The Slice Those Exploding Cans Add A Little Excitement To Our Lives
Here’s our theory. There is something in the Inland Northwest’s water that renders people incapable of remembering that they stuck a beverage bottle or can in the freezer for a quick chill.
A hush fell: A guy who should know told us the No. 1 conversation killer around here is saying that you got your degree at EWU.
Reader service, one reader at a time: It wouldn’t be fair to mention just two or three. And we don’t have room to list all of the dozens of car salesmen nominated by readers (and, in several instances, by the salesmen themselves) after prospective carbuyer Pamela Place asked for help in finding someone to deal with who isn’t a chauvinist pig. So we’re forwarding to Place a summary of readers’ responses. They ranged from glowing endorsements to sadder-butwiser horror stories. Pullman’s Bonnie Frederick and Anne Long of Grangeville, Idaho, among others, outlined strategies for buying a car. And Moses Lake sales representative Moira Hemphill wrote to remind Place that selling cars is not an exclusively male domain.
Crossroads: The corner of Sprague and Post is just waiting for a sharp sociology student who can tolerate second-hand smoke to camp out and record the interactions between people waiting for the bus and those going into the United Airlines office.
This must have been during that cold snap: “A couple of weeks ago, my 3-year-old son, Craig, put on his hockey equipment and asked me to sing the hockey song (‘Star-Spangled Banner’),” wrote Michelle Besel. “I asked him to join me and he could actually sing the first couple of lines!”
Self-Descriptions Department: “Leigh’s porcelain beauty, combined with what she calls her ‘full breasts,’ may have kept her from getting the respect she deserved.” - from a Washington Post review of Janet Leigh’s book “Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller”
Warm-up questions: Ever had a nightmare involving a logging truck? What do you do when parents leave young children at your business and then leave for an extended period?
Today’s Slice question: Which dumb everybody-here-thinks-alike myth perpetuated by the local media makes you roll your eyes most often?
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