Readers responding to today's Slice question seem confident that Secretariat's Kentucky Derby record time will still be the fastest ever after tomorrow's race. www.westernhorsereview.com "Not likely that somebody will outrun Secretariat this weekend," wrote Bill Brock. "It may happen someday, but the world being the…
www.thestandardedition.com Still time to plan your anniversary observance.
Had a pleasant email exchange with a PR guy at the University of Arizona. I had mentioned that school in a blog post this week. And I assume this fellow in Tucson has a Google Alert set up to automatically notify him of any online…
Today's Slice question: What smell tells you summer really is on the way?
I found a wet business card on the ground this afternoon at Riverfront Park. It was right next to the fence by a scenic Spokane River overlook. The card had the state of Washington seal and the name "PJ Dennis." It also said "Community Corrections…
What is the earliest you have called a workplace colleague? I thought about this when I noticed that The Slice Blog's first anniversary is coming up. On the actual launch date last May, a technical glitch or some planning miscommunication made it impossible to open…
Who remembers when the special viewing platform on the back of the Bloomsday media truck came apart near the starting line in 1988, spilling photographers and reporters onto Riverside just as the race began?
www.hollywoodandfine.com A) "Say what you will about the utter lack of clarity, it's a prose style." B) "Didn't read it." C) "Her byline is like a warning label." D) "I didn't have to read it. I heard the sausage being made every step of the…
www.bfi.ork.uk A) Sort of lost interest when I was about 12. B) Aren't they really more of a guy thing? C) Will watch any one that happens to be on. D) Didn't like them then. Don't like them now. E) I pick and choose, based…
"This is in answer to your question about the age when we passed our parents in height," wrote Peggy Jeremiah. "I never did. I'm short (5'3") and my parents are both taller than that. I am the shortest adult in our immediate family." She said…
Today's print Slice briefly refers to how children of military officers got along with children of enlisted personnel. Here are a few actual excerpts from readers' submissions. "I was a military kid my entire life but only lived on a base once as an older…
The one way life really has changed: Relatively few high school kids take showers after gym class these days.
When I was a teenager, one friend regularly drove his parents' old Ford Falcon Futura. It was a pretty nondescript car. Inoffensive, really. But we enjoyed acting as if it was an affront to all that was decent and well-designed. "The Futura," we would say…
...connected in a roundabout way to Bloomsday. www.filmforager.com Leo (Gene Wilder) is on the right. But you knew that.
Which makes him something of a rarity among those who wore that uniform even briefly. www.pedrofeliz3b.wordpress.com
I never met Jesse Owens, but we were in the same hospital once. Shortly before he died in 1980, he was undergoing cancer treatment at the University of Arizona medical center. I covered a news conference at that hospital as a reporter for the morning…
Maybe you know the individual who is the answer to this question. Who around here is the oldest person to have ever called "shotgun" as several people approached a vehicle they were about to enter? Time management:There's something to be said for waiting until the…
You could have asked the onetime Spokane resident, "So what was Clint Eastwood like on the set of 'Rawhide'?"
www.smashingmagazine.com
www.explow.com There could be a coveted reporter's notebook in it for someone.
In case you wondered.
Jack Thompson, 79, said he would summon Beyonce to be his starter companion. www.annehelenpetersen.com Bill Miner said that, as far as female companionship, he would be OK with "The first one in line." And Curt OIsen wondered, "Would I tell her that I have had…
Are those who work in veterinary clinics ever embarrassed about having to use the names of pets? The example she offered: "Is Precious Jewel here to be spayed today?"
"Hey, Paul, what's wrong with creaking floors?" wrote Lawrence Killingsworth. "I live in a 100-year-old house and I don't trust any floor I can't hear." www.oldwoodworkshop.com
In the places where I grew up, one would "pop" a wheelie. I wonder if that was a universal expression. www.decodog.com
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