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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, July 28, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Sweet man sours marriage by calling his wife fat FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am a large, over- pictures and posts them online while weight woman. I have been in the we’re together, but I am never in them process of losing weight for more and he never mentions that I’m there. than ive years. I got married three Example: We took trips to Las years ago to an amazing guy. He’s the Vegas, New York and Jamaica. He sweetest man I have ever met. posted dozens of pictures of himself, Something he said recently really but none of us together. When we go bothers me. He said he thinks I’m fat. to nice restaurants, he shoots pictures While I know I’m fat — and admit of the food and solo selies, but never Jeanne it out loud — I never thought it was Phillips mentions that I’m there, too. He has appropriate for your signiicant other female friends I have never met who Advice to say it to you. comment on all his fabulous adven- I am at a loss as to what to do tures. because he is right, but it hurts my feelings It appears to me that Shane has created an that he not only thinks it but says it. I have online image as an exciting, jet-setting single tried talking to him about how it makes me guy. But when I say that, he tells me I am feel, but he just shrugs his shoulders. He sees being “immature.” I am considering ending nothing wrong with calling me fat. What do the relationship because of this. What do you you think? — Big Girl In Champaign, Ill. think? — Out Of The Picture Dear Big Girl: If you call yourself fat, then Dear Out Of The Picture: When a couple it’s possible your husband didn’t think his has been living together for two years and doing so would hurt your feelings. Straighten spends the majority of their time together, him out. And when you do, tell him what other their friends usually know they are involved. terms you would prefer he use (i.e., “big and That Shane has cultivated an image of himself beautiful,” “bountiful and bodacious,” etc.). online as fancy-free seems strange to me, too. Point out that whether it is a large or small It may be that he is self-centered, or that he’s amount, getting weight off is dificult. Also, not as committed to your relationship as you it’s not unusual for people who are hurting to would like him to be. eat more in order to compensate. He married When you tell a person something bothers you when you were heavier, so he should be you, and that person not only doesn’t do some- aware not only that you’re making progress, thing about it but blames you, it’s a red lag. but also that you need his support. But if everything else in the relationship is as Dear Abby: I’m 30 and have lived with my ine as you say, it doesn’t have to be a deal- boyfriend, “Shane,” for two years. We spend breaker. I assume you have a social media lots of time together, our families socialize and presence of your own. I suggest that you ill it we have a good relationship. My problem is with lots of pictures of Shane, the two of you Shane’s use of social media. He takes a lot of together and the places you’re going together. 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 July 28, 1916 Supposing you were a demure little lady coming into Pendleton for a irst visit arriving at the depot yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock when all the trains were in and the people were running here and there and the cabbies yelling and the conductors calling and general confusion prevailing, and you grabbed a suit case and rushed away with your friends and had a nice visit until time to retire when you opened up that suit case and found that you were supposed to sleep in a pair of chaps, high-heeled cowboy boots, sliver mounted spurs, an extremely noisy shirt and a buckskin lariat. That is really what happened to a young lady last evening and this morning she was down town bright and early trying to ind the owner of the cowboy suit case and make a very desirable exchange with him. She described the contents of the suit case she had to T. F. O’Brien, local agent of the O.-W. R. & N., and he immediately tied the ribbon on Danny Clark, cowboy and Round-Up champion steer roper and livestock man for the railroad, for no other cowboy in the north- west carries such decidedly nice clothes with him. Danny didn’t open his suit case when he retired for the night so the surprise was all the greater this morning when he was told what happened. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 28, 1966 Specially trained ireighters from the Heppner district of the Blue Mt. National Forest were called to a fast spreading blaze between Bend and Lakeview recently. Loren Lucore, ire control oficer of the Heppner district, said the lames covered 60 acres at 4 p.m. Friday and 150 acres an hour later. A 12-man ire suppression crew, a special inter-forest group stationed for the summer at Tupper Ranger Station near Heppner, was dispatched. Lucore said the ighters were expected back in the district by today and that the big blaze, which got to 850 acre size, was contained Monday. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 28, 1991 Six years ago Tony Frost of Pendleton and Tavito Meza of Yuma, Ariz., received bone marrow transplants the same day in a Seattle hospital. The bone marrow donors — Frost’s then 14-year-old sister, Tammy, and Meza’s mother, Rosa — were roommates. That was the start of a keen friendship between the patients, the donors and well as the recipients, and their families. The friendship will be rekindled today when the Mezas stop in Pend- leton to visit the Frosts. The Mezas are on their way back to Arizona after traveling to Seattle for Tavito’s six-year checkup. 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 210th day of 2016. There are 156 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 28, 1976, an earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an oficial esti- mate. On this date: In 1540, King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his ifth wife, Catherine Howard. In 1655, French dramatist and novelist Cyrano de Bergerac, the inspiration for a play by Edmond Rostand, died in Paris at age 36. In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading igure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine. In 1821, Peru declared its independence from Spain. In 1866, British children’s author Beatrix Potter was born in London. In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In 1932, federal troops forcibly dispersed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington to demand payments they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945. In 1945, a U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th loor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people. The U.S. Senate ratiied the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2. In 1959, in preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the irst Chinese-Amer- ican, Republican Hiram L. Fong, to the U.S. Senate and the irst Japanese-American, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, to the U.S. House of Repre- sentatives. In 1984, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics opened. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Darryl Hickman is 85. Ballet dancer-choreographer Jacques d’Amboise is 82. Musical conductor Riccardo Muti is 75. Former Senator and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Bradley is 73. “Garield” creator Jim Davis is 71. Singer Jonathan Edwards is 70. Actress Linda Kelsey is 70. TV producer Dick Ebersol is 69. Actress Sally Struthers is 69. Actress Georgia Engel is 68. Rock musician Simon Kirke (Bad Company) is 67. Rock musician Steve Morse (Deep Purple) is 62. CBS anchorman Scott Pelley is 59. Rapper Soulja Boy is 26. Thought for Today: “Knowing others is intel- ligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.” — From the Tao Te Ching, the sacred book of Taoism. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE