The Slice Since The Weather’s So Drab, How About Those Mariners?
One good thing about people who have moved over here from Seattle is that they don’t think complaining about a gray day constitutes an interesting conversation starter.
Fair is fair: Bryan Bell turns 25 later this month. And if his friends think of him as an honest, sensitive sort, they might be interested in knowing that he’s always been that way. Just ask his mom. She faxed us some compelling evidence.
Back when he was 5 or 6, Bell somehow decided that the Tooth Fairy had overpaid him. So the next night he put a nickel under his pillow along with a note: “Thanks tooth fairy. Kipe this. I o you this.”
Ephrata’s Bill Lewis can’t stand: “Idea” pronounced “idear.”
The rain in vain: Newman Lake’s Jeannie Lengyel wasn’t having a great day when she let fly a familiar expletive. But she smiled when her 8-year-old son, Mark, called her on it. He repeated, sort of, an admonition he learned from her. “Don’t use the lord’s name in Spain,” he said.
Defining our terms: “My choice for least favorite business buzz word is employee empowerment,” faxed Jim Campbell of Bayview. “This generally means that you are going to have a lot more responsibility with no additional help or money.”
Rest a spell: “Almost on a daily basis there is a guy who parks next to Manito pond at noon and takes a nap in the car,” wrote a friend. “His personalized plate says PROTIZE. Sounds like a guy who really does have his priorities in order.”
Slice answer: “Unconventional people, ones who color outside the lines and maybe bend the rules a little, name their kids a little outside the norm,” said Dayle Spahr, whose daughter is named Shami.
For the record: A Whitman County farmer chided us for noting, in an item about a PBS series on the Boeing 777, that it’s nice to be see recognition of Washington producing something besides software. Our correspondent reminded us that the state also produces wheat, apples….
More reader-nominated foul-mouthed workplaces: Travis Pattern & Foundry, the federal courthouse, Williamsburg Planters & Feeders and Eng, Newcomb and Bot.
Today’s Slice question: What is the area’s most dangerous intersection?
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