Don’T Forget A Designated Eater
The Slice heard about a Spokane backyard chef whose idea of concocting a “secret” barbecue sauce is to take a bottle of the brand-name stuff and add rum.
* STA radio code for when someone sneaks a dog onto the bus and that dog does its business: “Biohazard.”
* Line of sight: Researchers must be getting closer to finding the gene that makes certain Inland Northwesterners devote a great deal of time and energy to coming up with new ways to block people’s view.
* Slice answer: “You could have the town, why don’t you take it? I can’t afford the parking garage.” — Gary P.
* Six degrees of Spokane intimacy:
1. Admitting that there are certain sibling tensions in your family.
2. Crying while watching a movie.
3. Frank talk about your weight.
4. Frank talk about your hair.
5. Having sex.
6. Revealing your salary.
* Just wondering: Would you ever again speak to someone who told you to “shut up”?
* Balancing act: “Men, if they want to flirt successfully, must come across as both confident and harmless.” — from an essay in the online magazine Underwire.
* How to speak Australian: “Idaho? Never heard of it.”
* Nobody asked us, but: People who make a show of asking colleagues for their perspectives on a matter of business ethics are usually just looking for permission to rationalize doing something that’s clearly wrong.
* Summer vacation: Even as we speak, some kid in a car on our stretch of I-90 is reporting that he or she has really got to go. And a parent is saying “You’ll just have to hold it.”
* Personality profile: It’s a troubling fact of life that more than a few of the people willing to turn off the TV and work with others to improve our communities tend to be sort of annoying.
* Pleased to meet you: A new study reported in a social psychology journal says there is a strong link between a firm handshake and making a favorable first impression. This, according to the study, is true for both women and men.
See. Your dad was right.
* Today’s Slice question: Do all little kids go through a stage where, when making a stuffed animal “talk,” they hold the bear or bunny up to the listener’s mouth as if that’s where human hearing takes place?