The Slice Occasionally Cute Babies Get Upstaged

Some people really know how to get out of a ticket.

“My aunt, Darleen Hubbard, was driving from Seattle to Spokane and was stopped by a Washington State trooper for speeding,” wrote Suzanne Jennings. “He asked for her license and registration but she insisted on showing him a picture of her second oldest son first. The picture was, of course, her son in HIS Washington State Patrol uniform standing next to HIS Washington State Patrol car. No, she didn’t get a ticket but the trooper did get a good laugh.”

Slice answers: Moscow’s Tom Hennigan thinks that if Spokane and Coeur d’Alene were a married couple the thing people would say about them behind their backs is “Please, Lord, don’t let them breed.”

Another North Idaho reader proposed this exchange:

“How come this cutie married such an oaf? Is it the money?”

“No, but he owns an airport.”

One good thing about living in Davenport: Not a lot of stretch limos with tinted glass.

Second careers as ministers, priests and rabbis: The percentage of seminarians over age 40 has risen sharply, according to a National Business Employment Weekly report noted by the Knight-Ridder news service. Many had been professionals or managers.

Lies told to pregnant women: Readers said they include “You’ll forget all about the pain after it’s over” and “You’re so lucky” - said to a woman restricted to her bed for weeks before giving birth.

Song settings: Almost four out of five people sing in the car, compared to only about 50 percent who sing in the shower. - from Bernice Kanner’s “Are You Normal?”

Warm-up question (from the home office in Pullman): How many readers have 8-year-old sons who have opened the silverware drawer at the exact same instant as sneezing?

Today’s Slice question: What’s the next news story that will thrust the Inland Northwest into the national spotlight?

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