Talk:Dave Barry

message: Didn't his son have a motorcycle accident, and he wrote the only serious column of his career about it? 172.173.30.156 18:13, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: While he did write a serious article after his sons motorcycle accident, it is most definately not his only serious article. He also wrote a serious (and very moving!) article after his fathers death, and he also wrote 2 very serious articles concerning the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Ubergenius 14:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Son's Motorcycle accident 

message: I had two questions, both about items not in the article.
*(1) The article says that his current wife, Michelle, is often mentioned in his columns. Was she ever mentioned by name? While the columns during his marriage to Beth mention her by name, it's been my observation that all the columns since his remarriage mention only "my wife" (thus anyone who was not aware of the divorce might easily assume he still was referring to Beth).
*(2) I didn't see any mention of the newsgroup alt.fan.dave-barry, which was a major newsgroup for quite some time and to which Barry occasionally posted. The group even had some academic members who reproduced comic experiments of Barry's (such as one involving toasters) and posted their results. After his divorce from his second wife, Beth, one or more occasional participants raised the subject of the divorce — which the regulars had been avoiding — and Barry stopped posting to the group, at least for a time. 
If we can find a source for this data, both items seem worthy of at least a tiny mention. Lawikitejana 21:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, he absolutely does mention his wife, Michelle, by name in some more recent columns, as well as referencing her as "my wife" on other occasions. If you will allow me a day or two, I will dig up some specific examples. Ubergenius 19:31, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two questions: Michelle + a.f.d-b 

message: "Barry and his second wife, Beth, had one child, Robert, in 1980". When/how long was his first marriage?
:That's an error. Beth was his first wife, and his second wife is named Michelle, who is a sports writer. I will change the article, as I had not caught that before. -- Ubergenius 13:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope.  Beth Barry was indisputably Dave Barry's second wife.  (To the best of my knowledge, he has never mentioned the first wife's name.)  The reason we know she exists is that columns dating from the time of his marriage to Beth reference a previous marriage.  See, for instance, the first column in Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, "Why Humor Is Funny", wherein Barry writes, "my former mother-in-law..." (emphasis mine).  That column cannot have been written later than 1988; he didn't even meet Michelle until 1992.  Changed the information back.  Nightsky 19:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't know he was married 3 times, and inferring from articles is never EVER "indisputable". Due to his notable lack of discussion over his divorce, it's entirely possible that he was divorced from Beth when the article was written (hence, "former mother-in-law") yet still has not met Michelle. Do you have any direct evidence (interview, etc.) for this assertation, or are you entirely inferring from his writing (such as "former mother-in-law", etc.)? -- Ubergenius 14:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beth - second wife? 

message: No, I am not spamming here, just curious why one of his major recurring themes is not mentioned in his article.  I voted for him.
http://www.davebarry.com/president/dave2k/index.htm
CodeCarpenter 14:09, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dave Barry For President 

message: Should I add the books he has done with that other guy that is listed in the fiction section? EvangelionTesttype (talk) 23:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the Collarboration section 

message: My copy of this book contains "Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead", not "The Taming of the Screw".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.149.23.186 (talk) 14:51, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dave Barry's Guide to Life 

message: Why not add a note about ClariNet and clari.feature.dave_barry as it was a very popular Usenet feed that was read (and copied) by many.
Also many Unix fortune programs have Dave Barry quotes (possibly copied from clari.feature.dave_barry.)
--Topher67 (talk) 21:01, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of ClariNet? 

message: Why has Walter been glossed over? 8.26.225.239 (talk) 09:53, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about Walter?