The Slice This Time You Actually Won’t Regret Taking Our Advice
Take our advice.
Go see “Hoop Dreams.”
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk: Tim Haener, Dean “Curly” Scott, Tim Malloy and 12-year-old Lydia Newell soitenly sounded the most like our favorite member of the Three Stooges.
Just wondering: Do people still refer to oddball interior decorating choices as “Conversation pieces,” and do these objects actually start conversations? Or are pointedly wacky touches simply irritating?
The longer you’re on, the worse it is: A Swell Paper colleague insists there is a correlation between the length of time you have to spend on hold and the awfulness of the canned music you hear while waiting.
“Oz” in everyday speech: No, yours is not the only household in which people routinely say things such as “Pulling an ax on me, ay,” “Please, and take it with you,” “But we have to verify it legally,” “Snip, snip here,” “No how, no way,” “Unusual weather we’re having,” and “I’d turn back, if I were you.”
That was then: “With growth, Spokane Falls flaunted pretensions: it was going to be a great city because a few men resolved to make it so.” - John Fahey’s “Shaping Spokane: Jay P. Graves and His Times”
“Ken’s genital abridgment”: Is just one of the fun topics in M. G. Lord’s “Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll.”
Three headings in the Yellow Pages: Hay Rides, Sperm Banks, Uninterruptible Power Systems.
Slice answer: Kalispell’s Johnnie Cook said the overuse of “basically” and “literally” by the media “Makes me want to hurl.”
Tonight: KREM-TV airs “The Simpsons” at 11:30 and midnight.
Warm-up question: What’s your best story from jury duty?
Today’s Slice question: What sound is Spokane’s quintessential background noise? (Our pick: Nearly empty STA buses lumbering along.)
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