The Slice: We’ve got ‘The Skinny’ on nicknames

I asked for it.

And now I can report that readers’ nicknames for the new-look S-R tended to be vulgar and hostile.

Thanks for sharing.

A few of the printable offerings were “Spokesman Lite,” “Sick and wRetched,” “The Spokesman-Brochure,” “The Toy Paper,” “The Shrunken Rag,” “Flippy-Floppy Review,” “Same Rhetoric,” “Slimmer, Trimmer, Dumber” and “Fire Starter.”

Lee Ann Greaves and Glen Rupley complained that it no longer fits perfectly in the bottom of their bird cages.

But a couple of readers suggested a nickname I actually like: “The Skinny.”

Says it all.

Today’s “How I bumped my head” stories: Spokane Valley’s Clark Brekke was tossing a football with his son before a concert at The Gorge Amphitheatre.

“I dove for a perfect pass only to be tackled by the back gate of my Yukon,” he wrote.

The parked truck delivered a big hit.

A trip to an emergency room and 27 stitches later, Brekke was back in time for all but one Dave Matthews Band song.

“I think I’ve lost some skin sensation on certain areas of my head, a result of nerve damage from my injury,” he wrote. “My wife, however, suggests a simpler explanation – I’m a numbskull.”

And Pullman’s Dot Stuit was changing sheets on her bed and had left the linen cabinet doors open in the hallway. Then the telephone rang in the kitchen. So she charged out into the hall and smacked into the edge of an open cabinet door. She hit it with enough force that she then pin-balled back against the opposite wall.

“So I managed to get both the front and back of my head in one swoop,” she wrote.

Best friends: If you have a soft spot for canines, the simplest little story can get to you.

When Eileen Bakken’s husband was slowed by chemo treatments, the family’s strong, fast-moving Lab, Levi, immediately recognized the situation and shifted to a lower gear for their walks.

Good dog.

Homo Spokanus and the desire to avoid parking garages: “I will park on Third and walk, if I have to, to avoid the River Park Square garage,” wrote Jim Clanton.

Some who ride with him put up a squawk. But he argues that his park-and-walk plan is no more time-consuming because it cuts out searching for a spot in the garage and waiting in line to pay when it’s time to leave.

Besides, said Clanton, “(Street) parking is free after 6, and the fresh air does me good.”

Warm-up question: What has happened to Spokane area car-horn etiquette during the time you have lived here?

Today’s Slice question: Who around here will submit the greatest number of W-2s with his or her tax return?