I'm glad you thought it was funny; I think it might have been too subtle for most people. It's not my cleverness -- I stole the apartment name from SF Chronicle columnist Herb Caen and have been waiting for 25 years to use it.
I grew up in S.F. and couldn't wait for the morning Chronicle so I could see what pearls of wisdom of his I could store away so I could spring them on people at the appropriate moment.
He really was glib and could turn a phrase!