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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, November 5, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Daughter avoids mom’s calls
after exhausting day at work
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
gym-goers who hog the equipment
Dear Abby: My mother calls me
while texting, but also to the ones
all the time. I answer sometimes, but
who carry on extended conversations
sometimes I don’t because I feel she
while straddling the treadmill, sitting
wants to know too much about my
on equipment others are waiting to
life.
use, and failing to wipe away the
I work full time with the public.
perspiration they dripped on the
When I get home, I’m tired. I have
machines while they were exercising.
talked to people all day long, and I
Oh! And let’s not overlook those
really don’t feel like entertaining her.
Jeanne
My mother tends to be negative, Phillips who slather on perfume before going
to the gym, despite the fact that as one
snotty and, most of the time, offen-
Advice
sweats the odor is magni¿ed — or
sive. If there’s a storm or an accident
worse, people who “forget” to use
on the news, she calls me repeatedly
until I call back. Who wants to call someone deodorant. (Have I covered it all?)
Dear Abby: I am 13 and the only job
back who acts that way?
I try to be positive and upbeat. Sometimes I have is baby-sitting. My brother and his
she drains my energy. Do you have any girlfriend ask me to baby-sit their two kids,
advice for me? — PXW OII ,Q 7Ke PaFL¿F ages 9 and 6. They haven’t paid me for the
Northwest
last ¿ve times I’ve watched them. They say
Dear Put Off: Yes. Explain to your I should do it for free because it’s my niece
mother that at the end of the day you don’t and nephew.
have the energy to carry on a lengthy conver-
Shouldn’t I get paid? What should I do?
sation with her. It wouldn’t be rude; it’s the Shouldn’t they pay me for the other times
truth. If she calls because she’s worried that before I watch them again? — Working
the bad news she hears in the media could be Teen In Iowa
about you, tell her that you have her listed as
Dear Teen: If you had another way of
someone to contact if there is an emergency. earning money, I would say that, yes, you
Continue to be positive and upbeat, and stop should watch your niece and nephew occa-
hiding from your mother.
sionally without charging. However, if your
Dear Abby: Would you PLEASE say a brother and his girlfriend agreed to pay in
few words to those discourteous individuals the past and have suddenly stopped, they are
in the gym who, even at 6 a.m., think it’s all taking advantage of you. If that’s the case,
right to sit on a piece of exercise equipment, you have the right to deny your services until
texting, while others wait to complete their you receive what they owe.
weight-training workouts and get to work?
A word of advice: This will happen less
— Ted On The East Coast
often if you communicate in advance that you
Dear Ted: The ¿rst rule of basic etiquette charge for baby-sitting, how much you want
ANYwhere is to show consideration for the to be paid and you expect that to happen at
people around you. This applies not only to the time of service.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 5, 1915
With 100 workmen on the job the task
of completing the terminal and necessary
buildings at Pilot Rock Junction is being
rushed as rapidly as possible. Of the men
at work about half are employed by the
Nettleton, Bruce, Esbach company and half
by the railroad company itself. The railroad
is doing the track laying work direct and
the tracks are now all down though not yet
ballasted. A.F. Marion, of the O.-W.R. &
N. engineering force, is directing this end
of the work. The contracting company is
now devoting chief energies to constructing
the round house and power house. The
excavating work for the power house is now
underway and very shortly the building will
be started.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 5, 1965
A pair of young Milton-Freewater men
have been charged with the burning of an
abandoned homestead house and barn on
Halloween. Melvin L. Phillips, 23, and Rudy
Williams, 21, both of Milton-Freewater,
are being held at the Umatilla County Jail
under $1,500 bail charged with third degree
arson. They are accused of burning down a
large two story home and barn located about
six miles up the Walla Walla River from
Milton-Freewater. The property belongs to
Mable Harris and is part of the Harris estate.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 5, 1990
Art instructor Bruce Guiwits and “kindred
spirit” Gregg Berlie, an English instructor,
are teaching some unique classes at Blue
Mountain Community College — classes
that center on the computer as the creative
tool. Berlie, who was brought to campus four
years ago to create a computer writing class,
started the ball rolling with his computerized
version of Writing 121, a college composi-
tion course. Last year, Guiwits led off with a
computerized art class that has the students
jumping squiggles across computer screens
— where they crash into a puddle in the
corner. “You wouldn’t believe how destruc-
tive they can get,” Guiwits said about some of
the drawing assignments. “I could probably
open a third or fourth section because there
is the demand for it,” he said, although he
will probably stay with two sections because
“there are other things I would like to teach.”
Berlie said he has the same problem — too
many students and not enough computers.
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 309th day of
2015. There are 56 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 5, 1940, Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt
won an unprecedented third
term in of¿ce as he defeated
Republican
challenger
Wendell L. Willkie.
On this date:
In 1605, the “Gunpowder
Plot” failed as Guy Fawkes
was seized before he could
blow up the English Parlia-
ment.
In 1781, the Continental
Congress elected John
Hanson of Maryland its
chairman, giving him the
title of “President of the
United States in Congress
Assembled.”
In 1872, suffragist Susan
B. Anthony de¿ed the law by
attempting to cast a vote for
President Ulysses S. Grant.
(Anthony was convicted by a
judge and ¿ned $100, but she
never paid the penalty.)
In
1912,
Democrat
Woodrow
Wilson
was
elected president, defeating
Progressive Party candidate
Theodore Roosevelt, incum-
bent Republican William
Howard Taft and Socialist
Eugene V. Debs.
In 1935, Parker Brothers
began marketing the board
game “Monopoly.”
In 1968, Republican
Richard M. Nixon won the
presidency, defeating Demo-
cratic Vice President Hubert
H. Humphrey and American
Independent
candidate
George C. Wallace.
In 1974, Democrat Ella T.
Grasso was elected governor
of Connecticut, becoming
the ¿rst woman to win a
gubernatorial of¿ce without
succeeding her husband.
In 2009, a shooting
rampage at the Fort Hood
Army post in Texas left 13
people dead; Maj. Nidal
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist,
was later convicted of murder
and sentenced to death.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Chris Robinson is 77. Actress
Elke Sommer is 75. Singer Art
Garfunkel is 74. Actor-play-
wright Sam Shepard is 72.
Singer Peter Noone is 68.
TV personality Kris Jenner
is 60. Actor Nestor Serrano
is 60. Actress-comedian Mo
Gaffney is 57. Actor Robert
Patrick is 57. Singer Bryan
Adams is 56. Actress Tilda
Swinton is 55. Actor Michael
Gaston is 53. Actress Tatum
O’Neal is 52. Actress Andrea
McArdle is 52. Rock singer
Angelo Moore (Fishbone)
is 50. Actress Judy Reyes
is 48. Actor Seth Gilliam is
47. Actor Sam Rockwell is
47. Rock musician Jonny
Greenwood (Radiohead) is
44. Country singer-musician
Ryan Adams is 41.
Thought for Today:
“Imagination is the only key
to the future. Without it none
exists — with it all things
are possible.” — Ida M.
Tarbell, American journalist
(1857-1944).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE