European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 23 How a dont ask that scrambled word game by Henri Arnold and Mike Argirion dear Abby like thank you in March was annoyed when people greeted me with the How Are you How a Doin which required me to respond to someone who clearly had no interest in a real i understand their feigned interest is More automatic than i make a game of unlike the greeter who blurts out the Saluta Tion without i listen and am prepared with several for How a Doin i not so my wife and oldest son and i just got out of three months in rehab for Peanut butter i was a two Araday Man my boy had it even worse three jars of the hard Crunchy when whats up in inclined to my blood cholesterol and body mass Index Dave in dear Dave Many readers who dear Abby wrote to comment on that letter said they were perplexed at How How Are you has essentially replaced the greeting and they were eager to share the quips they use to answer that rhetorical read on deaf Abby i have an alternative to the answer you gave to thank you that i often in a recovering when some one who knows in in a asks me How in my favorite reply in breathing and sober anything beyond that is another favorite i often use with people who dont know in in a i woke up on this Side of the so i must be doing pretty Well Shirley in Pennsylvania dear Abby i have been having a lot of fun with this response to the How Are you i i cant answer expecting the most people ask me that when i because of the medical privacy act everyone has a Good laugh and is relieved not to have had to listen to a list of my Happy Bob in Ohio dear Abby i Learned some years ago the Power of a positive when an acquaintance asks How i i set the tone for my own Day by in thanks How Are you you know the old fake it til you feel it philosophy that Why i originally started doing but it has paid off for me because i receive positive Energy in re not Only do i actually feel happier after the but its difficult for someone else to respond negatively to your Colleen in port British Columbia letters for this column with your name and phone number should be addressed to dear Box los Angeles Ca readers can write to Abby on the internet at Universal press Syndicate unscramble these four one letter to each to form four Ordinary Tribune Media All rights s whew that till be easier was Tough going Down when the cycuer5 completed the Hill now arrange the circled letters to form the Surprise As suggested by the above ans yesterdays s s s s j the owe of the Cross got a said he had a Nice that Kimp of an is Willingto a Morom just because they have Danices Riib baby Cheep born at Efeim of channel4 answers tomorrow jumbles Bison aglow calmly canine answer Why she became an operator it was a calling Speed bump you Roucal news May 24 card Mew Bowkers i i Yuoh years few it this  we Scowe have to sneak Padova i thought we were killer Leytem rot in pm60nna outsource Pont believe your own tie Dodt Orfi 6ayj you re too ill to be 60 were to Kald Wall Aro yid