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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

The Slice Think Of Warm Beaches And Wish A Co-Worker ‘G’Day’

It’s summer already. Well, it is in the Land Down Under, which celebrates Australia Day today.

Feel free to annoy your co-workers by walking around saying “G’day.”

Attitude: “We worried that my daughter, Elise, wasn’t going to be as smart as her older brother because she didn’t start talking as early as he did,” wrote Doug Dominey. “Now, we can’t get her to stop. And, for a 2 1/2- year-old, she seems to have developed a fairly sophisticated understanding of relationships.

“As I attempted to watch TV the other night, she paraded around the room offering advice to her dolls and a continuous stream of instructions to me. Finally, I asked her ‘Why do you keep telling me what to do?’

“‘Because you never listen to what I say,’ she replied.”

Regional thing: “I had a friend from Chicago who swore that everyone in Spokane ended ‘where’ questions with the unnecessary preposition ‘at’, as in ‘Where is the Safeway store at?”’ - Barb Chamberlain, Post Falls

Slice answers: We asked who is the best bartender around here, and the leading vote-getters included Aaron at the Fort Spokane Brewery, Betsy at O’Murphy’s, Ken at The Viking, Josh at Cucina! Cucina!, Rick at the Mayfair, Terry at O’Doherty’s, Perry at Cyrus O’Leary’s, John at Ankeny’s, Dave at the Happy Hour, Mike at Tomato Brothers, Dottie at Peking North, Yolanda at Finnerty’s, Rob at Kelly’s, Michelle at Alex’s and Marty at Jack & Dan’s.

Maybe meetings aren’t the biggest time-wasters: “The average memo, according to recent studies, is written once and then rewritten 4.2 times on average.” - Supervisory Management newsletter

Warm-up question from a reader named Bobette: Has anyone taught Japanese consumers of Washington state apples to say “Apple core, Baltimore - who’s your friend?”

Today’s Slice question: What do women discuss only with women?

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