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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Bankruptcy comes a little later

Paul Turner The Spokesman-Review

Sharp-eyed public records reader Larry Schneiderman has noticed that some people appear to get a marriage license on the same day their divorce becomes final.

He wonders if this is where the expression “love/hate” comes from.

•Recycling birthdays: North Idaho’s Nicole Campbell, who lives between Plummer and Worley, has given birth to eight daughters. Three were born on Aug. 26.

Melissa was born in 1978. Crystal was born in 1980. And Angela arrived in 1985.

•Friday’s contest: The first reporter’s notebook of 2008 goes to James Dodds for his over-the-phone impression of fluoride-fearing Air Force Gen. Jack Ripper in the movie, “Dr. Strangelove.”

Quite a few Slice readers knew that “POE” came from the expressions “peace on Earth” and/or “purity of essence” and was part of a coded message sent to B-52 bombers.

•Local time travel: “I would like to travel back about 12,000 years to witness one of the dozens of Ice Age floods that were responsible for creating the Spokane Aquifer, Grand Coulee, the Channeled Scablands, et cetera,” wrote geologist Jennifer Leinart.

Her husband, Phil – also a geologist – would go back 12 to 15 million years to witness the lava flows that produced area basalt formations.

In each case, I’m assuming they would want to be in a helicopter.

•Slice answers: Substitute teacher Tom Gigler is familiar with quite a few school cafeterias, and he said it’s tough to beat the food at Chase Middle School.

Tori Bailey and Amanda Boose praised the fare at the Discovery School.

Gloria Latham gave a thumbs-up to the school cafeteria down in St. John, Wash. “Besides all the nutritious fare, the head cook makes all the rolls, buns, cinnamon rolls and maple bars.”

In the matter of who around here bakes the best corn bread, Dave Cox made a good case for his wife, Carolyn. She won a contest.

Ruthie Larson said she might make the best. Her secret? Bacon fat. “I didn’t say it’s healthy, just good.”

•Pleasing everybody all the time: Several readers were offended by various observations I made in last weekend’s columns. None of those critics could claim, however, to have done the market research undertaken by a subscriber kind enough to send a note to the S-R Circulation Department.

“Do you realize maybe less than a dozen people finish reading the Slice? Drop that (unprintable).”

•Today’s Slice question: Does every elementary school get visited by at least one neighborhood cat in search of supplemental petting?