Billboard Queen or a Y3K Snafu?

Among the startling sights spotted in “Futurama,” the animated Fox series set in the year 3000, was a billboard for Angelyne.

Still waiting for that one big break. . . .

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MYSTERY OF THE DAY: An anonymous reader sent along a flier that was headed, “VERY LARGE REWARD OFFERED!! Attention Goodwill Shoppers.”

The author went on to say that she had mistakenly donated a bag of her laundry to Goodwill in L.A., including:

* A black and white “sleeveless, low-cut, V-neck body suit that snaps at the crotch.”

* A “sleeveless, sheer material, pale pink body suit, which has small metal snaps down the front and a snap closure at the crotch.”

The author says that the body suits have “no monetary value” but were things “I was very attached to,” offering a reward of $500 per outfit. If anyone purchased one of the body suits at Goodwill, I’ll be happy to pass along her phone number.

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STOP! GO! In Torrance, Carol Lindgren found what might be the world’s shortest detour (see photo).

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A GOOD REED: In Wednesday’s column I mentioned the environmentalist Randy Jurado Ertll, whose name was put through a computerized spell-check by one newspaper and came out as Randy Guard Earth.

Dan Lake was inspired to send along a spell-check poem he came across:

Eye halve a spelling chequer.

It came with my pea sea.

It plainly marques four my revue

Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am wrong oar write.

It shows me straight a weigh.

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TWO FOR THE ROAD: I’m still receiving letters since I made the gaffe of saying I couldn’t think of any songs that mentioned Barstow.

Ralph Tropf of L.A. points out that singer Sheryl Crow makes a reference to finding amorous truckers in the illustrious desert burg in “Leaving Las Vegas.”

When I think of Crow I always recall this immortal lyric she warbled in another song, “All I wanna do is have some fun / Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard.”

To which comic Paul Reiser responded on a Grammys telecast: “All I wanna do on Santa Monica Boulevard / Is make a left turn.”

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TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: Jack Rosecrans of L.A. came upon a real estate ad that was either notable for its candor or meant to say “duty” kitchen (see accompanying).

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SECRETS REVEALED: By e-mail, Louie Rodriguez asked me, “First, do you have a brother named Dave? Second, if so, did you and he go to South High School in Torrance? And, finally, does the name ‘Bonehead’ mean anything to you?”

No, no, and hey! How did you know that’s what the Hamilton High baseball coach in West L.A. called me during my brief stint as third base coach?

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Speaking of baseball, the start of the season always takes me back to my youth, including the time that my buddies Ronnie and Bobby and myself attended a clinic of major leaguers at old Gilmore Field. It was sponsored by the 7-Up Foundation, and the hot dogs and soft drinks were free. Six-year-old Bobby took one look at his drink and asked a 7-Up Foundation worker, “Don’t you have any Cokes?”