The Elvis-head Rose Bowl float has been...

The Elvis-head Rose Bowl float has been disassembled, the Elvis TV show has drawn disappointing ratings and, perhaps worst of all, the push for an Elvis postage stamp has been all but cancelled.

A concerted campaign by the Elvis Postage Stamp Campaign of North Springfield, Vt., doesn’t seem to have helped a lick in overcoming the U.S. Postal Service’s opposition.

Oddly enough, though, some postal authorities already have honored the King.

Grenada’s.

The Caribbean island nation released an Elvis stamp in 1978 through the efforts of fans in Southern California who were acquainted with Eric Gairy, then the prime minister and himself a devotee of the Big E.

“From time to time we have had American personalities who are popular in our country on our stamps,” said Denis Antoine, a spokesman at the Grenada Embassy in Washington. “Among them were Elvis Presley. As I recall, we have also had Bob Marley and Cyndi Lauper, among others. Usually their fan clubs contact us about it.”

We assume Pentagon officials will deny any connection between the Elvis stamp and the Grenada invasion.

Rarely is a promoter as candid as Clint Campbell. Perhaps it’s because his event is the Ocean City, N.J., Doo Dah Parade.

Does that sound like a borrowed name?

Campbell proudly pleads guilty.

“The April 21 Ocean City Doo Dah Parade,” he writes, “is a direct rip-off of the original started in Pasadena.”

Ah, the Doo Dah spirit.

Sounds like Long Beach needs perking up. The city’s Pacific Coast Club is holding a stress management seminar this weekend “for people who feel the excitement has gone out of their lives.”

Seminar title: “Dead Persons Anonymous.”

Please, no Elvis jokes.

The Antelope Valley community of Lake Los Angeles, which is pondering a name change because it isn’t near L.A. and has no lake, should keep in mind that other communities in Southern California have problems with their names.

La Puente and Mission Viejo, to begin with, are grammatically incorrect. They should be El Puente and Mision Vieja .

As for the name content, Seal Beach hasn’t seen a seal in years. The founder of the desert community of Twentynine Palms later admitted that he’d seen only 26 palms. And Thousand Oaks has clung to its 68-year-old name despite the fact that a survey by school children once found that there were 3,422 oaks.

Speaking of name changes, even the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane--the one that made the 68-minute flight from Palmdale to Washington on Tuesday--started out with a different identity.

Originally, it was the RS-71. But when President Lyndon B. Johnson made the first public announcement of the Blackbird during a national telecast on July 24, 1964, he got the letters twisted and called it the SR-71.

The name stuck. The designation was changed on 30,000 drawings of the aircraft.

If the boss says it’s an SR-71, it’s an SR-71.