Time to flush those pipes!Nancy Allen of...

Time to flush those pipes!Nancy Allen of L.A. received a flyer announcing a “spring-cleaning special” at the Total Health Connection in Beverly Hills. It’s “Colon Hydrotherapy ($49.50).”

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Free doughnuts aren’t enough: After CBS’ Dan Rather hosted a “48 Hours” special on the undermanned cops of L.A.’s 77th Street Division, the police station was besieged with calls of sympathy and offers of financial aid from viewers around the nation.

“The officers here were thrilled with the positive response,” said Capt. Larry Goebel, the division commander. “We were getting calls before the program even showed on the West Coast--they started coming after it showed on the East Coast. And we were deluged all the next day.”

Goebel said viewers obviously “could see the archaic equipment” that some of the officers are saddled with. “We got a call from a businessman in Virginia who wanted to buy us computer equipment. A man in Catalina sent us $1,000 for some new hand-held radios.”

The most unusual offer came from a Southland group that volunteered to raise funds with a benefit concert. “It’s a barbershop quartet,” Goebel said.

And, to think, the 48-hour period covered by CBS was relatively quiet in the 77th--just one murder, 23 assaults and 19 robberies.

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What were the odds?We mentioned a pyramid rising in Long Beach, which turned out to be a sports arena on the campus of Cal State Long Beach and not, as we had surmised, a Luxor-type hotel-casino.

It’s surely a coincidence, David Cooper of Beverly Hills points out, that Robert Maxson was recently named president of the college. Maxson previously held the same position at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

Next time a critic tells us that we’ll have to eat our words, we’ll pay more attention: Marvel Decker of Temple City found a strange juxtaposition that seemed to indicate that Burger King’s burgers are especially high in fiber.

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Dueling signs: Marv Patrick of Redondo Beach found a sort of dotty intersection in Hawthorne (see photo).

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The most depressing economic indicator yet: George Kiseda saw it--a gentleman in a three-piece suit needed to find financing for an extra six minutes on his parking meter on Santa Monica Boulevard. So he turned to a street person and said: “You wouldn’t have an extra dime, would you?”

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The odd thing is, everyone was infected with it on Jan. 17: Tom Byrne-McKiernan says: “I’ve finally figured out what to call what most Angelenos are feeling these days: Negative E.Q.-librium.” We doubt if colon hydrotherapy will help, either.

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The L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Company will hold a night of “Karaoke Shakespeare,” in which audience members can go on stage at Moguls in Hollywood and “recite” the Bard’s greatest hits without having to memorize a line. Admission is $10 and it’s on April Fool’s Night. No kidding.