Unflappable Ski: During his busy life, Ski...

Unflappable Ski: During his busy life, Ski Demski has run for mayor of Long Beach, has run his parrot for mayor of Long Beach and has sought to have his own remains someday buried under his flagpole.

Demski, who owns a graphics business, recently had a 255-by-505-foot flag designed for a July Fourth ceremony at the Washington Monument. Not to mention recognition by the Guinness Book of World Records.

On the drive home from Washington, however, Demski’s trailer was blown over by winds outside Tucumcari, N.M.

Tragedy was averted even though the crash caved in the trailer. “We had to use the Jaws of Life to get the flag out,” Demski said. “But it was all right.”

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Give till it hurts: After reading that billionaire Marvin Davis and his wife, Barbara, were robbed of $10 million in jewels and $50,000 in cash on the French Riviera, Joe Syseskey put a ceramic cup on the counter of his Brentwood bookshop.

It says: “For Marvin and Barbara Davis, so they may enjoy the rest of their vacation.”

Customer Lois Peyser asked him if he collected any donations.

“Oh yes,” said Syseskey, owner of the Book Nook. “Let’s see--I have so far a total of 54 cents.”

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We scoop ‘TV Guide’ again: Some segments to savor in the coming public access show, John Cunningham’s “Driveways of the Rich & Famous,” on Continental Cablevision July 30 and on Century Cable Aug. 19:

* “The home of Don Adams: Meet a panhandler in front of Don Adams’ house . . . “

* “Celebrity mailboxes: Can you correctly match these celebrities with their mailboxes: Harrison Ford, Prince and Zsa Zsa Gabor?”

* “The home of Steve Martin: Steve moved out of this house years ago, but his fan mail still arrives. Meet the man living here now.”

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Ramp to nowhere: John Paul Scott of Glendale found a sort of metaphor for the driving experience in L.A.--an overpass near an LAX parking garage that falls away to nothingness. It’s marked by a sign that says “STOP” to oncoming traffic. The back of the sign says “DO NOT ENTER”--a warning, no doubt, to approaching airline pilots.

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Nag, nag, nag: Everett Daniels of L.A. wrote to ask whether the theater whose marquee says “UND R NEW NAGMENT” could have been “taken over by Momma,” the busybody in the Mell Lazarus cartoon? We bring up the subject of henpecking because two other readers reminded us that that theater is in Echo Park, not Hollywood.

And we drew some return fire from readers for saying that in the coming movie, “Tombstone,” actor Wyatt Earp (a distant cousin of the gunfighter) plays bad guy Billy Claiborne, who is killed at the OK Corral. Actually, the real Claiborne survived the scrap.

Next, we suppose, someone’s going to tell us that John Wayne wasn’t the last to die at the Alamo.

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The tray mats at McDonald’s make this claim: “It is estimated that one out of every 15 Southern Californians start his or her working career at McDonald’s.”