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ColumnsThis is kind of news of the weird today…flotsam and jetsam from the news columns… …Some Philly kids got a day off for chicken day earlier this month…Someone during one recent weekend turned 50 chickens loose in Philadelphia’s Northeast High School… …It smelled like…well don’t ask… …School officials speculated there was some chicken farmer who probably wants his chickens back…For the time being they were being held at the district’s agriculture school… …There’s a move afoot to change the schools mascot from the Vikings to the chickens… …The Associated Press reported that if the culprit’s caught, he’ll pay a fine that won’t be chicken feed… …Writes his prescriptions in red ink…JUST KIDDING… …The professor, engineer Ronald Fearing, based his invention on a molecular aberration that lets gecko lizards scoot across ceilings upside down… …Trust me…I’ve never seen a gecko scooting across my ceiling and if I did, I’d probably be ready for detox…Anyway Fearing said part of the secret is that the tape sticks to the surface, such as glass, and not to the dust that may be on it… …You wouldn’t want it on your hand if you reached for a bottle of beer…It would probably stick there almost permanently, making it very difficult to reach in your pocket for your car keys… …There are about 214,500 vanity plates on Arizona’s cars, but no “6 PACK” … “WINO” or anything else that some people might find offensive… …State regulations forbid any plate that could be misleading or that “carries connotations that are offensive to good taste and decency”… …There’s a panel that helps out the state Motor Vehicle Division to look at vanity plate applications… …If you want to see the vanity plates that have been issued, go to https://servicearizona.com/webapp/vehicle/plates/start.do. …Some recent sightings include … “THE FRM” … “QQO” and “I DO OK” … “GO HERD”… …It recently wound up in the mail to Michael Cioffi, much to his surprise… …Cioffi says he doesn’t know who it was intended for, but did say he knew that a McDonald family had owned his house for generations… …He said he doesn’t think there’s anyone left to get the card… Jim Lamb’s a reporter for the Green Valley News and Sun, and is always looking for the weird…However he won’t use anything he sees on wife Ann’s “To Do Lists”… jlamb@gvnews.com | 520-547-9749
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