there's some glurge in the bucket, Dear Abby, Dear Abby...

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I’m sorry, but this just had to be brought to the boards to yell at.

Check out the second letter.

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/viewda.cfm?uc_full_date=20011107&uc_comic=da&uc_daction=X

“I never thought this could happen to me”
?
?!
!?!
What is this? The penthouse forum?
I mean, you picked up a damn penny that had a particular YEAR on it. Not a day, not a month, a year. There was a fairly good chance you’re gonna pick that one up eventually.

I shouldn’t make fun of this. It’s a damn miracle! These things don’t happen every day, do they? Praise the lord.

Oh, and what the hell is Abby doing with her daughter in the picture? Is it a strip tease?

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FTR, I had to play with the link to get it to work.

Maybe it’s really…the penny from HELL!!!

<insert maniacal laughter here>

Thanks for THAT image, Ender. :eek:

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yeah, I don’t get why the link didn’t work. vB put those URLs in and purposely screwed up the coding. Maybe they hate Dear Abby as much as I do.

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I want to know why, if her dead brother was so significant to her, she didn’t know his birthday!

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Hold on a minute. Glurgy Letter Writer Woman writes:

But then, she also writes:

You know he was a senior in 1974. Ok, GLWW, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, because even though most seniors are 18 when they graduate, I realize some aren’t, so you can’t solidly know the year of his birth from that.

But then, GLWW, you say:

If your mom is alive, you can ask her when he was born.

Sheesh.

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Oh. My. Gawd. What a total piece of garbage. People really fall for this shite? She doesn’t know the year her own brother was born? She had to hide a family keepsake from her husband and her parents?

::guffaw… guffaw… choke…::

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Seriously, that letter can’t be real. She was 13 when he died at anywhere between 17 and 19 years of age. She has no clue when he was born? She has NO other keepsakes of him?

Fess up. Which one of you guys wrote this thing?

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My EYES! THEY BURN!

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And then abby gets paid for this shit, what a godDAMN waste!

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Well, there are plenty of other things she could associate with her brother, just because they happened in 1974…

Barry Manilow recorded “Mandy!”

Top 10 singles:
“The Way We Were” - Barbra Streisand
“Come And Get Your Love” - Redbone
“Seasons In The Sun” - Terry Jacks
“Show And Tell” - Al Wilson
“Love’s Theme” - The Love Unlimited Orchestra
“The Loco-motion” - Grand Funk
“Bennie And The Jets” - Elton John
“You Make Me Feel Brand New” - The Stylistics
“Sunshine On My Shoulders” - John Denver
“T.S.O.P. (The Sound Of Philadelphia)” - MFSB featuring The Three Degrees

Some of the Top Movies:
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Chinatown
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Airport 1975
The Godfather, Part II
Murder on the Orient Express
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Phantom of the Paradise

Imagine if she had to tear up every time somebody made a Holy Grail reference…

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I read that yesterday and thought there were a few holes in the story myself.

Abby’s daughter now helps Abby write the column. Abby and Ann Landers are now well into their 80’s.