Honestly, Common Vermin Are Always Trying to Sneak Into Country Clubs

But they were the most fashionably dressed vermin . . .: Among the local restaurant sites that were recently closed because of vermin infestation was the Brentwood Country Club.

Fair enough: Reader Mark Willis recounted a story here about how Daihatsu chose the name Charade for one car because a company exec was supposedly an admirer of the 1963 Audrey Hepburn movie “Charade.”

J.J. Gaines writes that such a tribute would not be unprecedented in Asia.

The Datsun Z, he points out, was introduced in Japan (though not in the United States) as the Fairlady Z because the president of Nissan Motors Japan loved the musical, “My Fair Lady.” He thought that Japanese buyers would associate the car name with the beauty of the musical. Especially that classic song, “I Could Have Driven All Night.”

Unreal estate: It’s amazing the kind of property offers that column readers spot (see accompanying), including:

* A residence that comes with a sizable instructor

* A residence that comes with the former owner--I’m not sure of his size (submitted by Cal Parker of Upland)

* A Halloween property (from L. Baker of Hemet)

* And, finally, some land selling for about $35 per acre in Laguna Beach (from Mike Spencer). Must be the rough section of Laguna.

The Angels lose again: Now you too can squander money on big-name athletes. Parker Bros. has introduced eight Monopoly games that center on various baseball and football teams, with the prestige properties consisting of famous players.

There’s an L.A. Dodgers edition, but none for the Anaheim team. I guess the thinking was: Who would pay for any of the Angels players? As for L.A.’s former pro football teams, the St. Louis Rams have their own game, but there’s no Oakland Raiders edition. I find the latter omission unfortunate. After all, Raiders fans would feel right at home with the “Go to Jail” square.

Signature lines (cont.): Flashing back again, we bring you more pet phrases of L.A. broadcasters:

* “Blue skies and green lights to you and yours, and Mama, come get your baby boy!”--sign-off of disc jockey Ted Quillan (recalled by Bill Klippel of Hemet)

* “Yukka Bean, Yukka Stew,” country music disc jockey Dick Haynes (from Lloyd Peyton of Silver Lake)

* “EGBOK,” radio show hosts Ken (Minyard) and Bob (Arthur). Translation: Everything’s Going to be OK.

And, finally, newsman Richard Turnage remembered when listeners would call disc jockey Robert W. Morgan and ask “to be Morganized. And, every once in a while, Robert W. would oblige on the air, playing a thunder-like sound effect and yelling, ‘ZAP!! You’re Morganized!’ ”

Turnage added that, as in the case of the Real Don Steele’s mysterious line (“Tina Delgado is alive, alive!”), Morgan never revealed “what the heck ‘You’re Morganized!’ meant.”

And don’t ask me what “Yukka Bean, Yukka Stew” meant, either.

miscelLAny: An article in UC Irvine’s newspaper about the seemingly endless number of campus building projects was accompanied by a headline that revealed the alternate meaning of the school’s initials: “UCI: Under Construction Indefinitely.”

EGBOK, UCI.

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