DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have always struggled to get along with my mother-in-law. We are very different in tastes and ...

Dear Annie: My husband hasn’t heard a word from his mother in over 20 years -- not even after the deaths of two of her sons.

No matter how liberated we like to think we are, mention the mother-in-law and most of us probably think of the late Les Dawson and his endless supply of hilarious, but vicious, jokes at her expense.