The Slice: Go past Thudpucker’s and when you see the St. Regis Cafe…

Some of us are living in the past.

“Recently a neighbor asked me if I knew how to get to a specific location in Spokane,” wrote Paul Baxter. “I said ‘Yes’ and gave them directions. In return they gave me a funny look. That was when I realized that the main landmark I had mentioned had been torn down over 10 years ago. I was wondering if any other people in the Spokane area give directions using landmarks that no longer exist.”

Old business: Here are a few more memorable typos.

Rick Haglund was working as an auto mechanic when he got a work order explaining that a vehicle’s owner reported “the car won’t shift.”

Except the person writing the order had left the F out of the word “shift.”

Bill Mahaney was a vice president at a college in New England when he saw a meeting agenda that included “Student Disciplinary Hearing: Execution Session.”

He was pretty sure that was supposed to be “Executive Session.”

And Verlyn Retzer was a new, young pastor when he had to explain to the church secretary that the abbreviation for “Associate Pastor” was not “Ass. Pastor.”

Slice readers also continue to share lines from “The Wizard of Oz” still being used in everyday life. For instance, in Tim Wink’s crowd, “And your little dog, too” remains a favorite.

Thea Lewis noted that “What would you do with a brain if you had one?” remains a popular question at her house.

And several readers reported that allusions to houses falling on certain individuals are still a good way to suggest the people in question have charm deficits.

Mistakes at Work Dept.: Matt Daniel shared this.

“Years ago I was in charge of designing our company newsletter. One month, the cover featured a photo introducing members of a new team. My original design, which I ended up changing entirely, included arrows pointing to the individuals. One of those thin, black arrows remained, however, and with all the adjustments, ended up superimposed over one female co-worker’s dark shirt pointing directly at an area that caused her (and I) a great deal of embarrassment.

“Later, we worked on the same team and had a good laugh over the whole thing.”

Today’s Slice question: What’s one of the more hilarious misreadings of Spokane you have encountered?

Write The Slice at P. O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; email pault@spokesman.com. Responding readers were sharply divided about how Jackie Robinson would have been received in Spokane if he had played here before moving up to the Dodgers.