A few years ago, Valspeak, the language...

A few years ago, Valspeak, the language of Valley Girls, swept the nation. Now comes an offshoot from a tribe south of the Santa Monica Mountains, UCLA students.

Under the direction of linguistics Professor Pamela Munro, 20 students compiled 1,400 examples of Bruinspeak. Their work is now in book form. “UCLA Slang” is “a best seller here--easily in our Top 5,” said Richard MacBriar, trade book manager of the campus student store.

Valley Girls would recognize such Bruinspeakisms as dweeb (idiot) and rad (fantastic).

But there are some newer terms at the distinguished UC branch as well: team Xerox (to cheat, as on a test), shredded (drunk), cheese dong (stupid person), betty (pretty girl), chud (disgusting) and ride the Buick (vomit).

No doubt many of the terms can be heard across town at USC. But not all of them.

“UCLA Slang,” defines “USC” to mean “University of Spoiled Children” and “University of Scholastic Compromise.”

Chud, simply chud.

Stupid criminal tricks:

A Domino’s delivery woman in Lancaster was robbed of three pizzas after the shop received a phony order, but her alleged assailant made one slight mistake.

When he called in the order, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said, the Domino’s employee got the suspect’s phone number.

“Office of the ‘90s,” a Times advertising supplement that depicted a young businessman sitting on the beach with his fax machine, laptop computer and portable phone, rang a bell with photographic consultant Carolyn Kozo.

Kozo, historian for the L.A. Chamber of Commerce’s 1988 Centennial, pointed out that the chamber used a similar theme in the 1930s. What are those funny-looking contraptions that the secretaries are using?

In discussing the tendency of TV and radio personalities to change their names (as well as their jobs), we obviously took a wrong turn trying to follow the career steps of KTLA-TV sportscaster Stu Nahan the other day. We had him working for KHJ-TV, which is now KCAL-TV. (And, no, we weren’t shredded at the time, either!)

However, after such a goof, we do feel a bit guilty pointing out that the photo of the L.A. skyline that graced the maiden issue of the National Sports Daily Wednesday was a bit old.

The skyline was minus the city’s tallest building, the 73-story First Interstate World Center (remembered affectionately by some as the Library Tower). A mistake? Or was it just a plot to deny publicity for the “I” logos on the building’s picturesque crown?

Among those stars featured in the National Sports Daily was . . . Zsa Zsa. No kidding. Gabor’s recent heart-warming reunion with her dog, Genghis Khan, was featured in the paper’s news summary, which is ironically called “Real World.”

Eighty-one years ago this month, the Auto Club’s Touring Topics publication reported: “Word has come from San Diego that the district attorney has determined that fast racing between L.A. and San Diego must stop. He is said to have deputized a number of farmers, residing along the route of travel, and instructed them to keep a watchful eye on speeding motorists.”

Zsa Zsa, incidentally, was not featured in that issue.