The Slice Real Cowboys Drive Only Cattle

We couldn’t believe our eyes.

There, in a pickup truck, was a guy in a cowboy hat next to a woman with big hair. And she was driving.

We’ve never seen that. All we can think is he just got nailed with a DWI.

On the night of the lunar eclipse last month: The pilot of a Spokane-bound airliner carrying Celeste Gusman interrupted that flight’s progress by turning in a big circle so passengers on both sides of the plane could catch the action in the sky.

Nominees for “Single Mother of the Year” include: Laurie Venekamp, Loree Shalda, Christine Anderson, Brenda Turner, Karen Hoffman, Carla Gamache, Carol Kemp, Gail Wright and Molly Roll.

The testimonials offered by friends and family were touchingly heartfelt.

Now who deserves to be named the Single Father of the Year?

Sign of the times: Dorothy Vent noticed a metal briefcase in a parking lot at U-City. She figured someone had driven away and forgotten it. So she took it to a nearby drug store.

She was thinking lost-and-found. But the first store employee she encountered feared it was a bomb.

It wasn’t. And the guy who left it eventually came back to claim it.

But Vent has decided that, next time, she’ll just point out the lost article to a store manager.

Slice answer: Mullan’s Marilyn Hayes said men are better tippers “Because most of the people who wait tables are women.”

Overheard at Saturday’s WSU football game (a San Jose State fan responding to Cougar boosters who had been razzing him): “Yeah? Well look where you have to live!”

Knowledge is good: The neutered version of “National Lampoon’s Animal House” is on TBS tonight.

One great thing about having gone to college far from here: Not much chance you’ll see someone in a sweatshirt adorned with the name of your alma mater do something gross.

More Slice answers: “Golf is my life,” said Kathy Altieri.

“Breathing is my life,” said Coeur d’Alene’s William Frey.

And Velma Smith reported that her 3-year-old grandson once said “Water is my entire life.”

Today’s Slice question: Has anyone ever stumbled up to the nude beach on the Spokane River by accident?

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