The Slice Doc Said ‘Big City,’ Not ‘Big Apple’
A little boy in Lind cut his finger rather badly on a broken bottle.
Told he would have to go to the “big city” for follow-up treatment, he started crying. “I don’t want to go to New York,” he pleaded.
Put down the Snickers and move away slowly: We’re declaring today Sugar-Shock Withdrawal Day. If you know an elementary school teacher, today’s a good day to pass along a word of encouragement.
A letter from a grade schooler to the Cheney Cowles Museum: “Dear Museum Staff, “I really liked the hands-on part. And I liked the computer. I am from Browne. I liked the hands-off part too. Thank you very much.
“Sincerely, Nic Graham”
One good thing about colder weather: Fast-food leftovers that get left in the car don’t produce much of an odor when frozen.
Flag on the play: The thing that starts the most fights during touch football is pass-blocking that includes thrusting a forearm and elbow into the face of the defensive lineman.
Now she’s found: The Rev. Deborah Rose, pastor at Cheney United Church of Christ, has a multicolored short-haired cat named Amazing Grace.
Name density: “I worked at a U.S. Forest Service blister rust camp during the middle 1950s,” wrote Kellogg’s John L. Cole. “Sixteen of the 24 crewmen shared the first name of John. Imagine the confusion.”
The storytelling season never ends: Spokane’s Jerry Ford heard about a little girl in T-ball who got pretty upset when, as she was rounding third, her coach told her to go home.
Support your local grizzly: Call 1(800)822-6525 to request the Great Bear Foundation’s holiday catalog.
People Don’t Know What They’re Talking About Department: A reader overheard a guy at a recent Chiefs game explaining to someone how they remodeled the Coliseum and then renamed it the Arena.
One reader’s warm-up question: Who will be first to name a baby Dotcom?
Today’s Slice question: What would be the perfect name for the lead character of the set-in-Spokane Great American Novel that you just haven’t gotten around to writing?
, DataTimes MEMO: The Slice appears Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Write The Slice at P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210; call (509) 459-5470; fax (509) 459-5098. Five-year-old Spencer Price said his male cat had to go to the vet to be “noodled.”