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The Slice archive for Feb. 2014
THURSDAY, FEB. 6, 2014
Separated at birth?
www.nydailynews.com www.theguardian.com Former CNNer Campbell Brown (top) and Michelle Dockery of "Downton Abbey."
Which public records do you read? 3
OK, I'll go first. I read the Marriage Dissolution Petitions.
If cities went to spring training... 1
...instead of baseball teams, what would Spokane need to work on for the 2014 season?
Bowling, bowling, bowling
Here's a Being There column that ran on this date in 1996. I still remember feeling grateful for the ending that fell into my lap. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/feb/06/senior-league-knows-how-to-have-fun/
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 2014
10 pounds of submissions in 5-pound bag
Tomorrow in Thursday's Slice column.
One reader wonders
It's pretty clear Jeff Clausen has seen the 1993 Bill Murray movie, "Groundhog Day." "So does Seattle winning the Super Bowl on Groundhog Day mean that Seahawks fans now wake up every morning and get ready to watch the game and their team win again...day…
50 years ago this week on "Andy Griffith" 1
In an episode called "My Fair Ernest T. Bass," Andy tries to turn the antic mountain man into a gentleman who can pass as a society swell at Mrs. Wiley's hoity-toity party (an admittedly unlikely gathering for Mayberry). If you think of yourself as someone…
Scenes from Spokane Dept. 1
http://blogs.theage.com.au OK, not really. You can tell because several in this group appear to not have guns.
I don't spend much time in bars 1
And that showed just a couple of hours ago. I was emailing with a friend about meeting to settle a sports-related beer bet. And then I started thinking about what to wear. I used to have a lineup of apparel that I didn't mind wearing…
How would you rewrite this headline? 3
www.comicsalliance.com I guess what I'm wondering is if "Earth" is really necessary.
Why does she seem so delighted? 1
www.chronicallyvintage.com Maybe she's still tingling. Perhaps this is what used to be known as premarital horseplay.
The Wednesday Slice question 6
How many times has your name appeared in The Spokesman-Review?
A "Star Trek" Slice question
From this date in 1998. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1998/feb/05/a-sign-of-the-times/
TUESDAY, FEB. 4, 2014
"Gusted a butt"
A reader told me about a time a member of his family misspoke when describing raucous laughter. Maybe that's how hip-hop lyrics are created.
Meeting Mike Eruzione
Here's a rerun (link at bottom of this post) from almost exactly four years ago. This was something John Blanchette arranged for me. For reasons that escape me now, I actually wore my high school letter jacket adorned with a couple of hockey state champions…
Do you understand your cable TV bill? 1
Or do you just mutter a few choice words and pay it?
Wrong way to confirm that it's cold out 2
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It's Clyde Tombaugh's birthday 2
He died before his discovery got downgraded. I used to work with a guy who phoned him every year and then wrote a story about the "Kansas farm boy who never stopped looking up." http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tom0bio-1
How did you feel about this song? 2
It was No. 1 on this date in 1977. www.musicstack.com An Easy Listening song at No. 1 is a reminder that, for many music lovers, the pop charts were utterly irrelevant to legions who had fled to FM rock.
This date in Slice history (1995) 2
Not sure why this online version of the Slice column from 2/4/95 lacks bold face item intros. But it does. And that makes the whole thing even more incoherent than it actually was. See for yourself. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/feb/04/the-slice-we-have-social-rules-you-know/
MONDAY, FEB. 3, 2014
A favorite Super Bowl commercial 1
Here's a note from my friend Steve Heaps. "Since I am a prostate cancer survivor still undergoing Periodic Stimulation of Anxiety (PSA) tests, the Super Bowl Chevy World Cancer Day commercial brought Karen and I to tears. The song with the lyric 'Don't leave me'…
Some sports gamblers are casual about it
"My 91-year-old mother called me this morning," wrote Ron Hardin. "She was so excited that she was out of breath. She had won the sports pool at the retirement center where she lives. For her 50 cent investment, she won $12.50." But she had one…
One SB party votes on the commercials 3
Janet Culbertson polled friends and family, and here are their favorites. 1. Puppy with Clydesdales. 2. Coke commercial sung in multiple languages.
Notable letter to the editor
I am trying to remember the last time I opened up a copy of the New Yorker magazine and saw that the first letter to the editor was from someone in Spokane. Drawing a blank. But that happened just the other day. Cannot remember the…
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