Maybe It Was Tops For Chokecherries

Mon., Aug. 22, 1994

By Paul Turner srpaulturner@gmail.com

We heard about two local women who thought they had experienced one of the best-ever huckleberry gathering days.

Until someone pointed out that they had picked chokecherries.

Feline pasta: Jim and Louise Long sent us a picture of Barney. And even though we’ve run a lot of cat photos lately, we had to share this one.

Flashback: Bob Glatzer, who headed Expo ‘74’s Folklife Festival, doesn’t know who to thank. Some mystery person recently stopped by his home and dropped off a handsome wood sign that had been a fixture at the world’s fair twenty years ago.

Press releases we stopped reading: “Because of your influence with snowboarders and teens….”

We don’t know about you: But we don’t trust people who constantly sniff their fingers.

The dark side of “character building”: Citing a new study, Fitness magazine reports that males who play team sports are the most likely to commit gang rapes.

In search of reassurance: “Middle-aged men who play around are not looking for new partners, they’re looking for outpatient therapy,” according to a psychiatrist quoted in New Choices for Retirement magazine. - Knight-Ridder

Hot off the fax machine: “How many people out there work every weekend and are as tired as I am of hearing about Wednesday being hump day?” - anonymous

Even Montana: The World Future Society predicts that vegetarianism is going to sweep the nation.

Warm-up question (for those who work indoors): How many climate zones are there in your office?

Warm-up question (for those who know something about bad smells): What’s your best “We had a dead animal somewhere in the house, but we couldn’t find it” story?

Today’s Slice question: If you and your co-workers went on a vacation together, which would be the more likely result - sex or violence?

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