The Slice Double, Double, Toil And Trouble…

If you were to refer to Spokane as a “seething caldron” of something, what that something be?

We await your answers.

Pets’ collections, Part 2: Ruth Zbylski told us about her sister’s cat, Ruffles, a feline that stores plastic caps from milk jugs beneath the microwave.

Joan and Bil Jensen of Nine Mile Falls have a cat named Spike that absconds with and relocates any item of clothing not hung up or safely tucked away in a drawer. “We are considering training him to latch on to guests’ wallets to make his efforts worthwhile,” they wrote.

Karen Korte’s 9-year-old Rottweiler, Gable, is nearly obsessed with finding Kleenex.

Suanne Roberts has a cat named Kiwanee that brings in night crawlers - nothing but night crawlers.

Others told us about their dogs’ rock collections. Rock hounds? And one caller said his dog collects ticks.

More Slice answers: Among the uses of federal tax dollars that readers praised were improvements to the highway system, medical research, the prosecution of the Spokane Valley bombing suspects and support for Pediatric Therapy Services of Spokane.

Travelers Don and Judy Stewart rate the interstates: “I-40 had too many trucks. I-70 is our favorite.”

Name game: “We once had neighbors of Jim, Kim and Jim,” wrote Linda Stancil. “My husband was Jim, and on the other side of the street we had Tim. It did get confusing.”

And Tiel Vogt shared this. “On our double block, we have three Codys, two Charlies, two Mikes, two Tiffanies, two Wandas, two Dianes, two she-Chrises, one he-Gene, one she-Jean, one he-Don and one she-Dawn.

“My husband and I also have a neighbor friend Karen and a non-neighbor friend Karen, a neighbor friend Frank and a non-neighbor friend Frank, one brother-in-law Steve and two friends Steve, two sisters-in-law named Melanie and, last but not least, I have a GRANDMOTHER named Keith and she has a step-grandson named Keith.”

Warm-up question from Jay Berryhill: “What Inland Northwest yard has the most fake animals?”

Today’s Slice question (for women): Is dressing in an ever-so-slightly provocative manner a fun change or does it only serve to elicit reactions from all the wrong people?

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