Yum Brands Inc. subsidiary KFC has offered its services to Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government to fill the city’s potholes.

Hiring a road crew for its “pilot infrastructure renewal program,” the restaurant chain has pledged to conduct street repairs, which would include the message “Re-Freshed by KFC” stenciled in temporary street chalk.

As part of the marketing effort, KFC randomly will choose four other U.S. cities whose mayors describe to the company their cities’ needs for street repairs, according to a news release.

“Budgets are tight for cities across the country, and finding funding for needed road repairs is a continuing challenge,” Louisville Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson said in the release. “It’s great to have a concerned corporation like KFC create innovative private/public partnerships like this pothole refresh program.”

KFC really shouldn’t choose Birmingham as one of their four other cities. Mayor Langford said he was going to use “the remaining $55 million from the domed stadium that we can use to finish paving streets in downtown and in our communities” - despite the fact that much of that money the city has already allocated to pay for the Olympic-style village at Fair Park.

However, we shall not complain shall we?

“Anyone who wants to come up here and complain about the city, ask them what have you done to make it better,” Langford said. “Because anybody can complain. And there is also a passage in scripture about that, isn’t there? God hates whiners, criers and complainers.”

Back in November 2007, Festville featured Danny Davis’ No Evil Oil. Since that post, Festville has become the top result in Google for searches for “No Evil Oil”.

Festville feels that it is appropriate to inform first time visitors that we do not supply the No Evil Oil. So Deborah Choy, please don’t expect any to be mailed to you.

The Open Rabbit and Cavy costume contest was held last week at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

I really hate that I couldn’t have been there. Who does this stuff? Who comes up with the idea of taking a pet rabbit and putting it in a taco shell costume?

A Champagne D’Argent rabbit, dressed as “Paco Bell” and owned by Ray Alexander of Hempstead, took first place at the contest at Reliant Center, Sunday in Houston.

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Festville reader Amy submitted a photo of a cake to Cake Wrecks that she purchased last year for a friend’s birthday. It appeared today on the Cake Wreck website.

“What Happens When You Ask For ‘Happy Birthday Jaime’ Around St. Patrick’s Day”

I haven’t seen any of these so called Colonel Sanders statues in the Birmingham area.

He was covered in mud when pulled from the river, and had lost both legs and hands, not to mention his glasses. But Colonel Sanders still had his trademark smile, 24 years later.

A statue of the KFC mascot has been found in a river in Osaka, a city official said Wednesday, nearly a quarter century after being tossed in by crazed baseball fans who felt the image of restaurant founder Harland Sanders resembled a key team member.

“He was apparently found standing upright, which is fitting, because although he was a nice man he could also be very strict and demanding,” said Sumeo Yokakawa, a spokeswoman at the chain’s Tokyo headquarters.

She said the statue was taken from a nearby KFC restaurant and tossed in the river as part of a celebration by baseball fans in 1985, the year Osaka’s baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers, won the national championship.

Local fans thought the Colonel bore a resemblance to Randy Bass, a bearded power hitter and first baseman from the U.S. who played for the team at the time.

The KFC chain currently operates about 1,160 restaurants in Japan, and has about 1,000 Colonel Sanders statues in the country.

At least give the man his hands back.

At least she still has some sweet bangs…