I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin’s egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds.
 
…Russ

Good line from the movie, although I don’t think I’d like my Wham to be any shade of green.

I too thought about Mr. Blandings, although I believe the slogan for the Wham in this sandwich ought to be “If you’re eating Wham, you ain’t eating ham!”  Think that’s a good slogan for a vegetarian restaurant?

The last time I ever heard of Wham Cary Grant’s housekeeper in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House called the canned pork product similar to Prem, Spam and Treet “Wham”, which gave Grant’s character, an advertising man, the key to an account’s needs.

I want it to be a soft green, not as blue-green as a robin’s egg, but not as yellow-green as daffodil buds.
 
…Russ

It was probably in the mid fifties and I was eight or ten years old when I discovered the hard cover Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House in the living room bookcase.

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 Didn’t know it was a movie until years later, and enjoyed that, too. Pretty much anything Cary Grant was in, he made worth watching.

The book, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House was once my architectural commission. A potential tenant in a century old downtown building I was remodeling needed help in the design layout for a used book store. She had no money so to help our client sign her I offered her my design services if she could come up with the book. She found it in a couple of days whereas I had been rummaging used bookstores for years hoping to find it. She was happy. I was happy.

Unfortunately this new WHAM ain’t got no ham in it. 

That house that Mr Blandings built is still in good shape, alive
and well up around New Canaan Ct.  The new occupants
never eat WHAM and I am not looking forward to it either.

Michael, as always,  you are right on the ball.   

Specifically, “If you ain’t eatin’ Wham, you ain’t eatin’ ham!”

See; old movies, that’s one more topic we’ll have in common when we chat over cheeseburgers at The Gahanna Grill come August.

Buddy

From out of the past we give you—–

Wham Bam Alakazam wonderful you came by——
Wham Bam Alakazam out of an orange colored sky

Loved that sequel with Myrna Loy and the Painting Contractor—
Yeah red, yellow and blue.