Licentious? A Culver City court reporter’s personalized...

Licentious? A Culver City court reporter’s personalized license plate has been revoked because the letters--TP U BG--are keypad designations for the four-letter epithet known as the f-word.

The court reporter, Anita L. Kahn, maintained she chose that message because TP U BG could also mean “if you can” in shorthand, a phrase from the children’s story, “The Little Engine That Could.”

But a Court of Appeal ruled that Kahn’s “intent is irrelevant.”

A cynic studying the case summary in the L.A. Daily Journal might ask whether the taxpayers were well served by having the Department of Motor Vehicles and two courts spend four years on this monumental issue.

The court pointed out that there are more than 50,000 court reporters driving in California. They don’t seem so sensitive, though.

How long did it take for someone to write the DMV to complain about Kahn’s plate? Sixteen years.

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It’s the sex, stupid: One half of the mystery couple who were applauded by concert-goers while making love above the Hollywood Bowl will reveal all today. A Studio City hairdresser, she’ll be interviewed at 8:15 a.m. on Robert W. Morgan’s KRTH-FM radio show.

She didn’t realize anyone was watching at the time. Then, two days later, a customer mentioned Only in L.A.’s exclusive (though not on the scene) account of the liaison.

At which point, she shrieked, “Oh my God!”

The couple thought the cheering by binocular-armed spectators far below was for the other performers, the ones at the Playboy Jazz Festival. And when her naked boyfriend stood and bowed toward the audience afterward, she told Morgan, he was clowning for her.

Wonder what her license plate says?

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More sex: Or at least sex changes--that’s the service that a West L.A. shop seems to advertise on its sign, which was photographed by Alvin Ross.

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Even revoked license plates: The city’s recycling slogan shows that even the People’s Republic of Santa Monica has a sense of humor.

miscelLAny:

Following our mention of the celebs who attended Beverly Hills High, a Redondo High grad claimed his school had a more varied group of newsmakers: comedians Tommy and Dick Smothers, porn star Traci Lords, Charles Lindbergh, Jennifer Montana (Joe’s wife), and Manson follower Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme.