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The Slice archive for March 30, 2012

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012

Making the case against fluoride

Ladies and gentlemen, Gen. Jack Ripper. www.gonemovies.com "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

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Remember horse racing in Spokane? 

I do. It made for an entertaining outing with friends. I think the last time I smoked a cigar was at Playfair, back around 1988 or 1989. It was a fun way to wager small amounts and assure companions that you had a fool-proof system.…

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How I'm like Brando in "The Wild One"

Earlier this week, the good people in the newspaper's HR department sent out a notice of amendments to the SR Employee Handbook. You are supposed to sign and return a form indicating that you read the notice. I haven't done it yet. "What are you…

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When you don't give a damn about M's

My rain hat is a Detroit Tigers cap. I've been wearing one now and then for years. But this morning, walking over to my accountant's office a few blocks away on Riverside, a question occurred to me for the first time. Is someone going to…

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Correlating laughter and IQ 

Do you make assumptions about someone's intelligence on the basis of how that person's laugh sounds? It's probably not a wise practice. I have known some smart people whose laughter sounded like chickens and/or drowning victims going down for the last time.

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A little bit west of a good idea

One of the angriest calls I have ever gotten came in response to my suggestion years ago that not everyone looks great in a cowboy hat. The reader was experiencing volcanic rage. Really amazing. But I stand by my statement. www.cowboysindians.com

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Give a kid a toy bus

And he or she will immediately begin to take liberties with the published route and schedule. But that's nothing. In the hands of action-craving children, there tends to be an appalling number of accidents. At least that's the way it used to be. www.adsoftheworld.com

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