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Dr Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered in L.A.
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| 12/20/02
| DAN WHITCOMB
Posted on 12/20/2002 4:40:59 PM PST by Minutemen
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To: Bluntpoint
Just because you are used to death doesn't excuse jokes about people who were murdered.
To: Bluntpoint
I myself like to sneak in commas wherever I can. I'm a regular comma chameleon.
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posted on
12/21/2002 12:17:57 PM PST
by
strela
To: John Lenin
Yeah. I am sure you never resort to "black humor."
Is there anything else off limits, sir?
God knows I don't to offend you.
To: strela
Comma, comma, comma chameleon. Is that you Boy George?
To: Bluntpoint
You should quit while you are only a little behind.
Black humor ? Is that code words for racism ?
To: John Lenin
You are joking, right?
To: Bluntpoint
You gave your motivations away with that Boy George comment. Go find a a bathhouse and clean the shame off your face.
LOL
To: John Lenin
Having a bad day?
Is your life suitable for an entire novel of black humor?
The novels of such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth contain elements of black humor.
Too bad they had not encountered you.
What a rich resourse you would be?
To: martin_fierro
YO' MUMMY! <|:)~ I didn't think posting #3 could be topped.
I was wrong.
That's really funny.
To: Bluntpoint
I'm not into black humor and I'm not into reading novels. Black humor is for darkside people, I'm on the lightside and prefer to look at the 'good' in life.
To: John Lenin
Me too. That is why i try to find humor in everything I possible can.
I am not a hand wringer.
I would like to think God has a great sense of humor. In fact, humor could only be a gift from God.
To: Minutemen; All
Here's an excerpt about her relationship with her mother from the
Vanity Fair article about Dr. Laura:
Schlessinger's official life story is studded with odd conflicts and critical omissions. She grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island, the daughter of Monroe Schlessinger, a Jewish civil engineer, and his Italian war bride, Yolanda Ceccovini. Laura's hostility toward mixed relationships has primal roots; when her parents married, her father's family reacted poisonously because Yolanda wasn't Jewish. "Every member of his family cut him off and would have nothing further to do with him from 1945 on," says Ballance, who knew both Yolanda and Monty. Laura and her sister, Cyndi, were raised in a home where there seemed to be little love. "She was brought up in a quarrelsome family, so her idea of human communications is shouting, screaming, bellowing, and screeching," says Ballance. The Schlessingers eventually divorced, and Monty died of stomach cancer in 1990. Some of Laura's intimates didn't even know that she had a sister. "She always told me she was an only child," says Shelly Herman.
Schlessinger has been estranged from her sister, who is a marriage and family counselor, apparently since the 1970s. Her friends don't know why. When Ballance, who actually met Cyndi before the rift, asked Laura about it, she just said, "Oh, she's so much prettier than I am!" Laura's own attractiveness has always been an extremely sore subject. "Her daddy told her she was ugly when she was little," explains Herman. Laura, who had brown hair and big glasses back then, remembers this assessment as totally devastating.
Although Schlessinger admonishes her callers to mend family rifts, she hasn't seen her own mother in 14 years. The rupture amazed her friends, who say that Laura's mother was devoted to her. "Laura is a very needy person, and her mother was instrumental in helping her function on a daily basis," explains Herman. "Her mother lived for Laura and would have done anything for her."
Schlessinger claims that her mother walked out on her job as her secretary after Laura suggested she learn to type. "She just evaporated." Laura told People magazine four years ago, in an interview in which she also described her mother as "filled with negativity.....She blamed everyone for her unhappiness." But back in 1984, Schlessinger explained the breach somewhat differently: "I retired my mother from my office," she said in a letter to Ballance. These days Schlessinger refuses to talk about her family at all, insisting that gossip is against her religion.
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posted on
12/21/2002 12:53:38 PM PST
by
Artist
To: Minutemen
I still don't comprehend why this is big news.(other than the name)She cut everyone off and died alone.People die alone regularly on this planet.
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posted on
12/21/2002 1:13:12 PM PST
by
Pagey
To: strela
Oh... and I suppose teaching a child in the way that it should go is the same as two adults who have went different ways in life is a MEANINGFUL COMPARISON??? WHAT WORLD DO YOU LIVE IN... I am grateful I am not part of it.
To: strela
And still, I want to know how you feel that Dr. Laura has personally passed judgment on you?
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To: AllSmiles
had a guy who must have been a mooderator put my thread in such a mode that only I and he and three of his buddies could see it recently. I figure he was a moderator because he cracked my password, showed me he'd done it and then threatened to make "real trouble" for me if I didn''t give up the thread. Despite the laugh I got from the "real trouble" remark, it cast a very sour shadow over the entire board here, in my opinion. Ha ha, ahahaha ha HA HA HA! You sir, are a complete moron.
To: strela
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posted on
12/21/2002 4:13:30 PM PST
by
is_is
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