Lawyers Get Up on Their High Horse

Guess who’s celebrating a 10th anniversary? The Cowboy Lawyers Assn. Yup. Now there’s a gang of straight shooters, you can be sure. Started by a couple of Southwestern Law School grads, the group has as its aim the promotion of “a love, appreciation and understanding of the American West.”

About 90% of the 180 members are trial lawyers. “It wasn’t planned that way,” co-founder Jim Nichols told Verdict magazine. “Trial lawyers and cowboying just seem to go together like hay and manure.”

Well put, well put.

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RELATED ITEM: Everett Fong of Torrance found a possible lunch spot for the Cowboy Lawyers: a McDonald’s in the Palos Verdes area with parking for four-legged creatures (see photo). But there’s no gallop-through.

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RIP IN RPV: The advertising blurb for Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes reads in part: “There’s something about being on the Peninsula. Is it the fresh Pacific breezes? Or the green rolling hills of Palos Verdes Peninsula?”

This so inspired one anonymous reader that he (or she) was moved to compose a variation of an old cowboy song:

Oh, bury me not

On the lone prairie

But rather in lush

And green RPV.

(And have a cowboy lawyer handle the will.)

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WHEN COFFEE ISN’T ENOUGH OF AN EYE-OPENER: Perry Casapao of Palmdale found a shop with an unusual menu in Lancaster (see photo). But he added: “I haven’t seen any police cruisers parked there.”

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AND THE WINNER IS . . . NOT HERE! Super Dave Osborne, the comedy stunt artist, is supposed to be prepared for surprises.

But even Osborne (a.k.a. actor Bob Einstein), was taken aback by the absence of several winners when he hosted the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Awards Show on Monday. Vin Scully (Dodgers) and Chick Hearn and Stu Lantz (Lakers) were among the no-shows.

When Dodger broadcaster Ross Porter was absent for his award, Osborne invoked the name of a previous runner-up and wisecracked:

“Is Rory Markas here? Just give him the award if he’s here.”

As it happened, Markas later shared part of KNX’s radio anchor staff award. He was even there to accept it.

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SCHOOL PRANK: A purported bulletin from the L.A. school district, which was placed in some teachers’ mailboxes and was quoted in Only in L.A, turns out to have been a spoof of bureaucracy.

In the notice, the school district supposedly warned employees not to use “Xerox” as a synonym for “photocopier” in conversation, but to specify the brand, such as “Canon copy.”

Alan Tomiyama quipped that the only problem he could envision with the names of copying machines would be use of the term “Canonized” copy during a visit by the pope.

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Premiere magazine reported that among the costs of hiring Kevin Costner to appear in the movie “For Love of the Game” was his weekly expense for a trainer-nutritionist: $4,500. That includes the tip, I think.

Steve Harvey can be reached by phone at (213) 237-7083, by fax at (213) 237-4712, by e-mail at steve.harvey@latimes.com and by mail at Metro, L.A. Times, Times Mirror Square, L.A. 90053.