Coming in Thursday's Slice column 1
Your invitation to predict the future. www.smartfellowspress.com
The Slice archive for Dec. 2012
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 2012
If you are in a bar in Chattaroy... 2
...wouldn't you have a reasonable expectation that you might get stabbed? That was the view of one newsroom colleague looking at an online news story and weighing the risk/reward factors of certain leisure decisions.
Wrong way to go about changing a tire 1
www.mardecortesbaja.com Putting one leg up in the air like that makes it harder to use the lug wrench.
A Christmas-card family letter strategy 1
A smart, funny couple I know include a highly readable "Things We Didn't Do" section.
True or false 1
As we approach the Winter Solstice, some people will no longer be constrained by gravity and you have to reach up and grab them. www.mirror.uk.com
They didn't teach this in Driver's Ed 4
Do you remember where your hands are supposed to go? www.moderntimes.com No, not "On her sweater." The correct answer is "at 10 and 2."
Write your own caption 1
www.checkthecoolwax.blogspot.com
How could you go wrong?
If it's advertised in a 1960s comic book, it has to be good -- right? And if you are going to spend a whole dollar, why, you're practically assured of top quality. www.goodcomics.comicbookresources.com "Are you wearing a Go Go Tail or is there a woodland…
Wednesday Slice question 1
If there are motion-detector lights on your property, how often do they go on between sunset and dawn?
Spokane's Golden Age
I wonder how many of these are at the bottom of area lakes. www.thebeercanguide.com I totally understand if you do not share my fascination with old beer cans.
Today's Christmas record 2
I had a boss ages ago who loved the singing of Jim Reeves. Do you share his opinion? www.xmasecard.com
This date in Slice history (1994)
One good thing about Spokane: All the good-looking grandmothers.
TUESDAY, DEC. 18, 2012
Remember Homer's "Mr. Plow" jingle?
I'll give you a second. www.scottmckay.ca OK, here it is. "Call Mr. Plow. "That's my name. "That name again is Mr. Plow." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEZIh7lQ3dc
Christmas stamp from 50 years ago 1
www.stampboards.com And here's one from the next year. www.stampnewsonline.net And the next. www.lisashea.com
A bride for Big Jim
"Our second son, Matty, didn't have a G.I. Joe, but he did have a Big Jim," wrote Judy McKeehan. "Big Jim had a big plastic Jeep. Matty decided that Big Jim needed a wife, so he asked for a Barbie for his birthday." Matty had…
Just wondering 5
What's the best way to deal with a competitive griever? How about a performance griever?
Christmas cards from near and nearer 2
My wife and I received a family-photo Christmas card from the young couple across the street. We like them and hope they will stay in the neighborhood for many years. It's my fantasy that their older child, a preschool boy named Franklin, will eventually refer…
Find out about Ethan Allen 2
If the references to him in "Lincoln" made you curious, here are a few details. http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/
Fans of a certain Internet feline 1
Might enjoy "Sally Forth" on today's comics page.
Name five ways... 5
...this scene is different from Christmas at your house. www.jeffco.ca
How often do you drop the TV remote?
Would members of your household benefit from a modified version of those football drills designed to teach runners to hold onto the ball?
The last No. 1 song of the 1970s
No. 1 song on this date and at the end of 1979. It's a story song, but no "El Paso." www.45cat.com
MONDAY, DEC. 17, 2012
At the post office this afternoon 3
When the line at the post office seems a bit like the Nile River, people tend to critique those who finally make it up to the service counter. Are they going about their business in a quick, efficient manner? Do they show signs of having…
Coming in Tuesday's Slice column
Spokane winters back in the day.
Ever build civilian airplane models? 3
www.oldmodelkits.com I never did. I built military planes. But perhaps that was simply a failure of imagination. After all, the movies offer plenty of entertaining scenarios for civilian aircraft. What child would not have enjoyed playing "Flight attendant Jacqueline Bisset is pregnant with Dean Martin's…
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