Try Looking On The Bright Side, Your Car Will Sound Quiet Again
Yes, you still have to take those studded tires off even if the studs have been worn away since January.
No strangers: Here, according to University of Idaho student Kathryn Cassens, is an example of how you can tell Moscow is perhaps too small. “My golf coach, Don Rasmussen, dialed a local phone number only to dial the incorrect number. But upon hearing the voice at the other end, he still knew who the other person was.”
Geogenius: When Jan Hartsell’s husband-to-be, Paul, was filling out the form for a marriage license back in the mid-‘80s in Sandpoint, the clerk noted that his place of birth was Clovis, N.M. So she asked him if he had become a U.S. citizen yet.
Remember this: “The only people with the right to yell at you have the same last name as you.” - from a how-to-live list in The New York Times
Learning from others’ mistakes: Janet Habenicht grew up by the Rockies in Montana. And when she first moved to Spokane, she used to say she missed the mountains. Almost invariably, someone would point out Mount Spokane, to which she would respond “That hill?”
The remark did not go over well.
Bonner, Boundary and Benewah are next: Rhonda Ellis of Post Falls has a neighbor with dogs named Kootenai and Shoshone.
Body count: Last year was the first Bloomsday for Hope, Idaho’s Darlene Ponack. And about 15 minutes from the finish, she figured out why everyone wore the large identification tags. “To make it easier for race officials to notify next of kin,” she wrote.
She’s doing it again this year.
From a press release: “A recent study conducted by the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago concluded that the smell of lavender and pumpkin pie has a direct effect on sexual arousal.”
Continuing education: Call (509) 235-5880 to find out about an Eastern Washington University course called “New Perspectives on the American West.” Phone (509) 359-2268 for registration information.
Today’s Slice question: What movie would your parents not let you go see when you were a kid?
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