Hydrant included in option package

Published 10:54 pm Friday, April 10, 2009

I can has frunt seet? Honda is showing a dog-friendly version of its boxy Element at the New York International Auto Show that replaces the cup holders with a spill-resistant water bowl and has a pet bed in the back.

Honda scratched a version of its Civic for cat lovers when it couldn’t figure out how to keep the cats from sitting on the instrument panel and staring at the driver.

I am Joe Camel’s lungs: A program to discourage kids from smoking and making other poor health choices, Truth or Consequences, was shown recently to fourth- and fifth-graders at Quilceda Elementary. The kids got to poke at the diseased lungs of smokers.

This probably would have annoyed the smokers, but they were outside having a cigarette at the time.

You can like bean curd too much: A Colorado woman, who is fond of tofu has been denied the personalized license plate “ILVTOFU,” because, state officials say, the letters could be read by some as an unwholesome invitation.

The woman plans to appeal that decision and has been joined in her protest by Stu Pidass and Amanda Hugankiss.

— Jon Bauer, Herald staff