The Slice Maybe You’ve Already Been Post-Dating All Of Your Checks
The issue isn’t whether you will remember to write the correct year on your checks.
The issue is whether you still have any money in your account.
What’s Hot: Paranoia, neighborhoods, Portland envy.
What’s Not: Waiting for the Davenport, all you can eat, Californian-bashing.
Just wondering: If your life were a bowl game, who would be the sponsor?
There’s no stopping nostalgia: Something called “The Fun and the Feel of the Fifties” appears tonight on the Disney Channel. Sounds like they might be planning to skip over such golden oldies as McCarthyism, legal segregation and the arms race. OK, fine. Warm and fuzzy remember-whens tend to make us gag, especially genuflections on the altar of the baby boom. But there are, after all, plenty of worse crimes.
Still, we wonder. When it comes time for some future TV producer to whip up a happy-face look at the ‘90s, what will he or she title the show? “The Nice Numbness of the Nineties”?
The Spokane definition of “finding balance”: Not listening to either your boss or your spouse.
Think fast: Name one important scientific research project under way at either the University of Florida or the University of Nebraska. So, OK, we can’t either, even though there certainly must be plenty. Let’s all blame it on America’s skewed values.
Slice answers: After we asked if Cheney is America’s most boring college town, we heard from several readers who all said, more or less. “Yes, that’s exactly why I live here.”
And Cheney Police Chief Jerry Gardner faxed this answer: “I hope so.”
Others strenuously disagreed. Several of those readers suggested ways in which we might improve ourselves.
One great thing about this area: The sound of people complaining means they haven’t given up the hope that things can get better.
One hockey skill that is way harder than it looks: Taking a pass in your skates and kicking the puck ahead to your stick blade without breaking stride.
Warm-up question: If Disney built a theme park in Spokane, what would it be called? (Our picks: AverageLand or White Bread Island.)
Today’s Slice question: How do Inland Northwest bachelor farmers meet women?
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