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The Slice archive for March 2, 2012
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
All aboard
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This is typical of newspaper newsrooms
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Had you watched PBS Clinton 2-nighter
You would have seen the onetime Speaker from Spokane, Tom Foley, in this very setting. Except it wasn't Nelson Mandela at the microphone. www.biography.com
Have you noticed pronunciation trend?
Maybe it's my imagination. But it seems like people saying "Spokane" on national broadcasts are getting it right more often than in the past. Coverage of the recent women's boxing competition and the Washington GOP caucuses nudged me toward this conclusion. So I guess writing…
One of his 125 St. Patrick's Day albums
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"Hey kid, whattaya think you're doing?"
www.ebay.com In the mid-1960s, Coca-Cola bottlers around the country ran a promotion featuring the images of pro athletes inside bottle caps. The idea was, you collected complete sets of NFL players or whatever. Then you could redeem them for various modest prizes. I'm sure the…
Recalling horse droppings on Riverside
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Maybe this will spur a memory or two
I've been wondering about something, and perhaps you can help me. If you are old enough to remember being a little kid who clomped around in small cowboy boots, you might also remember toy spurs. I guess the idea was that a 6-year-old saddle tramp…
50 years ago tonight: "To Serve Man"
One of everybody's Top 10 episodes of "The Twilight Zone." www.askville.amazon.com
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