Hosea, can you see? The day of...

Hosea, can you see? The day of the Twin Temblors, Channel 2 was besieged with calls from people asking the same question:

Had co-anchor Hosea Sanders forgotten to zip up his fly?

Colleague Tritia Toyota, who was on the KCBS set, tried to button up the controversy by relaying the question on the air to Sanders, who was in the newsroom.

“She said that ‘a lot of viewers are worried that you left in such a hurry that you weren’t fully dressed,’ ” Sanders recalled.

He responded that what they saw was his designer slacks’ white label, which was placed in an unorthodox location.

“It’s so strange,” Sanders said later, “that people would be more concerned with that than their own safety.”

Getting the bugs out: The sign over the counter at Letitia Mills’ repair shop in Mar Vista says:

“Machines with cockroaches minimum labor $55. Live or dead bugs.”

Underneath it is another pronouncement:

“This is not a joke. We really get machines with cockroaches.”

The signs reflect the Electronics Age, Mills said.

“We’re getting cockroaches in here by the ton,” she said. “They live in items that have heat, like answering machines left on 24 hours a day, fax machines, VCRs. And they’ll eat the wiring, blow out the electrical components.”

Mills said people don’t realize how her technicians suffer.

“If you open up an answering machine before lunch and find a family of roaches, you don’t want to eat,” she said. “If you’ve already eaten lunch. . . .”

OK, OK, we’ve heard enough.

Maybe he should consider becoming a stunt man: A laborer fell 20 feet and broke several ribs Tuesday as he was removing a cartoon cutout of actress Kim Basinger on letter “D” of the HOLLYWOOD sign.

But Paul Georges, 54, of Cerritos, was listed in good condition at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. In fact, hospital spokeswoman Peggy Shaff reported: “I told him the media has been calling and he said, ‘Just tell ‘em that I’m one tough dude.’ ”

If you can’t read these words, you won’t like this item: A local resident who took a United Airlines flight was, luckily, sitting close enough to a safety card (see photo) to know that he was supposed to read it.

Thought for the day: Perhaps, in these tumultuous times, we should all pause for a moment and follow the suggestion of a bumper sticker spotted on the San Diego Freeway:

VISUALIZE WHIRLED PEAS.

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Viewers are invited to don a swimsuit, bring along a raft and watch an aquatic screening of the movie “Jaws” at the Cerritos Olympic Swim Center this Sunday at 7 p.m. Cost is $2 per mammal.