TRICKY BUSINESS: Last year we tried to start a spooky tradition of thinking of the people you'd find unwelcome on your doorstep come Halloween.
Here's the second attempt.Witches and werewolves aside, how would you like to find the following characters trick-or-treating at your house this Thursday evening? Be careful. These folks offer more tricks than treats.
- Joe Waldholtz looking for a handout or to borrow a credit card.
- TV reporter Rod Decker asking for an interview.
- Any political candidate looking for a vote to stuff in the trick-or-treat bag.
- Provo City Councilwoman Shari Holweg offering uncut tape-recorded conversations with her purse.
- A Micron executive offering local job opportunities.
- A Corel or Novell official offering permanence and/or job security.
Postcards from the edge: A billboard in Scotland rang bells that sounded quite familiar to a pair of our Utah County ears.
Seems The Daily Herald in Provo and The Scottish Sunday Times buy from the same advertising jingle company.
In Provo/Orem, we've been looking at Daily Herald signs that read, "Folks in Salt Lake just don't get it."
(Which, by the way, can be read as an insult to those of us here who feel like we do get it.) In Scotland, the newspaper has billboards that say, "The English just don't get it."
It made us chuckle and feel right at home from miles away.
Back at you: Speaking of billboards . . . we noticed at least three on I-15 that read backwards and from left to right, "Any way you look at 'em . . . Reagan Billboards Work."
Well, if that's true, why isn't anyone advertising on that space?
Don't follow the signs: BYU's Daily Universe recently had another one of those weird items on its police blotter.
Seems a male visitor was seen removing the "Please Recycle" stickers from the bins in the university administration building. The man told officers the arrow on the stickers is the sign referred to the Book of John in the Bible as the sign of the beast. He said the sign represents a danger to society and he was only trying to protect BYU students as best he could.
Just jousting: Our good friend Phil Reschke, who is becoming a regular e-mail contributor to this space, told us this one:
Apparently there are several Alpine School District patrons a mite unhappy with the proposed mascot for the new Lone Peak High.
Reschke said, "One of the most interesting reasons I heard people were against it was because they were afraid the girls' teams would be referred to as "Lady Knights," which might lead to "Ladies of the Knight."
Kiddie candidates: The results are in, at least from Wasatch Elementary. In their Kids Voting U.S.A. event Friday, we understand they chose a president and a governor, a congressman and an attorney general. Dole won handily as did Leavitt. Graham edged Burns for attorney general. But Orton and Cannon were so close, we're afraid to tell you the results. We wouldn't want to influence any of these children's parents one way or the other. Let's just say it's a toss-up at this point.