The Slice: Maybe it’s some new-fangled marmot lodge dance move

Because even basketball players do it before the opening tip-off, you might assume everyone understands about fist-bumps.

But maybe not. So let me ask.

What percentage of Spokane-area residents wouldn’t realize what you were doing if you tried to initiate a fist-bump? A) 5 percent. B) 25 percent. C) 50 percent. D) 75 percent. E) Other.

Just wondering: When you are done with work for the day and are slightly slumped with fatigue, would you like it if colleagues gently draped a cape over your shoulders (a la James Brown) and led you away from your work station? And would you then fling off said cape and fight to go back and do some more work? And would you enjoy being referred to as the hardest working man/woman in accounting/mechanical engineering/TV news production/other?

This date in Slice history (1995): “Here’s the rub: When Luann Doughty was on a Spokane jury unexpectedly sequestered overnight, the bag of toiletries presented to the female jurors mistakenly contained nothing but mentholated jelly.”

Cheney’s Dave Brown wonders: How would you react if you learned that friends had named pets after you and your spouse?

Slice answer (alternatives to the expression “litter bugs”): “I get really irritated with people who litter, especially when they do it along some of my favorite hiking trails,” wrote a reader who asked to be referred to as Joe B. “How about we just call them ‘trash-holes.’ ”

Don Crawford suggested “trash barfers.”

Then there was this from Jim Cole. “Having a small farm that is bordered on two sides by country roads, I do have several nicknames for those who litter,” he wrote. “The problem is that all of those names are unprintable.”

Warm-up question: What member of your family still gets credit years later for spotting a typo on a proof of a wedding invitation before the cards were printed?

Today’s Slice question: Were you ever hooked on a particular breakfast cereal?

While we are on the subject, what newspaper comic strip character ate Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs?