In commemoration of their New Year's wedding, the bench's plaque refers to Burns's most famous song: "Dear Mike, 'We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne.' Love, Stro".
In many instances I have seen this done by men who wished to exert their intellect or privilege (a phenomenon brilliantly captured in Rebecca Solnit's essay Men Explain Things to Me or characterised in David Cameron's famous "Calm down, dear" moment).
Making references to other famous figures, he tweeted: "Dear #Facebook, forcing me to change my FB name from Salman to Ahmed Rushdie is like forcing J. Edgar to become John Hoover.
To paraphrase a famous line, 'The fault, dear Mrs. Friedan, is not in our culture, but in ourselves.' " Among readers, however, the response to the book was so overwhelming that Ms. Friedan realized she needed more than words to address the condition of women's lives.
Dear Inez: Famous Dave's was happy to share its creative and creamy version of this classic comfort food.
He demolishes her with one of cinema's most famous one-liners: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn".
I read parts of Forster's Aspects of the Novel and discovered his famous dictum that "Yes – oh dear yes – the novel tells a story... and I wish that it was not so".
Then I check out The Guardian, which carried open letters to the president, one of which is from the famous playwright Harold Pinter, who says: "Dear President Bush, I'm sure you'll be having a nice little tea party with your fellow war criminal, Tony Blair.
Dear Janice, As a famous model do you have any tips for taking the perfect selfie?
