The Slice: Talk about throwbacks

About 20 competitors and assorted family members showed up at the Review Tower last Saturday morning for The Slice’s Good Old Days Newspaper Folding and Throwing Contest.

We had a good old time.

The former paperboys and papergirl delivered a lot of fun stories about having paper routes as kids. Some had grown up here. Others recalled childhoods in the Midwest, California, Hawaii and elsewhere in Washington.

Contestants included: Louis Vorns, Bob Wright, Archie Oestreicher, Wes Ackerman, Gladys Hjortedal Johnson, David Thorin, Mike Carlson, Tim Groh, J.B. Morrison, Randy Peterschick, Ken Yuhasz, Al Lundbeck and Tomas K. Lynch.

Archie and Peter tied for first place, but everyone did well and received coveted reporter’s notebooks.

The verdict on the S-R’s new skinny format? Almost impossible to fold. Hard to throw.

Check out the slide-show at www.spokesman.com/ photosets.

Slice answers: Former Great Lakes State resident Pam Jamieson Yarwood can’t stand to hear Michigan referred to as “Back East.”

“ ‘Back East’ is the colonies, for heaven’s sake,” she wrote.

And because of an area code mix-up, Paul Ruch once received a “Happy birthday!” call intended for baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

Ruch told the female caller that he was not the Say Hey Kid but noted that he had, however, seen Mays play in the Polo Grounds back when the Giants were still in New York. “This led to a wonderful 10-plus minute conversation with her,” he wrote.

I know what you did last summer: Wendy Hansen questioned The Slice’s theory about late spring/early summer cookouts leading to conception. She thinks the end of the school year has more to do with it.

She should know. Hansen is a teacher whose three children were all born in March.

Do the math.

Today’s Slice question: What’s your real-world dream job?