"Gusted a butt"
A reader told me about a time a member of his family misspoke when describing raucous laughter. Maybe that's how hip-hop lyrics are created.
The Slice archive for Feb. 4, 2014
TUESDAY, FEB. 4, 2014
Meeting Mike Eruzione
Here's a rerun (link at bottom of this post) from almost exactly four years ago. This was something John Blanchette arranged for me. For reasons that escape me now, I actually wore my high school letter jacket adorned with a couple of hockey state champions…
Do you understand your cable TV bill? 1
Or do you just mutter a few choice words and pay it?
Wrong way to confirm that it's cold out 2
www.oregonlive.com
It's Clyde Tombaugh's birthday 2
He died before his discovery got downgraded. I used to work with a guy who phoned him every year and then wrote a story about the "Kansas farm boy who never stopped looking up." http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tom0bio-1
How did you feel about this song? 2
It was No. 1 on this date in 1977. www.musicstack.com An Easy Listening song at No. 1 is a reminder that, for many music lovers, the pop charts were utterly irrelevant to legions who had fled to FM rock.
This date in Slice history (1995) 2
Not sure why this online version of the Slice column from 2/4/95 lacks bold face item intros. But it does. And that makes the whole thing even more incoherent than it actually was. See for yourself. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/feb/04/the-slice-we-have-social-rules-you-know/
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