# Ann Landers Died **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516 "2002-06-23T01:13:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516/21 "2002-06-23T12:26:21Z")
RIP (Isn’t this about the time the Death Pool thread gets bumped?) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516/22 "2002-06-23T13:03:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516/23 "2002-06-23T13:37:25Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516/24 "2002-06-23T13:54:20Z")
Who called you silly, **ivylass**? I’ll give them such a slap! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516/25 "2002-06-23T14:19:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516/26 "2002-06-23T14:26:19Z")
Okay, now I really feel stupid, QtM. I shall now administer a smack upside my own head.:smack::smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516/27 "2002-06-23T15:05:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ann-landers-died/115516.md?page=1)