The Slice: T. rex arrival could cause up-RAHRRR

Maybe the best thing about the T. rex replica coming to Spokane this spring will be getting to hear 4-year-old onlookers provide dinosaur sound effects.

RAHRRRRR!

It should be ferociously fun.

“He drank his super sauce: Spokane’s Tomas Lynch is the winner of the contest to see who could do the best job of singing the Super Chicken theme.

When you find yourself in danger

When you’re threatened by a stranger

When it looks like you will take a lickin’ (puk, puk, puk)

There is someone waiting

Who will hurry up and rescue you

Just call for Super Chicken (puk, ack!)

Lynch performed those lines and the rest of the cartoon theme with gusto. I also enjoyed his theory that my failure to print my phone number on that day was a sly way of restricting entries to hardcore Slice readers.

“Slice answer (rescheduling lunch): “My friend Jody DeLuca Hissong and our friend Judy Bolen have been trying to have lunch together since Feb. 11, 2006,” wrote Addie Neufeld of Coeur d’Alene.

After multiple postponements, they are thinking 2007 just might be the year it actually happens.

“Big bang theory: After the recent “overheard” item featuring the dad telling his young son that Christmas did not involve fireworks, The Slice heard from Sue Lani Madsen. She noted that Reardan’s annual Hometown Christmas in the Park does, in fact, include fireworks.

That item also prompted a suggestion from Virginia Shrock. “Wouldn’t it make much more sense in our Inland Northwest climate to celebrate with fireworks when there is snow on the ground.”

She proposed saluting independence in December and moving Christmas to summer.

“Favorite New Year’s Eve scene in movies: Several readers mentioned “The Poseidon Adventure.” But Jerry Barnhart voted for the emotional reunion of Captain Andy and his daughter in “Show Boat.”

“Speaking of New Year’s Eve: James Dodds saw the question about whether proposals on that night turn out to be a good idea.

“I proposed to my wife, Robin Fontaine, on New Year’s Eve,” he wrote. “We were driving around town, looking at Christmas lights, talking about houses and how we would decorate one. As we stopped to admire an especially brilliant display, I asked, ‘So what WOULD you think about getting married?’ “

She thought it was a good idea then, and 23 years later it still seems that way.

“Today’s Slice question: Who around here displays the most calendars?