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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, March 23, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Friend with benefits turns out to be a disappointment FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have known this guy I get that people who have never “Noah” for six years. We’re mostly just had pets don’t understand the joy and friends with benefits, but I’ve always unconditional love they can bring. had deeper feelings for him. I always But I don’t understand why people wanted to see where things could go we thought were close to us haven’t between us, so I mentioned it to him. acknowledged our loss in any way. He told me that if he didn’t already Some of them have — or had — pets have a girlfriend, he would have dated at one time. A few did send cards or me. So when they broke up, I waited emails, and they were so appreciated. Jeanne patiently. Phillips Their kindness will never be forgotten. I continued being a good friend to Mandy wasn’t sickly. She just Advice Noah, giving him advice and putting stopped eating one day. When we took my own feelings off to the side. Then her to the vet a few days after trying just when I felt us getting to another level in everything we could think of, the diagnosis our relationship, he told me he had another was kidney cancer. A couple of days later we girlfriend and we needed to stop. I would had to make the heartbreaking decision to put never sleep with a guy who is with someone her to sleep. else. I’m not that type of girl. My question is, am I expecting too much What should I do? I’m confused and hurt at of people? After all, you wouldn’t ignore the same time. Should I bring up my feelings the death of a human child. I’m not only again? Just let him go? Or should I keep him in disappointed but resentful that these so-called my life, but in a friend-only way? — Jumbled friends and family don’t seem to care. Emotions I suppose to some Mandy was “just a cat.” Dear Jumbled: I don’t blame you for But to us, she was our beloved furry child and feeling confused. When someone’s words and we are devastated. Please inform people that a actions don’t match, something is wrong. If kind word or short note would mean the world Noah had been honest, you would have had to people like us who are suffering real grief. your chance with him. — Deeply Grieving In Illinois I vote for letting him go because you want Dear Deeply Grieving: Please let me offer more than he’s apparently able to give. If you my condolences for the loss of Mandy. I know do, it may hurt for a while, but it will make it from personal experience what you are going easier for you to find someone who can love through, and it is very painful. That’s why you back. I’m reminding readers that when they hear of Dear Abby: We recently lost one of our someone losing a beloved pet, the kindest thing cherished pets, our oldest cat, Mandy. We one can do is to offer sympathy with a phone never had children, so our pets ARE our call, an email or a card. Believe me, the effort children. WILL be appreciated and never forgotten. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 23, 1917 While Umatilla county farmers are hoping devoutly for the day when the jackrabbit will be an extinct animal in these parts and are doing all they can to eradicate them, certain men in New York are desirous of introducing these rabbits there for game purposes. Stanley Jewett of the biological survey has received a letter from W.H. Lafleur, Morrisonville, N.Y., in which the writer states that he would like to secure a “jack and several does” for breeding purposes in the hopes of introducing those animals there. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 23, 1967 Pendleton’s downtown mall has turned to mush. City crews preparing a two-block stretch of Main Street for a temporary mall ran into trouble Wednesday when markings painted on the street to outline crosswalks, traffic lanes and parking stalls turned to mush after being pelted by rain the past two days. Early Wednesday afternoon city employees were cleaning off all the work they had done the previous two days. It will be back to the drawing board, so to speak, for the city in its mall efforts. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 23, 1992 Maybe they can’t own the car, but with a quick twist of the wrist they can soon be wearing the status of the car around their necks. Hood ornament thieves have been active in Milton-Freewater, with a rash of at least one dozen thefts reported last week. An ornament on a necklace or just as a collector’s item has been known to be attractive to youths in other Umatilla County cities. Detective Mike Brown of the Milton-Freewater Police Department is certain the number of thefts reported to his department isn’t an accurate tally of the pilfering that occurred last week. Brown said the targets are usually expensive cars: Cadil- lacs, Mercedes, Lincoln Continentals. 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 82nd day of 2017. There are 283 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 23, 1792, Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G Major (known as the “Surprise” symphony because of an unexpected crashing chord in the second movement) had its first public performance in London. On this date: In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Conven- tion in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” In 1806, explorers Meri- wether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east. In 1914, the first installment of “The Perils of Pauline,” the legendary silent film serial starring Pearl White, premiered in the greater New York City area. In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effec- tively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers. In 1942, the first Japa- 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, America’s first two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight. In 1973, before sentencing a group of Water- gate 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 was “political pressure” to “plead guilty and remain silent.” In 1983, President Ronald Reagan first proposed 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 Jarvik permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device. Today’s Birthdays: Comedian Marty Allen is 95. Sir Roger Bannister (the runner who broke the 4-minute mile in 1954) is 88. Movie director Mark Rydell is 88. International Motorsports Hall of Famer Craig Breedlove is 80. Singer-producer Ric Ocasek is 68. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is 65. Singer Chaka Khan is 64. Actress Amanda Plummer is 60. Actress Catherine Keener is 58. Actress Hope Davis is 53. Actor Richard Grieco is 52. Country musician Kevin Griffin (Yankee Grey) is 52. Actress Marin Hinkle is 51. Rock sing- er-musician Damon Albarn (Blur) is 49. Actress-singer Melissa Errico is 47. Rock musician John Humphrey (The Nixons) is 47. Band- leader Reggie Watts (TV: “The Late Late Show With James Corden”) is 45. Actor Randall Park is 43. Actress Michelle Monaghan is 41. Actress Keri Russell is 41. Thought for Today: “In anger, you look ten years older.” — Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (1890-1966). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
