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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, March 23, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom’s body piercings are becoming targets of ridicule FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE That she has done it among her friends Dear Abby: My sister and I is one thing, but for her to disrobe to have no interest in body piercing show your friends her nipple piercings (except our ears), but we have seen is wrong. She may do this because she it on friends and are not impressed. wants to prove to them (or herself) However, our 44-year-old mom got that she’s still young and “with-it.” If her nipples pierced and has started wearing jewelry there! that’s the case, it’s pathetic. Our parents are divorced and she’s If you haven’t told her that when not in a relationship right now, so it’s VKH ÀDVKHV \RXU IULHQGV LW¶V HPEDU- Jeanne not to impress a man. She says she did Phillips rassing and you want her to stop, you it to feel good about herself, which should. If she realizes she’s making Advice makes no sense to us. She takes off herself a laughingstock, she may stop. her top to show her female friends However, if she doesn’t, then you and when they come over, and we can see them your sister will have to accept that you can’t literally roll their eyes, but she doesn’t seem change her, and realize that what she’s doing to notice. LVQRUHÀHFWLRQRQWKHWZRRI\RX She has now started showing off her Dear Abby , DP D ³FDW¿VKHU´ , XVH D piercings to OUR friends. I’m talking about fake Facebook account with pictures of an JLUOIULHQGVEXWHYHQVRZH¿QGWKLVEH\RQG DWWUDFWLYHZRPDQWRDWWUDFWPHQ,VSHFL¿FDOO\ embarrassing. They’re polite to her face but target married or committed men. I talk to and laugh behind her back, and word about it has ÀLUWZLWKWKHPRQOLQHWRVHHKRZIDUWKH\¶OO VSUHDGZKLFKZH¿QGKXPLOLDWLQJ,VXSSRVH go. They often ask me for more pictures and we should be thankful that at least she hasn’t invite me to meet somewhere for sex. I never pierced her most personal place to show off give real information or meet any of them. to our friends like we’ve seen some girls do. My question is, should I let the women We think some kind of midlife crisis or these men are involved with know that their hormonal imbalance is causing her to act this men are unfaithful or keep it to myself? — ZD\EXWZHZLVKVKH¶G¿QGDEHWWHURXWOHW,I Karma In Georgia she wants to make a fool of herself in front Dear Karma: How can you be concerned of her friends, that’s one thing. But we don’t for the wives and girlfriends when YOU are think she has the right to embarrass us in front the person providing the temptation? I think of our friends! What can we do? — Embar- you would be better served if you worked on rassed In The West your own problem before you try to resolve Dear Embarrassed: I agree that what the issues of people you have never met and your mother has been doing is inappropriate. never will. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 23, 1916 Fido’s release is at hand. After going about for several months with a birdcage over his mouth, he is to be permitted to resume his natural ways again. The council last night repealed the muzzling ordinance which is taken to mean that the danger from rabies is believed to be over. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 23, 1966 There was a hot mail delivery in the Long Creek, Monument area yesterday, so hot in fact, that a pickup load of mail burned up. Pendleton postal inspector Dave Madden said he was QRWL¿HGWKDWDVWDUURXWHPDLOWUXFNKDGFDXJKW ¿UHEHWZHHQ/RQJ&UHHNDQG0RQXPHQWDQG that all the mail was destroyed. Ray Lunceford, the driver of the truck, said he felt some heat at the back of his neck and turned around to see WKHHQWLUHEDFNHQGRIWKHSLFNXSRQ¿UH7KH pickup had a wooden top. Madden said that nine sacks of mail, containing approximately 350 letters and an undetermined number of packages, were burned. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 23, 1991 A new-generation weather forecasting system will be on-line at the Pendleton Airport by early 1996, along with 21 jobs. Bob Farrell of the National Weather Service recently outlined the timetable for several improvements coming to the area. The National Weather Service is in the midst of a nationwide modernization project. A Weather 6HUYLFHRI¿FHEXLOGLQJZLOOEHFRQVWUXFWHGRQ leased land at the airport in 1993, Farrell said. By late 1992 or early 1993, the weather service will install Automatic Surface Observing stations at Pendleton, Baker and Hermiston. The automated stations will provide data on wind, temperature, dew point, air pressure, sky conditions up to 12,000 feet, and visibility up to 10 miles. They will also indicate current weather conditions such as rain or snow. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 83rd day of 2016. There are 283 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Purim begins at sunset. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” On this date: In 1792, Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G Major (the “Surprise” symphony) KDG LWV ¿UVW SXEOLF SHUIRU- mance in London. In 1806, explorers Meri- wether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the 3DFL¿F FRDVW EHJDQ WKHLU journey back east. In 1914 WKH ¿UVW installment of “The Perils of Pauline,” the legendary VLOHQW ¿OP VHULDO VWDUULQJ Pearl White, premiered in the greater New York City area. In 1919, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy. In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effec- tively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers. In 1942 WKH ¿UVW -DSD- nese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California. In 1956, Pakistan became an Islamic republic. In 1965 $PHULFD¶V ¿UVW two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly KRXUÀLJKW In 1973, before sentencing a group of Watergate break-in defendants, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica read aloud a letter he’d received from James W. McCord Jr., which said there had been “political pressure” to “plead guilty and remain silent.” In 1983, President Ronald 5HDJDQ ¿UVW SURSRVHG developing technology to intercept incoming enemy missiles — an idea that came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a -DUYLN SHUPDQHQW DUWL¿FLDO heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device. In 1996, Taiwan held LWV ¿UVW GLUHFW SUHVLGHQWLDO elections; incumbent Lee Teng-hui was the victor. Today’s Birthdays: Comedian Marty Allen is 94. Sir Roger Bannister (the runner who broke the 4-minute mile in 1954) is 87. Movie director Mark Rydell is 87. International Motorsports Hall of Famer Craig Breedlove is 79. Sing- er-producer Ric Ocasek is 67. Singer Chaka Khan is 63. Actress Amanda Plummer is 59. Actress Catherine Keener is 57. Actress Hope Davis is 52. Actor Richard Grieco is 51. Country musician Kevin *ULI¿Q <DQNHH *UH\ LV 51. Actress Marin Hinkle is 50. Rock singer-musician Damon Albarn (Blur) is 48. Actress-singer Melissa Errico is 46. Rock musician John Humphrey (The Nixons) is 46. Bandleader Reggie Watts (TV: “The Late Late Show With James Corden”) is 44. Actor Randall Park is 42. Actress Michelle Monaghan is 40. Actress Keri Russell is 40. Actress Anastasia *ULI¿WKLV*RVVLSFROXP- nist-blogger Perez Hilton is 38. Actress Nicholle Tom is 38. Thought for Today: “When people say, ‘She’s got everything,’ I’ve got one answer — I haven’t had tomorrow.” — Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE