The Orange Paws Didn’T Give It Away
Some big cats are harder to identify than others.
A crawling, growling preschool boy was playing animal charades at daycare. Finally, he gave up.
“Can’t you tell what I am?” he said to the other kids. “I’m a Cheeto!”
* Slice answer: “Before I leave for work, I give my sleeping 3-1/2-year-old a kiss on his cheek,” wrote Bob Hubner. “When I get home, before I can even get out of the pickup, I hear `Papa! Papa! Papa!’, and Danyon runs out to give me a hug and kiss. He jumps into my arms to be hugged and twirled. And for a few minutes, nothing — and I do mean nothing — else in the world matters. Sacred? I live for that moment each day.”
* Reader challenge: Take the name of a familiar book or movie and localize it by changing one word.
Say, “Anne of Green Bluff” or “The Red Light of Courage.” Or “Seven Hours in May,” “Breakfast at Dodson’s,” “Summer of ‘74,” “The Perfect Lawn,” “Bravelungs,” “Silence of the Liberals,” “North Side Story,” “Godzilla vs. Charles Rowe,” “Lentilhead,” “Fast Times at Ritzville High,” “Night of the Marmot,” “Out of Airway Heights,” “The Russians Are Here, the Russians Are Here,” “Three Days of the Magpie,” “Gidget Goes to Pullman,” “How To Stuff a Wild Thong,” “Please Don’t Eat the Lilacs,” “The Catcher in the Wheat,” “Viva Cheney,” “Little Miss Meth Lab,” “A Passage To Athol,” “Saving Private Property,” “Bus Named Desire,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Hoopfest,” “That Darn Cougar,” “How Strip-Malled Was My Valley,” “The Way We Are,” “Moby Dick’s.”
OK, you get the idea. Fire away.
* Comic books for girls in 1962 included: “Linda Carter, Student Nurse,” “Millie the Model,” “Patsy Walker,” and “Sabrina, The Teen-Age Witch.”
* Getting to yes: Dorothy Marx is an 84-year-old Spokane woman with 25 grandchildren. She’s heard plenty of quotable stuff over the years.
One favorite story involves her practice of letting granddaughters celebrating a birthday choose a doll from her collection. Dolls that had been given to Marx were the only ones off-limits. Those were called “No No dolls.”
One time, a 5-year-old granddaughter having a hard time choosing asked to be reminded: “Grammy, which are your Yes Yes dolls?”
* Correction: The little boy reported as describing flatulence as “big pants” actually said “bang pants.”
* Today’s Slice question: When will this area see the next run-up in residential real estate prices?