The Slice Bees Now, Birds Later

A District 81 newsletter included a thank-you note a boy had written to a beekeeper who visited Adams Elementary before school let out.

He wrote: “Next time will you bring birds so we will know that whole story?”

Best golf partner: “It has to be my Dad, Ed David,” wrote Renee Sulpizio. “He has taken on the task of teaching me the game of golf and has had more patience than I ever imagined…He’s the best!”

Say what: “I knew I had a foreign made bread machine (is there any other kind?) when the directions for dinner rolls said ‘Splay lightly with water.”’ - Lulu Stuver, Metaline

Well, we’ve heard people called worse: A fellow we know had phoned a local store and was asking a woman there about repairing an old pitcher with a broken handle. “Just a moment,” she said. “Let me get the old antique lady.”

If you call before 4 p.m. today: You can still get in on the Academy of General Dentistry’s annual toll-free opportunity to ask dentists questions. The number is 1-800-SMILE-33.

Another nominee: A woman who left us a long, long phone message thinks someone named Paula at Seafirst Bankcard Services is the friendliest person in Spokane.

Tonight on Disney at 7 o’clock: “The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound.”

Burglary bait, Round 3: “When I deliver a flier at 3 or 4 in the afternoon and the car is gone and the newspaper is on the porch, I have a pretty good idea that that person leaves for work before the newspaper comes,” wrote Ellen Perrine.

“If this happens every day, it’s a pretty good clue that the house is empty, isn’t it? I leave a flier at one house only once. Not every day. Get it?”

Warm-up question: How many area households watch MTV’s “Real World” and also “Mate Match” on TNN’s “Music City Tonight”?

Today’s Slice question: When did it become OK to clip one’s fingernails at work?

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