Personally, I have no problem with threads like this. Jerkoffs should have bright lights shone on them so we can all have a laugh at the errors of their ways.
That's all I'm sayin'.
Seems Odd to Me *blink*
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That's all I'm sayin'.
You know what's really strange about this? That people still write letters to Miss Manners. What do they do after they mail the letter, gather 'round the radio and listen to Amos 'n Andy? Head down to the General Store to get new "head-lanterns" for their Model T Horseless Carriage? Seriously, what qualifies this person to give advice except that she has her own newspaper column (which is kind of like owning a dial-up ISP these days) and refers to herself in the third person?
One of my dream jobs is to write an advice column, so I can get paid to give bad advice to stupid people. Here would be my response to the letter quoted in the OP:
Gentle Reader,
Miss Manners is a little surprised at your concern for your son's 'wild lifestyle', especially considering the stuff you and your husband do on 'roleplaying night'. Whose idea was it for your to dress up as Mr. T and give your him a prostate exam with the largest plastic appliance Miss Manners has ever seen, anyway?
My advice to you is to go take a vacation to Mexico, and be sure to drink the water! Those people who say otherwise are just trying to keep you from having a good time. Oh, and tell your husband to stop dressing up as Jessica Rabbit on your roleplaying nights. It's making Miss Manners nauseous.
One of my dream jobs is to write an advice column, so I can get paid to give bad advice to stupid people. Here would be my response to the letter quoted in the OP:
Gentle Reader,
Miss Manners is a little surprised at your concern for your son's 'wild lifestyle', especially considering the stuff you and your husband do on 'roleplaying night'. Whose idea was it for your to dress up as Mr. T and give your him a prostate exam with the largest plastic appliance Miss Manners has ever seen, anyway?
My advice to you is to go take a vacation to Mexico, and be sure to drink the water! Those people who say otherwise are just trying to keep you from having a good time. Oh, and tell your husband to stop dressing up as Jessica Rabbit on your roleplaying nights. It's making Miss Manners nauseous.
Probably very few people send letters to her at all. I think it is highly likely she, or her staff, write the problems themselves.
MM (the columnist, for those of you who have been around the boards for a while 
) normally takes her advise on manners based on centuries of tradition. She's not, generally speaking, an advice columnist so much as a reference guide for antiquated ideas of what is proper based on Victorian standards.
Abby and Margo are you advice columnists that base said advice on... well, nothing.
) normally takes her advise on manners based on centuries of tradition. She's not, generally speaking, an advice columnist so much as a reference guide for antiquated ideas of what is proper based on Victorian standards.Abby and Margo are you advice columnists that base said advice on... well, nothing.
"Oh, I can't wait to see what advice Miss Manners gives me about our son's concubine whore of a live-in slut coat-tail rider! Let's see she'll get the letter in three days, a day or two for her to respond.... We should get her answer in the paper in about two weeks! Wow! I wonder if we can pay more and get the Pony Express to step up its game a bit and get it there sooner?"
MM accepts emails as well. That cuts it down to two weeks...
I was going to say, if he lives in SF, she's probably not his "girlfriend", if you follow me.
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