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From: linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: The snoping of the Landers-babe
Date: 18 May 1994 18:43:19 GMT

snopes's recent trolling of batty old Ann Landers is a spectacular triumph for him and for AFU in general.

Landers has become a very wary quarry since I exposed the hoax of her claims about continual ragging from Yale University. (She used to claim all the time that she was particularly targetted by Yale students, but could always spot their fake letters. She was wrong on both counts).

In Ann's column on Monday June 29 1992, a reader wrote in, claiming to have been a victim of the old chocolate chip cookie recipe two-fifty charge. Ann branded the letter a hoax, and warned her readers against spreading urban legends such as this, or the old P&G/Satan rumor.

On the other hand, I successfully trolled Ann Landers into *actually* *trying* a mixture of lard and sugar as a soap substitute (printed in the old bird's column on July 14 1989. (Little gator on AFU was driven to try it herself too, in case it really did work, and I recommend that everyone reading this also put it to the test.)

Sadly, I had no answer when I wrote to Ann asking her advice on a family problem, but describing her own circumstances as though they were mine...

Dear Ann, 

     My own sister runs a counselling service that competes with my
     own business.  To top it off, she says mean things about me
     behind my back!
     I have stopped speaking to her.

     Should I swallow my pride and make up with her?
     I feel such an old phoney; people come to me for wisdom and I can't
     even work out my own family problems.   What's your advice?

No answer!
Despite Ann's oft-repeated claim that every letter is answered, on this occasion answer came there none.


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