The Slice: Life is good when you can see Space Needle from your house

Let’s start with a multiple- choice exercise.

Despite your efforts to educate them, you have relatives or friends in other parts of the country who still think Spokane is…

• Near Seattle.

• Hooterville.

• Bigger than it really is.

• Pronounced like cocaine.

• Similar politically to King County.

• Humid.

• A good place to watch whales.

• Where most GU basketball players went to high school.

• Other.

Autumn begins when…: “My wife turns on the furnace for the first time,” wrote Mikel Stevenson.

Your greatest karaoke hits: “I do a great version of ‘Johnny Angel’ by Shelley Fabares,” wrote Jeri Hershberger.

Ken Stout offered this. “I actually got quite a good response for my rendition of ‘People are Strange’ by the Doors, probably 10 years ago. I change the line ‘All right, yeah’ to ‘I like it.’ I do this song nearly every time I do karaoke. I also did ‘Boom Boom Boom Boom’ by Eric Burdon and the Animals to a good response.”

Terry Martin, who is a she, shared this. “Many years ago at a karaoke night at our church, I did my rendition of ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ by Janis Joplin.”

Everyone said she sounded just like the ill-fated singer. But Martin isn’t sure about that. “Too many years of clean living.”

And then there was this from Tawnia Penick. “Not sure if I’m proud to actually admit this or not, but I have received rave reviews for my rendition of Tiny Tim’s ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips.’ Honestly, it was always a fun song to do.”

She wanted it on the record that she was sober during her karaoke performances.

Slice stat: It says here that one out of every 35 school girls in our area looks a lot like TV’s Jan Brady.

Things That Would be Totally Mind-Blowing in Most of the Country Dept.: Pattie Kaminski of Nine Mile Falls has looked out her front door and seen an eagle gliding by overhead.

Today’s Slice question: Who around here deserves to be regarded as a humanitarian?