"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?
Or do you just mutter a few choice words and pay it?
Wrong way to confirm that it's cold out
www.oregonlive.com
It's Clyde Tombaugh's birthday
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?
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)
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/
The online home for Paul Turner's musings and interactions with disciples of The Slice.