"There are two unpleasantries about eating lunch at my desk," wrote Nancy Kiehn. "One is making my keyboard sticky. The other is not knowing who else has been using the keyboard, so you have to be really careful to not lick your fingers." www.techgenie.com
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But let's go ahead and get this song stuck in our heads. Just takes one line to do it. "Do you remember, the 21st night of September" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMExp55x6I&feature=related
OK, let's say you live in Eastern Washington and you are a sports fan who happens be a conservative. How do you rationalize rooting for Seattle sports teams when that city is the home base of your in-state political opposition? 1. "I realize politics is…
This 1970 cover simply confirmed what certain boys suspected at the time. www.backissues.com
The Spokane Daily Chronicle was using "Loot." www.historylink.org
...Carl Spackler? www.moviemarket.com ...or Groundskeeper Willie? www.watchmojo.com
www.nowsourcing.wordpress.com Thursday's print Slice will feature several readers' recollections of buying encyclopedia sets from door-to-door salesmen. There's not a lot of sex or violence in these stories. But it is a small snapshot of American life before the Internet. Here are a few to prime…
In what ballparks that no longer exist did you once watch games? www.collectorfocus.com www.eephusleague.com www.usgwarchives.org
www.fanpop.com You know those people who have car-window decals featuring Calvin urinating on a truck brand or whatever? Sure. Well, here's what I don't get. Clearly, if you would place that unauthorized image on your vehicle, you must hold the cartoon character in some regard.…
OK, I'll start. 1) When I was about 12, I sent a letter to a guy who wrote columns for a physical fitness magazine published in York, Pennsylvania. I had a couple of questions about weight training. And even though I was just some dumb…
So you didn't accomplish all you wanted to this summer. Welcome to the club. But don't despair. Between tonight's full moon and the official start of autumn on the 23rd, there are 10 whole days. A person in the right frame of mind can do…
...a favorite model year of the Chevrolet Corvette. www.corvettefever.com
www.covershut.com I was across the street checking my box at the downtown post office when music coming from an area where postal employees work took me back to 1973. It was a song from an Allman Brothers album that several friends and I just about…
I asked Kim Papich, public information officer at the Spokane Regional Health District, what she thought was the most unrealistic aspect of the movie "Contagion." And after stressing that deadly contagious disease outbreaks can and do happen, she said the people in the movie were…
If you have been listening to someone complain for weeks and weeks about how it wasn't hot enough... ...and now that person is actually grousing that it is TOO hot... Well, The Slice recommends trotting out a certain line from an old movie. It doesn't…
Everyone you know believes mass transportation is a Commie conspiracy. That's seldom the case here in Spokane, of course. Right? Wednesday is STA Rider Appreciation Day. Sure it's an obvious PR move coming days before some service reductions. But a few early riders will receive…
www.bbc.uk For some of us, actress Jennifer Ehle will always be remembered for her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in that great 1995 British production of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." This is true even when she is playing a CDC scientist searching for a way…
1. Did it seem like you couldn't drive half a mile in and around Spokane today without seeing a homemade "Turn here" sign for a wedding reception? 2. Does picking peaches at Green Bluff after most of the fruit already has been harvested remind you…
The Slice recommends going to youtube or some music site and finding a good version of the infectious instrumental "Time is Tight," by Booker T. & The M.G.'s. You won't be sorry. They didn't think the race thing was a big deal. They just liked…
...can you still recommend a place? I'm going to say "Yes." www.terragallery.ru
www.ed101.bu.edu On my way home from work this afternoon a ladybug landed on my bike and went for a ride. I was not going fast. This was on an uphill stretch. Still, I wondered if this little guy was soon going to be far from…
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At my first reporting job in Flagstaff, Ariz., I worked with a guy whose previous newspaper gig had been in sun-baked Yuma, Ariz. He used to tell stories about a sports editor there who meant well but lacked a certain spark. One tale stayed with…
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