A girl's contribution

IrishCorey · Dec 14, 2006

I got this in email today from my gal. This is her idea of sports coverage. Still though, anything that keeps me talking about USC losing is a good thing. Enjoy:

The Second Big Loser of the UCLA Upset: H. D. Buttercup

Bandini, author of the sweet (yet not-recently updated, cough cough) LA blog The Great Taco Hunt, asks, "I wonder how much furniture Lane Kiffin bought from HD Buttercup?"

To fully understand this joke/question/accusation, one must know who Lane Kiffin is, and what H. D. Buttercup is.

H. D. Buttercup is an upscale, interior designer's wet dream in Culver City, housed in the beautiful 100,000 square-foot Helms Bakery building. Built during the depression to celebrate the 1932 Olympic Games in LA, the building is as gorgeous as the 19th century antiques, Afghani carpets, and hand-made furniture stored inside.

"It's an incubator for little baby home-furnishing brands that really care about quality design," Buttercup owner Evan Cole told the LA Times last year when the store opened.

Apparently Buttercup CFO (and USC alumnus) Pej Sabet was so confident that the #2 Trojans would beat the unranked Bruins that he convinced ownership to run a promotion last week, in which anyone who bought at least $2,000 of furniture between Thursday and kickoff would get their stuff free if UCLA won the game.

Somehow UCLA won the game.

Some say it was due to the poor gameplan of USC's offensive coordinator, who was able to muster only nine points against the Bruins in Pasadena. The coordinator's name: Lane Kiffin.
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http://www.laist.com/archives/2006/12/03/the_second_big_loser_of_the_ucla_upset_h_d_buttercup.php

Terry O'Keefe · Dec 14, 2006

LOL....I love it.

mrsjoco · Dec 14, 2006

:wink: ok this is sad but I havd been in that building when it belonged to Helms bakery.. the used to give tours . the Helms truck came by our house every day. My mom would buy fresh bread and sometimes glazed donuts the best ever... but I dont remember it being that nice and Culver city isnt Beverly Hills it is in the Hills by the airport an OK area but just OK.. We heard about this on the news seemed alot of people were lined up to get their refund. and I am sure that who ever did their financing
just loved the whole thing ....

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