The Slice: Based on looks, she’s qualified to be a V.P. candidate

Here’s a chance for you to agree or disagree.

Liz Pfiffner passed along a photo of her Meadow Ridge Elementary colleague Tami Pivonka. Apparently there are those at the Mead school who feel Tami looks a lot like a certain politician who has recently gained national prominence.

“Everyone is doing a double-take,” said Pfiffner.

Can you see it?

•Local accent: “There seems to be one phrase that instantly IDs Inland Northwest people for me … THENKyew,” wrote Barbara Lien. “In fact, I rarely hear a flat ‘a’ sound in any words. This is especially strong in young women who work in retail sales, but I’ve even heard it come from old men in Spokane.”

•Just wondering: If you went through the pockets of your fall and winter coats right now, do you suspect you might find something that you have been thinking you lost months ago?

That’s where Slice reader Ken Stout found a missing garage-door opener.

•When you know more about the shirt than the wearer does: Wendell Bryant was in Southern California when he saw a guy wearing a red shirt that said “Gonzaga.”

“I walked up and said, ‘Spokane?’ The guy had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. In fact, I’m not even sure that his response was in English.”

OK, I know what you are thinking. Maybe that shirt referred to the similarly named Catholic high school in Washington, D.C.

Nah. I checked, and that school’s colors are purple and white.

So cluelessness it is.

•Slice answer: In the matter of whether church leaders should rent their buildings for weddings or funerals to people who have little or no connection to the house of worship in question, Vera-Ora Winslow weighed in.

“I don’t believe it’s a matter of money,” she wrote. “I believe we are sharing God’s bounty.”

•In case you’re not already sick of hearing me talk about riding my bike: If all the miles I have ridden going to and from work this spring and summer could be added up and converted to a single trip, I would be arriving in San Francisco today.

How about you?

•The reason Slice reader Pamela Galloway believes she is not one of those people who can be fooled all of the time: She regularly consults Snopes.com.

•Today’s Slice question: Who around here is most scared of spiders?