Bigtime Golfer From Carson Takes a Road Trip--to Denver

Ever notice the 22-foot-tall fellow guarding a Carson golf course along the San Diego Freeway? Well, Lisalee Anne Wells of Long Beach reports that the big hacker (see photo) gets a cameo role in the John Travolta disaster movie “Battlefield Earth.”

The surprise, she says, is that the big guy “has become part of the suburbs of a post-cataclysmic Denver. Gosh darn, that tsunami was a big one!”

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A STRANGE BIT OF NOSTALGIA: My colleague Jim Walters spotted a truck with an LV L NINO plate in Seal Beach. It was a roofing company’s truck.

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UCLA’S UNPOPULARITY ON THE ROAD: I gave my theory that UCLA’s poor-selling special-interest license plates would attract more buyers if they carried the words “Beat USC.”

Lord knows the DMV has profited from Trojan haters in its sales of vanity plates. Just this week I saw one that proclaimed, ANTI SC. You really need some ingenuity to find an available combination for this popular cause, inasmuch as BOOUSC, BEATUSC, H8USC, HATESSC and IHATESC are already taken.

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ON TRACK POLITICS: I see where a horse named Mr. Vice Prizident finished second at Hollywood Park on Thursday. I understand that Mr. Vice Prizident refuses to appear on the same track as the horse that finished third in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness--you know, the one named Impeachment.

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USC SUPPORTERS’ TURN TO LAUGH: Referring to the UCLA football players who fraudulently obtained handicapped parking stickers, Mike Kerrigan wise-cracked: “I see UCLA plates every day. Aren’t they the blue ones with a little wheelchair on them?”

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THE WORLD CAN BE A COLD PLACE: In the new book, “Outtakes,” a collection of interviews by ESPN’s Dan Patrick, Newport Beach’s Dennis Rodman is asked about his marriage to actress Carmen Electra. Specifically, what wedding gifts the couple received from Rodman’s former Chicago Bulls teammates Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.

“Nobody gave me anything,” Rodman lamented. “It’s amazing how all these athletes and famous people . . . people give these guys parties, celebrations, roasts and all that stuff. When it comes to me I get none of that.”

Now don’t turn turtle, Dennis.

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MORE HORSEPLAY: Impeachment, which is owned by Bob and Marilyn Lewis of Newport Beach, was sired by Criminal Type.

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