The Slice: MONAC memory tips balance

OK, where were we.

Oh, yeah. A Slice quiz.

A fair number of readers knew that MONAC was the defunct Museum of Native American Cultures, Pinesong was a music/folklife festival and Dina Napoli worked in TV news here.

But I’m awarding the reporter’s notebook to Sandra Lamson. She reminded me of something I had forgotten about MONAC. Because the building was shaped like a teepee, the walls were slanted. Some visitors were disoriented.

“I found myself stumbling and losing my balance repeatedly,” she wrote. “My brain could not handle the slanted walls; it insisted the floors were on a 90-degree angle to the walls and thus the floors were slanted also.”

On one school outing to the museum, accompanying her daughters, Lamson appeared to be drunk.

So much for Halloween trend-tracking: I’ll summarize this year’s inconclusive trick-or-treat headcounts from readers by recalling a Paul Revere and the Raiders lyric: Up, down, all around.

Thanks for the data.

Let us know when it’s ready: North Idaho’s Joni Tonkovich said that when her husband comes into the kitchen he often asks her what she’s doing, even though it’s usually obvious.

So she has come up with a standard answer: “Baking a cake.”

I’m sure she won’t mind if you borrow that, at home or at work.

Slice answer: “In regards to wake-up alarm radio stations, ours is the station we can tune into with the least static,” wrote Lynn Onley.

Sometimes that means setting it on a station you would never listen to otherwise.

He should have that checked: Shelley Davis has a young relative who has yet to turn 3. Recently that little girl was heard singing. The tune was the familiar “Mary Had a Little Lamb” rhyme. But this kid’s version of the lyric was “Harry had a little lump.”

Perhaps its fleece indicated the need for a complete blood work-up.

Today’s Slice question: When people see a high school-era picture of you, what do they say about your hair?