Do you remember Milt Priggee?
He was the S-R's editorial cartoonist back in the Chris Peck era. www.pacificnorthwestartschool.org
The Slice archive for June 28, 2012
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012
Summing up the horse opera 1
This Time cover is from 1959. If you were going to add a second line to "The American Morality Play," what would it say? www.readingthewest.org
Coming in Friday's Slice column
The truth about genealogy.
If this was a Spokane tourism promo... 2
What would the text say? www.borg.com
Autographs I obtained as a kid include... 1
One from this fellow, the third of the famed Alou brothers. This isn't my card. Jesus signed a ball for me at long-gone Crosley Field in Cincinnati. I have no recollection of saying his name or how I might have pronounced it. Chances are, he…
If the Borg showed up at your picnic 3
What would you do or say? www.ctv.ca
Pizza for breakfast: Yes or no? 3
After asking what readers have for breakfast that many might find strange as start-the-day food, I got emails from a couple of local people who said they sometimes have leftover pizza. I assumed everyone had done that. But maybe I am wrong. So I wonder…
On a happier note
Fifty years ago today, The Drifters recorded "Up on the Roof," a terrific song written by the brilliant Carole King and her husband.
Rod Serling died on this date in 1975 1
He was 50. If you smoke, don't stop trying to quit. www.jdmfilmreviews.com
Just wondering 1
Do you know anyone who attended the Universal Life Church "picnic" at Farragut State Park over the Fourth of July weekend in 1971?
Most of us survived sparklers
But you have to assume that had a lot to do with luck. www.scienceprojectideasforkids.com These things (below) were safer. Though certain dads were known to take exception to the unsightly burn marks that snakes left on the driveway. www.cagepotato.com
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