The Slice Many In Hoopfest Won’t Pull Punches, Only Groins
Here’s our Hoopfest forecast: Three clean blocks, 734,988 uncalled fouls, one fist-fight, hundreds of sincere handshakes, a dozen groin injuries and 6 million utterances of the same two swear words.
It’s not necessarily a Spokane thing, but: Few situations creep us out quite like overhearing a white guy talk about sports when starting up a conversation with a black guy he doesn’t know.
Slice answers: “toilet paper” and “ammo.”
No: You aren’t the only one who watches the parade of local criminal suspects on cable TV and thinks, “I could probably take that guy.”
Just wondering: How many times have people seeking a business loan in Spokane been told, “That’s an exciting idea, but I’m afraid it just wouldn’t go over in this area?”
Forget lemonade: A friend noticed a sign of the times the other day on Driscoll Boulevard - kids operating a roadside coffee stand.
It’s always revealing: To ask a person to name his or her all-time favorite album, book, movie, TV show, mixed drink, automobile ….
Speak now or forever…: A reader attended a wedding this month that prompted a young boy among the attendees to pipe up with a question.
The kid watched as two of his contemporaries, the flower girl and the little boy acting as the ring bearer, walked down the aisle. And he couldn’t resist asking aloud, “Aren’t they too young to get married?”
The shocking truth revealed: A lot of people who smugly believe that they still remember all the lyrics to Allan Sherman’s “Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)” couldn’t get halfway through the song even if you spotted them “All the counselors hate the waiters.”
Think you can? OK, prove it.
“…and the lake has al-li-gators.”
Our policy on car air-fresheners: If you think you’ve got to have one, what you really need is a new car.
Warm-up question: In Spokane, people in what profession tend to have the best workplace collections of CDs? Here are our guesses.
1. Graphic designers.
2. Architects.
3. Computer programmers.
4. Hair stylists.
5. Furnace installers.
Today’s Slice question: What would a man learn if he could be a fly on the wall at a few bridal showers?
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