On Nov 17, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
for awhile now, I've thought that Los Angeles should sell naming rights to the many freeways here... The cement-lined L.A. River could be renamed the Ty-D-Bol Cleanser Canal.
I learned the word "boondoggle" as a child when I read it in the Los Angeles Herald Express. It was a reference to the lining of the L.A. River with concrete. In the late 1960s I suggested in a letter to the editor of the L.A. Times that the L.A. River should be dammed at the outlet and Angelenos could sail to work on little boats. Nobody bought it. It's still used, I believe, primarily for unauthorized teenage drag races and cinema chase scenes. Dan
