We Missed Our Opportunity For A Really Productive Monday
This would have been a good day to declare a Monday holiday for everyone except teachers, federal workers and bank employees.
They want you only if you can read minds: An editor here at the Swell Paper received an envelope in the mail from Leadership Spokane. It contained a blank sheet of letterhead stationery. And nothing else.
Kid stuff: Barbara Clark’s 12-yearold grandson heard a TV talk show host tout makeovers that would make a person look 10 years younger. Great, he said. “They can make me look like a 2-year-old.”
Word watch: Sagle, Idaho’s Darleen Pusey hates it when reporters refer to a murder as brutal. “Is there another kind?”
Deterrence: A reader named Maxine told about how her son’s dog, Buck, used to roam free and do his business all over the neighborhood. Until the night Buck came home with a note attached to his collar: “This little brown dog will be neutered if we find it in our yard again.”
“Bucky stays in now,” said Maxine.
Six-pack of whatever:
1. Snickers and Snapple is not the official Bloomsday training lunch.
2. It’s OK to admit that you liked Tom Petty back before he turned into an MTV cartoon.
3. You’re still a newcomer if you weren’t around when Moses Lake had an Air Force Base or when Gonzaga played in the Big Sky Conference.
4. It would appear that Larry Tate of “Bewitched” was the role model for many a ‘90s boss.
5. You might think that your comments will be original, but you’re wrong. Everything that can be said about both Sports Illustrated’s annual special issue for teenage boys and “Bradymania” has been said.
6. That haunting duet, “Dome epais,” is the best reason to rent 1988’s “Someone to Watch Over Me.” Yes, even better than Mimi Rogers.
Today’s Slice question: In the Spokane area workplaces with which you are familiar, is there tension between people who have children and those who don’t?
ILLUSTRATION: Drawing
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