Remember The Daring Zag Chief?

Here’s the story of a tall tale that got rejected.

Megan Fitzsimmons of Spokane is a freshman at the University of Portland. She recently attended a volleyball match in which that Oregon school’s team squared off with the visiting squad from Gonzaga University.

At some point, she heard a spectator seated nearby ask what the heck kind of name Gonzaga is. A young man answered that Gonzaga had been an Indian chief.

“Huh?” Fitzsimmons thought.

But this guy didn’t leave it at that. He proceeded to spin an elaborate yarn about the exciting adventures of the oft-forgotten Chief Gonzaga.

Fitzsimmons listened. Finally, she could take no more. She turned around and busted the loud liar.

Explaining that, as one who had attended St. Aloysius Gonzaga School (preschool through eighth grade) and Gonzaga Prepartory School (9-12), she happened to know that Gonzaga University is named after a Jesuit saint, not an intrepid Indian chief.

Silence.

The red-faced purveyor of bogus history piped down. But his friends proceeded to razz him for the rest of the volleyball match.

Later, Fitzsimmons sent her mom an e-mail. She told about how her Spokane education had paid off in an unexpected way.

* Slice answer: North Idaho’s Susan Weller said a lipstick shade inspired by the grizzly bear sow spirit of the Inland Northwest would be called “Huckleberry Kisses.”

* Spokane’s fear of fine dining: A reader told about the time her husband was so unsettled by attending a party at an upscale restaurant he momentarily forgot her name.

* A James Bond movie set in Spokane could be called: “Yard Sales are Forever” or “Diaperfinger.”

Or “Thunderbuffet.”

* Band names up for grabs: Viewers Like You, Lotto Junkies, Jim Class, Spokane’s Problem, Banfffff, Eat Granny Smiths, Cellphony, Bad Hires, Gates Couldn’t Recall, Saved Seats, SUVWXYZ, Snakface, Mitch and Murray, Tankers, Coeur d’Duh.

* Oops: In Saturday’s Slice, we referred to Micah Kilgore as a he.

Micah is a she.

We must have been thinking of Micah Torrance in “The Rifleman.”

* David Simmons wonders: “Why can’t we get Canadian TV?”

* Today’s Slice question: If you were to stencil some quote, saying or line from a movie onto a wall in your home or office, what would you pick?