# Carolyn Hax's holiday chat

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carolyn-haxs-holiday-chat/643330>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 7, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carolyn-haxs-holiday-chat/643330 "2012-12-07T19:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carolyn-haxs-holiday-chat/643330/1 "2012-12-07T19:18:00Z")

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Carolyn Hax is the advice columnist at the Washington Post, and she does a live chat with readers every Friday. Once a year, she devotes a chat to Holiday Horrors, some comical, some tragic. This year’s is going on [today](http://live.washingtonpost.com/carolyn-hax-live-120712.html), and it’s worth reading in its entirety. Sample:

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> Get that man a drink!
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> My husband’s grandmother was having a party at her home, back in the day when cocktail parties were very popular. Her brother-in-law Richard, known to his nieces and nephews as “Uncle Dick,” was invited to the party. Nana apparently had been enjoying her cocktails quite a bit already when she noticed that her brother-in-law had arrived. And so she shouted across the room “Someone get Uncle Drink a dick.” To the family’s credit, Richard was known as “Uncle Drink” from that moment on.  
> Carolyn Hax :
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> I’ll dick to that.