The Slice: License to use your imagination

If Washington were to borrow half of Idaho’s classic license plate declaration, what aspect of life in the Evergreen State would we tout as “Famous”?

Slice answers: Mark Nicholson in Post Falls guessed that 38 percent of Inland Northwest residents can hear trains from their homes.

In any case, The Slice received notes and calls from people in that group. Tom Harding lives right next to the train tracks in downtown Spokane. “I not only hear them all, I FEEL most of them,” he wrote. “Some shake the building I live in pretty good.”

To be continued.

Re: Sunday’s request for e-mailed photos of readers with their bicycles: “So what are you up to?” wondered Peggy Rolando, who sent a picture. “Testing the theory that bikers resemble their bikes?”

No, not really. It’s for something I want to do next month. But it will work only if I get a lot of photos.

Thanks to all those who have submitted pictures already.

A baby-stroller model called The Spokane: Gary Polser said it would come with a gun rack.

Hollis Bredeweg suggested it might feature studded tires.

Jan Bostian guessed it might have a marmot guard across the front.

Slice answers: “I have owned one cowboy hat which I have worn once,” said Don Holdaway.

Considering that he is from Wyoming and went to the University of Wyoming (home of the Cowboys), that might be some kind of record.

Jennie Groenig, Caitlin Dibble, Terry Martin and others reported that they are quite content wearing glasses.

And Bill Cornwell, here visiting from North Carolina, alerted neighbors back home and then tried his car-locking remote on a vehicle parked back there.

“It didn’t work,” he reported. “Guess I need a stronger battery.”

Today’s Slice question: Do you trust your neighbors to do the right thing with misdelivered mail?