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[conuly]

Okay. Is it just me, or are Dear Abby's letters becoming more and more blatantly... um... trollish? I mean, c'mon, the woman found her husband in bed with her brother? And we're expected to believe that the best story they can come up with is "We went out to a bar together, with no designated driver, and both got drugged"?

(And if this is real, which I doubt, let me just say that cheating on your spouse with his/her sibling is low. Just low. And squicky. Like incest, but not.)

I'm exhausted, but I keep coughing and it's hurting my throat, so I'm still up. Ana was sick all day, had a 3+ hour nap, went around all day with bags under her eyes acting like she was hyped up on pixi stix, poor dear. The baby was cranky all day, but thankfully slept for a long time because she, too, is sick, presumably with the same thing that got everybody else. I'm getting horribly dehydrated because I can't breathe through my nose, so I'm mouth-breathing, and anyway it hurts to drink water (though it makes my throat feel better afterwards).

I hate being sick.

Comments

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I have the feeling that people deliberately make up outlandish things to send to Dear Abby to see if she'll answer them.

[noodles-morgyn.livejournal.com]

Two "presumably straight men"? It says that where, exactly?...

[leora.livejournal.com]

Well, in fairness to the person who writes Dear Abbey, they often trim down letters and don't put in all of the information the writer wrote. So, it may have been said somewhere that was cut.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

As much as I giggled at the letter and the magic pill, I was admittedly pleased to see Abby using the bi- word instead of "gay." :-D

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Jeanne Phillips doesn't do as good a job as her mother did, in my opinion.

[conuly]

*nods*

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Apparently you, Connie and I aren't the only ones who feel that way. Both the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun apparently thought she sucked, because they both stopped carrying the Dear Abby column soon after Jeanne took over!

One of them (I forget which) ran several different advice columns, each for three days I think, and then asked readers to vote. Ask Amy (http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/columnists/advice/chi-amydickinson,1,7832674.columnist?coll=chi-leisureadvice-col) won. Amy doesn't have the verve that either Pauline Esther or Esther Pauline had -- Amy's answers are very straightforward, without the vivid flashes of humor and creativity that characterized the twins' responses -- but she's less boring than Jeanne. (Which isn't saying much!) And she doesn't seem to choose nearly as many obviously phony questions.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I have the feeling that people deliberately make up outlandish things to send to Dear Abby to see if she'll answer them.

[noodles-morgyn.livejournal.com]

Two "presumably straight men"? It says that where, exactly?...

[leora.livejournal.com]

Well, in fairness to the person who writes Dear Abbey, they often trim down letters and don't put in all of the information the writer wrote. So, it may have been said somewhere that was cut.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

As much as I giggled at the letter and the magic pill, I was admittedly pleased to see Abby using the bi- word instead of "gay." :-D

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Jeanne Phillips doesn't do as good a job as her mother did, in my opinion.

[conuly]

*nods*

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Apparently you, Connie and I aren't the only ones who feel that way. Both the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun apparently thought she sucked, because they both stopped carrying the Dear Abby column soon after Jeanne took over!

One of them (I forget which) ran several different advice columns, each for three days I think, and then asked readers to vote. Ask Amy (http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/columnists/advice/chi-amydickinson,1,7832674.columnist?coll=chi-leisureadvice-col) won. Amy doesn't have the verve that either Pauline Esther or Esther Pauline had -- Amy's answers are very straightforward, without the vivid flashes of humor and creativity that characterized the twins' responses -- but she's less boring than Jeanne. (Which isn't saying much!) And she doesn't seem to choose nearly as many obviously phony questions.