It’S A Great Cold-Weather Car

Owen Wells likes Spokane but he wonders if anyone here can spell.

The other day he was in a grocery store and glanced at the bulletin board. There he saw a for-sale notice describing a “1974 Plymouth Furry.”

Chrysler discontinued that model.

Maybe it comes with one of those horrific fuzzy steering-wheel covers.

Sometimes the audience is smarter than the speaker: Saturday night, at the opening of the Junior Livestock Show at the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds, the nonfarmer giving the keynote address said he hoped no one would be offended. Then he told a “Polack” joke.

It didn’t get a huge laugh.

Let’s all head over to Kay’s: Deer Park’s Kay Oiland was among those who agreed that it’s hard to find good milkshakes. “But you should taste my huckleberry shakes,” she added.

Slice answer: “Inland Northwesterners that leave home for ‘the lake’ go completely knots.” —Emil M. Banas, Pullman

Perspective: “Recently my very active 87-year-old mother and I were visiting a local nursing home,” wrote Betty Leinweber of Spokane. “After passing some wheelchair-bound residents who were in various stages of physical and mental decline, mother very seriously whispered to me, ‘Do you think we’ll be like that when we get old?’ “

Slice prediction: There’ll be a made-for-TV movie called “Honeymoon at Viagra Falls.”

All depends on how you look at it: Four-year-old Timmy Spilker’s uncle told him he should wear his watch on his left wrist instead of his right. But Timmy responded that doing so would make the “6” appear upside down and therefore look like a “9.”

More impressive calluses: Dairy farmers, road-repair laborers, fanatical weeders and garage employees at tire stores have some of the best ones, readers said.

Warm-up question: Which home-delivered public notice will come closer to being totally ignored — the one from the Spokane Post Office about ways pet owners can help keep their dogs from biting mail carriers or the one from Washington Water Power about not posting signs or fliers on utility poles?

Today’s Slice question: It’s practically a tradition in the West for people to come along and rename geographical features, pretty much ignoring what previous inhabitants or explorers might have called them. So … if you could rename a lake, a street, a park or whatever around here, which place would you pick and what would you call it?