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Members of the media have been invited to bring their sweet Moms to the Bel Age Hotel May 10 for “a special Mother’s Day breakfast and press conference” with a comic/actor.

Come now. No matter how desperate we scribes are for a free meal, who would throw Momma to foul-mouthed Andrew Dice Clay?

Your Only in L.A. correspondent (and his nasally voice) appeared on Joe Crummey’s KFI radio show the other night, feeling comfortable with a host whose theme song states that “he’s not scummy.”

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Crummey solicited wacky L.A. items from his fans, who generously responded with sightings of:

* Two adults, wearing nothing but diapers, entering a car on Melrose Avenue.

* A Hollywood restaurant that serves live fish (we don’t recommend the lobster).

* And a couple that caused a traffic jam by attempting to have sex in a car on the Ventura Freeway. The couple was cooled off by a motorist who emptied a beverage on them, the caller said.

Gerald Jones of L.A. has alerted us to what may be a new concept in take-out food on La Brea Avenue (see photo).

List of the Day:

The Freeway Foxes, resettled in the L.A. Zoo after being captured along the Costa Mesa Freeway, are the latest local varmints to have their 15 minutes of fame (that’s almost two hours in animal time). Do you recall . . .

1--Grunt, the 800-pound homeless pig, who was abandoned by her owners in Rolling Hills. Adoption offers came from as far away as Australia and she eventually went to live in an Ojai rancher’s mud (1988).

2--Howard the Duck, who adopted a Tarzana home, fell in love with the family’s collie and was profiled by People Magazine (1987).

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3--The Temple City Ants, whose wire-eating antics knocked out several traffic lights in the city. They received nationwide reknown after broadcaster Paul Harvey mentioned their “power lunch” (1989).

4--The Freeway Chickens of Hollywood, who were, according to lore, either escapees from a nearby farm or survivors of a poultry truck crash. Unlike the foxes, many managed to elude capture attempts (1969).

5--Sam, the former chimpanzee star of TV’s “B.J. and the Bear,” who escaped from his trailer and tore up a Canoga Park saloon. At one point, he spilled cleaning fluid on himself and temporarily lost all his hair. Initial calls for help from bar patrons were ignored as jokes. (1982)

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The first woman licensed to referee a prize fight in the United States was Belle Martell of Van Nuys, who made her debut by working eight bouts in San Bernardino on May 2, 1940.

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