TV Personality Was All Ears for Show on Bunny Museum

When Candace Frazee of Pasadena told me that TV personality John Walsh (“America’s Most Wanted”) interviewed her about her Bunny Museum, I feared some misfortune had befallen the shrine.

Had a bad guy made off with some of her bunny items? I was especially worried about the Elvis-shaped water pitcher with a rabbit head that’s labeled “Elvis Parsley.”

But, no. Walsh has a new TV talk show, and he’s trying to lighten up a bit. So he summoned Frazee for a feature on her house / museum, which is full of everything from bunny floor mats and bunny lamps to a bunny toilet seat and bunny toilet brush (admission is free, but appointments at [626] 798-8848 are required).

Walsh’s invitation was the biggest honor for the Bunny Museum since it was saluted by the Guinness Book of Records for its 8,500 items.

Incidentally, Frazee maintains that the number is too low, pointing out that Guinness counts sets, such as bunny salt and pepper shakers, as one item. Then again you can’t blame Guinness. Companies are nervous about accounting scandals these days.

Whoops, the bunny anecdotes are multiplying: Aside from Frazee, Walsh also interviewed collectors of rats, M&Ms;, chickens, mustard and vacuum cleaners on his show. Sounds like a messy assemblage.

“According to those in the production crew,” Frazee said, “I was the most normal of the collectors.”

Now an item for “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”: “My husband looks much younger than he really is, but when he bought a bottle of wine I was shocked to learn his true age,” joked Lela Rodriguez of Arcadia.

For more than a year, readers have been sending me Ralphs grocery receipts that give the buyers of alcoholic beverages an identical birth date in the Middle Ages (see accompanying). Shouldn’t the problem be fixable in the 21st century?

Swelling with pride? John O’Donnell of South El Monte sent along a code enforcement report that seemed to indicate that housing is becoming more crowded than ever (see accompanying).

On the road: A billboard in Arizona prompted Jim Barton of Van Nuys to observe: “The most useful club for this golf course? Definitely the sand wedge” (see photo).

Cold enough for you? This week has been so chilly that it would almost make a comfortable vacation spot for the title character who invades the Southland in one of R. L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” novels (see accompanying).

miscelLAny: My colleague Daniel Yi spotted a restaurant sign in Gardena that said: “No shirt. No shoes. No dogs. No service.” What’s the use of going inside?

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