OZZY FOLLY: If you think you snagged an autograph from Ozzy Osbourne on Thursday morning, don't go try and sell the "treasure" on eBay or frame it for your favorite Osbourne fan.

It's a fake.

Fox morning men Rick Lewis and Michael Floorwax engineered the impersonation with the help of Boulderite Don Wrege, a dead ringer for the rocker, right down to the tattoos and black fingernails.

Lewis, Floorwax and Wrege piled into a limo and drove around town passing the faux Ozzy off as the real deal.

"We drove up to the Pepsi Center where this whole line for Ozzfest was," Floorwax said about the early-birders waiting to get into Thursday's Ozzfest concert.

"(Wrege) was real funny. Everybody bought it hook, line and sinker. Then we drove to Cherry Creek, where all these chicks were asking for autographs."

In on the hoax were Lewis & Floorwax listeners. The DJ duo broadcast their show from the limo. The cover was finally blown when by chance the hoaxsters ran into the band Insane Clown Posse in the Denver Diner.

According to Wax, ICP holds a grudge against Ozzy because (allegedly) his wife, Sharon, wouldn't let them play at Ozzfest.

"When they found out it was a fake guy, they didn't kill him," Floorwax said.

GO-KART, GO: Sports marketing consultant and Rocky Mountain News columnist Dean Bonham is taking this way too seriously. He's shifted into overdrive to prepare for the Celebrity Mini Grand Prix of Denver Go-Kart race on Sunday in the Pepsi Center parking lot.

Penny Parker's column appears Tuesday through Saturday. Call her at (303) 892-5224 or e-mail parkerp@RockyMountainNews.com.