The Slice archive for May 23, 2011
MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011
Marmot Lodge Meeting 1
Just a reminder. We'll plan to get together on Aug. 3, 2012. Place and time TBD. Some of you might want to start lining up a baby sitter. Yes, 2012 is correct. We Marmots like to plan ahead.
Feedback 1
Just clearing weekend email and phone messages. That's always fun. You won't believe this, but not everyone enjoyed Saturday's column about some women encouraging men to urinate into plastic cups when using the facilities. Go figure.
Days of Future Passed 1
No doubt you would observe it more often in cities where a higher percentage of commuters rely on mass transit and can read on their way to work. But every once in a while, you see it in Spokane: A guy who knows how to…
Nominations sought 1
Pine cones are to (fill in the blank with the name of a Spokane area lawn obsessive) as Tribbles were to Capt. James Tiberius Kirk. Slice out.
As I was saying 2
I should warn you. Space restrictions in print have left me with a pent-up urge to use illustrations. So perhaps I should start trying to get that out of my system right now. Asking readers to sing the old Hamm's beer jingle -- and listening…
Bringing the heat
You can be puzzled by the reasoning behind our area's politics. And a case could be made that any place shaped by both Northwest smugness AND Seattle envy (sure, sure, you never feel that) is bound to be a little nuts. But the No. 1…
Paths not taken
Maybe some of us were destined to wind up in this neck of the woods. The other day I was going through a box of ancient personal papers. I came across a reminder that I almost went to the University of Idaho. Back in the…
The operation went well
Here's something from Slice reader Amanda Lorenzi. "Hi, Paul. I have a story to share about an incident that happened to me when I was a child. "I had a stuffed dog, Rex, that I got about 25 years ago (I'm 28 now). When I…
Things haven't been the same around here since...
Here's an answer to a finish-the-sentence exercise for which I didn't have room in Sunday's Slice. Things haven't been the same around here since ... "Those outsiders came in with their fancy ideas," wrote Georgie Ann Weatherby. "I speak from the standpoint of BEING an…
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