The Slice: This warm winter weather has us skating on thin ice

After the possibility of lake skating came up a few months ago, I borrowed a couple of life jackets from a friend who sails.

Last Saturday morning, I sat outside a grocery store where we had agreed to meet so I could return them. A guy on a motorcycle pulled up and parked near me.

He eyed the life vests. “Kind of cold to be out on the lake, isn’t it?” he said.

Nope. Not nearly cold enough.

Looking ahead to Selection Sunday: Some Spokane-area college graduates will discover that their alma mater’s basketball team is paired against GU in the NCAA tournament. Others will learn that their schools’ squads are coming here to play first-round games.

And someone will quote Captain Renault in “Casablanca”: “I’m shocked – shocked! – to find that gambling is going on in here.”

Imagery to help you make the leap to Daylight Saving Time this weekend: Just imagine that first jump to warp speed in the original “Star Wars.”

Or recall that Pink Floyd song that opens with an alarm clock going off.

Slice answers: A couple of readers suggested that the individuals running their office NCAA pools might not be drunk with power but could be, in fact, simply drunk.

Several respondents said they find more than a few comments posted on the S-R’s Web site to be less than ennobling. Others implied the same could be said of the local TV stations’ sites.

Roseanne Lasater said you have to admit your kid might actually be a bully “when the school counselor knows your work schedule so well she can call you out of meetings in other towns.”

And in the matter of snoring, Lisa Giegel said the slumber sounds emanating from her family’s cocker spaniel cannot be believed.

Today’s Slice question: What’s the correct way to refer to having a large number of children?

A) Slew. B) Passel. C) Horde. D) Brood. E) Bounty. F) Children of the Corn. G) Other.