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The Slice archive for April 9, 2013
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013
Navigating the workplace: Tip No. 17
Being in a good mood can be a catalyst for trouble. When you are feeling happy, you let your guard down. And the workplace isn't the place for that. A good mood can lead to attempts at humor that offend certain co-workers. A good mood…
If Hugh Hefner had lived in Spokane 1
A) Instead of Playboy, he might have tried launching an outdoors magazine. B) He would have realized that wearing pajamas all the time wouldn't exactly set him apart. C) He still would have suspected that people think about sex. D) He would have made a…
Ever sip a Sick's? 1
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One great moment in "thirtysomething"
Son: "Dad, what's 69?" Dad: "That's the year the Mets won the World Series." www.espn.go.com
If someone else prepares your tax return
You will still find yourself guessing how it will turn out, of course. Are your predictions usually pretty accurate? www.freepublic.com
This was released on April 9, 1971
"Summer of '42." www.tumblr.com
Two unworthy goals
1. Being universally liked. 2. Zero weeds.
Today's most ignorable PR email
"Hi, Paul. Father's Day is right around the corner and..." No, it's not.
One definition of "surreal"
One of my correspondents, a nice guy named Mike Storms, told me he watched the Frankie and Annette beach movies while he was in Vietnam. www.todayentertainment.today.com
Do you talk to your plants? 1
I imagine more than a few people brought some plants inside last night. And I wonder how many explained to the plants that they had to come in because there was a chance the temperature would dip down to freezing overnight.
Remembering admirable loyalty 1
After The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Chronicle combined staffs long ago, employees were supposed to identify themselves as representatives of both papers. That's fine, in theory. But if you are making a bunch of phone calls, it gets to be a bit of a mouthful. So…
Name that newspaper 2
The publication Hugh Laurie's character is reading here in 1995's "Sense and Sensibility" is called... A) The Public Informer. B) The Pickwickian. C) The Post Skeptic. D) The Porcupine. E) The Purpose Times. F) Other. www.monroesmile.blogspot.com
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