The Slice Local Bands - Get Real!
We’d like to see an Inland Northwest band produce a music video featuring the following scene:
It’s spring/summer. A young man and a young woman are in a fastmoving car. The windows are rolled down. The radio is cranked way up. And, thanks to seasonal allergies, their eyes and noses are running like faucets.
Left-handed: Ritzville’s Nancy and Tony Burke are both left-handed. But their three sons are all right-handed. Then four granddaughters proved to be right-handed, too. Finally, they got a grandson lefty.
And Elaine Smith wrote, “Per capita, we must have a record number of left-handed couples here in the Twin Lakes Village community between Rathdrum and Spirit Lake. There are three such couples and all are golfers.”
Employers with the most married couples on their payrolls: “I’d like to submit my ballot for Holy Names Music Center at Fort Wright, which employs four sets of married couples,” wrote Lisa Williams. “They are: Brian Haight (violin teacher) and Beth Haight (piano teacher), Tracy Dunlop (violin teacher) and Cameron Dunlop (trombone teacher and custodian), Eugene Jablonsky (bass teacher) and Melanie Jablonsky (early childhood music teacher), and last, but certainly not least, Garnik Goukasian (violin teacher) and his wife, Mariana Dimitrova (donates her time as a theory teacher).”
Most photographed baby: Julie Smith sent a picture of her black and brown puppy, Kuma. This mixed-breed dog has been the dominant theme of 32 rolls of film so far.
“A couple of the clerks in the photo department at Pay Less in Lincoln Heights know me by name and just pull out the envelope of pictures when they see me coming,” said Smith. “Good thing I don’t own a video camera, too.”
Men behaving badly: After we asked about memorable driver’s exams, a reader wrote that in the 1950s, in Cheney, there was an examiner who almost always failed attractive women so they would have to come back and try again.
Chess is one thing: But we’d like to see a computer read a storybook to little kids and handle their mind-boggling questions.
Today’s Slice question: How do you feel about parents giving their newborns standard-sounding first names but then getting “creative” when it comes to spelling those names?
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