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The Slice archive for July 23, 2012

MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012




Backyard carnage

Referring to something in today's Slice column, Don Hartvigsen wrote "Be careful what you wish for" in the subject line of his email. "We were wishing the other day that we did not have so many squirrels in our yard," he wrote. "Well, recently we…

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Raccoon slang

A person could spend quite a long time studying this poster and still be puzzled about some of what's on here. Ethnic slur and all. www.genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com I happened onto this while searching for a picture of a building I might use to illustrate a question.…

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Sometimes it turns out that I was right

www.sportspressnw.com Back in the early or mid 1990s, the subject of the Seattle Pilots came up in The Slice. In response, a reader mailed me a ticket from that short-lived team's first home game. I cannot remember if it was a ticket stub or the…

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