The Slice: It’s a dog-eat-cookie world

In the matter of who around here has eaten the most Girl Scout cookies, Peggy Wright-Melton nominated her 7-year-old miniature schnauzer, Sophie.

The snack-loving dog might not hold the record for lifetime achievement. But when it comes to cookies eaten in one feeding frenzy, she can compete.

Sophie, usually well-behaved, recently helped herself to the contents of two unopened boxes of caramel-flavored cookies.

“She didn’t leave a crumb,” said Wright-Melton.

In the process of inhaling the sweet plunder, the canine cookie monster eschewed two boxes of another variety of Girl Scout treats.

Pet peeve: It bugs Georgia Moore to see people driving around with their special-needs parking placard hanging from their cars’ interior rear-view mirrors.

“It clearly states ‘Remove it Before You Drive,’ ” she wrote.

Speaking of life on the road: Most responding readers said their decision about stopping to help someone with a disabled vehicle might be influenced by bumper stickers they viewed as wrongheaded or annoying. But several did stipulate that politics or public-policy positions wouldn’t matter if it appeared someone might be hurt.

Once upon a time, that last point might have been considered a given. These days, you just never know.

Mr. Robinson, Mayor Vaughn … : I’ll send a coveted reporter’s notebook to the reader who calls The Slice and leaves a phone message featuring a brief performance of any of several movie lines made semi-famous by the late character actor Murray Hamilton, born on this day in 1923.

For the record: In Monday’s Slice, I referred to kids at a Spokane grade school being asked to come up with heartwarming words. Actually it was a preschool.

Today’s Slice question: When a basketball game gets to that interminable intentional fouls/free throws stage, do you sometimes start to fear that a new geologic era will begin or that a dangerous rift will form in the space-time continuum before blessed relief arrives in the form of the final buzzer?