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Topic: Report: ´Dear Abby´ dies at 94 |
Report: ´Dear Abby´ dies at 94
Houston Chronicle, by Staff
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/17/2013 1:50:50 PM
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| TMZ.com is reporting that Pauline Phillips, the creator of the "Dear Abby" advice column, died yesterday at the age of 94. Phillips retired in 2002 and was diagnosed with Alzheimer´s disease. Her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, took over the column. We will provide more information as it becomes available. Phillips´ Wikipedia entry has already been changed to reflect the death. The "Dear Abby" column started in the mid-1950s in The San Francisco Chronicle. Jeanne Phillips had been helping her mother with the column since she was a teenager, she told the newspaper in 2008.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 1/17/2013 2:16:50 PM (No. 9122463)
Many years ago, I read a book called "Eppie and Popo" (or something similar) about Ann Landers and Dear Abby´s growing up years as twin sisters. Their names were Esther Pauline and Pauline Esther and they had a double wedding. The book was pretty interesting.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/17/2013 2:18:12 PM (No. 9122468)
I grew up reading Dear Abby and Ann Landers. As a teen it was one of the first things I read when I got my hands on the newspaper. I learned a lot. Didn´t always agree with them but they were quite a pair. RIP I know Ann was waiting for her on the other sides. Twins together at last.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SouthSanAntonio, 1/17/2013 2:34:12 PM (No. 9122512)
She wrote a horrible column once supporting a homosexual man who deserted his wife of many years, and his children, to go live with his sodomite playtoy.
She said the family should forgive him, and include him and his sodomite playtoy in their family events, because he was just being ´´true to himself´´.
Forget all the emotional damage he did through his selfish actions and lies to his children and wife. As long as he was getting good sodomy, nothing else mattered.
I lost all respect for her, and never read her dribble again, after that.
Not a kind word for this hag, so I´ll shut up now...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Penney, 1/17/2013 3:05:34 PM (No. 9122589)
Better to read the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament. It never fails.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pomom, 1/17/2013 4:12:02 PM (No. 9122687)
She and her twin sis had a good run at the advice column gig. Rest in peace.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq, 1/17/2013 4:45:00 PM (No. 9122741)
Does anyone really think she was writing the answers for the last 10-20 years? Secular wisdom, for the most part.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/17/2013 4:58:25 PM (No. 9122770)
#3, most likely that was one written by her daughter in later years. Still, I can´t say that the advice was completely off. The man may have truly been gay all his life and had suffered for it. Just because someone is gay and tries to hide it by getting married doesn´t make that person a bad person even if he/she finally comes to terms with his/her difference. You don´t understand because you don´t believe that people are made that way. You think it is simply a choice. But it isn´t for most people.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
john56, 1/17/2013 5:12:02 PM (No. 9122790)
RIP, Dear Abby. Say hi to your twin sister, Ann Landers (Eppie).
Noticed this report on MSN.com ... clicked to the article ... on NBC News/TODAY show.
They mentioned that the twins had a July 4th birthday (just like my twin sister and I)... but what got me was the photo and caption at the bottom:
"From a president to a poet, several prominent Americans — including the advice columnists known as Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers — have shared their birthday with that of the nation."
I believe President Coolidge was born on July 4th (I know both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, fifty years after the Declaration of Independence).
But guess whose picture was above this caption ... none other than our Dear Leader(US), may his name be praised and his word be law ... Barack Hussein Obama (along with one of his lovely and well-guarded daughters). And his birth date, where ever it was, wasn´t July the Fourth.
The bum is everywhere.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
john56, 1/17/2013 5:12:48 PM (No. 9122791)
Link to NBC/Today report with Dear Leader(US)´s picture:
http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/01/17/16568353-dear-abby-columnist-pauline-phillips-dies-at-94?lite
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SouthSanAntonio, 1/17/2013 6:43:27 PM (No. 9122970)
No, #8, he made a committment to his wife. He left is wife and children to go satisfy his selfish sexual desires. Period.
I don´t care if he woke up one day and truly discovered that he was a sodomite. It doesn´t matter.
Or if a guy leaves his wife of 25 years, and his three kids, to shack up with his 25 year old secretary because he truly ´´loves her´´ and ´´never really loved his wife´´, I guess that is OK in your book too? I mean, he´s just being ´´true to himself´´!
No, once we make vows, we stick with them no matter what changes in our personal feelings and desires. That is what being a responsible adult is. And when there are minor children involved, and we put our perverse sexual desires over what is best for our children, that is truly disgusting beyond words!!!
I am so sick of sodomites getting ´´special consideration´´ because of their perverse and sick desires.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/17/2013 8:49:53 PM (No. 9123204)
RIP
Not to worry. With all of the experts today, no one needs advice. You are free to go.
Not sure if it was Abbey or her sister Ann´s column, but I have used this saying many times: Anything I can´t do tomorrow, I can´t do today. Made many a salesperson´s head explode.
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