The Slice: A few small steps: Too much to ask?

If we can put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to …

A) Figure out how to deal with squirrel overpopulation in a park without resorting to tactics that seem like something Jethro Bodine thought up. B) Remember to retrieve that beverage from the freezer before it explodes. C) Get to the airport on time. D) Finish the north-south freeway. E) Build a laptop that lasts a while. F) Other.

Localizing old ad jingles: Valerie Mullen, Alan Howard and several other readers suggested, “My pickup has a first name.”

Stuff tenants left behind: Readers’ lists included a drawer full of hair, an attic filled with stuffed animals, a fire hydrant, sex toys, drug paraphernalia, a huge plastic garbage bag filled with used kitty litter, live chickens, a ferret, handcuffs fastened to a wall inside a closet, 2,000 beer bottle caps pressed into the ceiling, a goldfish frozen in a fish bowl that had become a block of ice after the power was turned off in midwinter, and a 12-foot metal sign saying “SCIENCE” apparently stolen from a building at Eastern Washington University.

For whom are you sometimes mistaken: A) Harry Sladich. B) Rich Landers. C) Cindi DeHoog. D) That one guy who shows up at City Council meetings. E) Andrea Hubbard. F) Susan English. G) Martin Wells. H) Harry Wilson. I) Bob Castle. J) Liz Kishimoto. K) Don Russell. L) Kareem Willis. M) Tina Wynecoop. N) Other.

Fourteen years and counting: Still waiting for someone to come out with Grizzly Beary premium ice cream.

Today’s Slice question: Do you know someone who, when watching the same movie or TV show for the zillionth time, not only says some of the lines along with the actors but also makes physical gestures in sync with them?