The Slice: Let’s move on from this unique experience

I‘m always pleased to hear from my friend Carol Nelson, a North Idaho grade school teacher.

“My students write a letter to me on Mondays about their weekend,” she said in an e-mail. “Here’s one I got this week (corrected for punctuation and spelling so you can read it).”

Dear Mrs. Nelson,

I went to my cousin’s and my uncle got a deer and the deer was bleeding. I can tell you it was disgusting. You would yell. Let’s move on and for Thanksgiving I had turkey and frog eye salad.”

Nelson knew I would appreciate the little girl’s excellent use of “let’s move on.”

I had to look up frog eye salad, though, to make sure there were no actual amphibian parts in the recipe.

“Slice answer: Mike Storms said he has lived around here for a total of 52 years and he still hears of local neighborhoods that are new to him.

“Just wondering: Do you ever find yourself doing something that would have mortified your teenage self? That crossed my mind the other night as I shoveled snow while wearing a jacket, boots, a hat and pajama bottoms.

“More evidence that the West Side is different: Spokane’s Karyn Christner sent The Slice a picture (above) of a store she recently encountered over in Sequim, Wash.

“All of life’s necessities advertised – pop, ice, wine, beer and … herring?”

“The right thing to say to someone threatening to leave Spokane is …: A) “OK.” B) “Buh-bye.” C) “Maybe it’s for the best.” D) “Perhaps somewhere else will be nearer to perfect.” E) Other.

“Tuesday’s contest: Sandpoint’s Marc Natoni wins a coveted reporter’s notebook for knowing that Bash Brannigan was a comic strip character created by the cartoonist played by Jack Lemmon in 1965’s “How to Murder Your Wife.”

A fair number of readers knew that, aided no doubt by the fact the movie was on the TCM channel last weekend. And, of course, it’s easy enough to Google.

But several respondents noted that Bash Brannigan was also the name of a character in the animated network TV series “Futurama,” created by the guy behind “The Simpsons.” I didn’t know that. But when you think about it, that’s not a bad cartoon-world inside joke.

“Warm-up question: What do you like most/least about recent changes at Spokane International Airport?

“Today’s Slice question: What Inland Northwest dog most loves snow?