The straight poop: With the gift-giving season...
The straight poop: With the gift-giving season approaching, a Norwalk company says it is enjoying a brisk business selling a garden product called “Poopets”--animal figurines made out of baked, sanitized cow manure.
“Who’d believe that people would pay good money for poop?” said Connie Apple of Omni Design. “Yet they do.”
The odorless critters, priced at $14 to $17 apiece on a mail-order basis, carry such names as “Turdle,” “Cow Pie Cow” and, of course, “Pepe Le Poo.”
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Solved mysteries: The other day we wrote about the efforts of a Malibu couple to find out the identities of the two L.A. County sheriff’s deputies who had saved their house during the fire. The anonymous deputies, after hosing down the flames, left a humorous note (see photo).
We subsequently received a call from a producer for TV’s “Unsolved Mysteries,” which wanted to aid the search of the homeowners, Jack and Mary Hentschel. But it wasn’t necessary. The power of Only in L.A. had been sufficient. The deputies themselves read the item and contacted the Hentschels.
“We’re planning to throw a dinner for the officers and their families and other people in the neighborhood,” Jack Hentschel said.
And the names of the deputies?
“They really don’t want any publicity,” Hentschel said.
Too modest?
“They’re undercover narcotics agents,” he explained.
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A true road hog. Louise Lampkin of Hollywood noticed a moving van that appears to consume something besides gasoline (see photo). Further proof that the freeways are getting more and more dangerous.
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Who says Pig Latin is a dead language?An L.A. court case involving that exotic tongue has made it into the national mags. You’ll recall in our last episode that a judge ruled in favor of the DMV, which had sought to ban a UKFAUYA vanity license as an obscene version of, well, “darn you.” (The plate’s owner had contended that it stood for Unified Kids for a United Young America, a disbanded youth group.)
Now, the November issue of Harper’s magazine has reprinted the expert opinion submitted as evidence by the DMV in the case. It was written by Thomas Lee Gillette, a sociologist at San Diego State University, who polled 75 students on campus about UKFAUYA.
About 90% thought the message contained the “f” word. Gillette went on to recommend that the plate be revoked on the basis of how many in his extremely scientific sample were offended by the plate--12%.
Gee, we used to offend more drivers than that with the USC decal in our back window.
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Author David (Dr. Roadmap) Rizzo, an “alternate route expert” who gives tips to commuters on the radio, points out that the smoking area at Metro Traffic in West L.A. has a sign that says: CIG-ALERT LOUNGE.
