July 16, 2009 in Features

The Slice: Talk about feeling squeezed

Paul Turner The Spokesman-Review

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Let’s start with a great moment in lemonade stand history.

“We pulled up and ordered three lemonades,” wrote Ann Ayers. “The little boy handed us one. After a few seconds, I asked about the other two. He said we would have to wait until my son was done drinking his because he only had one cup.”

Slice stat: Most people around here have never thrown a pistol into the Spokane River to get rid of evidence.

Just wondering: What’s the most bizarre thing a tenant has left behind?

We have winners: Quite a few readers knew that Miles Drentell was a manipulative advertising executive in the 1987-1991 TV show “thirtysomething” and that “Philadelphia” was the key word as that’s where the program was set. Melinda Stockton of Moscow and Marge Huntington of Spokane Valley were randomly selected to receive reporter’s notebooks

And lots of Slice readers knew that the song lyric in Monday’s column came from Merle Haggard’s “Workin’ Man Blues,” which came out 40 years ago this month. Bob Stallman, Randy Meyer, Dave Lewis, Tom Tyler and Lisa Barth were just a few of those who had the answer.

Slice answer: Bruce Werner has come to a conclusion about goatees: “Looks like they are never going away.”

Tampering with vintage ad slogans: Replace the word in parentheses with some local reference.

“You meet the nicest people on a (Honda).”

“Everyone loves a (Slinky).”

“My (baloney) has a first name.”

Today’s Slice question: If your small business goes under, how do you summon the maturity and perspective to avoid harboring lingering bitterness about Spokane in general?

Write The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; fax (509) 459-5098; e-mail pault@spokesman.com. For previous Slice columns, see www.spokesman.com/columnists. Yes, but do old cars love you back?