The Slice Her Family Now Sings M&M; Blues

Karen Hamilton’s granddaughter Courtney - who turns 3 today - used to open a bag of M&Ms and pass one out to everyone in the room before she enjoyed one herself.

Then came the blue M&Ms. “Sharing stopped,” wrote Hamilton. “Now she makes sure she eats all the blue ones before she passes any out.”

If, instead of “Idaho,” the Gem State had a name that started with “New”: “Forgive me guys, this is a no-brainer,” wrote Ronna Snyder. “The only possible answer to such a spudacious question, is, of course…New Potato.”

Tina Matney’s technique for determining the ripeness of peaches and grapes: “If the fruit is gone, the raccoons thought it was just right.”

Slice answer: “If someone called me a Spokanehead, my guess would be that I had chairs from the old Coliseum in my living room.” - Corrie Schmidt, Medical Lake

Um, the word is “hummus”: Dora Z. Davis of Nine Mile Falls overheard her youngest child, repeating a line from “Aladdin,” say “Wake up and smell the homeless.”

Further evidence that we’re idiots: We misspelled Terry Kepner’s name Tuesday. And Davenport High led Wilbur-Creston 12-7 at halftime Friday, not 12-6.

Puss ‘n’ boats: Everybody has heard about dogs enjoying sailing. But what about cats? Well, we received a photo from Larry and Patty McCormick taken of their boat on Lake Coeur d’Alene. It shows their orange cat, “Sailor McSea,” apparently having a fine feline time out on the water.

Briefs might be more common but Slice readers prefer boxers: At least that’s how we’re interpreting the responses to our grossly unscientific survey of Inland Northwest men’s underwear habits. Women especially seem to think boxers are boffo.

Reader-suggested warm-up question: What is the record time for coming home from a trip and getting the first load of wash started? Pet of the week: Frosty Cakes Chandler Wasicek, a corn on the cobeating South Hill cat. Frosty Cakes turned 19 this month.

Today’s Slice question: Do you agree with Terry Aylor that large parking lots around here are places where “common courtesy is practically nonexistent”?

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