The Slice The Younger Generation Needs A Little Memorial Day Reminder
If you have kids and they don’t understand what Memorial Day is all about, tell ‘em.
Sigrid Carlson’s skunk story: “We lived in Minnesota during the Depression, renting a big farm house for $7 a month. We were so poor that any way we could earn a dollar or two sure helped. My husband, Harold, and his friend, Otto, went trapping for mink, skunks, etc. A skunk hide paid three or four dollars and that went a long way in the ‘30s and early ‘40s.
“It was winter and way below zero. When they brought home the skunks, they were frozen solid on the running board of the car. Harold brought them into the LIVING ROOM to thaw them out so he could skin them. I holed up in the kitchen, stuffing the key hole with rags. After airing out the house for hours, I said ‘I don’t care if we starve to death, no more skunks in the house!”’
More about skunks: Jim Cornell has trapped 23 at his place in Ione.
Call and vote: Do you want to read our annual ranting-about-sprinklers-forcing-walkers-off-the-sidewalk item or should we skip it this year?
Sluggo this: We’ve got no beef with most of the choices in the Postal Service’s “Comic Strip Classics” stamp lineup, due in October. Barney Google, Alley Oop, Brenda Starr, Gasoline Alley, Bringing Up Father and the Katzenjammer Kids are fine. But Nancy? Who really liked Nancy?
Some people’s work is never done: Men typically say Monday is the roughest day of the workweek while women tend to pick Friday, according to a survey in Working Mother magazine. One theory is that on Fridays women still face having to coordinate family weekend activities.
Slice answers: Linda Willard wouldn’t want to be under The Bon Marche’s outdoor Madonna at Christmas if we had an earthquake.
John Wilson wouldn’t want to be setting the clock in the Clock Tower.
Today’s Slice question: Who had the most profitable lemonade stand in the Spokane area last summer?
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