The Slice Don’t You Think Every News Team Needs A Nickname?

Ken Martin thinks Spokane’s TV news teams ought to borrow from radio and have nicknames like “Breakfast Boys,” et cetera.

Sounds good. We suspect Slice readers would be willing to help come up with suggestions. Right?

The big three: The Carlsons were gathered around the dinner table. And Lucy, 8, was trying to remember the three places a person might go following death. She got heaven and hell, but couldn’t come up with the third afterlife destination.

So little brother Burt, 4, helped her out. “McDonald’s,” he said.

Slice answer: “I think the most typical lady in Spokane is my sister, Bev Dahmen,” wrote Bernyce Leinweber of La Crosse. “She goes to aerobics class three times a week then goes sale shopping after every session. She is a nifty, thrifty 50-year gal of the ‘90s and I love her.”

Flipping off: Carol Moore said she knows who makes this vulgar gesture the most. “Young female drivers.”

Now don’t start humming: When Sean Spicer was little and he heard the singers do the “Wimoweh” part of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” he thought it was “Our wings are wet.”

Priority male: Rosalia’s Lorrie Shelton has a nomination for the title of Friendliest Person in Spokane. “I do not know his name. All I know is that he works at the Post Office annex on Trent and his job is to empty the drop-off mail boxes every hour. If you’re lucky enough to catch him out collecting the mail he will brighten your day. He is absolutely the nicest gentleman I’ve ever encountered in Spokane.”

Today’s Slice question: When you are on vacation far away and encounter someone enthralled by the very idea that you’re from the Northwest, can you resist the urge to lay it on thick and make your day-today life sound like one long fresh-air adventure divided between Glacier National Park and the Oregon Coast when, in fact, you mostly trudge off to work, watch “Coach” reruns and go to NorthTown?

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