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The Slice archive for Oct. 1, 2012

MONDAY, OCT. 1, 2012

What would Navin R. Johnson say?

Came home this afternoon to find a new upright recycling barrel waiting for me. Immediately thought of Steven Martin's character in 1979's "The Jerk." What would Navin say? Of course, a recycling barrel doesn't confer the kind of fame and status a phonebook might. But…

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Mailing list fail 

You never know what's going to arrive in the mail. Got a correctly addressed credit card come-on from the University of Wyoming Alumni Association touting "The one and only card exclusively for University of Wyoming Alumni." "Dear Paul, "We've partnered with Capital One to bring…

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How to succeed in business

If the baseball team you follow is in a last-week-of-the-season pennant race with a team your boss roots for (and it is not looking good for his/her team), you had better hope your boss is a grownup.

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The case against bike helmets

I keep reading that an insistence on bike riders wearing helmets discourages prospective new riders by making the activity seem more dangerous than it really is. These arguments always note that Europeans don't wear helmets. And that, statistically, we might be better off wearing helmets…

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This date in Slice history (1996) 

In the Inland Northwest, October 1st is the unofficial start of Maybe I'll Grow a Beard Season. As always, each man has to make his own decision. (We're pretending for a moment that wives and girlfriends do not have absolute veto power.) But everyone can…

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