The Slice: We were charmed, I’m sure

I THOUGHT WE WERE done with misheard lyrics for a while. Then an e-mail arrived from Matt Galloway. “When my sister, who’s now 30, was about 7, she wondered why nobody ever called Prince Charming by his first name since Cinderella mentions him by name in the song ‘Someday My Prince Will Come.’ ”

You say you don’t recall that?

Well, that’s probably because you correctly heard the line from that song as “He’ll whisper ‘I love you.’ “

But Galloway’s sister heard “Bill Crisper, I love you.”

So now we know Prince Charming’s real name: Bill Crisper.

Someone about to give birth to a boy baby could do a lot worse than to give that name to the lad. Bill Crisper could be the boy’s first and middle names. Then the parents could hold the child and say, “Bill Crisper, I love you.” And Prince Charming could be his nickname.

It might also be a good name for a pet.

“What’s your puppy’s name?”

“Bill. Bill Crisper. It’s from a fairy tale.”

OK, one more.

A few years ago, Joy Bittner’s young daughter enjoyed the J. Geils Band song, “Centerfold.”

But when the singer sang “My angel is a centerfold,” the little girl heard “Angel is a cell-a-phone.”

Everybody sing:

Nah nah nah nah nah nah

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

“ Just wondering: What percentage of Spokane area residents have never seen the Grand Coulee Dam?

“ Here’s today’s “Success by 49” tip: So you’re surrounded by twentysomethings at work. You can’t help but notice that they seem to be in love with their own slang and appear to believe that they are the first group to sense that certain music can help listeners imagine their futures.

Well, don’t roll your eyes. Remember when you were their age. Just be grateful for the older generation that put up with you when you did the exact same things.

And under no circumstances should you say, “You know that music you love? One day, when you hear it again, it will all be about your past.”

“ Home and away: “Our 8-year-old daughter Faith has one of her friends on speed-dial (#9) at home,” wrote Denise Masiello. “So imagine her surprise when she is at her grandma’s and wants to call the same friend and gets her grandma’s older, husky-voiced friend on the phone instead.”

In that moment, Faith had several choices.

She could have said, “Caitlyn, when did you become a werewolf?”

Or she might have asked, “Have you been drinking, Madison?”

But instead Faith figured out what had happened and was polite enough to apologize for dialing a wrong number.

“ Today’s Slice question: What do you remember about the featured speaker at your high school graduation?