The Slice: It’s time to prepare for the day when fools rush in

Remember, Sunday is April Fool’s Day.

Before going to bed tonight, turn your skepticism up one notch.

OK, let’s move on.

“The votes are in: Teresa Totton, a teacher at East Valley High School, had her sophomore English students address the Slice question about whether the Ides of March should be regarded as a holiday recognizing back-stabbers.

Most said it should not. A few, though, said it could be a good thing if it helped put back-stabbers in an uncomfortable spotlight.

“Today’s typos: High school teacher Linda Martin was showing students how to graph parabolas. In the course of her explanation, she found herself writing “horizontal shift” on the chalk board.

It wasn’t until after her students started laughing that she realized she had left a letter out of “shift.”

Jacqueline Volz once helped her husband, a teacher, prepare a history test. She did the typing.

The next day, the students got a kick out of a question that sought explanations for one country’s “low standard of loving.”

Maybe it has something to do with horizontal shift.

“The area’s loudest animal: “The rooster who lives next door,” said Sharon Beck of Otis Orchards.

“Daily Double: 1. Dana Freeborn once worked in a store where a customer asked for a “lub” of fudge. Apparently that person was confused by a “$5 per lb.” sign and didn’t realize “lb.” just meant “pound.”

Let’s all say that: “I need to lose five lubs.”

2. Louise Harless recently bought a can of corn starch that, according to the sale sticker, was marked down to “$50.” (She sent me a snapshot.) No one objected when she instead paid 50 cents.

“Just wondering: Would anyone notice if you secretly declared today to be “Talk Like an Old Movie Day” and went around saying things like “Better lay low” and “You and me, baby”?

“Slice answer: Al Gilson has been a recreational pilot for just a few years, but he has landed at 32 different air fields. The longest runway was in Moses Lake, originally designed to accommodate B-52 bombers. The shortest was at Seven Bays by Lake Roosevelt.

“Warm-up questions: What is the Inland Northwest’s most dysfunctional civic, community or arts board? If you don’t have an action-packed job, does “Bring a Kid to Work Day” essentially require that you spend eight hours narrating your own thought processes? What local pets deserve to be crowned the King/Queen of Shedding?

“Today’s Slice question: What would you learn about Spokane if you undertook a bus marathon and rode the full length of every STA route all in one week?