The Slice: Don’t worry – nobody suspects a thing

Later today it will look like you are working, but actually you will be …

A) Shopping for a silk scarf. B) Wading in nostalgia by going online and looking at ads in a 1964 issue of Boys’ Life. C) Watching hockey fights on YouTube. D) Wondering what ever happened to Tiffany Bolling. E) Trying to figure out which cities had teams in the WFL and which had teams in the USFL. F) Reading about the USS Thresher.

G) Trying to remember the name of the group that had that song with the line “Because the way it makes you look makes me hope it rains some more.” H) Looking up the current values of Silver Age comic books your mom threw out 40 years ago. I) Perusing lists of defunct bowl games, closed military bases and extinct department stores. J) Camping out on www.uboat.net. K) Attempting to confirm that Jack Benny really was at Expo ’74. L) Trying to determine if there have been studies on the long-term effects of having ingested Silly Putty, Flubber, Plasti-Goop or pieces of Super Balls.

M) Googling the names of grade-school classmates. N) Putting on your headphones and going online to listen to the sounds different birds make. O) Reminding yourself of how the Spokane Canaries could have won the Stanley Cup. P) Reading an assessment of Coca-Cola’s effectiveness as a drain cleaner.

Q) Reading about what happened to the Albers grocery chain. R) Looking at pictures of old iron skillets, ’60s banana-seat bicycles, the Chevrolet Corvair and vintage postcards of roadside motels. S) Trying to find that one Shelley Dubinski scene. T) Confirming that Chloe is a biblical name. U) Arguing with someone via e-mail about whether Dresden was a legitimate target.

V) Reading about the 1974 tornado outbreak. W) Watching a few of those ancient “You meet the nicest people on a Honda” commercials. X) Regretting that you used all your four-cent Seattle World’s Fair stamps. Y) Reading about how Daniel Boone’s son got tortured and how Greer Garson married a younger man. Z) Other.

Today’s Slice question: What are this area’s five best/five worst street names?