To live and deliver in L.A.:Attorney Bill...

To live and deliver in L.A.:

Attorney Bill Moore received a card with an L.A.-type of Christmas sentiment from Carlos Duran, his newspaper delivery man:

No matter:

Rain, Fog, Fire, Looting, Earthquakes . . .

Always delivered on time.

MOTORIZED SLEIGHS TAKE NOTICE: On Outpost Drive, south of Mulholland Drive, Phil Proctor snapped a photo of a sign warning drivers that there are two little Rudolphs in the neighborhood.

THE FUR MUST HAVE BEEN FLYING: Lil and Dick Brandley of Apple Valley, meanwhile, snapped a shot of a politically incorrect (or, perhaps, just misspelled) sign for Christmas trees. “We got there just ahead of the animal rights people,” quipped Lil Brandley.

TORO, TORO, TORO! Well, we’ve gone over the ballots from our contest to find a suitable name for the proposed airport in El Toro. We knew it would be a daunting challenge to match the glamour of a name like John Wayne Airport, but as usual, Only in L.A’s readers responded heroically--for the most part.

Not everyone who entered was serious. Some readers wanted the facility named after Robert Citron (the disgraced Orange County treasurer) or defeated Republican Congressman Robert K. Dornan (in honor of the $4,000 ride he took at the expense of taxpayers in an FA-18 fighter jet after the election).

And Paul Ecker suggested Michael Ovitz Airport (“only departs . . . “). Moving on to our winners:

Third place: Eva Hirsch, for the name, “The Orange You Glad This Isn’t LAX Airport?”

Second place: Michael Helwig for the subtle entry, “El Toro Airport.” Explained Helwig: “It would be nice if there were someplace where ‘ETA’ actually meant something.”

And, the winner: Paul Hoagland, who submitted a movie star who is also “a true aviation expert.” Hoagland proposed: “Dumbo International Airport.”

We’re willing to overlook the fact that Dumbo’s big ears would probably be judged an environmental hazard these days.

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We have an addition to our list of restaurants with unusual names. Susan Tellem sent us a menu from a Melrose Avenue eatery that makes no bones about being a chicken restaurant. Its name: Peckers. Specialties include “A Pecker” (a whole chicken), and “Pecker Pecker” (two whole chickens). The hostess is identified on the menu as “Mae Breast.”