The Slice: No fair roughing up anybody for inspiration

No need to mention names.

But there are people in our midst who enjoy pulling up a pant leg or lifting a sweater to display bruises for family members and friends. Those who delight in this sometimes alarming show-and-tell tend to bump into hard objects a lot. They also tend to be human peaches who experience bodily discoloration easily.

Naturally, when being offered a view of a ghastly bruise, it’s only polite to gasp and grimace. But after about 40 or 50 times, you start to run out of things to say.

That’s why I’m announcing The Slice’s React to a Bruise with a Line from a Movie Contest.

All you have to do is think of a film quote that would serve as an appropriate response to being shown an innocently acquired contusion. For example, “This was no boat accident” or “Call Bonasera. We need him now.”

I’ll send a coveted reporter’s notebook or an S-R coffee mug to the reader submitting the best line. The entry deadline is Wednesday. I will announce the winner next Monday. Good luck.

Let the punishment fit the crime: After returning to the car after the parking meter expired, a friend’s young son told her she would look good in an orange prison jumpsuit.

Slice answers: You can say that you have been in a state if you have driven through it, said Richard Jeltsch. “But only if while awake. That is, travelling I-90 from Lookout Pass to Spokane at 2 a.m. sacked out in the passenger seat doesn’t count as ‘being in’ Idaho. However, it would count for the driver.”

Assuming the driver was awake.

And Bill Shugg wrote, “You can say you’ve been in a state if you’ve had a meal there.”

Today’s Slice question: Someone’s stock goes way up in your eyes when you find out that he or she (     ).