Predicting your Bloomsday fortunes
Tomorrow in The Slice column.
The Slice archive for May 2014
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2014
How the West Side views us 1
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Mom ever help with your paper route?
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A Slice question about Godzilla (2008)
Scroll down to Today's Slice question. http://m.spokesman.com/stories/2008/may/04/the-slice-ben-hur-never-had-a-shot-to-finish/
Sizing things up
How big does a business have to be before people no longer assume that someone working there knows everyone else (in every department) employed by that enterprise?
Ten years ago in The Slice
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story_txt.asp?date=050204&ID=s1515283
My legacy
A friend noted that people still say "Swell Paper." "Didn't you invent that expression?" he asked. I think I did. Though it's certainly possible that others came up with it independently. A search of the S-R's electronic archives shows that my first digitally recorded use…
The official clinical name
Slice reader Dennis Dolle in Cheney shared this. "When we were kids our mother would tell us that if we ate too much sugar we would get 'diabetes of the blowhole.' "We never knew exactly what that was, but it turns out she was right."…
It's Bing Crosby Birthday Eve
Scroll down in this Slice rerun to find a mini-quiz celebrating the occasion. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/may/02/the-slice-do-you-hear-what-i-hear/
Bloomsday and your workplace culture 2
It says here that... If the boss where you work is an ectomorph, there is a much greater likelihood that everyone is expected to be really into Bloomsday than if the boss is an endomorph.
Just wondering 2
Do you consider yourself a "leading authority" on anything? Me? I guess I could be considered a leading authority on references to Spokane in TV shows such as "The Andy Griffith Show" and "The West Wing" and in movies such as "Coal Miner's Daughter" and…
Ever blame something on a raccoon?
TV characters seem to do that all the time. www.themagazine.ca
Here's your "Lou Grant" episode guide
http://epguides.lougrant.net/season1.html
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014
One safe place to park your bike
Tomorrow in The Slice column.
Baby boomer pronunciation challenge 3
What is that Yogi is carrying? www.thestar.com
Make your own Counselor Troi uniform 1
https://img0.etsystatic.com/006/0/6766005/il_fullxfull.364823914_5wuf.jpg I had a male co-worker who once said that if he had encountered the good counselor and she had detected his thoughts and feelings, she would have slapped him.
Another one pounds that Bud
I just passed along my hardcover copy of this book to a friend who is a big, big sports fan. He has heard a lot about "Ball Four" over the years, but hasn't actually read it. He was born in 1969 and the 1969 baseball…
Around what are they dancing? 1
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What had been his baseball nickname? 2
www.telegraph.co.uk The character's. Not the actor's.
Time magazine cover -- May 6, 1974
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If this was a Spokane tourism promo 1
What would the text say? http://fromthebarrelhouse.com
How will you react if... 3
...the Chinese space exploration program eventually achieves something extraordinary?
They're back
http://simplekids.net Resistance might not be futile. But if you hope to achieve a stalemate, it has to be more or less never-ending.
Happy May Day, comrades 1
We here at The Socialist Review will be noting the occasion by engaging in various Commie activities such as advocating share-the-wealth policies and plotting ways to contaminate your precious bodily fluids.
What to yell at Bloomsday runners
Here's the Slice column from this date just a few years ago. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/may/01/the-slice-run-your-mouth-today-but-be-clever/
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