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The Slice archive for April 19, 2012

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012


Unreal local connection 

Was watching a few minutes of the movie version of "South Pacific" when I found myself wondering about something. If it could be said that nurse Nellie Forbush is the most famous fictitious character to hail from Little Rock, Arkansas, who is the most famous…

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Tri, Tri, Tri and then Tri again

Seeing as how there are about half a dozen places in the U.S. that refer to themselves as the "Tri-City area," it seems like a good bet that someone from one of those locales has moved to Spokane. So here's my question: After moving here,…

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This day in Slice history (1996) 

There ought to be a local legend about what happens when a pinecone falls from a tree and strikes you. Maybe there already is one. But we've never heard of it. So we decided to make up our own. The problem is, we couldn't stop…

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