The Slice: Wake up and smell the overpass

Is it just me or has everyone here had a dream in which we wake up one day and discover that all of Spokane’s bridges are gone?

Oh, OK. Just me.

Let’s move on.

Mike Carlson’s motto re: dealing with his 13 grandkids: “Sugar them up and send them home.”

Slice answer: CynDee Aerts said her brother, Doug Turner, became a rabid Los Angeles Rams fan when they were kids in California. They both live up here now, but his passion for the NFL team is undiminished. Even the franchise’s move to St. Louis didn’t douse the fire.

So just how intense is he when his beloved Rams are on TV?

Aerts passed along something Turner’s 20-year-old son said: “Dad doesn’t like to watch the game with others in the room.”

I guess he would rather not have people see him throw shoes at the screen.

Quick: Name the movie in which the Rams win the Super Bowl. I’ll send a coveted reporter’s notebook to at least one reader who comes up with the correct answer.

Word power: Ann Jones said her 11-year-old son, Spencer, is compiling a list of what he calls “Spokabulary.”

His 12-year-old sister, Sydney, has helped.

Their mom explained, “You know, the words that are connected to Spokane and have part of the word Spokane neatly inserted at the beginning.”

Spokanimal, Spokandy and Spokandle would be examples.

But Spokabulary also has a category for localized words such as Spokancel. What would be its special meaning?

Surely there are plenty of hybrid-word possibilities.

“Maybe you could ask your readers for their ideas,” said Jones.

Not to alarm you or anything: But the Ice Palace at Riverfront Park is scheduled to open in 31 days.

Send me a list of your favorite movies that deal even peripherally with ice skating and I’ll post it on The Slice Blog on Monday.

Warm-up question: How much has Green Bluff changed since your first visit?

Today’s Slice question: What do you suppose became of your seventh-grade boyfriend/girlfriend?