Wedeln6969 (RE: Merchandiser's Message: 'Spokane Doesn't Suck'): Spokane is Ritzville on weak steroids. Spokane is where genre busting video games creating rich and interesting new fantasy worlds are invented. Spokane is a super hot lit center of the world with one novelist who is kind of mid level popularity. Spokane sits over a giant aquifer! Spokane still lets sewage run raw into the river when it gets big rainstorms, like a few times ever year. Spokane has one novelty store downtown. Spokane has one indy bookstore of any interest. Spokane has a skywalk from the 70s maybe. Spokane has a lot of crappy used car lots, like SO many. Spokane has the ugliest hookers in the NW. Spokane runs buses full of nursing home residents to two large local indian casinos EVERY day. Spokane is like taking a bath in kinda cold tapioca pudding while crappy country music blares from a crappy cheap boombox picked up at a yard sale on Hamilton where the Ukrainian neighbors have a yard sale going every weekend of the year and they just roll their crap out and roll it back in and the cheap boombox was listed at $4.99 and Spokane bickered and dickered for 35 minutes to drive the price down to $3.79 at which time Spokane paid in three crumpled one dollar bills, two quarters, two dimes, two nickels and stood there patiently, paroxysmally tapping mini van keys against the hard plastic boom box case waiting for the penny in change.