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The Slice: Do tell: Are you a pajama person?

Call me a skeptic. But I do not believe that any adults wear pajamas to bed. I know people own pajamas. I know people give them as gifts. I just don’t think anyone actually wears them. And no, boxers and a T-shirt do not qualify as PJs.

Failure to communicate: An e-mail from Kendall Feeney arrived Tuesday afternoon.

“I read your piece on misreading ‘Take a Model Train to Work’ Sunday and then found myself reading Carol Siegenthaler’s account of Liquid Smoke in milkshakes today,” she wrote.

“Only I read it: ‘Years ago, my daughter and family were vomiting and I suggested vanilla milkshakes.’

“My first thought was, ‘My, they are awfully cheery about all of this,’ and then I thought, ‘Wow, would that really help?’ “

Then Feeney saw that the sentence actually said “My daughter and family were visiting.” Not vomiting.

“I’m afraid reading glasses will be a must at the breakfast table from now on,” she concluded.

Misspeaking: “My great grandma used to always talk about the poor illiterate children that she knew,” wrote Spring Grisham. “But instead of saying ‘illiterate,’ she would say ‘illegitimate.’ “

Reader poll: Would you enjoy a regular “Bad Baby Name of the Week” item in The Slice or would that be cruel? (Or would that be “Yes” on both counts?)

Misheard Lyrics Department: A few years ago, Molly Cikutovich’s young son, Hank, was all excited about finding a walnut shell on a beach. It reminded him of the Shania Twain song, “I Feel Like a Walnut.”

OK, Hank, move over: We all can play that game. I’ll start.

I am walnut, hear me roar…

Pretty walnut, the kind I’d like to meet…

I’m a redneck walnut

She’s a honky-tonk walnut…

I guess it’s just the walnut in you that brings out the man in me…

You ain’t walnut enough to take my man…

Woo hoo, witchy walnut…

Today’s Slice question: I asked Spokane architect Ann Martin to consider how architects have been portrayed in films. And she noted a troubling trend. “Over the past five years or so, architect characters in movies are evil incarnate,” wrote Martin.

Still, she acknowledged that some architects in movies have been depicted as good guys and a few — think Paul Newman in “The Towering Inferno” — have been brilliant beyond belief.

Then there was Michelle Pfeiffer in “One Fine Day,” getting heat from her family because she worked hard.

But the profession’s signature movie role might be Gary Cooper as Howard Roark in “The Fountainhead.”

And Roark, Martin noted, was one screwed-up guy.

Which leads to today’s question: How has your occupation been portrayed on the big screen?

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