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The Slice: Did you survive the heat on Sunday, pray tell?

Which Inland Northwest church was hottest Sunday?

Let’s move on.

Slice answers: Readers said, essentially, “Well, duh,” yes, of course, camping trips where things go wrong are more memorable.

True or false: It’s fun to play golf with someone who knows a lot of lines from “Lawrence of Arabia.”

The lessons of dodgeball: “I was one of the little guys in class and what I learned from dodgeball was to not stand out in the crowd, anticipate, move quickly, duck and keep the important parts covered,” wrote Jerry Hilton. “Maybe I learned more than the winners.”

Re: Friday’s Slice: Gary Polser said the way to slow down summer is to watch a lot of Mariners games on TV.

Without a paddle: I did not declare any winners in the recent “Spokane Creek” rewrites competition. None of the entries wowed me. And, sadly, the best came from readers who did not pass along their full names or contact information.

That means The Slice still has some coveted reporter’s notebooks to give away.

So let’s try this. Be among the first to correctly identify two Spokane connections to the 2004 Oscar awarded movie “Million Dollar Baby” and you just might win.

Hey, kids: You say you are going to try your hand at a classic of summertime kid-commerce? Well, great. Good luck. Just try not to flavor the lemonade with rivulets of sweat.

Today’s Slice question: Hot enough for you?

A) “No. In order to warm up lake water, it needs to be about 110 for a week.” B) “Indubitably.” C) “Almost.” D) “Can’t say. I have no intention of going out.” E) “You mean hot enough to be cooking in my own juices? I think I’m almost done.” F) “It’s all in your mind.” G) “You mean for my significant other and I to reenact a couple of key scenes from the movies ‘Body Heat’ and that one with Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting in the surf?” H) “Yes. When it’s like this our office dress code has about as much credibility as that piece of paper Neville Chamberlain held up after meeting with Hitler.” I) “Soitainly.” J) Other.

Write The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; email pault@spokesman.com. North of the border, there are multiple schools named after explorer David Thompson.

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