The Slice: Do you hear a clock ticking?

If you’re not ready for it to be August, what is your plan?

Call a timeout later today?

Quickly invent a time machine?

Denial?

Let’s move on.

Why don’t you all f-fade away: What goes through your mind when you hear The Who’s “My Generation” in 2017?

“The song is my ultimate benchmark on how perspective changes as we get older,” wrote Phil Zammit. “I used to scream the ‘Hope I die before I get old’ in my know-it-all days. Now I sing it ‘Hope I get old before I die.’ ”

I happen to know Phil is not alone.

He continued. “While I still love this iconic song, I’m thankful I did not fulfill it literally.”

Listening to a lie: Linda Carter was walking up the steps at Spokane’s Public Safety Building, heading into work.

“I along with a few other people heard a girl talking rather loudly on her cellphone.”

Linda overheard her say, “Right now I’m in Airway Heights.”

Which, assuming there had not been an unreported rift in the space/time continuum, simply was not true.

Of course, perhaps that girl was practicing astral projection. Or perhaps she was riffing on an old James Taylor lyric about Carolina.

In my mind, I’m going to Airway Heights.

If the baby had been the other gender: Glenn Williams shared this.

“When my sister-in-law was pregnant with her third child, after two boys, she was convinced that this one was going to be a girl (it was confirmed by the ‘tests’ successfully performed for decades at baby showers), so early in the pregnancy began referring to the expected baby as Ashley. Because they chose not to have the sex of the baby revealed early through ultrasounds, they were quite surprised when their third boy, Brock, arrived.”

After a month of being home, the infant’s mother noticed her 4-year-old staring intently at the baby one day. Asked why, he responded “When is Brock turning into Ashley?”

This date in Slice history (2001): Inasmuch as there doesn’t seem to be any limit to the number of times professional sports franchises will dip their snouts in the public trough, maybe the Seattle Seahawks ought to ask taxpayers over in Western Washington to cough up a few million bucks to give America’s sleepiest college town a makeover.

But then again, it might take more than money to change Cheney.

Today’s Slice question: What are the essential differences between Spokane Valley and TV’s “The Big Valley” (1965-69)?

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