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Dear Abby
by Steve Slavin

Dear Abby was the most widely read and longest running advice column ever written.
Here is how Abigail Van Buren might have responded to anxious New Yorkers who found themselves on the cutting edge of the Sexual Revolution in the late 1960s.

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DEAR ABBY:

A woman never pays on a date? Right? That’s the way I was brought up. So let me ask you: on a date, should a woman ever agree to go Dutch?

DEAR DUTCH-TREATER:

Only if she has no intention of sleeping with her date. These are the sixties, honey! Better to be known as a “sleep-around” than a “gold-digger.” No one respects a “gold-digger.”

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DEAR ABBY:

Is a girl who goes to a guy’s house for dinner obligated to sleep with him?

DEAR DINNER GUEST:

Are you going there for the cooking? Seriously, sweetie, if you aren’t, you’ll certainly make a bad impression.

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DEAR ABBY:

Over the last few weeks I’ve had three women over for dinner. But none of them slept with me. What should I do to get better results?

DEAR COOK:

You must be quite a cook! My advice: Don’t feed them until they’ve paid for their meal.

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DEAR ABBY:

I’ve gone out with this guy a couple of times, but I’m not that attracted to him. When should I sleep with him?

DEAR NOT-THAT-ATTRACTED:

You have been leading him on. Etiquette dictates that a woman should sleep with a man by the second date. If not, you’ll get a bad reputation.

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DEAR ABBY:

I’m sleeping with four different women. Is there anything wrong with that?

DEAR ROMEO:

Wrong with what?

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