I knew the National Hockey League team was having a dismal season. But I hadn't realized things had gotten this bad. On page B2 of today's sports section, I read that last night Edmonton managed to lose to Chicago 5-4, and lose to St. Louis…
I admit that's going back a ways, maybe about 40 years or more. But it's true. Hitching a ride used to be an almost mainstream activity. What's your theory about why that changed? A) We became more aware of the deviants in our midst. B)…
(Here's one that really illustrates how times have changed. Just imagine everyone in a household having to use the same phone line. Oh, the humanity!) Warm-up question (for teenagers only): What's the most annoying thing adults do when you call a friend's house and a…
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As the T-shirt says. I had challenged readers to come up with a drinking game based on watching Spokane TV news. I'm not really encouraging people to mindlessly consume alcohol. I just wondered what readers might suggest. And a friend, who noted that if this…
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Slice reader Bob Curry tipped me to one that showed up in Sunday's Seattle Times. It appears in a story about the Bainbridge Island Police Department. "Bainbridge is as white as Spokane, nearly as liberal as Seattle and more moneyed than Bellevue."
Tuesday's Slice column looking at the differences between a "good kitty" and a "bad kitty" prompted a fair amount of feedback. Here's a small sampling. "I enjoyed your article," wrote Steve Judy of Spokane. "However, isn't the whole 'good kitty' vs. 'bad kitty' kind of…
Sean Davis saw the Slice question asking whether people who have no interest in college basketball sort of dread March. "I despise it so much I wish I could be put into a coma till it is all over," he wrote. "February is bad enough…
www.secretfunspot.blogspot.com Somebody probably still makes it. But I haven't bought any in decades. Once upon a time, though, I couldn't get enough of this stuff. It was like a minor addiction. I'd cram all five sticks in my mouth and chew like crazy.. The flavor…
On which STA route are you apt to overhear passengers speaking the greatest number of languages?
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"Animal House" stories? I realize relatively few were actually enrolled at the school during the filming. Still, I could imagine saying things like... "My dorm was in the scene where..." Or "You know that building where Belushi was on the steps..." Or "One of my…
It's possible to draw up a personality profile based on whether a person takes out the trash the night before or the morning of pickup day. Night-before people: Tend to be good listeners, reject politically motivated suggestions that they should see themselves as oppressed victims…
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Here is Ashley Steinhart's forecast for March. "In like a horde of ravening ice weasels, out like a drooling moose."
www.ebay.com You pounded them into the heels of your shoes. As I recall, they were popular back around the fifth grade among lads seeking to project an image of toughness and a certain minimum-wage future. I remember that they did make a distinctive "Hood in…
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In an episode called "Printer's Devil," a journalistic jack-of-all-trades played by Burgess Meredith arrives in town just in time to save a struggling newspaper. But at what price? www.rense.com This episode, first airing on Feb. 28, 1963, is notable for scenes in which the new…
There are several different kinds of sports fans that I regard as asses. One is the Chatty Cathy who bores innocent people with unsolicited talk about his team when the wins are piling up, but then turns silent as a cloistered monk when that team…
When someone sends you a snippy email that begins "In the future..." is it possible to not write back (or at least think), in so many words, "In the future, please go commit an anatomically impossible sex act on yourself"?
In your experience, what are the magic words that will stop a toilet from overflowing?
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