The Slice: Honeymooners put the biscuit in the basket

Honeymoons can produce all sorts of memories.

Take Cliff and Jeanette Nolan of Colfax, for instance. They’ll celebrate their 50th anniversary Saturday.

One thing they still remember from their wedding trip to California was the discovery of a large, dry “cow pie” that a prankish friend had hidden in the trunk of their car. They were already in the Golden State before they noticed it.

Before getting back on the road, Cliff placed it in the wastebasket in their motel room.

They’ve wondered more than once what the “city gal” who cleaned their room thought of it, or if she even knew what it was.

•Role model: Russ Shepherd was in a convenience store when he heard a mom tell her daughter that she could not have some energy drink. “Those aren’t good for you,” the mother said.

The mom then turned to the cashier and asked for a pack of Marlboros.

•Reader challenge (for parents): Led Zeppelin’s drummer died on this date in 1980, reportedly after a monumental drinking binge.

See if you can note this anniversary by finding an occasion to offer one of your children the following tough-love counsel: “Yeah, just keep going like you’re going mister/missy and you’ll wind up choking on your own vomit, just like John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham. Is that what you want?”

The Slice recommends that you try this only with children 6 or older.

•Great Moments in Hired Help: A couple of boys were doing yard work outside Mary McAdam’s house. And they mowed down a little plum tree she had recently planted.

“Granted, it looked like a stick with branches,” she wrote. “But it was still a tree.”

The boys thought the 4 feet tall sapling was a weed.

•A horse of a different color: North Idaho’s Angela Chandler saw an ad in a small newspaper for a “guilded” quarter horse.

She found herself wondering to what association that animal belonged.

PETA? Or maybe the Lollipop Guild?

•This is kinder than calling someone a bore: “What I generally tell people, including myself, who complain about the weather is to take it to the management,” wrote Mike Storms.

•Constructive dialogue: The Slice heard about a local woman who had a license plate holder that read “Don’t hit me, my son’s a lawyer.”

She once emerged from a building and found a note on her car. It said, “I don’t care who your son is, you’re the worst parker I’ve ever seen!”

•Today’s Slice question: Who will be the last around here to turn on the heat at home?