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"RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by DearAbby on 01-17-13 at 03:52 PM
Pauline Friedman Phillips, who wrote under the name of Abigail Van Buren in the original "Dear Abby" advice column, dies at 94.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/01/17/dear-abby-advice-columnist-obit/1842601/


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"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by agman on 01-17-13 at 03:54 PM
Rip Dear Abby
"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by cahaya on 01-17-13 at 04:02 PM
And who else to post this obit other than DearAbby herself!

I started reading her column as a young paper boy and read it diligently for years.

Most advice made sense, some of it seemed impractical.

Rest in peace, Abby.

"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by tribephyl on 01-17-13 at 04:02 PM
Now, the name is YOUR alone. Which is good because I've NEVER taken advise from the other one.
"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by agman on 01-17-13 at 04:35 PM
I feel the same way. I have(had) an aunt who used to think she was Dear Abby and word her advice the way DA did and even take some of that advice and act like it was hers.
"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by kingfish on 01-17-13 at 04:47 PM
Congratulations to you on your inheritance, and RIP Pauline.

Dear Abby, by John Prine:

Dear Abby, Dear Abby ...
My feet are too long,
My hair's falling out and my rights are all wrong,
My friends they all tell me that I've no friends at all,
Won't you write me a letter, won't you give me a call.
Signed.... Bewildered.

{Reply}
Bewildered, bewildered...
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't,
So listen up buster, and listen up good,
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood.

Dear Abby, Dear Abby...
My fountain pen leaks
My wife hollers at me and my kids are all freaks,
Every side I get up on is the wrong side of bed,
If it weren't so expensive I'd wish I were dead,
Signed.... Unhappy.

{Reply}
Unhappy, unhappy...
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't,
So listen up buster, and listen up good,
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood.

Dear Abby, Dear Abby...
You won't believe this,
But my stomach makes noises whenever I kiss,
My girlfriend tells me it's all in my head,
But my stomach tells me to write you instead,
Signed.....Noise-maker .

{Reply}
Noise-maker, noise-maker
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't,
So listen up buster, and listen up good,
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood.

Dear Abby, Dear Abby...
Well I never thought,
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught,
We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze,
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees,
Signed... Just married.

{Reply}
Just married, just married...
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't,
So listen up buster, and listen up good,
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood.

"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by byoffer on 01-17-13 at 05:06 PM
Well as long as it is the fake Dear Abby and not our real one.
"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 01-17-13 at 06:57 PM
It takes a special talent to be able to post your own obit thread.
"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by agman on 01-17-13 at 09:11 PM
You'd need to be a ghost writer!


"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by SOAR64 on 01-17-13 at 05:25 PM
Who could ever forget her performance in 1964 on the "Mister Ed" TV show. "A horse is a horse of course of course."
"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by agman on 01-17-13 at 09:10 PM
I was a little too young for that.

"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by Molaholic on 01-18-13 at 12:57 PM
Who could ever forget her performance in 1964 on the "Mister Ed" TV show. "A horse is a horse of course of course."

Best thing in that show, Mr. Ed was a devoted Dodger fan. (I wish I could pull up the scene where he tries out for the team -- hits an inside the park homerun off Sandy Koufax.)


RIP Dear Abby

"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by jbug on 01-17-13 at 08:25 PM
RIP D' Abby.

Wonder how many others besides me thought of our own DA when we heard this news.

"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by agman on 01-17-13 at 09:10 PM
My heart sank for just a second then I realized she wrote the post so it couldn't be her.


"RE: RIP Abigail Van Buren"
Posted by jbug on 01-17-13 at 09:57 PM
I didn't mean I thought our Dear Abby died! I meant I just thought of her!


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