The Slice: Considering another upside of baldness

Is there a lake water equivalent of swimming pool “chlorine hair” issues?

Let’s move on.

One reader wonders: “My friend can’t move to Spain, where her son and grandson live, because Lena the cat refuses to die,” she wrote in an email titled Bucket List vs. Pets. “What kind of grand adventure are you putting off because the cat or dog is still alive?”

Agree or disagree: You can tell what sort of week you are anticipating by the number of bags of ice you plan to purchase.

Special delivery: One evening last week I had just arrived at Phil and Molly Zammit’s handsome place not far from Minnehaha Park when their dog, Chewbacca, walked up to me with a copy of The Spokesman-Review in his mouth.

I was going to say “No thanks, I’ve already seen today’s,” but instead declared him to be a good dog.

Still, it made me wonder if Chewy could present every visitor with some tangible symbol of his or her occupation or personality. If so, what would he bring you?

The Slice summertime pledge: No items that include the words “tick” and “groin.”

Yes, such an item was recently submitted to Slice Headquarters.

Le wondering: The discussion of skunks in The Slice last week made truck driver Ken Stout think of Pepe Le Pew, the cartoon polecat.

So let me ask you this. When you see a skunk, do you ever imagine it speaking with a French accent? Well, do you mon cherie?

Survey says: Most readers responding to the question about whether texting or talking on the phone is the better way to get to know someone of the opposite sex said it’s a generational thing.

Tom Stanich guessed the dividing line is somewhere around 40 or 45.

Said Marilyn Pearson, “Texting leaves too many things inferred.”

This date in Slice history (1998): Two “overheards” from readers who wish to remain anonymous:

A man walked into a store in Moscow. “My wife’s pregnant and she wants some shorts,” he informed a clerk. “Do you have any fertility clothes?”

Another reader heard a child negotiating with her mother at Liquidation World. “Mama, if I can’t have a dog, can I have a waterbed?”

Today’s Slice question: Do you consider Spokane to be in the middle of nowhere?

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