The Slice: Cyclists ensure situation wasn’t so baaa-ad

Nancy Larson was driving from Republic to Tonasket when she saw a lamb with its head stuck in a wire fence.

“He was fighting with all his will,” she wrote.

After assessing the situation, Larson decided she wouldn’t have much luck trying to free it herself.

So she waved down a group of cyclists. It was a half-dozen guys who looked to be in their 50s. They were riding from Anacortes in Western Washington to Sandpoint.

Two of the men worked for about 15 minutes as several onlooker sheep bah-ed encouragement.

Finally, they freed the lamb.

And Larson realized she had learned a lesson.

Sometimes everyday angels wear spandex.

•When you know more about the T-shirt than the wearer: Bruce Slayman saw a young man in a shirt adorned with Cyrillic writing. So he greeted the guy in Russian. He got a blank look in return.

But a few moments later, the guy thanked Slayman for telling him what his shirt said.

•Doubling up: Something in the S-R’s public records listings caught Larry Schneiderman’s eye the other day.

Under divorces sought, he saw:

Jill R. Dodd from David Dodd

David Dodd from Jill R. Dodd

Schneiderman wondered if that constitutes an official historical record of mutual feelings.

•Slice answer: Not only did Janean Jorgensen Schmidt have a Web site for her wedding, but she was featured in a Q6 story on that trend.

She suggested another question. “How many people have come to Spokane for a wedding and then decided to move here? That’s the case of our friend Tony, who moved up here after being the best man at a friend’s wedding.”

•One plan for addressing any future water shortages: Gene Moore has noticed that a certain large beermaker stamps its products with a “born on” date.

Noting that beer is almost all water, Moore surmises that the brewer in question has, as he put it, “figured out how to born water.”

So, he continued, it should be a fairly simple matter to approach the brewer and ask to borrow the recipe for creating water. And if we also wind up with some beer in the process, well, perhaps volunteers would step forward to address that.

•By the numbers: Spokane’s Mike Lyons will turn 47 on 8/8/08.

He plans to celebrate by making several sky-dives with seven others.

•Today’s Slice question: Who misses the Seahawks training camp the most?