The Slice: A dozen ways to prove you aren’t so unique

Here’s a holiday dozen for you.

1. Sticking to a vow to be nonjudgmental is more challenging than ever these days.

2. Don’t you love the military chaplain in “Doonesbury”?

3. Do you get the impression that some people aren’t going to worry about global warming until we hear an alarming report from Jor-El?

4. You aren’t the only one who does a “Wizard of Oz” impression when the doorbell sounds. “Who rang that bell?”

5. You aren’t the only one who occasionally gets the “Patty Duke Show” theme song stuck in his/her head for no apparent reason. “But they’re cousins. …”

6. Anyone who was here at this time of year in 1988 knows that it can get hot in September.

7. Saying “Zeptember” dates you, but who cares?

8. I’ll miss seeing Dana Haynes doing pet-themed TV news stories in which she expertly handles a cat.

9. I’d pre-emptively say “No, thanks” re: the AMC zombies series debuting on Halloween night. But the online preview is intriguing. And you can’t go wrong with a show that uses the Walker Brothers’ “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.” Then there’s the fact that, when HBO’s “The Sopranos” was about to begin, I was smugly certain that there was nothing left to say in the mafia genre. Wrong.

10. You aren’t the only one who thinks it is strange to pay your S-R bill to a Seattle mailing address. There is a longish explanation for this involving a bank switch. But trust me, the newspaper remains locally owned.

11. Next spring it will be 100 years since the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire.

12. Sometimes it’s wise to not judge your college roommate too quickly.

Season’s greetings: The Slice will send a coveted reporter’s notebook to the kid who submits the best alternative to “The dog ate my homework!”

Today’s Slice question: Graduates of what local high school wind up being the ones who actually run things around here because of the high percentage of that school’s best-and-brightest who stay in this area?