The Slice: If you tried to explain it, chances are it would fall on ‘High Def’ ears

You have to suspect that someone might not be all that tech-savvy when she refers to her fancy new television as “high density.”

•Thursday’s Slice contest: Bill Wilson was among those who knew the sports-teams nickname of the tiny high school in TV’s “Northern Exposure.”

“Marmots!” he wrote. “What else?”

•Slice answer: Barbara A. Guthrie once sat behind a guy at Albi Stadium who had a comb-over that was so stunningly ridiculous she had a hard time taking her eyes off it. Consequently, she missed a lot of the football game.

“He had it held in place with bobby pins,” she said.

•Mail call: A request for a political donation arrived at Bill Hochstatter’s home in Colfax last week. “The letter was addressed to my late mother,” he said. “She died in 1991 and never lived in Colfax.”

That’s almost as off-the-mark as the time when his dog, Skip, received a mailing from a Spokane Mercedes-Benz dealership.

Of course, maybe auto marketers know something the rest of us don’t.

Maybe “woof woof woof” is actually a subliminal message saying “SLK55 AMG Roadster convertible…SLK55 AMG Roadster convertible.”

•If you were assigned the task of drafting a dress code for Spokane, where would you start?: “Suspenders,” said Gary Polser.

•No fifty for you: Back in the mid-’80s, Tomas Lynch was a morning disc jockey for the now-defunct “Power 104.”

His boss sent him and his on-air partner out to ask people what radio station they listened to most. “We had a pocket full of $50 bills to give to people who answered ‘Power 104,’ ” said Lynch.

As luck would have it, they saw a guy wearing a “Power 104” shirt. So they approached and asked the question.

His answer? “Rock 106.”

•In the summertime: I was at Jim Kershner’s reading the other night at Auntie’s. As you probably know, he has written a book about Carl Maxey.

Anyway, I got to thinking about the one time I spoke with the storied Spokane lawyer. It was back in 1994, and we discussed a big 1971 rock festival at North Idaho’s Farragut State Park. Maxey had been there to give an antiwar speech.

“One thing I remember is driving into the park and seeing a young couple having intercourse in a hearse,” he recalled.

•Warm-up question: What percentage of other people’s homes smell a little strange to you?

•Today’s Slice question: What’s the key to teaching someone how to ride a bike?