Radio Slogan Should Tune In to Changes in Commute Times

I n our last meeting, class, we talked about radio station KFWB’s slogan: “You give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world.”

The math doesn’t add up for a thrice-hourly news cycle, but Tony Mayer of Norwalk notes that several websites say the “22” referred to the average time of a commute in L.A. 35 years ago.

Twenty-two minutes. Hard to believe, isn’t it?

Geoffrey Kimbrough of Culver City, who heard the same story, added: “Now, I suppose, KFWB should offer the world in exchange for, what, 145 minutes?”

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Harvey’s Hall of Wonders: Today’s exhibits (see accompanying) include:

* A not-so-exotic restaurant coming to the Inland Empire, from Gene Knauer of Alta Loma.

* Evidence, gathered by Chris Cott of San Diego, that some hotel visitors in Hawaii don’t take baths in a bathtub.

* A headline that would further confuse bathers in Hawaii, submitted by Sally Fader of Huntington Beach.

* And, finally, a ho-hum church hymn, from Byron Myhre of Palos Verdes Estates. Turns out some sinner misspelled “borning.”

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You can’t blame everything on kids: A caller told police that “her patio furniture had been hit with paintballs sometime between 8 p.m., Wednesday, June 7, and 9 a.m., Thursday, June 8,” the Seal Beach Sun reported. “She said this has happened several times since December 2005.”

And the upshot, so to speak? “Police investigated,” the Sun said, “and determined that the ‘vandalism’ was caused by ... bird droppings.”

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If it’s not cellphone yakkers ... : Mike Richter saw a different type of distracted motorist on the San Diego Freeway.

“The driver and her passenger were having a heated discussion,” he said, “in American Sign Language. I didn’t hang around behind them to find out who won.”

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Those devils: I recently printed a photo of a Hell pizza shop in New Zealand whose phone number included three consecutive 6s.

Anyway, journalist Curtis Todt writes: “I can personally attest that Hell, a chain of pizza shops, makes a very good pizza. They did cause some controversy earlier this year with an ad campaign that featured a picture of President Bush and the tagline, ‘Hell is too good for some people.’ ”

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miscelLAny: And now the weather: As for our roster of meteorological terms-turned-people (Catalina Eddy, etc.), Jerry Pointak of Canoga Park thinks it should include Sunny and Clear. You know, that singing duo known for such hits as “I Got Blue, Babe” and “The Beach Goes On.”

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