The Slice: The Slice: Talk about some hair-raising tales

Want to hear some entertaining stories?

Ask a hair stylist about dealing with out-of-control bridal parties.

OK, let’s move on.

“Re: last winter resulting in lots of pregnancies: Megan Cooley has looked around at a local splash park and she thinks there might be something to that theory. “Swimsuits don’t lie, and I’d say most of them are about five months along,” she wrote.

“Reader challenge: Identify a Spokane link to the 1980 movie “Caddyshack.”

“Life in 2008: So I’m standing in line at the bank. There’s an older woman in front of me.

The phone in her purse goes off. But instead of a beep, a buzz or a musical passage, the ring-tones consist of a younger person’s recorded voice saying, “Gramma, pick up the phone … Gramma, pick up the phone …”

“Sunday quiz winner: More than 100 responding readers knew that Walk in the Wild was the name of the zoo in question. Thanks to all who answered, especially those who have never won a coveted reporter’s notebook.

I’m declaring Sally McKelvy the winner.

Visiting the Spokane Valley zoo remains a fond memory for her and her now-adult daughter, she wrote. “And to those who would disparage it, I’d like to say PTTTTTTTTTTTTT.”

“Slice answers: A couple of readers suggested that the expression “Going to Chewelah” could be a euphemism for various forms of intimacy.

In the matter of lying about what’s on the bottom of area lakes, Lisa Olson-Metters recalled a time her young nephew lost his swimsuit while in an inner tube behind a ski boat.

“We told him giant pike fish love the taste of swim trunks and one of them probably had a nice lunch,” she wrote. “He still looks for those hungry pike when he comes to the lake.”

One reader said there aren’t more bicycle racks because cyclists can lock their bikes to “trees, dogs, telephone poles, fences.” (My own theory is that some property managers view bike racks as attracting 11-year-old shoplifters.)

And as a special favor to Slice readers, I am skipping the answers to the question about what foods people can no longer eat because of an unpleasant experience. I mean, who needs to read about someone looking down and seeing something moving in a bowl of cereal?

“Today’s Slice question: Which are you going to ignore more completely: the recent campaign to improve productivity by encouraging people to send fewer e-mails or the upcoming ban on talking on cell phones while driving?