Funny running into you here: The day...

Funny running into you here: The day the Rodney G. king verdicts were announced, the L.A. Trial Lawyers Assn. was holding a “Police Misconduct Litigation” seminar at the L.A. Hilton. That’s the hotel where the King jurors were sequestered.

Finally, some nominees worth supporting: Voters who complained about the quality of candidates in L.A.’s municipal election obviously didn’t inspect the “Practice Ballot” at their polling place.

That ballot, intended for new voters unfamiliar with the mechanics of punching out selections, contained such great names as Frank Lloyd Wright, Bret Harte and Pio Pico (the onetime governor of California, apparently attempting a comeback). John J. Audubon was listed opposite John Muir in the city conservationist race.

You could tell these were mythical matchups without even looking at the names. The idea of L.A. establishing a city conservationist is far too sensible to ever happen.

How about the office of city speller too?The practice ballot gives the naturalist’s last name the unnatural spelling of “Audobon.”

He wasn’t bragging: As for the mayor’s race, we liked one response elicited by the Downtown News in its person-on-the-street survey. The newspaper asked passersby: “Why didn’t you run for mayor?”

Said Jim Darling: “I’m probably overqualified for the job.”

Someone’s all wet: A flyer from Poolife (“The Magazine for Pool Families”) addressed to “Resident or Current Resident” arrived at a house in Azusa.

It prompted homeowner Louise Grijalva to write us, “We are sending this to you for help in deciding if we are ‘residents’ or ‘current residents.’ My husband Jim is also unclear as whether we are a pool family. We don’t have a pool; there’s never been one on the property.”

But has he ever been in a car pool?

Change of venue: Entertainment Weekly’s Hot Sheet column, commenting on Marvin Mitchelson’s tax-evasion conviction, says: “What do lawyers call going to jail for 30 months? Trolling for clients.”

Santa Monica door kitty: “There is a cat that sits outside Coco’s Restaurant on Ocean Park Boulevard with a name tag that reads, ‘Junior,’ ” reports Mary Diltz. “A message on the other side says, ‘If I’m at Coco’s, I am not lost.’ ”

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Neurobiologist Simon LeVay and the Institute of Gay and Lesbian Education in West Hollywood are organizing a daylong field trip to Anacapa Island near Ventura on May 16 to study a colony of lesbian sea gulls. As the result of an absence of males on the island, the gulls have divided into female-female nests.