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There’s just one problem with the newspaper repeatedly urging local residents to spay or neuter their pets.
The geniuses who refuse to help address animal overpopulation probably don’t read the newspaper.
* Study questions to discuss prior to viewing “A Charlie Brown Christmas” Monday night:
1. What did Vince Guaraldi’s jazz score have to do with snack cakes?
2. How does the scrawny little tree magically get so much fuller?
3. Why does Charlie Brown forgive the kids who were so cruel?
4. Did seeing this program influence your own dance stylings?
5. Has Christmas gotten even more commercial since 1965?
6. How does that toy piano produce such a rich, textured sound?
7. What is Charlie Brown’s real shortcoming as a director?
8. Whose words does Linus recite after he shuffles to center stage, holds up a finger and says, “Lights, please”?
9. What unresolved feelings might Snoopy have about Lucy?
10. How old were you when you saw this for the first time?
* Just wondering: Have you ever thought that, on overcast winter days, Spokane looks like the kind of place where someone in a movie would live before moving to California?
* Slice answers: When driving car A, is your personality different from when driving car B? “Of course it is,” wrote George Birge.
In another matter, Sandpoint’s Teri Maurice once turned to “Star Wars” for help finding some keys on a camping trip. “I concentrated, said `The Force is with me,’ looked around and at that moment a ray of sunlight hit the tiny edge of a key sticking up out of the sand.”
Julie Riddle once found herself stranded out in the country near Troy, Mont., late one December night. She walked to a house belonging to a family she knew. After knocking and getting no answer, she assumed they were away. So she located a hidden key she knew about and let herself in. Then she called her parents who came to get her.
Next day, she phoned that house, expecting to record a thank-you message. But someone answered and said they had been there all the time.
On another subject, Emylee Tolliver once declined a cute stranger’s offer to help fix a flat tire. But they met again, started dating and wound up getting married.
And Annie Ford’s family once absent-mindedly traveled to a winter party with a layer cake atop the car. Safe in a container nestled in snow on the car’s roof, it arrived intact.
* Today’s Slice question: Who is Spokane’s loudest nose-blower?
The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; fax (509) 459-5098; e-mail pault@spokesman.com. Pearl Tibbett thinks we’re going to see a lot of babies named Chad.