May 7, 2021

A guy posted a photo on Facebook last week of his Starbucks cup.  He told the barista his name was Marc -- with a C.  My friend Andrea goes by Andé.  She told the girl at Starbucks her name was spelled with an E.  She got her coffee and there it was -- ENDI!   Then there was the time my friend Tom LaShell told the server at Karl Strauss the spelling of his name was T3om -- but the 3 was silent.  He went on to add that if she looked in the dictionary under gullible there would be a photo of his friend John Fry.

Don't know if you saw Richard Lederer's column in last Saturday's U-T.  He shared the little-known back story to a popular Mexican holiday: 

In the early 1900s, the Hellmann’s Mayonnaise Company was all set to deliver 12,000 jars of the condiment to Veracruz. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever brought to Mexico, but the ship sank, and the cargo was forever lost. The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise and were eagerly awaiting its arrival, were saddened by the tragic loss. Their anguish was so great that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day — Sinko de Mayo.

There are three Weitzens in this College Park Bobs Coffee Shop Little League photo.  Click HERE to find out who is whom -- and see an ad for Bob's Coffee Shops.

AND he played drums later with the Cascades.  Click HERE to read some other articles from the May 11, 1961 Pacer.