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The Slice archive for Sept. 2013

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 2013


The Wednesday Slice 

Time again for another installment of "Ask a South Hill resident." The Slice: Do Spokane's leaders waste too much time hearing out cranks and crazies when any rational sense of time management suggests they should simply say, "Sir, I'm sorry that you are deranged. I…

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There are three kinds of people

1. People who can tell you about every car they ever bought or sold. 2. People who have bought and sold so many vehicles over the years that they couldn't possibly list them. 3. Children, lifetime mass transit users and others who have never purchased…

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 2013





Here is a large ego on display 

Eventually this ticket gets around to mentioning the name of the band. And I don't think it is a coincidence that the ticket is printed in the colors of Finley's baseball team. http://aroundthebend-greg.blogspot.com It was 49 years ago today.

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Admitting I was wrong

Early in the recently completed second season of HBO's "Newsroom," I told several friends who watch the show that I was certain one episode would open with Charlie and Sloan in bed. I was wrong. Didn't happen. www.newsreview.com No, that picture is not from the…

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Just wondering 

Have you noticed that boilerplate wording down at the end of S-R editorial page editorials that had come from other papers? You know. The thing about "This doesn't necessarily reflect the view of the editorial board." Well, how do you react to that? A) Seems…

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If Ohio State can do it... 

How about... The Eastern Washington University The Gonzaga University The Whitworth University The Washington State University The University of Idaho The University of Washington How does your favorite school sound with the The?

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MONDAY, SEPT. 16, 2013

You can't always believe a tee shirt

So it turns out that when supermarket employees are wearing shirts emblazoned with "ASK ME ABOUT FLU SHOTS," they mostly want to tell you about how you get a vaccination there at the store. They don't really want to be asked, "If it had been…

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The need to view our area as special 

There's a local TV news promo airing that deals with small-town high school football. It suggests that community involvement in same is one of the things that makes our area special. Um, OK. But I ask you. Can you name any rural area in the…

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Colloquial language and marketing

Is there anyone in the Inland Northwest who would not buy a certain brand of pickup truck because of TV commercials that pointedly use "ain't"? Not because of the word itself. But because of what it implies about the ad agency's reading of audience psychographics.…

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No. 1 one song on this date in 1993

www.amazon.com Ages ago, I thought "At Home With Mariah" could have been a decent "SNL" skit. It would not have been a flattering portrait of the bosomy pop diva. Every time someone said something to her, she would have responded with annoying melismatic singing.

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