The real thing was on April 18, 1942
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The Slice archive for April 17, 2012
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2012
A question for American League fans
Let's say your favorite team is not the Mariners. And let's say they are in a city far away and you don't get to see many televised games. But every once in a while your team will be on WGN (a longtime cable staple) because…
How often do you want to shout...
"It's a mad house...a MAD HOUSE!" www.amazon.com
Re: Ringo coming here this summer
Remember when the late Chris Farley played a starstruck interviewer talking with Paul McCartney on "Saturday Night Live"? Has there ever been a funnier preface to a question than "Remember, when you were in the Beatles, and ..."?
Today's vintage big-letter postcard
Some young men from the South mistook this for the coldest place on Earth. www.flickriver.com
When the phone is calling the shots
I called a reader named Bill, who had left me a message. We spoke for just a few minutes. Then I got up and left my desk. While I was away, he called me back and left messages. Twice. Actually, his phone called me back.…
Spokane City Council and band names
Speakers addressing the council at last night's meeting provided some pretty tempting fodder for band names. Though I guess I'm dating myself here. Don't suppose kids these days name their rock bands Sex in the Mouth and such.
Just wondering
What did people do before they spent time interacting with electronic screens? A) Attended lodge meetings. B) Bowling. C) Wore fake-fur raccoon caps. D) Erector sets. E) Waited to use the phone (when there was just one phone) or waited to use the bathroom (when…
Go, Chiefs
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This date in Slice history (1999)
Today's Slice question: If, in a bold effort to boost ridership, masked STA agents started going door-to-door in Spokane and threatening to utilize increasingly shocking medieval torture techniques to get everyone to take the bus, what nonrider would be the last holdout?
No. 1 song on this date in 1972
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