Playing to a packed house, the duo of McMonigle and Tookey dumped all over a handful of fellow Rotarians.

The first victim was Dave Didier who was fined $50 for knowing what the descriptive words in his most recent bank ad meant. Yes, that’s right. He was ordered to cough up $50 for correctly identifying words like “safe” and “secure”.

Dave didn’t complain so we won’t either.

The second victim was Jason Lee who was fined $50 for a spelling error in the most recent ad for his law firm. The missed word? “Biz.” Have to assume that stands for “business”. What a clever way of getting fined.

The third victim, or rather victims [plural], were Pat Barnes, Eric Barter and Bob Novell. They were asked to identify the source of a bad smell from the Rose Bowl at last weeks UCLA game the three of them attended. Other than the play of the Bruins, they were hard pressed to identify the bad smell as a dead skunk under one of the pedestrian tunnels. For that, they were each fined $50.

The fourth and fifth victims were Bob Harbicht and Sho Tay. Their crime? Being in the local papers too much.  For some unknown reason, the fines were waived with a promise they would be levied in spades at a later date.

The fifth victim was Brad Miller who is still being ripped to shreds for leaving Dave and Geoff high and dry as MCs at the Governor’s Arboretum dinner with no script whatsoever. Brad, who was supposed to MC the event, left early to attend his son’s Hollywood movie premiere. Yeh. Sure.

Sounds fishy to us too.  Matt Weaver, victim number six, was supposed to be Brad’s back-up or something equally meaningful but he just vanished into the night.

We’re not saying that Dave and Geoff are still steamed about the whole thing but the fines given Brad and Matt were $5,000 and $6,000 respectively. An appeal is forthcoming.

Philo Vance