Advice Column facts
While investigating facts about Advice Columns and Advice Columnists, I found out little known, but curios details like:
When author, journalist, and LGBT activist Dan Savage began writing his advice column pertaining to homosexuality, he urged his editors to let him name it "Hey, Faggot!" so he could reclaim the hate word.
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Advice columns date back to at least 1690. The article linked contains some gems of questions, such as, "Dancing, is it lawful?"
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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what does an advice column look like. Here are 8 of the best facts about Advice Columns Dear Abby and Advice Column Query Crossword Clue I managed to collect.
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In British English, the person writing advice columns in a newspaper is called an "agony aunt"
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For nearly 50 years the advice columns Dear Abby and Ask Ann Landers were written by twin sisters Esther Pauline "Eppie" Friedman and Pauline Esther "Popo" Friedman
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In his early 20’s MLK Jr. had an advice column in Ebony magazine
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The most responded to subject in the Ask Ann Landers advice column's history is whether toilet paper should hang over or under.
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Molly Ringwald has a relationship advice column
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The term "pegging" (when a woman wears a strap on to perform anal sex) originated from Dan Savage's advice column, Savage Love, asking readers to vote on a name for the practice in 2001. Runner-ups were "bob" and "punt".
