Tuesday, May 16, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
Page 7A
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
When man is ready to talk,
his wife can’t stay awake
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: As the only income
are well-behaved, but they have a lot
earner in our household of five, I work
of energy. I have two kids and limited
long hours. Sometimes I would enjoy
free time, and my husband no longer
talking about my day with my wife of
walks them. I refuse to do it because
18 years. While she has no problem
the dogs are very strong. They have
staying awake to watch TV or going
knocked me over on a couple of
out with her friends on the weekend,
occasions. Because the dogs have no
she usually falls asleep right in the
release, we have come home several
middle of what I’m saying. It also
times to find they have destroyed one
Jeanne
happens in the car while I’m driving.
Phillips thing or another in the house (chewed
Contrast this to a recent trip she
up walls, furniture, carpet).
Advice
took with her friends where they
I suggested dog training and/or a
talked and yucked it up for five hours
dog walker, but my husband refuses
straight. No matter how tired I am at the end and promises to start walking them again
of a long work week, I will do everything in (which usually lasts a couple of weeks, at
my power to stay awake if there’s something most). He was raised to believe that dogs are
she needs to talk about. I can’t figure out why part of the family, while I was not, so when I
she’s not doing the same for me.
suggest that we “rehome” the dogs to someone
When I tell her it hurts my feelings that who can devote more time to them, he won’t
she doesn’t think I’m important enough to consider it, saying he could never do that to a
make the effort to stay awake, or at least tell family member.
me she’s too tired to talk, I get criticized for
I’m at my wit’s end. The situation is
not being sympathetic to how tired she is. At affecting our marriage in a number of ways.
first I thought it was true. But now I think her Any advice you can offer would be greatly
behavior is self-centered. Am I crazy to think appreciated. — Lots Of Energy In California
this way? — Unheard In Illinois
Dear Lots Of Energy: Gladly. Enlist your
Dear Unheard: You’re not crazy. You husband’s help once again in walking those
seem perfectly rational to me. What your wife “family members” and suggest he take the
is doing when you try to tell her that you are kids along. They might enjoy the “family”
hurt is accuse you of doing exactly what she outing, and it would give you some time to
has been doing. To prevent your anger from yourself. Your reason for not doing it is valid.
building over this, discuss it with her when You should not risk physical injury.
she’s wide awake — in a marriage counselor’s
When he stops walking the dogs again
office, if necessary. Please do it before you in a few weeks — as he will — hire the dog
encounter a lady who IS sympathetic and walker. If he objects, ask him which is more
willing to listen, because there are plenty of expensive, this or fixing the damage the
them out there.
dogs invariably cause when they haven’t had
Dear Abby: My husband and I have had enough exercise to tire them out. I’m sure he
two big dogs for several years. In general, they will see your reasoning.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 15-16, 1917
A thriving business in lemon extract was
broken up yesterday afternoon with the arrest
of George DeMott, proprietor of a Main street
cigar store, who was charged with selling
intoxicating liquor to Indians. He pleaded
guilty in police court this morning and was
assessed $25 by Judge Fitz Gerald. Lemon
extract, be it said, is about 95 per cent alcohol
and anyone whose insides are plated enough
to stand this “liquid hellfire” can acquire
a most thorough “jag” on a small part of a
bottle. DeMott’s attorney raised the question
as to whether the particular lemon extract sold
contained more than one half of one per cent
of alcohol. Judge Fitz Gerald took the bottle
and let the liquid touch his tongue. After he
had got his breath and spat and whistled, he
gave his opinion thusly, “That stuff would
make a white rabbit fight a bulldog.”
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 15-16, 1967
Sections of the John Day River in central
Oregon will run red on June 12 when the
Department of the Interior’s Geological
Survey begins a second series of dye
injections. The harmless bright-red dye will
be poured into the river and several of its
tributaries and observed as it moves down-
stream. Purpose of these injections is to more
accurately determine the travel time of water
in the basin.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 15-16, 1992
The Pendleton Fire Department, faced
with a revolving door that empties into
western Oregon, is introducing a program it
hopes will keep experienced firefighters east
of the Cascades. The Pendleton Fire Depart-
ment and Ambulance Service has initiated
a Student Resident Firefighter/Emergency
Medical Technician program it hopes will
give a boost to students interested in a career
in public safety. The department expects to
benefit from the program with additional
workers and a pool of qualified candidates
from northeast Oregon who are more likely
to remain as satisfied employees.
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 136th day of
2017. There are 229 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On May 16, 1868, the
U.S. Senate failed by one
vote to convict President
Andrew Johnson as it took
its first ballot on the eleven
articles of impeachment
against him.
On this date:
In 1770, Marie Antoi-
nette, age 14, married the
future King Louis XVI of
France, who was 15.
In 1866, Congress autho-
rized minting of the first
five-cent piece, also known
as the “Shield nickel.”
In 1920, Joan of Arc was
canonized by Pope Benedict
XV.
In 1939, the federal
government began its first
food stamp program in Roch-
ester, New York.
In 1946, the Irving Berlin
musical “Annie Get Your
Gun,” starring Ethel Merman
as Annie Oakley, opened on
Broadway.
In 1957, federal agent
Eliot Ness, who organized
“The Untouchables” team
that took on gangster Al
Capone, died in Coudersport,
Pennsylvania, at age 54.
In 1966, China launched
the Cultural Revolution, a
radical as well as deadly
reform movement aimed
at purging the country of
“counter-revolutionaries.”
In 1975, Japanese climber
Junko Tabei became the first
woman to reach the summit
of Mount Everest.
In 1977, a New York
Airways helicopter idling
atop the Pan Am Building in
midtown Manhattan toppled
over, killing four passengers
who were waiting to board
and sending debris falling
to the street below, killing a
fifth person.
In 1988, the U.S.
Supreme Court, in California
v. Greenwood, ruled that
police can search discarded
garbage without a search
warrant. Surgeon General
C. Everett Koop released a
report declaring nicotine was
addictive in ways similar to
heroin and cocaine.
Today’s Birthdays: U.S.
Rep John Conyers, D-Mich.,
is 88. Former U.S. Senator
and Connecticut Governor
Lowell Weicker is 86. Jazz
musician Billy Cobham is
73. Actor Danny Trejo is 73.
Actor Bill Smitrovich is 70.
Actor Pierce Brosnan is 64.
Actress Debra Winger is 62.
Olympic gold medal gymnast
Olga Korbut is 62. Olympic
gold medal marathon runner
Joan Benoit Samuelson is 60.
Actress Mare Winningham
is 58. Rock musician Boyd
Tinsley (The Dave Matthews
Band) is 53. Rock musician
Krist Novoselic is 52. Singer
Janet Jackson is 51. Country
singer Scott Reeves (Blue
County) is 51. Rhythm-and-
blues singer Ralph Tresvant
(New Edition) is 49. Actor
David Boreanaz is 48. Polit-
ical correspondent Tucker
Carlson is 48. Actress Tracey
Gold is 48. . Actress Tori
Spelling is 44.
Thought for Today:
“Those who don’t believe in
magic will never find it.” —
Roald Dahl, British author
(1916-1990).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE