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The Slice has learned that certain kids planning to operate lemonade stands have not had hepatitis shots.
* Dumb Guy of the Weekend Award: “At the Chiefs game Saturday, the Kootenay contingent was big and boisterous,” wrote a friend. “Lots of Canadian flags waving. So every once in a while, a guy about five rows behind me would start chanting `U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!’ Apparently he didn’t realize the Chiefs’ roster contains a grand total of one U.S. player.”
* Speaking of last weekend: A little boy and a woman who presumably was his mother had the following exchange Saturday morning before the Junior Lilac festivities.
Boy: “Am I going to be in the parade?”
Mother: “Not if I keep ahold of your hand.”
* Says here: Guys named Earl should get into Dixie Chicks concerts free.
* Usually a warning label: A friend reported that he enjoyed a play he saw the other night at Interplayers even though the cover of the program used the words “Laff Riot.”
* Boomers rule: DC Comics is releasing a “Silver Age” (roughly 1956-70) tribute series this month.
The idea is to produce some comic books that actually look like comic books and not like drug-induced graphic arts experiments.
* Identify the soccer team that is one of the Spokane Shadow’s real opponents: a) Copper River Salmon. b) Surge. c) Excretion. d) Ennui.
Yes, “b” is the real team.
* Young love wises up: Try this VCR triple-feature: “Goodbye Columbus,” “The Sterile Cuckoo” and “The Heartbreak Kid.”
* One type Jennie Groenig could do without: Women at baby showers who insist on regaling the mother-to-be with horror stories of their own nightmarish labor and delivery.
And in the matter of whether women discuss the realities of marriage at bridal showers, one reader said pinochle games are the more appropriate setting for that.
* Possible reasons your called-in Slice answer never saw print:
1. You didn’t leave your phone number and apparently believe we would be content to simply guess about the spelling of your name.
2. This is a family newspaper.
3. It was over our heads.
4. You are an idiot.
* Today’s Slice question: What’s the surest giveaway that someone is an Air Force retiree?