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MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
Name Sally Field's character in this film 1
A) Frances "Gidget" Lawrence. B) Sister Bertrille. C) Megan Carter. D) Reg Dunlop. E) Sybil. F) Mrs. Gump. G) Other. www.gigglepedia.com
An insanely easy one-question quiz 2
Name the man who grew up in Spokane and was a part-owner of baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. www.sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Hey, kids! Can you identify that object? 3
You know. What's that thing on which his head is resting? www.mycomicshop.com
Just wondering
We all know that people around here have wildly varied ideas about what constitutes "back East." But here's my question. Has anyone over on the West Side ever referred the Inland Northwest that way?
SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2012
Meet Joe Black 2
One summer day back in the mid-1960s, my older brother and I were at a baseball game in Cincinnati, in a ballpark that no longer exists. My mother had driven the three of us so that I could see Willie Mays play. I had a…
When others want to choose for you 1
There were a fair number of people out walking, jogging and riding bikes this morning. Here's hoping everyone looked both ways and paid attention to lingering slick spots and potholes. But, for a few of us, there was another issue. There was a young border…
SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012
The instructional film on handling cats 1
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Rank "Rawhide" lyrics as lifestyle advice
3. "Keep them dogies rollin'." 2. "Keep movin', movin', movin'." 1. "Don' try to understand 'em."
Do tellers hear it all?
I've long wondered if bank tellers at drive-through locations overhear interesting tidbits of conversation when people out in their cars forget that they aren't really alone. But what the tellers hear probably isn't all that exciting. If other people's cell phone coversations are any guide,…
Just wondering
It's not a hard and fast routine. But Saturday mornings are when I usually wrangle with bills. I wonder how many others also tackle that chore at this time. I can see thinking this would get the weekend off to an iffy start. But I…
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
Before email
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All aboard 1
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This is typical of newspaper newsrooms
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Had you watched PBS Clinton 2-nighter
You would have seen the onetime Speaker from Spokane, Tom Foley, in this very setting. Except it wasn't Nelson Mandela at the microphone. www.biography.com
Have you noticed pronunciation trend? 1
Maybe it's my imagination. But it seems like people saying "Spokane" on national broadcasts are getting it right more often than in the past. Coverage of the recent women's boxing competition and the Washington GOP caucuses nudged me toward this conclusion. So I guess writing…
One of his 125 St. Patrick's Day albums
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"Hey kid, whattaya think you're doing?"
www.ebay.com In the mid-1960s, Coca-Cola bottlers around the country ran a promotion featuring the images of pro athletes inside bottle caps. The idea was, you collected complete sets of NFL players or whatever. Then you could redeem them for various modest prizes. I'm sure the…
Recalling horse droppings on Riverside
www.railroadiana.org By the way, I'm referring to the animal in the postcard scene, not to the S-R.
Maybe this will spur a memory or two 2
I've been wondering about something, and perhaps you can help me. If you are old enough to remember being a little kid who clomped around in small cowboy boots, you might also remember toy spurs. I guess the idea was that a 6-year-old saddle tramp…
50 years ago tonight: "To Serve Man"
One of everybody's Top 10 episodes of "The Twilight Zone." www.askville.amazon.com
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012
Just wondering 1
Is this seating arrangement generational, socio-political or purely a matter of couples dynamics? www.flintstonesgaleria.blogspot.com And if it is a comfort thing, surely Wilma and Betty had longer legs than Barney.
Get yourself a golf hat like this one 1
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When the grocery receipt is a mystery
You know how item descriptions on grocery store receipts sometimes get cut off in the middle of a word? Sure. If the line says "BELL PEPPERS & FIRE ROA" you can be reasonably sure that the last word was supposed to be "ROASTED." But once…
Name game
I'm interested in names. And sometimes I ask my correspondents if there is a story behind theirs. After hearing from Moses Lake's Vaughn Blethen, I first inquired if she was related to the newspaper publishing family. She is, if you go way back. But that's…
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