The Slice: You’ve tried the ‘fest,’ now pick which is best

In the matter of tacking “fest” onto your last name …

“Olsonfest would probably include disk golf with lefse,” wrote Joy Olson.

Lynda Sipes shared this. “According to the Urban Dictionary, if you ‘sipe’ it means to drink in excess, often resulting in blackout, pizza or arrest (the act of ‘siping’?). Then plural ‘Sipes’ could mean many doing the same. A ‘Sipesfest’ tells it all. Maybe something the size of Woodstock. Happy Siping!”

Hayley Murdock is throwing a party later this month and is thinking of calling it “Murdockfest.”

Tim Crabb said Red Lobster already uses his name and “fest.”

Royal request: My friend Al Kiefer at the Spokane Public Library wondered if Slice readers might help him.

“One of my library patrons bikes around the area and noticed a small lake south of Cheney near Fish Lake. The small lake is named Queen Lucas Lake and he’d like to know the origin of the name. I’ve contacted people who live down there and they don’t know. I’ve contacted people who work down there and they don’t know either. Even the library’s Northwest Room librarian could not find an answer. So I am asking you to ask your readers if they know where Queen Lucas Lake got its name.”

Al, the lake is named after Queen Lucas. No, seriously, if you know the answer please share.

Being in a sinking boat: When he was about 8, Mark Settle was in an aluminum fishing boat in the middle of Banks Lake that went under in a storm. “My brother and I used our seat cushions, and my dad and his buddy could only tread water to stay up. It was really scary.”

Anglers in another fishing boat eventually rescued them. But that vessel, overloaded with the soggy foursome, barely made it to shore.

“We were all OK, but my mother was really, really angry.”

Erica Dellwo told a scary tale of a canoe accident on the Delaware River then asked, “Or did you mean the metaphorical ‘sinking ship’ workplace? Yeah, I’ve been there, too, but that was much more harrowing.”

Today’s Slice question: How did you react when you saw a “For Sale” sign in a neighbor’s yard?