The Slice The Path To Self-Awareness Begins With The Right Slogan

It’s time again to propose a few new nicknames/slogans for Spokane.

Why? Because we like you.

See what you think of these five.

“The City that Never Wakes Up.”

“Sane, Sedate and Sequestered.”

“Grumble Town.”

“You’ll Shove It Here.”

“Doin’ Fine, and You?”

Service with a purr: Customers at Silhouette Lights and Staging on Inland Empire Way get to meet workplace cats Rosco and Grip. In addition to the other ways in which they are special, the furry brothers have extra toes on their front paws (Rosco has six, Grip has seven).

“They both love visiting with customers and helping them load their rental lighting equipment,” wrote Denny Marit, operations manager. “They have been known to hide in the equipment and try to go home with the customer.”

Maybe they just want to make sure everything gets set up properly.

Six things that get annoying: smirking, critiques of night life from people who never go out, backward baseball caps, neighbors viewing your yard as a canine latrine, hearing “Don’t go there,” and witnessing certain kinds of scratching.

Six things that don’t: good phone manners, having someone fix you breakfast, hearing little kids talk to babies, ridicule of pomposity, friends telling one another they’re insane and co-workers knowing when to cut off discussion of your new haircut.

Scenes from the Veradale Group Health clinic: “A young Hispanic man dressed in work clothes came into the prescription department with a little boy, presumably his son, about 5 years old,” wrote a woman who was there waiting for a flu shot. “I watched that child stand with arms at his side and look at a tray of cookies. But he did not touch them until his dad handed him a napkin with which to take a cookie.

“Then the child needed to cough. Before he did, he stepped back from the table, turned his head and covered his mouth.

“Obviously he had received some excellent training at home. Those parents need to be congratulated and that child needs to know he’s a lucky little boy.”

Picture this: If everyone around here with high school letter jackets stashed away somewhere wore them on the same day, would it look like a big multicolored pep rally?

Today’s Slice question: If Spokane elected to do what pop star Prince did a few years ago and replaced its name with a symbol, what would that emblem or glyph look like?

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