The Slice: Love from both sides of border

Let’s start with a Slice answer. “Dana, a very nice and very pretty twentysomething who works at Safeway in Liberty Lake, is probably the most flirted-with cashier in the region,” wrote Marlys Buzby. “Even her fellow cashiers tease her about it. And with Liberty Lake being so close to Idaho, Dana very likely has fans on both sides of the border.”

Another answer (Internet searches that turned up personally significant info): On Oct. 8, 1943, Ken Heath’s older brother, Bill, was killed when his B-17 bomber exploded en route to Bremen, Germany. But it wasn’t until Heath started going online that he found a detailed account of the ill-fated Marie Helena’s final mission.

Media watch: “Reprehensible actions aside, the guy can lead.” — Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Living magazine on Spokane Mayor Jim West.

Misheard Lyrics Department: Grant Reeves said his wife, Brianne, tends to butcher song lyrics. But one example stands out. There’s a line in Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” that goes “I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu.”

It’s a rodeo image.

But Brianne’s version was “I went 2.7 seconds on a bald man’s Fu Manchu.”

Uh, cowgirl up.

And Jill Carlson used to think it was amazing that The Cars’ “Bye Bye Love” could be played on the radio. That’s because in the line “It’s just a broken lullaby,” she heard an unprintable vulgarism instead of “broken.”

More Slice answers: “The angle of the sun at our latitude is amazing,” wrote Mike Bentson. “Both on the drive to work and home, it is almost always just a little too low to be blocked by my sun visor. Ugh!”

Tom Frisque offered his slant in verse.

Our sun may go down awful early

But residents here are not surly!

In more tepid climes

They fight all the time,

Thus compare to our region quite poorly.

Coeur d’Alene’s Doug Burr agreed with the reader who said the University of Oregon’s football uniforms are the worst. “Why is it so hard to tell rich college benefactors they have atrocious taste,” he wrote.

Jim Maurer said that, as a newcomer, the one bit of local conventional wisdom he has rejected is this idea that it actually gets humid here on occasion. “It’s still nothing compared to Indiana,” he wrote.

And R. A. La Com said that if much of Spokane were obliterated by a natural disaster the city would receive plenty of national attention. “But all the press would issue their reports from Seattle.”

Misspeaking: Diana Gray’s language mixmaster husband, Dennis, recently said, “That’s sure a hairball idea.”

“I’m pretty sure it was a cross between ‘hare-brained’ and ‘screwball,’ but one never knows,” wrote Diana.

Today’s Slice question: Would you move away from this area if offered a better job elsewhere?