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After 17 years of marriage, it’s not news to Maureen Shogan that her husband, Joe, likes sports.

“However, it wasn’t until we returned from seeing ‘Phantom of the Opera’ (in Seattle) that I knew how much he really enjoyed athletic events,” she wrote. “When asked about the show, he related to friends that he got sleepy before ‘the end of the first half’ and that they ‘didn’t use all the starters.”’

Our pick in the B boys: Hickory.

We’re shocked: “Most people who take sick days are not sick,” a human-resources consultant told The Wall Street Journal.

Ruth Morrow wants: Bath scales to register thousandths of a pound.

Pat Paggett wonders: How “focus” got to be a buzz word.

Now THAT’S a fridge that needed cleaning: A friend heard about some local people who finally broke down and cleaned out their refrigerator, feeding much of the hoed-out contents to the hogs. Several of the hogs subsequently died.

“It Came From Spokane”: “In the early 1940s, during a power surge at the Washington Water Power generating station on the Spokane falls, electricity arced into the frothy water,” wrote Hayden’s Lonnie Soderberg. “And, what with the inversion layer and all, the debris was charged with LIFE. Not just life, but lives. Yes, two monsters, twins, were spawned in the murky melange simmering in the hazy sunshine. Flotsam, grateful for this new life, used her power for good, and even to this day provides food for the ducks around Riverfront Park and perfect weather for Bloomsday. But her evil twin, Jetsam, who grew up in her shadow, leaves trash floating amongst the poor duckies and thousands of pounds of litter in the wake of the runners of Bloomsday.”

Hey kid, it takes one to know one: “I know what a chameleon is,” said Evan Lovell, 5. “It’s somebody who tells bad jokes.”

Warm-up question: Ever started to pick up a sack and then realized your cat was in it?

Today’s Slice question (complete this sentence): No Inland Northwest weekend is complete without….

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