Weather Statistic Indicates There’s a Big Cloud Over Compton

A heat wave? Couldn’t be one in Compton, judging from the weather stat that Paul Lin noticed in the city’s website (see accompanying).

Speaking of shaky websites: On the city of L.A.’s site, David Reed of Hollywood wondered if the crumbling “L” in the top line -- “TEAMWORK LA” -- had been hit by a quake (see accompanying). Which would be perfectly appropriate.

Street music? I can’t imagine that L.A. traffic would inspire drivers to break out in song, but Cynthia Ramsey found a no-parking sign that would indicate otherwise (see photo).

Then again: Barry Nackos of L.A. chanced upon a computer programmer who expected folks to break out into a dance while waiting for a file to download (see accompanying).

How about a hint? A reader who goes by the name of “Teetoncey from Tarzana” wonders just how hard the makers of one rug tried to identify the fibers (see accompanying).

Nuts to him: There’s no wing in the Baseball Hall of Fame for vendors.

But Dodger Stadium’s behind-the-back peanut hurler Roger Owens has reached the next-highest plateau: He was featured in a spot on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”

It was about time. Owens, after all, has been flinging bags of goobers to fans 15 to 20 rows away since 1958.

He said that as a teenager, he would practice throwing to invisible people on his living room couch -- and to the empty stadium seats before ballgames.

In this litigious age, the Peanut Man can’t be too careful. “I allow for wind conditions, age of the person and gender,” he said.

Make no mistake about it -- he is a talent.

He recalled the time he was a guest on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show,” and they went out in the audience together to throw bags. “He was 10 rows off,” the Peanut Man said, shaking his head.

Worse, Carson tried a through-the-leg shot and “hit himself in the crotch and really hurt himself.”

I can almost hear Ed McMahon laughing.

Chew on this: The Los Angeles County Fair opens Sept. 9, which means it will soon be time for the Super Bowl of cooking events: the Spam recipe competition.

Last year’s champ in the kids category was Sarah Rosendahl, 11, of San Bernardino, who concocted chocolate spam cookies. What? No spam ice cream to go with it?

miscelLAny: The other day this column showed a menu excerpt from a restaurant that invited diners to share its cuisine “feathering whole roast pigs.” Observed Linda Parsons: “Feathers will come in handy for that time ‘when pigs fly.’ ”

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