The Slice Ok, Who Besides Elvis?
Let’s talk sightings.
Among the celebrities readers have unexpectedly encountered are Lionel Barrymore at a Woolworth’s in Beverly Hills, Dean Paul Martin at a supermarket in Columbus, Miss., Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary in a downtown Spokane dime store, Johnny Cash and June Carter in an elevator at a Portland hotel, O.J. Simpson at Yosemite National Park, Jimmy Carter in a V.I.P. club in Atlanta, Telly Savalas shaving in the next lane of traffic in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Hakeem Olajuwon in a Boston hotel elevator, Phil Collins at Disneyland, Tony Bennett at the San Francisco airport, Jimi Hendrix at a gas station near Sacramento, and Johnny Mathis in a men’s room at the Spokane airport.
And in 1987, Spokane’s Lance Erie encountered a baseball legend in a men’s room in San Francisco.
“Ted Williams,” he shouted. “I’m one of your all-time greatest fans.”
“Glad to hear it,” said the Splendid Splinter as he tossed a paper towel into the trash and headed out.
Workplace bullies: Co-workers who constantly put you down or take cheap shots are probably threatened by you and are trying to exert authority they don’t really have, according to the National Institute of Business Management. - from The Philadelphia Inquirer
Slice answers: Moscow’s Elizabeth Brackney once suffered a back spasm on Thanksgiving morning that kept her on the couch all day. “So my husband single-handedly produced a wonderful five-course feast,” she wrote. “Talk about perfect timing!”
Kathleen Boles was picking huckleberries when she bent over and found she couldn’t straighten up.
A back-spasm fax signed “Cramped in Coeur d’Alene” started “It was the first dance of my senior prom….”
In another matter, Joyce Fromhold of Kettle Falls said, no, outdoor ice rinks are not ancient history.
And a 9-year-old boy named David called to report that he had just finished a model of a B-17 bomber. Brayden Panttaja, 6, is another kid heavily into World War II aircraft.
Today’s Slice question: What’s the No. 1 unwritten rule where you work?
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