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The Slice archive for April 5, 2012

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012

Cleavage in the sky

Or perhaps you saw a Cezanne still life, the front of a 1949 Buick, balloon animals or a mountain view you remember from that summer when you hiked part of the Long Trail back East. But any way you look at it, this has been…

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Reading and watching TV 

Jeff Brown had a comment on today's Slice column. He said that if he tries reading while watching TV, one of three things happens. 1. He winds up just reading. 2. He winds up just watching TV. 3. He winds up reading and watching TV.…

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Ringtone follies 

My friend Pam Pierson was at a seminar. About 30 attendees were intently listening to a speaker. "All of a sudden a rooster started crowing. And crowing and crowing." The woman whose phone was making these barnyard sounds had stepped out to visit the restroom.…

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Is there one in your basement or attic? 

www.linesacrossmyface.blogspot.com I wonder how many Spokane area residents have a baseball used in a major league game. Dozens? Hundreds? More? Mine came from a game I saw as a young teen in the late '60s. It was caught by my late sister's staggeringly flawed first…

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