The Slice: A word of thanks for the wise words

Let’s start by following up on Sunday’s Slice.

That rooftop “think.” sign in downtown Spokane was the idea of the folks at the Magner Sanborn advertising agency. It’s atop the building directly across Post Street from their new offices in the Banner Bank Building. If you stand in their conference room and look east, there it is.

“It’s a reminder to our staff that good ‘thinking’ is the core product that we provide,” said Dennis Magner.

In the matter of Slice readers suggesting other messages that could adorn similar signs, one offered “Think or Thwim.” Perhaps that is a commentary on recent rain.

But the reporter’s notebooks go to the following readers.

Frank Motta proposed “Question.”

Not just “Authority,” as the well-worn bumper sticker has it. But “Question” in the sense of challenging assumptions and encouraging what Motta described as “diversity of thought.”

Shelley Davis suggested “Overcome.”

“How many things do we need to overcome?” she wrote. “Start your own list.”

And Mark Donoghue submitted “Read.”

That one could lead you to think, question and then overcome.

Just wondering: What’s your opinion of that “happy endings” Churchill’s Steakhouse commercial where the young woman rebuffs two suitors who have taken her somewhere else but then pounces on the poindexter who took her to Churchill’s?

Re: Tuesday’s Slice: Having perused the interview with the Guy Who Refuses to Wear a Hat, Karen Mobley is now ready to read a Q-and-A with Spokane’s ballcap-loving Guy Who Wears a Hat at All Times.

Default meal plans: “Breakfast for dinner,” wrote Mary Skinner.

And Anita Thomason wrote, “The default dinner at this house is a big bowl of popcorn, popped on top of the stove — with butter, salt, and lemon pepper seasoning.”

Today’s Slice question (finish this sentence): All you have to do to be a nonconformist in Spokane is …