Retorts: That’s so clever ….

Laughter is the best medicine, right?

The Jolly Pranksters on the Huntington Beach City Council are – I think – seeking to have some fun with their critics with an item on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting.

They’ll be asking for permission to spend $7000 to place a plaque on a wall at the Central Library, decoration that includes a motto whose initial letters are MAGA.

No kidding. Or maybe, yes kidding.

The plaque kicks off with the phrase, “In God We Trust” and celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the five-story landmark library in Central Park, arguably the largest public library in Orange County.

Right smack dab in the middle is this motto:
Magical
Alluring
Galvanizing
Adventurous

Hmmm … what could that mean?

Some folks are convinced the the council –which has been called by the new mayor, Pat Burns, the “MAGAnificent Seven” – is seeking to further tweak the liberals in Huntington Beach who have been generally routed by the new council. And what better way to the hammer the point – humorously – of course, on the bitterly divisive issue of content and management of the library?

I mean, get real. Nobody could seriously come up with an “acrostic” like that and expect it to be taken literally. I remember once – in my prankish youth – creating a work phone list in which I placed fictional middle initials that spelled out … well, what can I say? I could make a joke out of anything back then.

Some people will probably take offense at this clever jest. As someone who once stuffed jelly donuts into the desk drawers of a work colleague who was on a diet, I say to them, “What’s the matter? Cantcha take a joke?”