It hasn’t been the best of weeks...

It hasn’t been the best of weeks for San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Connor, who lost to a delegation from rival L.A. in the bidding for the 1993 Super Bowl. You may recall that San Diegans popularized the term “Los Angelization” long ago as a synonym for civic ugliness.

Before she attended the NFL meeting in Hawaii, O’Connor--who opposes mandatory water rationing--was revealed to be one of San Diego’s top 100 residential users of the wet stuff.

In Hawaii, she even met resistance when she entered a hospitality lounge and picked up four cookies--one for herself, one for a San Diego city councilman, one for L.A. Mayor Bradley and one for L.A. City Councilman John Ferraro.

“Don’t do that!” barked a woman at a nearby counter.

“But I’m the mayor of San Diego,” O’Connor said.

“That doesn’t make any difference,” the woman said. “Those cookies are for NFL staff members. They’re not for anyone else.”

Soon, afterward, O’Connor’s bid for the Super Bowl also crumbled.

Home of an underground classic:

Roto-Rooter’s L.A. franchise has won the company’s national competition for extracting from a pipe the longest root of 1990--a whopper measuring 46 feet, 9 inches.

“I’ve seen 20-footers but never anything like this,” marveled Chuck Romick, head of the L.A. branch. “It must have been 25 years old at least.”

Serviceman Jon Veal, who won out over more than 600 entrants, took less than an hour to reel in the catch from the inside of a residential runoff drain in Trousdale Estates.

One person less than gratified over the national honor was the owner of the mansion.

“The customer didn’t want anyone to know it was his house and wouldn’t let us give out his name,” Romick said.

Wild, Wild Hollywood:

The prospectus for The Information Exchange, a West L.A. extension school, lists a provocative book title (see photo) among the credits of one instructor of wild animal seminars.

L.A. County supervisors are trying to find funds to help buy the Eagle Rock--the landmark that gives the community its name--to keep it out of the hands of developers. It’s gratifying news because urbanized L.A. has few famous rocks as it is.

Gone, for instance, is the unstable Malibu Rock, which was pulled down from a hill overlooking Pacific Coast Highway in 1979 after it began to threaten residences below. One chunk was fashioned into a bust of actor John Wayne and later sold to an Arizona businessman.

Other noteworthy local rocks:

1--Vasquez Rocks: Named for Tiburcio Vasquez, L.A.’s top-ranked 19th Century outlaw, who holed up there east of Saugus between holdups.

2--Pink Lady Rock: Site of painting of a 60-foot tall nude woman above a tunnel on Malibu Canyon Road in the late 1970s. She was later erased as a traffic hazard.

3--Bunker Hills Steps’ Fake Rocks: Sculpted cement chunks, rather than real rocks, which grace the waterfalls of the stairway just north of the Central Library. That’s Hollywood!

4--Goat Butte Rocks: Volcanic outcropping above Malibu Creek that is seen in opening episode of each “MASH” TV show.

5--Rocky and Bullwinkle: A statue immortalizing the famous raccoon-moose cartoon team, which stands on Sunset Boulevard at the office of Jay Ward Productions.

Someone call the cops: In the midst of the uproar over LAPD tactics, two of the boys in blue may have momentarily startled some onlookers on the steps of City Hall Wednesday. They were crouched over a man, apparently beating him with nightsticks.

It turned out they were actors rehearsing a scene in a movie.

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La Canada Ribet Academy--Ribet for short--naturally calls its athletic teams the Fighting Frogs.