The Slice: Not to be confused with ‘Dukes of Hazzard’

In honor of Patty Duke, The Slice believes all new housing developments in this area should include streets named Patty Lane and Cathy Lane. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, just relax. At least you won’t be humming the “Patty Duke Show” theme song for the next few hours.

“Slice answer: “If I were to observe someone wearing my alma mater’s T-shirt and behaving very badly, I would think it was my long lost roommate,” wrote bank executive Wade Griffith.

“Look into the future: What’s going to be a local-news headline appearing in The Spokesman-Review next year?

“Pet Names Department: “During the Depression, before I was born, one of my sisters wanted a cat,” wrote Mike Storms. “My dad, the absolute lord and master, decreed ‘Cats are taboo in this house!’ So my sister got a black cat and named him Taboo.”

“One difference between the U.S. and the country north of here: A lot of Canadians care deeply about the upcoming Olympic hockey competition and have been talking about it for months.

“The Final Friday Contest of 2005: This time you have to answer two questions.

1.) What do the movies “Animal House” and “Local Hero” have in common?

2.) What 1989 Steven Spielberg picture was partly filmed in and around Libby, Mont.?

Leave a phone message or send me an e-mail with the correct answers before midnight tonight and your name will go into a drawing to determine winners of the usual prizes, those coveted reporter’s notebooks.

“Anniversaries alert (early warning): “The Best Years of Our Lives” won the Oscar for best picture of 1946.

The year 1956 is considered by many to have been the start of comic books’ “Silver Age.”

Among the TV shows that first appeared in 1966 were “The Monkees,” “Star Trek,” “Batman” and “Dark Shadows.”

And 1976 brought us “Charlie’s Angels” and discussion of “jiggle.”

“Local trivia: When told that Eastern’s sports nickname used to be Savages, some people assume the speaker is kidding.

To a lesser extent, that’s also true of people hearing that GU once was a member of the Big Sky Conference.

“Warm-up questions: Ever set your phone’s ring-tone on “vibrate” and then put it in a place where you couldn’t feel it? What will be the most popular baby names of 2006? How important is the yelling when doing a New Year’s polar bear plunge? Ever heard of an expectant mother trying to induce labor at this time of year with a tax deduction in mind? (Don’t try that at home.)

“Today’s Slice question: How many families around here can say that every one of the kids was born in a different state?