Dear Abby promotes threesome

[Double J]

She just wants them to play golf. Nothing more, nothing less.

"He was night putting. Just putting at night......with the 15-year-old daughter of the dean. And her lesbian friend."

 

[Captain_Kirk]

She could have added that they all could enjoy an orgy of food and drink at the prom.

 

[outofplace]

Is the columnist out of touch about what most people think of when they hear the word "threesome" or is she trying to be clever?

It's neither. Why does the word threesome have to always involve sex?

Because that is exactly what many people think of when they hear it or read it. That's how language works. You may not like the meaning people take from a given word, but that doesn't change the fact that they will take it that way.

 

[HanSenSE]

She just wants them to play golf. Nothing more, nothing less.

"He was night putting. Just putting at night......with the 15-year-old daughter of the dean. And her lesbian friend."

It could bring new meaning to "hole in one."

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Every single time, he shoots in the rough

 

[TigerVols]

Dear Penthouse. Umm, I mean Abby,

I never thought this would happen to me...

 

[Double Down]

Dan Savage, who purchased the original Dear Abby's desk at auction and writes his Savage Love columns on it for inspiration, approves.

 

[Deeper_Background]

As Bill Clinton once said during a break in the Paula Jones deposition... 'Eatin' aint cheatin!!'

 

[Sic semper tyrannis]

Is the columnist out of touch about what most people think of when they hear the word "threesome" or is she trying to be clever?

It's neither. Why does the word threesome have to always involve sex?

It doesn't, but in this case it was poor word choice.

Threesome has been co-opted, as gay has been for a 70 or so years. Abby might have used "trio" as a better choice

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Serious reply time: I think the context makes it fairly plain that the threesome wouldn't be sexual. Unless she intended to advise them to have a menage a trois on the dance floor. Or the prom band is really a collection of porno soundtracks.

 

[Ace]

That's terrible advice by Abby. She should have said that they needed to invite a fourth to videotape the evening.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I think a prom threesome is one hell of an idea.

Dirk Diggler
Hollywood, Calif.