Ann Landers Died

[Daoloth]

Rest in peace.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/22/obit.landers.ap/index.html

[Baker]

I'm really sorry to hear this. No matter what jokes I have heard about her, here and in other places, she did the best she could with her advice. She was big enough to say she had made mistakes and apologize for them. That takes guts. Truly, may she rest in peace.

[Zyada]

I am sorry to hear about this as well. She never quite kept up with the times, but I learnes a lot about human nature from her and her sister.

[Tedster]

Not to speak ill of the dead, but many of her columns seemed curiously manufactured (fake) and held to a strict PC line. Just what, exactly, were her supposed qualifications to dispense advice anyway?

[Minor Irritant]

I'm sorry to see that. She always seemed like a nice lady.

The CNN article indicates that she took over from the original Ann Landers, who died. Does that mean that someone else will take up the name, a la the Dread Pirate Robarts?

[Flamsterette_X]

I'm very sorry to hear that. She seemed like a very nice lady. I've been reading her columns since I was about ten or so. Definitely learned a lot about human nature, as Zyada said.

Rest in peace.

F_X

[Speaker for the Dead]

Tedster she never claimed to be qualified to do anything, as far as I know. We all give advice, she just gave it on a wider scale.

Rest in Peace.

[Hazel]

RIP.

I've always enjoyed advice columns, hers and others.

[gobear]

I guess those lashings with a wet noodle took their toll.

[AskNott]

Ann Landers lent me her soapbox once. I had written a piece about holiday depression for a local newsletter, and inside of a year the Xerox effect had a few hundred copies in circulation. I sent it to her with permission to use it, "before somebody tells you her Uncle Norman wrote it." She graciously ran it in her column around the world.

[pravnik]

Originally posted by Minor Irritant
I'm sorry to see that. She always seemed like a nice lady.

The CNN article indicates that she took over from the original Ann Landers, who died. Does that mean that someone else will take up the name, a la the Dread Pirate Robarts?

I'm not certain, but I believe so; her daughter. Either she or her sister were grooming a daughter for the job.

[Scarlett67]

Not Ann. The article on the Chicago Tribune site says the column dies with her, per her request. Abby is already co-writing the column with her daughter Jeanne Phillips; Jeanne was the one who blew the whistle on the pedophile who wrote to Dear Abby.

[pravnik]

That's right. For some reason I was thinking Abby died, even though everyone clearly said otherwise. Where's my head tonight?

[Mockingbird]

Boy... It has to be hard for Abby. Harder because they are twins.

[d12]

Poor gentle old woman. I've enjoyed her writings.

btw minor nitpick, her twins name isn't Abby. It's Pauline.

[astorian]

Ann Landers dead?

Oh no... who's going to reprint "Please God, I'm Only 17" every other day, now?

[astorian]

Gasp... worse still, where am I going to read all those wonderful, touching reminiscences of how Granny met Granddad at the USO during the war?

[Scarlett67]

d12, I'm pretty sure most if not all of us know that "Abby" is her twin's pen name. Not really a bona fide nitpick there; it's just easier to call them Ann and Abby (their "public" names) than Esther/Eppie and Pauline/PoPo, and try to remember which is which (and which one is dead). OK?

[jackelope]

I've been reading Ann and her sister as long as I've been able to read (about 30 years).

I was at work (at the newspaper) when I found out she'd died, and I was deeply saddened by the news. Within an hour of finding out, though, an ex-girlfriend (one with whom I'd spent many mornings reading the newspaper) called to see if I were OK. Somehow that helped a lot, in that I hope Ann's sensible advice had something to do with my still being on good terms with my ex. Maybe yes, maybe no, but I can say without hesitation that she has been a positive influence on this Generation Xer.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

[Rilchiam]

Originally posted by astorian
Gasp... worse still, where am I going to read all those wonderful, touching reminiscences of how Granny met Granddad at the USO during the war?

Did Ann do the "how we met" stories? Or was that Abby? Or did they both print them?

[LolaCocaCola]

RIP





(Isn't this about the time the Death Pool thread gets bumped?)

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

She did great things. A lot of her stuff now seems quaint and old-fashioned, but it was ground-breaking in her time, and impacted on many many people in a positive way.

[ivylass]

Dammit, am I ever going to learn which forum to post? I started one in Cafe Society, then got told, no, silly, there's already one going in MPSIMS.

My newspaper ran her regular column today, even though her death was front page news. I thought that was a bit inappropriate.

So, are deaths, even ones about celebrities, posted here or in Cafe Society?

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

Who called you silly, ivylass? I'll give them such a slap!

[ivylass]

Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan
Who called you silly, ivylass? I'll give them such a slap!


Thanks, Qadgop, my hero, but I paraphrased. The reply in Cafe Society to my Ann Landers thread was very matter of fact, but I felt like Smackie.:smack: through no fault of theirs, of course.

[ivylass]

Okay, now I really feel stupid, QtM. I shall now administer a smack upside my own head.:smack::smack::smack:

[cornflakes]

Originally posted by astorian
Gasp... worse still, where am I going to read all those wonderful, touching reminiscences of how Granny met Granddad at the USO during the war? Dan Savage (http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0035/savage.php), but the stories have changed with the times.

Seriously, I think it's neat that our basic values can hold constant across generations. Her advice was always plain, but 99% of everything we do is really basic stuff.

RIP Ann, we'll miss 'ya.