’s from Malibu, Calif. The only thing they grow there are breasts.”

While we’re on body shapes: No, American Airlines isn’t classifying passengers by their weights. This ticket was purchased by Phil Proctor at the Fresno Airport Terminal (see photo).

The latest health craze? I guess it’s chewing on plastic bottles (see photo).

Good heavens! Byron Myhre of Palos Verdes Estates snapped this ambiguous offer at a local church (see photo). Note: The shots are not being offered this weekend.

Speaking of heaven: Don Goodwin of Cypress noticed a business that you wouldn’t think would have a “yrad” sale, though I guess the clean dirt giveaway makes sense (see photo).

Another reason to live in Southern California: Richard Showstack of Newport Beach points out that the American Fancy Rat and Mouse Assn. is headquartered in Riverside. How fancy can a rat get anyway?

Second lives: Little Joe’s restaurant in Chinatown, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and Johnie’s Coffee Shop on Wilshire are landmarks that all have one thing in common.

None are in business, at least not doing what they used to do, but all are available as motion picture sites.

While it was still serving grub, Johnie’s was a principal player in the movie “Miracle Mile,” including the scene in which a diner answers a pay phone and receives a misdirected (but truthful) call informing him that a nuclear attack has been launched against the United States.

That’s enough to wreck anyone’s dinner.

miscelLAny: On the subject of street sequences, John Billings of Long Beach points out that driving south of the Civic Center in L.A., a political science major would be delighted to encounter Washington, Adams and Jefferson, the pattern being broken by someone who evidently thought James Exposition was the fourth president of the United States.