The Slice: OK, now that’s just sick

Talk about scary illnesses.

Because of a child’s malapropism, Kim Middleton’s family refers to salmonella as “Liza Minnelli.”

And Mary Lewis said her German-American parents in North Dakota called diarrhea “roodle-dee-toots.”

“The hairdo who cried “wolf!”: Slice reader Gary L. Taylor wishes Spokane TV news operations would refrain from labeling practically everything “Breaking News.”

“Using your head: Marti Stangle’s late grandmother once took a puck to her forehead while watching a hockey game. It cut her.

This happened during the first period. And as she had paid good money to see the whole game, she stayed put until the conclusion of the contest. Then she went to get stitched up.

Marianne Guenther’s young son took a baseball to the noggin while attending a game a few years ago. The incident helped him decide that football was his favorite sport.

But Jeannie Maki said that’s nothing compared to what you can get hit with if you are at a rodeo and sitting or standing within tail-flicking distance of the chutes.

“August TV boycott update: That Medical Lake family intending to go without television this month is doing fine.

There has been a lot of picnicking and backyard camping.

“We have found time (and hours of sleep) we didn’t realize were available to us,” wrote Robin Trout.

There have been moments of tele-temptation. “But, so far, we are still unplugged and having fun with it.”

“Bribes: When Nancy Avery’s 28-year-old son was a little boy and the family went shopping in a toy store for someone else, the lad naturally saw things he wanted for himself. So his dad would say, “We’ll buy that for you when you’re 18.”

That worked, for a while anyway.

Last Christmas the now grown-up young man noted that he was still owed quite a few toys.

“Things about which Spokane area residents tend to be snobs after moving to or visiting many other parts of the country: Readers said the list includes Spokane’s tap-water quality, the price of a round of golf in Spokane, camping in the Inland Northwest, our relative lack of humidity and Spokane’s comparatively sane traffic.

“Today’s Slice question: How would the world be populated if, as of midnight, the only people left were those you had seen with your own eyes?