The Slice: They’ll certainly bug you if your mouth is open

I know I’ve said we don’t have many bugs here, relatively speaking.

But take it from me. It’s still a good idea to keep your mouth closed when riding a bike.

Slice answers (maintaining the structural integrity of a sandwich): “From my experience, real juicy sandwich components need to be drained or they will soak the bread or bun and the sandwich will fall apart in your hands,” wrote Ken Stout.

And Dana Freeborn chimed in with this: “When making tuna salad sandwiches ahead of time, like the night before, to keep them from becoming soggy I spread a thin layer of butter on the insides of the bread, for ‘waterproofing.’ ”

Then take the 8:15 into the city: Jeremiah Donier’s 5 ½-year-old daughter, Roslyn, insists that the old BTO song “Taking Care of Business” is actually “Take It to the Biscuit.”

Maybe she thinks it’s a song about breakfast.

Slice answer (subjects with the biggest gender gap when it comes to vocabulary): I was thinking it might be home furnishings/decorating or feminine apparel. My assumption here is that there are guys who don’t know a sham from a camisole.

But one reader said the answer might be baseball.

“While I am watching a game on TV, my wife will ask me how many points have been scored,” he wrote.

OK, OK. I know lots of women today are quite knowledgeable about sports, though I’m not convinced that this has made the world a better place.

Seriously, whatever it was they used to think about instead had to be more important.

Just wondering: At what point does lawn-mowing frequency qualify as obsessive?

Slice answer (the last time you played catch): “Last summer, with my stepson, Tom, as I practiced for my forthcoming ceremonial first-pitch at a Spokane Indians game,” wrote John Rose. “I was hoping to avoid the horror of bouncing the ball to the catcher in front of 5,000 fans. It must have helped because, even though my pitch was not a strike, the catcher did not have to move.”

Today’s Slice question: What percentage of ex-hippies in Spokane play golf?