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The Slice Just Remember, The Money’s For Charity, Not You Personally

If you’re a single guy and think women would pay to go out with you, contact the Easter Seal Society and find out about the annual Bachelor Auction. Call (509) 326-8292.

Random acts of space-filling: Commenting on the failed attempts at incorporation, Larry Schrock said maybe the Spokane Valley ought to rename itself “Spokant.” Bob Glatzer can’t stand it when people pronounce “Don” and “dawn” exactly the same. And speaking of pronunciations, what reader Lauren Rants really said is that when Spokane area residents try to pronounce “meal,” it often comes out “mill.” We had it backward.

Isn’t that commercial featuring the buffalo with wings just the worst? And don’t you love it when telemarketers refer to interrupting you during dinner as a “Courtesy call.”

Overheard at a downtown Spokane bakery/restaurant:

Customer A: “Focaccia. What kind of name is that?”

Customer B: “It’s my daughter’s name.”

Customer A: “And a lovely name it is.”

Kid stuff: Colville’s Michael Smith, 7, is a budding commentator on our tax burden. Or maybe he just doesn’t realize it’s “My country, ‘tis of thee,” not - as his mother, Debi, reports his version - “My country is a thief.”

And Spokane’s Alice K. Dunning told us about a 3-year-old who talked his mother into accompanying him to the restroom despite her protests that he was big enough to go alone. “When he had placed himself on the toilet, he looked up at her and said, `Mom, this isn’t going to be pretty.”’

Rut City: “Sadly enough, fear of the unknown keeps many people trapped right where they are in life.” - from “Work with Passion: How to Do What You Love for a Living.”

Survey says: College age men are more likely than women to use token resistance to sex as a ploy designed to result in sex, according to Glamour magazine. And in other news, a national survey indicates 39 percent of Americans peek into medicine chests in the homes they visit.

Today’s Slice question: What do men talk about only with other men? The Slice appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday on IN Life. Write The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; fax (509) 459-5098.

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