Page 6B
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Husband hopes wife is willing
to spice up their love life
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My wife and I have
getting a proposal soon. We are both
been married for quite a while, and
committed to staying pure before
our intimate life became monoto-
marriage and have not been intimate.
nous and unimaginative a long time
My question to you is, do I have
ago. Over the years I have suggested
to tell him, now or ever, that I have
we try things like role-playing and
had breast implants? I did it several
other non-extreme variations during
years ago, and it greatly improved my
intimate times. My suggestions were
self-esteem. I’m glad I did it.
met with rolling eyes and retorts like,
Since he has never felt any breasts,
Jeanne
³,¶P\RXUZLIHQRWDKRRNHU´,¿QDO- Phillips if I tell him, my fear is he will get
ly gave up and try to be content with
hung up on the thought, “I wonder
Advice
what we have together.
what REAL breasts feel like.” On
Then one evening she surprised
the other hand, if I don’t tell him and
me and did one of the things I had suggested. VRPHWLPHLQWKHIXWXUHKH¿QGVRXWKHPD\
It was very nice and she seemed to like it, too. be like, “I can’t believe you kept that from
I didn’t know what to say to her. “Thank you” me.” What would you advise? — Reticent In
somehow seemed condescending. We have Kentucky
done nothing like it since.
Dear Reticent: Many women have breast
I doubt if the answer is in the etiquette HQKDQFHPHQW VXUJHU\ VR WKHLU ¿JXUHV ZLOO
books. What should I have said to her to let be more balanced. For the reason you have
her know how much I appreciated her loos- mentioned, you should tell your boyfriend. It
ening up and hope it will perhaps make her should make no difference to him. However,
more comfortable spicing things up in the fu- if it does, it’s better that you know now be-
ture? — Etiquette Advocate In San Diego
fore you spend any more time on someone
Dear Advocate: Praise is a powerful in- who measures the worth of a woman by how
centive. Flowers would have been nice. But “real” her breasts are.
since you didn’t send any, try this: Invite your
P.S. If he wants to know what “real”
wife out to dinner at a nice restaurant. Tell her breasts feel like, tell him to go hug his mother.
how surprised and delighted you were with
Thought For The Day: I’ll pass along
the special surprise she gave you. A small gift this pithy sentiment shared with me by for-
to commemorate the occasion couldn’t hurt mer California Gov. Gray Davis. In a com-
either.
mencement speech to students graduating
A satisfying sex life is all about commu- from Columbia Law School, Davis told them:
nication, and if my mail is any indicator, if “School is fair. Life is not. Just get used to it.”
more wives were uninhibited in the bedroom,
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu-
there would be a lot less business for the ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
“professionals.”
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Dear Abby: I have been dating a won- Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
derful man for two years and am in hopes of or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 28, 1915
The city has decided to offer for sale the
KRVHKRXVHVDQG¿UHEHOOVORFDWHGDWWKHFRUQHU
of High and Cottonwood streets, at Willow
and Bluff and on Lilleth street between Alta
DQG:HEE6LQFHWKHUHRUJDQL]DWLRQRIWKH¿UH
department, these houses have not been used
and Fire Chief Bellinger in his annual report
UHFRPPHQGHGWKHLUVDOH7KH¿UHFRPPLWWHH
has joined in this recommendation and has
also recommended that 1000 feet of addition-
DOKRVHEHSXUFKDVHGDVVRRQDVWKHFLW\¶V¿-
nances will permit.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 28, 1965
Rivers and creeks of Umatilla County are
RQ WKH ULVH DJDLQ WRGD\ DQG FRXQW\ RI¿FLDOV
IHDU D UHSOD\ RI WKH &KULVWPDV ZHHN ÀRRGV
Virtually all the tributaries of the Umatil-
OD 5LYHU ZHUH ÀRRGLQJ WRGD\ DQG WKH UXVK
of water through Pendleton was nearly as
high this morning as it was during the holi-
GD\ ÀRRGV DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH ORFDO VWDWLRQ RI
the U.S. Weather Bureau. A crest here was
expected sometime tonight. A woman from
Ontario drove from her city to Pendleton this
morning, arriving about 11 and reported rain
DOOWKHZD\6KHVDLGRQHZD\WUDI¿FZDVLQ
effect at some places east of Pendleton in the
Blue Mountains because of water from melt-
ing snow running across the highway.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 28, 1990
A car crash last November that broke An-
gela Cabral’s neck probably would have killed
her 15 years ago. Few people survive a break
of the type Cabal suffered, her mother, Lois
Cabral, noted, adding that the doctor “said
we owe her life to the two EMTS who helped
her.” When emergency medical technicians
Scott Cahill and Dale Ternes of the Hermiston
)LUH'HSDUWPHQWDUULYHGWKH\¿WWHGKHUZLWKD
cervical collar and slid a back board under her
before she was removed from the wreckage
after she was involved in a car accident. Just
two months later, Cabral is walking. Her neck
is stabilized by a metal halo fastened tightly
to her head. The apparatus is awkward, but it
allows her to walk and she has hope of being
completely well in three to six months.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 28th day of
2015. There are 337 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On Jan. 28, 1915, the
United States Coast Guard
was created as President
Woodrow Wilson signed a
bill merging the Life-Saving
Service and Revenue Cutter
Service. The American mer-
chant vessel SS William P.
Frye, en route to England with
a cargo of wheat, became
WKH¿UVW86VKLSWREHVXQN
during World War I by a Ger-
man cruiser, the SS Prinz Ei-
tel Friedrich, even though the
United States was not at war.
On this date:
In 1547, England’s King
Henry VIII died; he was suc-
ceeded by his 9-year-old son,
Edward VI.
In 1813, the novel “Pride
and Prejudice” by Jane Aus-
WHQZDV¿UVWSXEOLVKHGDQRQ-
ymously in London.
In 1939, Irish poet-drama-
tist William Butler Yeats died
in Menton, France.
In 1945, during World
STONE SOUP
BIG NATE
War II, Allied supplies began
reaching China over the new-
ly reopened Burma Road.
In 1956, Elvis Presley
PDGHKLV¿UVWQDWLRQDO79DS-
pearance on “Stage Show,” a
CBS program hosted by Tom-
my and Jimmy Dorsey.
In 1962, the last of Wash-
ington, D.C.’s original street-
FDUVPDGHLWV¿QDOUXQ
In 1973 D FHDVH¿UH RI¿-
cially went into effect in the
Vietnam War.
In 1980, six U.S. diplo-
mats who had avoided being
taken hostage at their embas-
V\LQ7HKUDQÀHZRXWRI,UDQ
with the help of Canadian dip-
lomats.
In 1985, the charity super-
group USA for Africa record-
ed the Michael Jackson-Lio-
nel Richie song “We Are the
World” at A&M Studios in
Los Angeles.
In 1986, the space shuttle
Challenger exploded 73 sec-
onds after liftoff from Cape
Canaveral, killing all sev-
en crew members, includ-
ing schoolteacher Christa
McAuliffe.
Today’s Birthdays: Ac-
tor Nicholas Pryor is 80. Ac-
tor Alan Alda is 79. Actress
Susan Howard is 73. Actress
Marthe (cq) Keller is 70. Sen.
Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is
68. Actress-singer Barbi Ben-
ton is 65. Evangelical pastor
Rick Warren is 61. Former
French President Nicolas
Sarkozy is 60. Actress Harley
Jane Kozak is 58. Movie di-
rector Frank Darabont is 56.
Rock musician Dave Sharp is
56. Rock singer Sam Phillips
is 53. Rock musician Dan
Spitz is 52. Country musician
Greg Cook (Ricochet) is 50.
Singer Sarah McLachlan is
47. DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill)
is 47. Singer Joey Fatone
Jr. (‘N Sync) is 38. Rapper
Rick Ross is 38. Singer Nick
Carter (Backstreet Boys) is
35. Actor Elijah Wood is 34.
Actress Ariel Winter (TV:
“Modern Family”) is 17.
Thought for Today: “A
self-taught man usually has
a poor teacher and a worse
student.” — Henny Young-
man, British-born American
comedian (1906-1998).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE