The Slice Sometimes Getting Your Own Dollar Beats Everything Else

Some things are worth getting excited about.

We heard a wide-eyed little boy in Browne’s Addition call out to some other kids: “We’re going to the store and I get my own dollar.”

Here’s what you call someone who regularly trashes Spokane but wouldn’t think of living anywhere else:

Spokassonite. - Lisa Davis

Spokender. - Carol Stobie

Steve Hasson. - Chris Singer

Spokambivalent. - Nina Elo

Hassonerd. - Larry Olson

Dis-Spoka-Phreniac. - David Monson

Babbling Twaddle Squatter. - Cheri DeBord

Spokan’tian. - Charlotte Lafrenz

Spokano. - Jack Grenberg

Outspokanite. - Curtis Cooley, Mike Rough

Spophobiconiclasticrit. - Robert Curran

Spokan-O’-Phobic. - Jeff Manza

SPOKe-ANti-Enthusiast. - Kari Watkins

Spokanarchist. - the crew at KONA-FM

Spo-idiot. - J.B. Sing

Hypocrite. - Tracey McCray

Spokantite. - J.D. Urquhart, Jr.

Negadweeb. - Nan Waters

Others included Californian, Spokaphobilic, Spobashadeer, Spoknag, My Relatives, Spokunthinker and Trashkane. But the judges decided to send the Slice T-shirt to Dave Gillespie for his suggestion: Spokehammer.

Slice mail: Hedda and Hortense were our favorite reader-suggested names for Sally Murray’s hedgehog.

Clara Bannak said locals who get upset about people in other regions mispronouncing Northwest place names ought to remember that we commit plenty of our own pronunciation crimes.

We heard from three elderly women who vividly remember the days when guys working on Grand Coulee Dam came to Spokane in search of a good time. Enough said.

And Basil Ashley described grasshopper-hunting magpies moving through a cropped alfalfa field like a kick-off team.

Reader poll: Do you want more vomiting stories?

Wrong way: The sign at Spokane’s Houston Road and Government Way reads “Goverment Way.”

Today’s Slice question: How do your channel-surfing priorities change when your spouse/significant other enters the room?

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