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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Husband upset by wife who
wears heart on her sleeve
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
attention from the kids because they’d
Dear Abby: I’m a mostly happily
rather be with their friends and not her
married wife and mother. I love
the whole time.
tattoos. When I was younger, I was
I have tried explaining that she
engaged to my soul mate. His name is
should come the weekend before
tattooed on my wrists in honor of the
or after, but she shows up on the
love we shared. Unfortunately, he was
birthday anyway. Her complaints ruin
killed in a car accident.
their birthdays, to the point that I no
Several years later, I met and
longer look forward to them. Any
married my husband, “Brett.” When
Jeanne
we ¿ght he brings up the tattoos. He Phillips advice, since another birthday is right
around the corner? (Maybe she’ll read
says they’re “disrespectful” of him
Advice
this and have a change of heart.) —
and I should get rid of them. It upsets
Miserable Mom In California
me because I got the tattoos before
Dear Miserable Mom: Your moth-
I ever met Brett, so how can they be disre-
spectful? Am I being unreasonable, or should er-in-law sounds like a handful. However, I
my husband back off? — Illustrated Woman do believe that grandparents should be invited
to milestones like graduations, where family
In Colorado
Dear Illustrated Woman: The tattoos is important.
It’s hard to imagine Grandma would simply
are in no way disrespectful to your husband.
They are the same body art you had when he show up at the kids’ party after being asked to
married you, and if he didn’t complain back stay away, but you can’t slam the door in her
then, he shouldn’t now. When you’re ¿ghting face. When she barges in, for your own sake
and Brett tells you to get rid of them, he’s tune her complaining out. Walk away if you
doing it to hurt you because he knows they must. As to altering the sleeping arrangements
are meaningful and he’s trying to get under to suit an uninvited guest — don’t do it.
Where is your husband in all of this? She’s
your skin. Insist on dealing with the subject at
his mother; if you can’t make her see reason,
hand and don’t take the bait.
Dear Abby: I’d like to know if there’s any then he should. It’s normal for teens to want
way to stop my mother-in-law from inviting to celebrate with their contemporaries — and
herself to every birthday party and graduation Grandma had better get used to it before
our children have. They are pre-teen and they turn tail and run whenever they see her
teenagers now. She has done this for years, coming.
Dear Veterans: I salute each and every
and it often doesn’t end well. Because they
are older, they prefer to hang out with their one of you for your service to this country.
My heartfelt thanks as well to the brave and
friends, do sleepovers, etc.
Because she insists on staying the night, dedicated men and women who are still on
it’s hard to have room for sleepovers. She active duty. You are the personi¿cation of
complains if she has to sleep on the couch, and patriotism and self-sacri¿ce for your dedica-
she also has a ¿t if she’s not getting enough tion to our country. — Love, Abby
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 11, 1915
Architect Troutman of Aberdeen is
drawing plans for a three story hotel, 30
cottages, a natatorium and a dancing pavilion,
to be built by W.H. McCormmach at Lehman
Hot Springs, 50 miles from Pendleton, at a
cost of $75,000. Interviewed here today W.H.
McCormmach, owner of Lehman Springs
con¿rmed the Aberdeen report as to the
improvements proposed for Lehman. He says
lumber for the purpose will be manufactured
on the land near the springs and that work will
start as soon as possible in the spring, provided
that in the meantime he does not sell the resort.
According to Mr. McCormmach the ¿rst step
will be to build a new swimming pool, so as
to have it ready for the summer’s use. The
erection of the hotel and cottages will have to
await upon the seasoning of the lumber.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 11, 1965
Bill Garrison was hunting elk along
Looking Glass River in the Tollgate area of
the Blue Mountains when a 300-pound brown
bear dropped into the road ahead of him. The
bear reared up on his hind legs, Garrison
had no way to get around, and he shot it. He
propped his gun against a tree while burying
the carcass. And as he gathered brush for a
¿nal covering, a bull elk and three cows trotted
past. Garrison said his gun was 30 feet away
so he did the only thing he could: He sat down
and cried. But he took home the bearskin to
make a rug.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 11, 1990
Irrigon resident George Shearer was
honored Thursday for having driven commer-
cial truck 3 million miles without an accident.
Shearer, a retired Consolidated Freightways
truck driver, had his name imprinted on a
company truck Thursday in Flagstaff, Ariz.
He drove for 34 years without an accident,
reaching the three million mile safe-driving
mark in 1987. He also will receive $1,000 in
Consolidated Freightways, Inc., stock. Shearer
worked for CF Motor Freight for 39 years and
retired in 1988.
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 315th day of
2015. There are 50 days left
in the year. This is Veterans
Day in the U.S., Remem-
brance Day in Canada.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 11, 1918,
¿ghting in World War I came
to an end with the signing
of an armistice between the
Allies and Germany.
On this date:
In 1620, 41 Pilgrims
aboard the MayÀower,
anchored off Massachusetts,
signed a compact calling for
a “body politick.”
In 1778, British redcoats,
Tory rangers and Seneca
Indians in central New York
killed more than 40 people in
the Cherry Valley Massacre.
In 1831, former slave Nat
Turner, who’d led a violent
insurrection, was executed in
Jerusalem, Virginia.
In 1889, Washington
became the 42nd state.
In 1921, the remains of
an unidenti¿ed American
service member were interred
in a Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier at Arlington National
Cemetery in a ceremony
presided over by President
Warren G. Harding.
In
1938,
Irish-born
cook Mary Mallon, who’d
gained notoriety as the
disease-carrying “Typhoid
Mary” blamed for the deaths
of three people, died on
North Brother Island in New
York’s East River at age 69
after 23 years of mandatory
quarantine.
In 1942, during World
War II, Germany completed
its occupation of France.
In
1965,
Rhodesia
proclaimed its independence
from Britain.
In 1966, Gemini 12
blasted off from Cape
Kennedy with astronauts
James A. Lovell and Edwin
“Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard.
In 1972, the U.S. Army
turned over its base at
Long Binh to the South
Vietnamese, symbolizing the
end of direct U.S. military
involvement in the Vietnam
War.
In 1984, Rev. Martin
Luther King Sr. — father
of slain civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr. —
died in Atlanta at age 84.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Jazz singer-musician Mose
Allison is 88. Actress Bibi
Andersson is 80. Country
singer Narvel Felts is 77. Sen.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is 75.
Americana roots singer/song-
writer Chris Smither is 71.
Rock singer-musician Vince
Martell (Vanilla Fudge) is 70.
The president of Nicaragua,
Daniel Ortega, is 70. Rock
singer Jim Peterik (Ides of
March, Survivor) is 65. Golfer
Fuzzy Zoeller is 64. Pop sing-
er-musician Paul Cowsill (The
Cowsills) is 64. Rock sing-
er-musician Andy Partridge
(XTC) is 62. Singer Marshall
Crenshaw is 62. Rock musi-
cian Ian Craig Marsh (Human
League; Heaven 17) is 59.
Actor Stanley Tucci is 55.
Actress Demi Moore is 53.
Actress Calista Flockhart is
51. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio
is 41. NFL quarterback Mark
Sanchez is 29.
Thought for Today: “I
hate war as only a soldier
who has lived it can, only as
one who has seen its brutality,
its futility, its stupidity.” —
President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower (1890-1969).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE