The Slice: Her terrier was mistaken for a boxer

A reader who lives at Fairchild Air Force Base told about encountering a young man who took an interest in her Jack Russell terrier, Cosmo.

“Is that a Jack Dempsey?” he inquired.

Cosmo, showing restraint, did not deck him with a thundering left hook.

Good dog.

“Amnesty program: David Simmons, a teacher at Rogers High, noted that schools often lose thousands of dollars worth of textbooks each year.

“So, if people have schoolbooks at home, it would be nice to return them,” he wrote.

“Draw your own conclusions: Spokane Valley’s Don Harding noticed a couple of kids playing outside the Summit School. They appeared to be about 8 or 9.

One stopped and yelled at the other, “I’ll put a restraining order on you!”

“Re: “Top this” in Sunday’s column: I heard from a couple dozen readers who told of being aunts and uncles from the moment they were born.

“Advice to a summer intern: This comes from a Spokane construction design specialist.

“Do NOT tell the entire office why you were up till 3 a.m. – drinking beer, chasing girls, playing Nintendo, downloading music, et cetera. Us thirtysomething people simply don’t care.”

“Slice answers (elevator stories): Back in 1988, Spokane Valley high school teacher Vince Eberly was in Russia when he and about seven others were riding an elevator that got stuck between floors. “We pushed the emergency communication button, and a voice came through.”

The voice suggested that they all try jumping up at the same time. As there had been some drinking at a social occasion that evening, the attempts to synchronize the leaping were more comedic than balletic.

“When it appeared that we would have to wait for rescue, one person asked the intercom voice what we should do until rescue came.”

The reply? “Recite poetry.”

One more.

“I worked in the State Building in Ketchikan, Alaska,” wrote Margaret Vandiver of Liberty Lake.

“Leaving for lunch one day, my friend and I were stuck in an elevator between floors with two young fishermen who obviously had been out on the sea for some time.”

“Archiving the hits: Remember when radio stations used to distribute “Top 40” or “Fab 50” lists? Well, Spokane’s Bob Kirlin still has a stack of those early ‘60s song sheets from local stations.

What was No. 14 at KNEW on July 31, 1961? “Hats Off to Larry,” by Del Shannon.

“Today’s Slice question: What did your preschooler get stuck on a finger, toe, wrist, penis or whatever?