Give Rage A Rest
To help you get ready for Memorial Day travel, here are a few of the other “road” states of mind.
1. Road fussy. 2. Road bemused. 3. Road ennui. 4. Road sluggish. 5. Road itchy. 6. Road giddy. 7. Road perky. 8. Road stupor. 9. Road denial. 10. Road bloated.
* Slice answers: Julie Moe knows what became of Julie Williams, her best friend in sixth grade back at Roosevelt Elementary in the ‘60s. “She’s still my best friend.”
Ginnie Cocchiarella reported that she has been down-sized out of jobs four times.
In the matter of memorable album covers, Peg Coffey recalled that she was teaching at a high school for Americans in Germany when the John Lennon/Yoko Ono record came out that featured - in Europe anyway - a cover with the couple in all their, uh, full frontal glory. “That must have set nudity back a few years,” she wrote.
On another topic, we heard from a woman who had been visiting one of her adult children in Anaheim, Calif., when she had to make a long-distance call to cover a very short distance. She was in an RV parked in the driveway when, in the middle of the night, her husband got zinged by a kidney stone. No one would come to the door of the house when she knocked. So she used her Spokane-linked cell phone to call inside.
And several readers said the second language that would give local kids an advantage in the future is like, you know, coherent English.
* Let’s play two: What’s the most common computer password around here? Ever mow before dawn?
* Count the Buckeye cities: Bob Kirlin suspects there must have been people originally from Ohio involved in naming Spokane’s streets long ago.
* Mugged on Memory Lane: One of Steve Maguire’s co-workers at a Spokane Valley building supplies store is involved in a remodeling project. At one stage, a bunch of newspapers that had been used as insulation were uncovered. One was a 1937 copy of The Spokane Press. A front-page headline reads: “Youth Crime Problem To Be Discussed.”
* Depends on how you look at it: Sherman Blake wants to see the expression “Partly cloudy” replaced with “Mostly sunny.”
* Today’s Slice question: How fakey is your insincere laugh? (Oh, right. You never do that.)
a. Just a little bit phony.
b. Creeps out everyone within 50 feet.
c. It forces people to re-evaluate their will to live.
d. It’s especially horrible when you’re sucking up.
e. It sounds like a laugh-track.
f. Other.