Moms Are Great Button-Pushers

Thu., Aug. 11, 1994

By Paul Turner srpaulturner@gmail.com

Here’s the truest fact you’ll find in the newspaper today:

“Your mother knows how to push your buttons because she installed them.” - Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun

Hey, we never said there weren’t ANY:

Sharon Wood was irked by our observation that Spokane needs more 55-year-old women who really know how to call someone “Honey.”

“Let me tell you, sweetie, when I call someone `Honey,’ they melt,” she said.

One of the ways Lenore Koch’s last name has been misspelled:

“Crotch.”

Each gender is screwed up in its own special ways:

“Women’s magazines contain nearly 11 times the number of diet promotions found in men’s magazines.” - Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter

We’re not sure how to take this:

A Coeur d’Alene public relations specialist faxed us some information, adding “P.S. I’m a closet Slice fan.”

What I missed while away on vacation:

“Vanilla lattes,” wrote Diane Martinson. “After spending three weeks in Wisconsin, then driving back through Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana, I have concluded that there are no espresso stands in the entire middle third of our country.” specialist faxed us some information, adding “P.S. I’m a closet Slice fan.”

Survey says:

The most popular kind of music? It’s country, according to a study cited in American Demographics magazine. The least popular? Opera and rap.

Romance tip from author Gregory Godek:

“Have your babysitter take the kids to a movie while the two of you stay at home.”

Warm-up question:

How do you know when it’s time for that talk about the facts of life?

From the Health page:

Asked to name favorite fitness instructors, readers touted Donna Yeager, Kerri Johnson and Bonnie Walther.

Today’s Slice question:

If you were a software genius creating an interactive “Virtual Spokane” program, in what ways would you improve on the real thing?

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