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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, April 9, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Favorite uncle reveals himself with a shocking sext message FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: I am heartbroken. I one say or do? — Beans, The Musi- have an uncle “Tony” I’m close to, cal Fruit who is like my best friend. I was send- Dear B.T.M.F.: Stop beating ing him pictures of a football game yourself up over this. Expelling gas is and he sent me back a very inappro- normal. According to the National In- priate picture of himself. He says it stitutes of Health, the average person was a “mistake,” that it was supposed passes gas about 14 times a day — al- to go to his wife, but the text message though probably not as spectacularly he sent with it showed different. as you did. Jeanne I don’t want to be around him. I’m Phillips If it happens again, don’t try to be disgusted and hurt over this. I need funny. Just say, “Excuse me,” and if Advice advice. What do I do? — Heartbro- the “toot” is a fragrant one, distance ken In Georgia yourself. I’m positive that would be Dear Heartbroken: Share the photo and appreciated. texts with your parents and ask what they Dear Abby: We are planning to give a think about them. Then ask if they think you MRLQWEDE\VKRZHUQH[WPRQWKIRUWZRVLVWHUV should forward the picture and text message in-law who are expecting their babies three to your aunt with a note explaining Uncle ZHHNV DSDUW7KH MRLQW VKRZHU LV D QHFHVVL- Tony said they were meant for her, and you ty because some of the relatives will need to didn’t want her to miss them. travel quite a distance to attend. Because he makes you uncomfortable, lis- Most of the guests know both girls, but ten to your intuition and keep your distance some will know only one of them. Is there because what he did was appalling. a way we can word the invitation so these Dear Abby: I’m a female working full- guests won’t feel obligated to “gift” both WLPHLQDQRI¿FHZLWKDOOPHQ<HVWHUGD\DI- babies? Any suggestions will be gratefully ternoon, I ate a salad that contained several appreciated because we are stumped. — varieties of beans. I was standing outside my Stumped In Ohio ERVV¶V RI¿FH ODXJKLQJ DW D MRNH RQH RI WKH Dear Stumped: Put nothing on the invi- salesmen was telling when the beans got the tations themselves mentioning gifts. How- best of me and I passed gas. ever, it is acceptable to include an INSERT , ZDV PRUWL¿HG DQG ZDQWHG WR VLQN along with the invitation that states gifts for WKURXJK WKH ÀRRU , SDWWHG WKH VDOHVPDQ RQ both babies are not expected. If the shower is the arm and said, “I guess that’s what I think going to be a large one, you could email the RIWKHMRNH´DQGZDONHGEDFNLQWRP\RI¿FH guests to relay the information. However, if I didn’t know what else to say or do. Today I it will be relatively small, pick up the phone can’t look either of them in the face. and call. Since this seems to be something that Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu- happens to older people (I’m 69), and it’s ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was something we often don’t have total control founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. over — please tell me how to “recover.” If Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com this should happen again, what on earth does or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 9, 1915 Today, the 50th anniversary of the surren- der of the Confederate forces at Appomattox, Virginia, probably means more to Seth M. Richardson than it does to any other resident of Pendleton, for not only was he present on WKDWKLVWRULFRFFDVLRQEXWKHVWRRGZLWKLQ¿I- teen feet of General U.S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee when the latter surrendered his sword to the former and the former courte- ously refused to accept it. Richardson was a member of the First Maine cavalry which, ZLWKWKH6HFRQG1HZ<RUNUHJLPHQWERUHWKH EUXQWRIWKH¿JKWLQJWKDWSUHFHGHGWKHVXUUHQ- der and which, following the surrender, rode all day with General Grant as an escort. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 9, 1965 A freak accident during baseball practice at Pendleton High School Wednesday after- QRRQVHQWD\HDUROG¿UVWEDVHPDQWRWKH KRVSLWDO ZLWK D VHULRXV LQMXU\ -RKQ %URZQ son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown of Pend- leton, underwent surgery for a broken bone located directly above the left eye, received when both he and the catcher scrambled after DQ LQ¿HOG À\ %URZQ VDLG WKH FDWFKHU VWXP- bled and his son tripped over him. His head slammed into the fallen man’s knee on the way down, breaking the bone. The youth was reported to be in good shape this morning at St. Anthony Hospital. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 9, 1990 Frank Harkenrider was sworn in as may- or of Hermiston following a vote of the City Council Monday night. Harkenrider, as pres- ident of the council, became acting mayor upon the death of Mayor Bill Neuffer April 8. 7KHFRXQFLOPDGHLWRI¿FLDOE\HOHFWLQJKLP to the remainder of Neuffer’s term — through Dec. 31. Harkenrider has served more than 29 years on the council and followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming mayor of the FLW\²WKH¿UVWIDPLO\LQWKHFLW\¶VKLVWRU\WR have both father and son serve at the head of the council. His wife Beverly, his three grown daughters and oldest grandchild as well as an audience of friends attended the meeting to VHHKLPVZRUQLQWRRI¿FH 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 99th day of 2015. There are 266 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 9, 1865, Con- federate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. On this date: In 1413, the coronation of England’s King Henry V took place in Westminster Abbey. In 1682, French explorer Robert de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River Basin for France. In 1913 WKH ¿UVW JDPH was played at Ebbets Field, the newly built home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0. In 1914, the Tampico In- cident took place as eight U.S. sailors were arrested by Mexican authorities for al- legedly entering a restricted area and held for a short time STONE SOUP BIG NATE before being released. In 1939, singer Marian Anderson performed a con- cert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after being denied the use of Con- stitution Hall by the Daugh- ters of the American Revolu- tion. In 1940, during World War II, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. In 1942, American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Jap- anese forces; the surrender was followed by the notori- ous Bataan Death March. In 1945, German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bon- hoeffer, 39, was executed by the Nazis at the Flossenburg concentration camp. In 1959, NASA presented LWV¿UVWVHYHQDVWURQDXWV6FRWW Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton. Archi- tect Frank Lloyd Wright, 91, died in Phoenix, Ariz. Today’s Birthdays: Play- boy magazine founder Hugh Hefner is 89. Satirical song- writer and mathematician Tom Lehrer is 87. Naturalist Jim Fowler is 85. Actor Jean- Paul Belmondo is 82. Ac- tress Michael Learned is 76. Country singer Margo Smith is 73. Country singer Hal Ketchum is 62. Actor Dennis Quaid is 61. Comedian Jim- my Tingle is 60. Country mu- sician Dave Innis (Restless Heart) is 56. Actress-sports reporter Lisa Guerrero is 51. Actor Mark Pellegrino is 50. Actress-model Paulina Poriz- kova is 50. Actress Cynthia Nixon is 49. Rock singer Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) is 38. Rock mu- sician Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes) is 35. Actress Kristen Stewart is 25. Thought for Today: “The ultimate test of a moral soci- ety is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906- 1945). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE