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The Slice archive for July 25, 2012

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2012



Would this really have been a headline?

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

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What to call Spokane Valley residents 

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?

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Bing with Glenn Miller

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…

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