The Slice Fashion Statements Are Found In Least Suspected Places
It’s funny how some towns get stuck with certain images. An example. This twentysomething guy we know was playing pool in a Spokane tavern when he commented to a female companion that the woman tending bar across the room really had big hair.
“Yeah,” she agreed. “It’s like she’s from Cheney or Medical Lake or something.”
No, that cat in the picture is alive and well: He’s just resting. (We wanted to see if you were paying attention.) His name is Herkie and he belongs to Spokane’s Lee Dexter.
A word to the wise: Debbie Halstead was carpooling five kids to preschool when two little girls excitedly told about their family’s upcoming trip to Washington, D.C. Asked if they were going to the White House, they sang out “Oh, yes!” But a 5-year-old boy who had heard a “Whitewater” news report, cautioned the girls to be careful. “The president’s bed has already floated away and, I don’t know, he might have already drowned. If you go there, you will drown for sure.”
Finish this sentence: “You can never be too rich, too thin or….”
And no fair picking “Have enough closet space.” That’s been said.
We heard about another memorably decorated cake: But you’ll have to use your imagination this time. Because any details about the surgery-depicting “Happy Vasectomy” cake Coeur d’Alene’s John M. Smith received from friends might be troubling to some readers.
In lieu of checking the ordinances: A reader named Bill wondered who can give tickets to the parking meter patrol when they have one of their carts in a space with an expired meter for an extended period. And all we could think of was that old “Andy Griffith” episode in which Gomer Pyle gives Deputy Barney Fife a ticket, hollering “Citizen’s arrest!”
Warm-up questions: Do co-workers hesitate to leave important papers on your desk because it is more black hole than work surface? Which cooking show do you love to hate? Does it drive you crazy to hear people say “I could care less”?
Today’s Slice question: If there was a horror movie called “It Came from Spokane,” what would be the monster’s creation story?
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