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Thanks for not caring about our hairstyle.

We resemble that: A reader in Pullman suggested that people might have a higher opinion of Spokane if the city didn’t have to do things such as launch an expensive campaign to remind drivers that they are supposed to stop at red lights.

Hollywood vs. Reality: Rebecca Lind of Post Falls was in Wallace and saw a movie crew making preparations prior to filming. Attaching silk leaves to still-bare trees was her favorite touch.

INW myths: A reader named Ruby said one deity would be called Sphincter, god of anal retentiveness.

Maybe we’re in the minority: But it’s hard for us to get excited about driving to The Gorge for a concert.

Face it: That cleaned-up for TV version of “Glengarry Glen Ross” was ridiculous. Stressed out salesmen yelling “Forget you!” Right.

Speaking of edited-for-TV movies, “Frances,” a story linking growing up in Seattle and the need for a lobotomy, is on KXLY-Extra tonight.

One reader’s idea for a new license plate slogan: “Idaho - The Whooping Cough State.”

Let us be the thousandth to ask: Shouldn’t Amazing Kreskin have been able to predict that his Spokane show would be cancelled?

Geography experts: A reader swears relatives visiting from back East saw a “Seattle/Left/Three Blocks” sign and thought the Space Needle was just around the corner.

The joys of being taken for granted: “Where is it written that you must drop everything to help out?” - from “The Essential Grandparent,” by Lillian Carson

For the record: There is no connection between The Slice and the book “The Turner Diaries.”

We’re talking two altogether different kinds of nonsense.

Warm-up questions: Where did your crawler/toddler go when you turned your back for two seconds? What theft tested your faith in humanity? Do woodpeckers intentionally mess with your mind?

Today’s Slice question (fill in the blank): The thing Coeur d’Alene should learn from other resort towns is….

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