Tip No. 3. When sending an email to Paul Turner urging him to commit ritual hara kiri at his earliest convenience, do not claim that you never read the column. Plenty of people do not, in fact, read The Slice. Some of them manage to…
This fake paper appears in a late 1959 episode of "The Twilight Zone" called "Time Enough at Last." Yes, I know this subject was on people's minds. But that headline seems a tad loud for a "What if..." story. Feel free to disagree. www.designinmovies.livejournal.com
There's an item in the Slice column pipeline in which a reader uses the phrase "Valley-ites" to describe residents of Spokane Valley. That doesn't sound quite right. But what would be the preferred label? Valleyers? Valleyians? Valleyans? Valleytonians? Valleyenos? Valleyiscans?
According to the details provided by the site credited below, this picture is from August of 1944, a few months before the band leader disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. Of course, he couldn't have known. But Bing almost looks as if he's…