Back Then, Digital Deftness Required To Watch ‘Rawhide’
You know you’re getting old when you find yourself talking to someone who can’t remember the days when setting a TV’s “Vertical Hold” or “Horizontal Hold” took incredible finesse and a safecracker’s touch.
* Slice answer: Milly Treherne said it takes Spokane women no time at all to get ready for a date because they’re great just the way they are.
* Just wondering: In your home, how many places are there where family members leave shoes so they can be tripped over?
* Spokane guilt trip: “Not raking your leaves till spring.” — Linda Speer
* Bloomsday training motto: “Yes, I’ll have fries with that.” — Harvey Martin of Sagle, Idaho
* Here’s a new one: A friend was on the phone long-distance with someone who pronounced “Spokane” as if it rhymed with “kokanee.”
* Quick review: In a mass-market culture, there’s a tendency to assume that everyone is essentially alike. But it’s worth remembering that there are people who…
1. Never saw “Titanic.”
2. Never regarded Mark McGwire as a hero.
3. Thought Frank Sinatra was a vulgar, no-class thug.
4. Didn’t view Michael Jordan’s retirement as an occasion requiring spiritual reflection.
5. Assume Mitch Albom was thinking book from the get-go before writing “Tuesdays With Morrie.”
6. Would rather undergo an enema than visit Las Vegas.
7. Didn’t need to see the final “Seinfeld” to know those characters were not role models.
8. Suspect Roberto Benigni’s irrepressible exuberance is an act.
9. Don’t feel any urge to take People magazine seriously, regardless of how long it has been around.
10. Think the person responsible for those on-campus “Pepsi One” commercials should do serious jail time.
* Party as a verb: A reader named Jim said the one thing he did during Spring Break that he wouldn’t have wanted his own children to do was study.
* Correction: Marisa Brooks, one of the smart and friendly espresso stand employees praised by readers in Friday’s Slice, works at Jodi’s Java.
* Today’s Slice question: Ever been watching TV and found yourself stewing because someone else has been too slow to mute an obnoxiously loud commercial and then realized that you have the remote?