Expecting a hoppy Easter

It seems an odd prohibition. The website for the Bunny Museum of Pasadena, home of 23,000 rabbit-themed collectibles, encourages visitors to bring fresh fruit and vegetables to feed the shrine’s nine real bunnies. But “no carrots,” it adds. “Everyone brings carrots,” co-founder Candace Frazee explained. “At one open house we had 43 bags of carrots. Everyone thinks bunnies only eat carrots. That’s because of Bugs Bunny. Actually, it’s OK if a child brings a carrot.”

The 10-year-old museum, immortalized in the Guinness World Records book for the size of its collection, is open every day of the year. Admission is free. Visitors must make an appointment, except on holidays -- including Easter -- when no reservations are needed. Most popular item: Elvis “Parsley,” a porcelain figure of the singer with bunny ears (see photo).

The bungalow has drawn an interesting blend of visitors, including a woman who wanted to be buried there, several people in bunny costumes, the occasional individual who remarks how good bunnies taste and a French photojournalist who wanted Frazee to pose in the ugliest bunny costume she owned (she declined).

Oh, yes, Frazee also asks that visitors not try to donate live bunnies to the Bunny Museum. Unlike the case with carrots, there are no exceptions to this rule.

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More food for thought

On Maui, Phil Proctor of Beverly Hills noticed a restaurant where dress could be optional -- truly optional. And Paul Schowalter of Cypress found a fast-food stand where diners are charged per fry. But, as he pointed out, it ain’t expensive, what with fries being just 99/100ths of a cent each (see photos).

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What’s next?

I’ve heard of drive-throughs for just about every product and service, from coffee and photos to flu shots. But I think one man got carried away when he “drove into bathrooms in a beach parking lot,” as the Huntington Beach Wave reported. He was not supposed to do that, and was arrested soon afterward.

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Bathroom humor

The other day this column ran a snapshot of a set of directions to a Turkish restroom (see photo). Which prompted Allen Wilkinson to write: “The Helen/Paris directions brought to mind some of the odd signs restaurants use on their doors for men and women. “There used to be a steakhouse that used ‘Bulls’ and ‘Cows.’ I remember eating there with my parents when I was about 10. I had to go back and ask my mother which one I was before I could use the restroom.

“But the classic was on a restroom at a marina restaurant on Vancouver Island. The doors were labeled simply ‘Inboard’ and ‘Outboard.’ That time I didn’t have to ask my mother which one I was.”

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Miscellany:

I mentioned the police log item that said a resident “and a dog are accusing” a neighbor “of stalking.” It turned out to be a disagreement over the animal being leashed. Anyway, I wondered how the dog made its accusation and guessed that perhaps it was a pointer. But Ed Colefield of Cypress observed that maybe someone just said “Speak!” to the pooch.

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Steve Harvey can be reached at (800) LATIMES, Ext. 77083.