The Slice: Who knew name game can travel full circle?

Slice readers whose first names are also names of towns someplace include George, Gary, Terry, Niles, Emmett, Geraldine, Roy, Bruce, Bari, Joyce, Charles, Kleone (the town in California is spelled “Cleone”), Paulina, Kathleen, Carl, Alice, Florence, Arlie (the town in Montana is spelled “Arlee”), Sandy and Scott, among others.

In related news, Carol Woodward shared the fact that when she was in the seventh grade in Virginia she had a crush on a boy whose first named was Athol.

So there you go.

Slice answer: “The surest sign people on the other boat are hammered is the fact that they are on a boat,” wrote Kandi Burnham.

Don’t try this: Arlen Garlich would back-shoot teachers with a mist-spraying squirt gun loaded with Pine-Sol.

Folk medicine: One of Cynthia Laird’s grandmothers insisted the way to cure a sore throat was to go to bed with a sock you had worn that day wrapped around your neck.

Sue Chapin shared this. “When my girls were little we had the most wonderful older Lithuanian ‘nana’ (calling her a babysitter would not do her justice) who lovingly cared for them while I worked. Nana would rub Mentholatum into the soles of their feet whenever she detected a sniffle. Since I’m a nurse I questioned the science behind the practice, but never the love with which it was applied.”

Where you were on D-Day: Mark Cosgrove was 17 and working a summer job for the Great Northern Railway in Odessa, Washington.

Jim Weisen, an aerial photographer about to head to the Pacific, was at an air base in Abilene, Texas.

And 96-year-old Eugene R. Young, on leave from his Army post in Texas, got married to his beloved Selma that day in Minnesota.

Advice for someone who has never driven on the North Cascades Highway: “Get there quick, before the glaciers melt,” wrote John R. Nelson.

Motorcycle rider Tom Peacock, who characterized the views as breathtaking, wrote, “Don’t drive it, ride it!”

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Today’s Slice question: What do you think of Slice reader Lynda Ballard’s idea for naming a restaurant/country dancing establishment — The Hoof and Mouth?