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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, January 29, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Dad resists coming clean about his youthful nose job FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m a male in my early Dear Abby: A year ago, my 50s. As a shy 21-year-old, I had minor boyfriend of two years and I broke surgery to straighten a small (but at the up. We had never had an argument. time, to me, ginormous) hump on my Then one night we did, and we both nose. I didn’t tell many people and it VDLGWKLQJVZHVKRXOGQ¶WKDYH6LQFH ERRVWHGP\FRQ¿GHQFHDQGDOWKRXJK that day, he hasn’t spoken to me I can’t say I regret it, looking back again. He has ignored all my phone I don’t think it was really needed. calls and my attempts to work things I met my wife a few years later and out. I have tried to move on, but I Jeanne didn’t think it was important enough Phillips can’t seem to. I have been devastated to mention, which doesn’t bother me. ever since because I truly loved him. Advice What does bother me is my I recently started seeing a guy daughter, 23 and happily married, is I like, but when it comes down to complaining about the small hump on her LW , FDQ¶W OHW JR RI P\ H[ER\IULHQG , DP nose and seriously contemplating surgery paralyzed by my emotions. Mostly I feel WR ¿[ LW 6KH VD\V VKH¶V WKH RQO\ RQH LQ WKH betrayed. He has destroyed every perception family with such a nose. Her husband and my I had about relationships, like being there for wife, neither one of whom are fans of minor each other through the good and bad. How cosmetic surgery, are urging her to not do it. I can I help myself heal? — Motionless In have kept my mouth shut so far. Georgia I hate bringing something up I’ve kept Dear Motionless: Not all romances are from my wife all these years, yet I have this meant to lead to marriage. Intelligent adults nagging feeling I’m betraying my daughter don’t necessarily agree on everything, but by not telling her she has the nose I was born they should be mature enough to discuss their ZLWK,DOVRZRUU\WKDWVKH¶OO¿QGRXWDQGIHHO differences without resorting to vitriol. If your betrayed if I say nothing. Am I obligated to H[ER\IULHQG¶V UHDFWLRQ WR D GLVDJUHHPHQW tell her? Am I a jerk if I don’t? Does she have was to run for the hills, better that you learned a right to know about her father’s true nose? LWDIWHUWZR\HDUVUDWKHUWKDQVD\¿YH — Indecisive Dad In The USA I subscribe to the philosophy that our Dear Indecisive: You are behaving as relationships — whether successful or failed though a rhinoplasty is something to be — teach us important lessons about life. DVKDPHGRI,W¶VQRW6SHDNXSDQGWHOO\RXU 6RPHWLPHVZHPXVWDFFHSWOLIHDVLWLVUDWKHU wife your daughter inherited your nose and than our fantasy of what we would like it to WKDW ¿[LQJ \RXUV JDYH \RX VHOIFRQ¿GHQFH be. Because you haven’t been able to prog- 7KHQEHKRQHVWZLWK\RXUGDXJKWHU6KH¶VDQ ress beyond the romance you had with your adult. What she chooses to do with the nose H[\RXZLOOVDYH\RXUVHOIDGGLWLRQDOSDLQDQG on her face should be her decision and no one wasted time if you discuss it with a licensed else’s because no one else will be wearing it. mental health professional. 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 Jan. 29, 1916 Among the sufferers from the recent ÀRRGVWKDWVZHSWWKURXJKWKH2WD\9DOOH\LQ southern California was a former Pendleton woman, Mrs. G.M. Leser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Blakely. Living in Los Angeles with her daughter and mother-in-law, she DZRNHRQHPRUQLQJDWR¶FORFNWR¿QGDIRRW of water in the bedroom and the three women narrowly escaped with their lives. In leaving the house they were forced to wade in water up to their waists and were twice swept down by the current. Finally they gained a house at a higher elevation but were forced to spend WKHZKROHQH[WGD\LQWKHLUZHWFORWKHV:KHQ they could return home they found that the water had ruined most of their clothing and many other of their belongings. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 29, 1966 Hints that something might be amiss in the rush to apply for potential farm land in North Morrow County, under the Desert Land Entry Act, cropped up in Pendleton Friday. The Morrow County land deal was the main subject at the start of a two-day meeting here by the Legislative Interim Committee on Public Lands. Dale Mallicoat, clerk of the 6WDWH/DQG%RDUGWHVWL¿HGKHUHWRGD\EHIRUH the committee that knowledge of the state’s decision to release its hold on the Bureau of Land Management property “was general in several state and federal departments” and that it would have been possible for anyone WR ¿QG RXW WKDW WKH VWDWH ZDV SUHSDULQJ WR relinquish its interest in federal land in Morrow County. His testimony came after allegations Friday of favoritism. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 29, 1991 Authorities are hoping video footage shot during a robbery at Far West Federal Bank in Pendleton Monday will help identify a suspect. A lone white male didn’t show a weapon, but threatened to shoot a teller VHYHUDO WLPHV EHIRUH ÀHHLQJ RQ IRRW ZLWK cash about 11:30 a.m. FBI agent Mike McPheters, who is leading the investigation, said there are few clues in the robbery. He planned to dust the bank counter for ¿QJHUSULQWV 0RQGD\ DIWHUQRRQ EXW ZDVQ¶W optimistic. “Pendleton police and the Bureau did a grid search but we didn’t turn anything up,” McPheters said. 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 29th day of 2016. There are 337 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The 5DYHQ´ ZDV ¿UVW SXEOLVKHG in the New York Evening Mirror. On this date: In 1820, Britain’s King George III died at Windsor Castle. In 1843, the 25th pres- LGHQW RI WKH 8QLWHG 6WDWHV William McKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio. In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union. In 1919 WKH UDWL¿FDWLRQ of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was FHUWL¿HGE\$FWLQJ6HFUHWDU\ RI6WDWH)UDQN/3RON In 1936 WKH ¿UVW inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, New York. In 1956, editor-essayist +/0HQFNHQWKH³6DJHRI Baltimore,” died at age 75. In 1964 6WDQOH\ Kubrick’s nuclear war VDWLUH ³'U 6WUDQJHORYH 2U +RZ , /HDUQHG WR 6WRS Worrying and Love the Bomb” premiered in New York, Toronto and London. The Winter Olympic Games opened in Innsbruck, Austria. Actor Alan Ladd, 50, died in 3DOP6SULQJV&DOLIRUQLD In 1990 IRUPHU ([[RQ 9DOGH] VNLSSHU -RVHSK Hazelwood went on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges stemming from the 1989 oil spill. (Hazelwood was acquitted of the major charges, and convicted of a misdemeanor.) In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing security guard Robert 6DQGHUVRQ DQG FULWLFDOO\ injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.) Today’s Birthdays: Writ- er-composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse is 85. Feminist author Germaine Greer is 77. Actress Katharine Ross is 76. Feminist author Robin Morgan is 75. Actor Tom 6HOOHFN LV 5K\WKPDQG EOXHV VLQJHU %HWW\H /D9HWWH LV $FWRU 0DUF 6LQJHU LV 68. Actress Ann Jillian is 66. Rock musician Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 63. Rhythm- and-blues/funk singer Charlie Wilson is 63. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 62. Actor Terry Kinney is 62. Country singer Irlene Mandrell is 60. Actress Diane Delano is 59. Actress Judy Norton Taylor 79 ³7KH :DOWRQV´ LV Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is 56. Actress +HDWKHU *UDKDP LV 86 Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is 46. Thought for Today: “Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.” — Hesketh Pearson, British biographer (1887-1964). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
