This date in Slice history (1998)
Lots of stuff here. Some of it is OK. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1998/feb/07/get-a-whiff-of-this/
Lots of stuff here. Some of it is OK. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1998/feb/07/get-a-whiff-of-this/
Tomorrow in Friday's Slice column.
"Belated congratulations to a Seattle football team that won an important post-season game by the impressive score of 44-8," wrote Bob Kirlin. "That's not a mistake or misprint. That's the final score of the 1960 Rose Bowl when Washington defeated Wisconsin. Did anyone else notice…
Ever been with a patient hooked up to all sorts of monitors in a curtained-off emergency room exam area when one of the monitors started making an urgent dinging sound? And have you ever had the patient request that you turn off the monitor in…
Got a note from Cal Fankhauser, who read today's Slice column. "Hi, Paul. Thinking back about that time a half century ago when the Fab Four made their first appearance in the U.S., it was open house day at the just-opened new digs for KHQ…
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www.nydailynews.com www.theguardian.com Former CNNer Campbell Brown (top) and Michelle Dockery of "Downton Abbey."
OK, I'll go first. I read the Marriage Dissolution Petitions.
...instead of baseball teams, what would Spokane need to work on for the 2014 season?
Here's a Being There column that ran on this date in 1996. I still remember feeling grateful for the ending that fell into my lap. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/feb/06/senior-league-knows-how-to-have-fun/
Tomorrow in Thursday's Slice column.
It's pretty clear Jeff Clausen has seen the 1993 Bill Murray movie, "Groundhog Day." "So does Seattle winning the Super Bowl on Groundhog Day mean that Seahawks fans now wake up every morning and get ready to watch the game and their team win again...day…
In an episode called "My Fair Ernest T. Bass," Andy tries to turn the antic mountain man into a gentleman who can pass as a society swell at Mrs. Wiley's hoity-toity party (an admittedly unlikely gathering for Mayberry). If you think of yourself as someone…
http://blogs.theage.com.au OK, not really. You can tell because several in this group appear to not have guns.
And that showed just a couple of hours ago. I was emailing with a friend about meeting to settle a sports-related beer bet. And then I started thinking about what to wear. I used to have a lineup of apparel that I didn't mind wearing…
www.comicsalliance.com I guess what I'm wondering is if "Earth" is really necessary.
www.chronicallyvintage.com Maybe she's still tingling. Perhaps this is what used to be known as premarital horseplay.
How many times has your name appeared in The Spokesman-Review?
From this date in 1998. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1998/feb/05/a-sign-of-the-times/
A reader told me about a time a member of his family misspoke when describing raucous laughter. Maybe that's how hip-hop lyrics are created.
Here's a rerun (link at bottom of this post) from almost exactly four years ago. This was something John Blanchette arranged for me. For reasons that escape me now, I actually wore my high school letter jacket adorned with a couple of hockey state champions…
Or do you just mutter a few choice words and pay it?
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He died before his discovery got downgraded. I used to work with a guy who phoned him every year and then wrote a story about the "Kansas farm boy who never stopped looking up." http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tom0bio-1
It was No. 1 on this date in 1977. www.musicstack.com An Easy Listening song at No. 1 is a reminder that, for many music lovers, the pop charts were utterly irrelevant to legions who had fled to FM rock.
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