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The Slice archive for Nov. 2011
THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 2011
Refrigerator art exchange program
Just put a second batch in the outgoing-mail cubbyhole. While I was at my desk slipping the kids' art into envelopes, an email arrived from Sande Paulson. "Steve and I were with our granddaughter, Caty, as usual on Monday. All three of us were down…
Once upon a time
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An unusual affliction 1
I suppose it's because I saw a few minutes of "The Wizard of Oz" the other night. That and all the election talk. But I can't stop hearing the line "As mayor of the Munchkin city..." Over and over, in that diminutive actor's exact inflection.…
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 2011
Cher, Sting, Prince were not the first
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Or maybe wear a bag over your head
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Bicycle commuting in Spokane
I have been riding bikes to work since the spring of 2008. And the thing I think most people are curious about is this: Is it dangerous? They don't always word it quite like that. But I can tell that's what they're getting at. It's…
No. 1 song on this date in 1968 1
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Mystery solved
"Every Sunday, my husband gets up and cooks breakfast -- hashbrowns and eggs," wrote a reader who asked that I not use her name. "Every Sunday I sleep in, get up, eat said breakfast, and mop the kitchen floor, which every Sunday has a mysterious,…
Giving thanks for a few coldies 3
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How not to dress for leaf-raking 3
www.thekitschbitch.blogspot.com Though as the keeper of the blog credited for this picture notes, the high heels might do a good job of aerating the lawn.
Creative dog-breed name
"I told my vet my dog was a curbstone terrier (as opposed to setter) and found out later that was what had been entered in her file," wrote Lynn Lowery. "Closest I could get was a beagle/basset/terrier mix. She had a big bark and looked…
TUESDAY, NOV. 8, 2011
Maybe you forgot to sign the envelope
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Adventures of the Invincible Iron Bra
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Before voting by mail 2
www.rare-posters.com Here is where I voted after moving to Spokane in 1988. 1. Fire station. 2. Lutheran church. 3. Elementary school. 4. Methodist church. How about you?
This date in "Twilight Zone" history 2
www.johnkennethmuir.wordpress.com I suppose, at this stage of the game, there is no need for spoiler alerts. An episode called "The Old Man In The Cave" first aired on Nov. 8, 1963. Set in a future (1974) that takes place 10 years after a nuclear war,…
When newspapers eschew modesty
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Early returns
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How many of these are still around?
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An American classic
Before there was Seasonal Affective Disorder. www.crhlawfirm.com www.tomheroes.com www.cbgxtra.com
Re: Today's print Slice
Apparently at least a few subscribers did not read the first item carefully. They seem to have missed where I noted that I don't really care what anybody else thinks about the whole spouses with different last names thing.
MONDAY, NOV. 7, 2011
Rooting interest
Maybe this has changed. But, as I understood it, there was a time when kids on my nondescript South Hill block went to LC. And kids living across the street were within the enrollment boundaries for Ferris. Maybe that's still the case. If so, it…
Brushes with greatness/obsession
www.rrfw.org Thinking about my college days (see earlier post) reminded me of the late Professor Harvey Butchart. I took one of his math classes. He is said to have logged 12,000 miles hiking/rafting in the Grand Canyon over decades of exploring the big ditch. Some…
Just wondering 3
What is it with young people and exclamation-point overkill?
A theory about why people drop things
It has something to do with fingertips being about as dry as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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