There are mouse prints all over this...

There are mouse prints all over this one:

Mark and Brian, the madcap deejays of KLOS-FM (95.5), are feeling the hot breath of Mickey Mouse.

Disney, the new owner of KLOS, canceled one of the station’s most heartwarming annual events, the “Mark and Brian What Would You Do for Super Bowl Tickets Contest.”

Entrants in past years staged such acts as:

* Licking a pig clean.

* Removing a false eye, swallowing it, regurgitating it and reinserting it into the eye socket.

And, our favorite, performed by Keith Hibbs of Garden Grove in 1995:

* Dropping his pants and allowing a companion to throw 29 darts into his posterior to honor Super Bowl XXIX.

All history now.

And what kind of substitute Super Bowl promo did Mark and Brian hold this year? One thousand listeners were invited to the L.A. Sports Arena to compete for tickets by throwing plastic footballs at a target.

The event seemed to be in such good taste that we couldn’t bring ourselves to attend.

CAUTION--WRONG-WAY SIGN MAKER: As if driving in the Southland isn’t demanding enough, Alan Frisbie of L.A. noticed a traffic sign in Pasadena that was flip-flopped. Naturally, it was a sign that dispensed traffic information.

CREDIT DUE: We neglected to say that the 1995 photo in Thursday’s Super Bowl memories item--it’s a marquee that says Super “Bowel”--was snapped by Arch McCulloch of Redondo Beach.

McCulloch told us, by the way, that the same misspelling occurred on the same marquee in 1996 as well.

But this year, he adds, there’s no, uh, celebration advertised on the sign.

REASSURING NEWS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE? A defense expert was trying to persuade a Malibu judge that a convicted thief should be given a reduced sentence. “Narcissistic” types such as his client can learn “what line not to cross,” he said.

Then the expert added: “Your honor, President Clinton will not make a pass at another woman.”

Perhaps that wasn’t the best example to use.

The judge denied the motion.

FURTHER PROOF OF THE LINK BETWEEN JOGGING AND BALDNESS: Sword Medical Center is “the official Hair Transplantation Center” for the L.A. Marathon.

CACTUS LEAGUE: On a recent trip to L.A. aboard Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, Thomas Pleasure was surprised when the train pulled into Gallup, N.M., and the conductor announced:

“Welcome to the new home of the Los Angeles Dodgers.”

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George magazine, taking a look into the future, says that “a bigger, more fuel-efficient Concorde” is “due as early as 2010. At a speed of Mach 2.4 (approximately 1,500 mph), it will make the trip from Los Angeles to Tokyo in 4 1/2 hours.” Great! Now you can find out the airline lost your luggage that much earlier.