Dear Abby

          I heard he hates it when you sing, Hello Dolly.    Camels will spit.

I think I've been waiting my whole life for a Fischer movie...starring Spiderman, of course.

Rule #1.

Dear Abby,

I hope you can give me some contructive advice here, because I'm in a bind and don't know which way to turn.

You see last summer my girlfriend and I went camping with a bunch of friends.  We all took a week off from work and decided to take the old rv up to Oregon's Crater Lake.  A beautiful lake and the weather was very cold, we all slept comfortably in the Winnebago, but that's not the concern here.  You see I kind of cheated on my girlfriend but it's not what you think.

I couldn't sleep the second night so I decided to take a walk.  Right away I heard some very strange noises and howls.  There there it was standing right on the trail ahead, it was a huge wild creature.  Yes, it was Bigfoot.

I couldn't believe my eyes, it was looking right at me.  Then I noticed that it had well, it was a female Bigfoot!   She was beautiful, and this brings me to my dilemma...I made out with Bigfoot and it was great! 

We spent that night under the stars holding hands and brushing each other.  We exchanged digits and I went back to the rv.  I was in love!

Now my question to you is, is this considered cheating? 

Please respond honestly.

Signed Baffled in Bigfoot country.

         You CAN marry bigfoot because Dear Abby died a few yrs back.

Batgirl, thanks for posting that! I had no idea Abby had ever discussed chess! I miss her advice column... she was a lot better than the current person (at least in my local paper)

 Women are just as capable as men of defending themselves, they don't need to be molly-coddled by (mostly unattached) male chess players, attack them at will!

I live an hour's drive away from Crater Lake... and I've done a 50 mile hike to there via the Pacific Crest Trail before. Lots of strange noises in the Seven Lakes Basin... so you never know if Bigfoot is real and just a really good trickster! There is even a local legend about that particular region. 

Funny article, Batgirl... How in the world do you find all this?? And I must say Anand is taken, but Carlsen is free LOL

How come Abby only discusses openings these days?

http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#The%20Openings%20Explained

(The Openings Explained) column. It won't let me link directly. 

There is no such thing as a female bigfoot. But in any case we are not judging you. 

All a woman needs is speed and a man who can drive fast enough!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYJ4SBxbiQ

:o)

Try telling that to the psychiatrist who took his family to the Oregon Caves, and upon exiting the cave tour and walking down the trail to return to the parking lot SWEARS he saw a bigfoot. He quit his job as a psychiatrist and founded a Bigfoot research team, and has been devoting most of his time and money to searching the wilderness surrounding the Oregon Caves ever since! I don't personally believe in them, but I also don't deny the possibility they are out there and are simply excellent at remaining out of sight. And hey, it never hurts to keep an open mind! It's bizarre, though, to see a psychiatrist seemingly lose his mind over the Bigfoot myth..

nice. Dear Abby was a part of my childhood. 

Now, at least in my paper, it's a lady who pales in comparison to Abby in terms of not only the letters she responds to but also the advice she offers them.

I'm pretty sure that lady is her daughter

"... a decent, eligible man"

"... usually of good character"

"... 95% [...] do not smoke, and I have never met one who abuses alcohol or drugs"

She must have been in her church's chess club.

I didn't know this was a union shop.

Is this really a discussion thread about Bigfoot, @Batgirl, and Union Shops?

Wowie.