The Slice Super Bowl? Time To Shop
Remember. Tomorrow afternoon is a great time to get things done without having to fight big crowds.
But wait until the game is about to start or you might run into the last wave of shoppers loading up on beer.
A Dr. Seuss book inspired by life in Spokane would have been called: “Greenacres and Spam,” “There’s a Pothole in My Street,” and “Oh, The Places You’ll Never Go” were among readers’ suggestions. Now two more.
“You Can’t Go to the Zoo in Spokaloo!” - Cheryl Barkdull
“Green light, Yellow light, Red light - GO!” - Steve and Melissa Thompson
Eight odds and ends: 1.) Elizabeth Gordon, an elderly South Hill resident, wants to thank the man who stopped to help her after she slipped on some ice and broke her arm. She got his name and number after he drove her to the emergency room, but she misplaced the note.
2.) “The prediction you made on Monday about a man and a woman in the Spokane area meeting at a Super Bowl party, dating, and getting married has already happened,” wrote Katie Boileau. “Four years ago my aunt, Mary Boileau, met her future husband, Scott Kline, at a mutual friend’s Super Bowl Party, and it was love at first sight. They dated for two years and have been happily married since April 9, 1994.”
3.) A few weeks ago, Tyler Pratt was jealous about all the snow the East was getting. He got over it.
4.) A reader theorized that the people who say “Warshington” are transplanted Pennsylvanians.
5.) We’ve long suspected that women in Spokane are national pacesetters when it comes to rejecting torture shoes. So it wasn’t really a surprise to see the Cheney Cowles Museum’s Jan Wigen quoted in The Wall Street Journal about the comfort of her Birkenstocks.
6.) Ken Martin wonders how frustrating it is for owners of cryptic vanity license plates to have to explain their personalized messages.
7.) Has tying one’s dog to mailboxes in front of grocery stores led to unpleasant postal incidents?
8.) Never mind about Christmas decorations. A meter reader called to report that there are still Halloween pumpkins out. She said some of them resemble a new form of penicillin.
Today’s Slice question: Who would win an Inland Northwest presidential primary if sitcom characters were the candidates? (Our pick: Kramer.)
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