Fun

The secret word is imaginative. "Pee-wee's Playhouse" is great Saturday morning fun. Thank you, CBS. Agnes C. Santiago

It is tough enough to rank college football teams, but for anyone to nationally rank high school teams is a total joke. No one on either coast has any idea of how the teams compare. Unfortunately, instead of being for fun, they are part of the all-too-early "winning is everything" mentality. BRYAN SHAUN Malibu

Thanks, CBS, for bringing back "Northern Exposure." The season premiere had us sliding onto the floor and giggling well through the commercials. What fun! Jennifer Clarke, Los Angeles

Although millions of us will mourn for Lucille Ball, who gave us an unlimited number of hours of great, great talented fun, she has already been made welcome by millions of others who have been waiting for her. Our loss is their gain. I salute a wonderful lady whose career I have followed for more than 55 years. GEORGE FURLONG Long Beach

Angelenos taking to car-free streets along CicLAvia's 15-mile route say they came out to have fun, enjoy family and give back to the community. One volunteer, who rode in the past, said she wanted to help Sunday because it was important to let people know that biking can be fun, and family-friendly, particularly when you don't have to worry about potential danger from cars. But some came to the streets with other means of transportation, For Spencer Knight a skateboard was the way to go. What made him want to skateboard the entire route?

I hope that when the time comes that Bethany Dane finds herself in a graduate class taught by a graduate student that she has as much fun as her undergraduate students. I can see it now: graduate students teaching graduate students teaching undergraduate students how to have fun. DICK SCHMIDT Long Beach

In the editorial, The Times stated its support for a bill which allows people to own weapons in part that "are more than adequate . . . to have the fun of killing game animals. . . ." Few people (The Times included, apparently) question the notion that killing animals is fun, but I believe it represents an arrogant and repugnant side of human character. Today most people would be repulsed by the idea of killing human beings for fun, but the Romans and Nazis had no problem with it. Killing for fun requires the greatest insensitivity to life and a callous indifference to suffering.

The Hearing-Impaired Performers organization wishes to point out a universal, unwritten law to the makers of "See No Evil": Deaf people can make fun of themselves, black people can make fun of themselves, etc., but it is not morally acceptable for others to make fun of such groups. Also, we are puzzled by the fact that the film is not subtitled and thus is not accessible to deaf people in general. JULIANNA FJELD Executive Director, HIP Los Angeles