The Slice Where Are All Those People Who Were Talking 4-Foot Drifts?

OK, the weather could change. But have you noticed that hardly anybody now admits to having predicted a brutal winter?

Kid stuff: Frustrated at losing the game they were playing, Brad Scott’s preschool nephew seethed, “You know, you really irrigate me!”

A penny for your thoughts: A few days after Jill Reynolds exchanged several rolls of coins at her credit union, she got a notice in the mail. Her account had been credited with “.01” because one of her rolls of pennies had contained 51 cents.

Slice answers: If Dr. Michael Trantow’s dental office in the Spokane Valley was a TV show, it might be called “As the Drill Turns.”

Another respondent, who wished to remain anonymous, said his workplace should be a show called “The Taming of the Screwed.”

And Odessa’s Harold Kern suggested that if it wasn’t for the high-profile presence of the medical/ health-care industry, Spokane would be, in his words, “A fast scenic corridor for I-90.”

Roadkill Chronicles: Kathleen Boyd once counted 13 dead deer along the 20 mile route between her home near Onion Creek and Colville.

Armpit-sniffing alert: “A Fish Called Wanda” is on TNT tonight. Check listings.

Notable band names: Sick Sick Yeah, Tempus Fugit, Dayglo Abortions, Frayed Knots, Raw Honey, Biohazard and She Stole My Beer. - from listings in The Georgia Straight, a Vancouver weekly

Warm-up questions: What exactly is the point of casual dress day? Is it true that people born in Spokane have a secret handshake they exchange only with other lifers? Is referring to a food-focused event as a “Feed” strictly a Western thing?

Today’s Slice questions: If “Idaho” had been an American president’s last name, what would have been his or her first name? And instead of, say, “Father of our country” or “Honest Abe,” what would have been his or her nickname?

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