The Slice: Please, please come again another day

The Slice stands by its policy that, around here, almost any rain is good rain – even if it falls on a weekend.

But if you have water in your basement, I can see where you might disagree.

OK, let’s move on.

Talk Like a Pirate contest: I’m declaring 3-year-old Sydney Larson the winner. She got some coaching. But her opening “Ahoy!” was so sweet nobody else really had a chance.

Honorable mentions go to Lawrence Killingsworth and Ken Martin.

If Provo, Utah, is A and Eugene, Ore., is Z, Spokane would be …: Most responding readers said M or N.

But Jack Thompson deemed it a trick question. “There are two Spokanes,” he wrote. “One an A and the other a Z.”

How to speak Spokanese:

Right: “I’ll be on the water this weekend.”

Wrong: “Is there any more of that Tofurkey?”

Right: “My truck is big.”

Wrong: “Is there any real difference between a yard sale and a garage sale?”

Slice answer (seemingly mundane activities that knock the socks off preschoolers): When Deanna Dummitt’s daughter Hannah was 3 or 4, she got a big charge out of riding on an STA bus.

Speaking of kids: The Slice has it on good authority that, on a field trip to a dam, it takes just one third-grader to say “Hey, we’re on a dam field trip” to start the comedy rolling.

It’s aliiiiive: Coeur d’Alene’s Cathy Kraus recently saw the ultimate comb-over. An older guy had carefully coaxed his beard up over his ears and around to the back of his head.

“It really was ingenious engineering,” said Kraus. “But why?”

Because, Cathy, he lives alone.

Two for Tuesday: 1. The old boy network is not a cable channel.

2. Several Spokane teens have never vandalized cars.

Slice reader Scott Arbuckle has a question: “I was wondering if anybody else in the Spokane area gets a sudden urge out of nowhere to belt out ‘Ziggy’s, yeah Ziggy’s.’ “

Warm-up questions: What CD holds the record for staying in your car stereo the longest? In how many different places in your home would you find small stashes of coins? Ever receive something in the mail from an elected official that was so intelligence-insulting you spent the next five minutes muttering unflattering characterizations of the voters who supported that person?

Today’s Slice question: What was wrong with you the time a doctor found your case especially interesting?

(Me? When I was about 14, a nerve condition temporarily paralyzed half my face. It made the doctor’s day.)