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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, November 14, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Discovery of pregnancy tests surprises live-in girlfriend FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am a lesbian. My with someone else. girlfriend and I have been dating for Dear Abby: My husband and I six months. We have an awesome have a wonderful life and much to be relationship and are very happy and thankful for, but we have no children open with each other. and are usually alone on Thanks- I know she has dated guys in giving and Christmas. Everyone the past — so have I — so I’m not makes such a fuss about sharing worried about that nonsense at all. But these holidays with loved ones, but I I recently found something of hers become depressed during this season. Jeanne that surprised me. It was a container of Phillips I do volunteer work on these pregnancy tests, and one was missing holidays, but still feel sad and like Advice with a Plan B pill alongside of it. I am everyone else in the country is having not mad about it because I know stuff a better time than I am. Any sugges- happens, but I would rather that it not happen tions? — Not So Jolly In Arizona in our apartment. Dear Not So Jolly: You must be a new I’m tempted to bring it up, but I would reader of my column or you would know honestly rather not discuss it at all. I just don’t that every year around holiday time I receive want anything happening in the apartment. letters from people like you, expressing that Would it be weird if I just threw the stuff out rather than feeling joyful and elated, they without telling her, or should I say something? feel depressed and deprived. Some of it may What if she wants to keep it? I don’t think be the result of the incessant marketing of that would be the case, but it would start a these holidays, which gives the impression fight because, as a female couple, we obvi- that “everyone” is having a grand old time ously don’t need a pregnancy test. I know I sipping cider, stuffing themselves with turkey am overthinking this, and I could use some and caroling under the windows of their advice on how to handle this uncomfortable neighbors. situation. — Surprised About It An antidote for your holiday blues might Dear Surprised: I’m glad you asked. Do be to do more than volunteer. Why don’t NOT “quietly” throw out those pregnancy you and your husband plan to do something tests or the medication. I don’t know what special to treat yourselves, rather than stay kind of arrangement you have with your home feeling like everyone else is enjoying live-in girlfriend, but if fidelity was part of the themselves? Choose a different destination agreement, you should absolutely talk with each year to visit and learn about. her about what you found. It does not have to Or invite some friends or acquaintances to degenerate into a fight, but it’s important that join you at home. There’s a saying that misery you know why she feels the need to be in an loves company, and in your case, company intimate relationship, regardless of gender, might be the solution to the problem. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 13-14, 1917 The oriental population of Pendleton placed itself first in the response to the request for money with which to purchase Christmas presents for the boys at the front. This morning Ung D. Goey, who was commissioned to solicit among the Chinese and Japanese, turned over $38 to the general committee. The other committees will not go out until tomorrow morning. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 13-14, 1967 It has been suggested we again go over the reorganization plan, step by step, said Charles Rohde, Pendleton, member of the Umatilla County Intermediate Education District last night. Then many of the some 300 in the audi- ence began walking out. “Maybe it’s not such a good idea,” said Rohde. Almost two hours before the IED board outlined a proposed reorganization plan for McLoughlin Union High School District No. 3 and elementary schools within it. Many patrons of the elementary schools involved (Tum-A-Lum, BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Pleasant View, Ferndale of Milton-Freewater School District No. 31) expressed fear their schools would be gobbled up in a reorganized district, that their taxes would be higher, and that they would lose their representation. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 13-14, 1992 Umatilla County’s top criminal lawyers, including District Attorney Dave Gallaher, testified Thursday during pre-trial motions in the murder case of David L. Selders. At issue now is whether Selders, one of two Milton-Freewater men charged with the killing of a Brownsville couple on Weston Mountain in 1990, will be prosecuted for aggravated murder — punishable by death — or intentional murder — punishable by life in prison. The charges against Selders were reduced to intentional murder when he agreed in August of 1990 to testify against co-defendant Jon Q. Johnston. But late in 1991 authorities learned — through poly- graph exams — that Selders lied about his part in the murders and, following Johnston’s change of plea, recharged Selders with aggra- vated murder. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 318th day of 2017. There are 47 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 14, 1889, inspired by the Jules Verne novel “Around the World in Eighty Days,” New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to make the trip in less time than the fictional Phileas Fogg. (She completed the journey in 72 days.) On this date: In 1851, Herman Melville’s novel “Moby- Dick; Or, The Whale” was published in the United States, almost a month after being released in Britain. In 1910, Eugene B. Ely became the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss pusher rolled off a sloping platform on the deck of the scout cruiser USS Birmingham off Hampton Roads, Virginia. In 1925, the first group exhibition of surrealistic paintings opened at the Galerie Pierre in Paris. In 1940, during World War II, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry. In 1954, the president of Egypt, Muhammad Naguib, was deposed by the Revolu- tionary Command Council, leaving Gamal Abdel Nasser fully in charge as acting head of state. In 1965, the U.S. Army’s first major military oper- ation of the Vietnam War began with the start of the five-day Battle of Ia Drang. (The fighting between American troops and North Vietnamese forces ended on Nov. 18 with both sides claiming victory.) In 1969, Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon. In 1986, the Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a $100 million penalty on inside-trader Ivan F. Boesky and barred him from working again in the securities industry. In 1996, Singer Michael Jackson married his plastic surgeon’s nurse, Debbie Rowe, in a ceremony in Sydney, Australia. (Rowe filed for divorce in 1999.) Today’s Birthdays: Actress Kathleen Hughes is 89. Former NASA astronaut Fred Haise is 84. Jazz musi- cian Ellis Marsalis is 83. Composer Wendy Carlos is 78. Writer P.J. O’Rourke is 70. Britain’s Prince Charles is 69. Rock singer-musician James Young (Styx) is 68. Singer Stephen Bishop is 66. Blues musician Anson Funderburgh is 63. Pianist Yanni is 63. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condo- leezza Rice is 63. Former presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett is 61. Actress Laura San Giacomo is 56. Actor D.B. Sweeney is 56. Rapper Reverend Run (Run-DMC) is 53. Actor Patrick Warburton is 53. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Curt Schilling is 51. Rock musician Travis Barker is 42. Rock musician Tobin Esperance (Papa Roach) is 38. Actress-comedian Vanessa Bayer is 36. Thought for Today: “Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.” — Chuang-tzu, Chinese writer (c.369 B.C.- c.286 B.C.). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
