Slip-sliding away

Published 8:59 pm Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Slip-sliding away

Look on the bright side: With roads still treacherous with ice and snow, auto body shops in Snohomish County have geared up for the parade of crumpled fenders and shattered tail lights that are sure to follow.

Think of it this way: That’s not a $500 check you just wrote for the deductible; it’s a flat-screen TV for your mechanic.

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Here she is, Miss Demeanor: Former Miss USA Rima Fakih, a Michigan beauty queen who won the pageant in 2010, will stand trial in March for a drunken-driving citation. Fakih, who denies she was drinking, was stopped Dec. 3, and twice blew two times the .08 legal limit for blood-alcohol content.

For the talent portion of her arrest, the former Miss USA, attempted to walk a straight line and held her arms out and then tried to touch her nose.

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That’s what the opposable thumb is for: Several reports were called into the Snohomish County Sheriff of a gorilla seen hitchhiking on U.S. 2 at the Pilchuck River bridge near Snohomish, 25 years ago today. A two-hour search turned up no trace of the gorilla.

This report has nothing to do with the January night in 1987 that we ran out of gas and we were wearing our new puffy angora parka.

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