Surely, a King-sized apology is in order:...

Surely, a King-sized apology is in order: In the 1987 version of “Dragnet,” Police Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) says of Los Angeles: “Sure, this city isn’t perfect. We need a smut-free life for all our citizens, cleaner streets, better schools, a good hockey team. . . .”

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Low-definition TV: But the Kings’ 26-year-long jinx isn’t quite over. When KCAL Channel 9 began a report on the team’s opening-game win in the Stanley Cup finals on the 8 o’clock news Tuesday night, the screen went blank and stayed blank throughout the segment. Miraculously, though, the picture reappeared just in time for several commercials.

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Well, someone sure laid an egg: “Dinosaur Eggs in Lancaster?” said the headline in the Antelope Valley edition of the Daily News on Wednesday.

An article recounted the discovery of “an off-white, oblong object measuring 31 inches long by 22 inches wide” that “was unusual enough to prompt an excavation by an Antelope Valley College archeology professor and his students.”

Although one paleontologist cast doubt on the discovery, college instructor Roger Robinson told the Daily News: “It has as much chance of being a dinosaur egg as anything else. It would make a heck of an omelet.”

The Antelope Valley Press newspaper’s account had some details that the Daily News missed.

The “discovery” was the idea of a local theater chain rep who wanted to promote the opening of the film “Jurassic Park.” And the egg was made of “chicken wire, papier-mache and plaster of Paris.”

Daniel Hobbit, an assistant theater manager, told the Valley Press that Robinson and the students took part in the stunt because “they thought it would be fun.”

Robinson’s remark to the Daily News about the omelet was a clue. Hobbit also plans a second promotion: The creation of the world’s largest omelet.

Splat.

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Off course?Imagine our surprise when we found an aluminum art piece titled “Long Beach” in the lobby of the 444 building in downtown L.A. It’s Frank Stella’s colorful vision of that city’s Grand Prix race course. It occurred to us that it’s time for a cultural exchange program. Perhaps L.A. could send along a rendering of the Ventura Freeway at 5:30 p.m.

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Catch of the day: James Whalley noticed a handwritten sign advertising a neighborhood “yar sel” in Pasadena. “My guess,” he said, “is that there were not a lot of books for sale at the event.”

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Dr. Franklin Ruehl, who hosts “Mysteries From Beyond the Other Dominion” on several local cable outlets, has hunted for the ghost of Marilyn Monroe at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, searched for the lost city of the Lizard People beneath downtown L.A. and investigated cryonic (frozen) suspension at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverside. He missed Lancaster’s dinosaur egg, though.