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The Slice: Mr. Shakespeare, meet the Kardashians

Paul Turner, Spokesman-Review columnist. (The Spokesman-Review)

What happens when you try to read and watch TV at the same time?

A) “I wind up watching TV.” B) “I find myself rereading the same sentence 16 times.” C) “Someone will ask me a question about something on the screen and I say I have no idea.” D) “After five minutes, I pick up my phone and end up ignoring both the TV and the magazines I was going to page through.” E) “It’s fine.” F) Other.

Slice answer: “Hands down, my husband is the loudest snorer,” wrote Michele Johnson. “He wakes the children.”

Rodent, it’s what’s for dinner: “I ate a squirrel that I trapped myself in USAF survival school in 1967,” wrote Kevin Martin. “After having not eaten for four days, it was delicious. And yes, it tastes like chicken.”

Bill Hudson shared this. “Although I grew up in Illinois, I was born in Arkansas and spent much of my childhood there. I remember many breakfasts of fried squirrel with biscuits and gravy. Had sort of a gamy, chickeny flavor, as I recall.”

Before you pick up the phone, please be aware that it is not The Slice’s policy to assume that certain states are hotbeds of squirrel eating, nor is it The Slice’s belief that the Northwest is or has been 100 percent free of this culinary practice.

If Spokane went on a job interview: Lisa Sousa pictured it.

“He is dressed in a worn out, brown business suit that he has been wearing since 1974.”

Tomas Lynch said the male version of Spokane would arrive in skinny jeans and pointy shoes, with ironic facial hair optional.

The female version would show up for the interview in a miniskirt, black tights, black camisole, a lacy gray blouse, a black jacket and a billowy scarf.

Chris Reichert said Spokane would arrive wearing a dirty baseball cap, a military surplus parka and shorts.

Warm-up question: How accurate were your 2011 estimates of how much firewood you would use in the first third of 2012?

Today’s Slice question: Do any Inland Northwest summer camps prohibit kids from bringing along electronic gadgetry?

Write The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; email pault@spokesman.com. Yes, I am aware that not all of my print readers go online.

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