Smiley Anders for August 20, 2008

• By SMILEY ANDERS
• Advocate columnist
• Published: Aug 20, 2008 - Page: 1B - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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This is a great time of year — all the college football teams are undefeated, a condition that leads crazed fans to make weird bets with equally crazed fans of rival teams.

For instance, Renee of Denham Springs says her dad and a friend from Arkansas have a wager every year on the LSU-Arkansas football game:

“His friend has a silly-looking ceramic pig by the front door of his restaurant.

“For two years Dad got to dress this pig in LSU colors for the July 4th weekend. It was great.

“But we lost this past year.

“Dad says a debt is something to be honored, and Tiger fans honor their obligations.

“But Smiley, this is so embarrassing: Dad has a Louisiana license plate that says ‘RZRBK-1.’ This is so wrong.

“He says he can’t remove it until the next LSU-Arkansas game — if we win.

“Dad has taken lots of grief over this, but says that had we prevailed, his friend would be sporting an Arkansas license plate that says ‘IM4LSU.’”

Too tough to die?
Harvey, of Rosedale, says, “As attested to by my bathroom scale and well known to family and friends, my passion is seeking out and enjoying all the wonderful culinary delicacies found in south Louisiana.

“But unfortunately I have decided to become a vegetarian — since seeing the sign advertising ‘Live Boudin.’ ”

Take a bow, parents
Andy Sobert says this about our story on the weekend parenting workshop to be conducted here by author and columnist John Rosemond:

“We split the atom and we put men on the moon. My younger son will be 48 this year, and I feel that successful parenting is much more difficult than these two endeavors!”