Compare and Contrast

Compare this Dear Prudence column from about a month ago with today's Ask Amy column. My question is, are these really two halves of the same couple asking difference advice columnists for their take? Is it one person doing a sociological experiment? ("What if a man asks this? What if a woman asks?") Or is this another incidence of advice-columnist question-poaching?

I'll e-mail Prudie and Amy and see what they have to say.