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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, November 17, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Friendship fades following criticism of husband’s jokes FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have been friends themselves along or ask if they can go with “Martha” for 40 years. We live a with us. few hundred miles apart, so I like to If we wanted to spend more time call her and chat. The problem is, her with these women, we would have husband always answers the phone, invited them. The two of us feel that and he likes to give me a hard time. this afternoon outing is OUR time When I identify myself and ask to together and we would prefer it being speak to Martha, he says he doesn’t just us. We changed the day, which know anyone by my name, or says was a bit inconvenient but preferable Jeanne there’s no Martha living there. Once Phillips to the alternative. How do we handle he told Martha to ask me how my it when future inquiries come up Advice ex-husband was. (I have not seen my without hurting feelings or sounding ex for 40 years, since our divorce.) snobbish? — Our Time Together The last time it happened, I told Martha her Dear Our Time: Your mistake was in husband was annoying and that she should talking about your movie dates in front of call me from now on. She said he was just the other women. In the future, handle it by trying to be funny. I haven’t heard from her refraining from doing that, and your problem since, not even a birthday card. Was I wrong will go away. to speak up? Should I apologize or just lose Dear Abby: My boyfriend and I have been this friendship? — Problem Husband In together for two years. We are in our 50s and Florida have both been married before. My problem Dear Problem: Martha’s husband doesn’t is I don’t know how to respond to his friends strike me as being particularly witty. After a and family when they talk to me about his first few repeat performances of his lame material, wife. They tell story after story, and it makes I can understand how someone would become me uncomfortable. I feel disrespected but annoyed. I don’t think you owe Martha an smile politely to not be rude. Any thoughts? apology for being honest about how you — Girlfriend In New Jersey felt. Because you left the ball in her court, Dear Girlfriend: I am sure no one does it’s possible that since you did all the work it out of a desire to make you uncomfortable staying in touch, your 40-year friendship was or disrespect you. How you respond would not as close as you assumed or you would depend upon whether your boyfriend’s have heard from her. marriage ended in death or divorce. Dear Abby: A friend and I belong to a If his former wife is deceased, a way to book club and have regularly gone to lunch change the subject might be to say, “It sounds and a movie afterward. We have occasionally like she was a wonderful (mother, daughter, mentioned a movie we liked while chatting woman).” However, if the marriage ended in prior to the start of the book club meeting. divorce, all you need to say is that you’d rather This has prompted other people to invite focus on the present than the unhappy past. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 17, 1917 Though the Pendleton high school football team was defeated by Walla Walla high school yesterday 39 to 0, the score was much better than the most sanguine of the local supporters expected. Pendletonians who saw the game state that bets were made in Walla Walla that Pendleton would be defeated by 100 points just as North Yakima was. The Pendleton boys put up a great scrap against big odds and fought gamely to the end. At the end of the first half the score was only 13 to 0 but in the latter part of the second half the strain told on the lighter boys. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 17, 1967 A motion has been filed in Umatilla County District Court charging that state police made an illegal search in a raid Nov. 5, that resulted in the arrest of 14 persons who were charged with liquor law violations. Ronald Edward Thomas, Holdman Route, through his attorney, Donald Yokum, Pendleton, said in the motion that the state police “beat on the door,” but did not identify themselves or their purpose. Thomas said a state policeman forced entry through a bedroom window of the Thomas home and unlocked the door to let in the other policemen. The motion asks suppres- sion of any beer or whisky bottles seized, of any observations made by the officers and of any statements made to them. Thomas was charged with furnishing liquor to a minor, and 13 persons were charged as minors in posses- sion of beer. All have pleaded innocent. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 17, 1992 Three men on probation for past crimes have been arrested on aggravated murder charges in the shooting death of Brian David Smith. Smith, 22, of Hermiston, was found dead Thursday afternoon at the edge of Cold Springs reservoir, about five miles northeast of Hermiston. Arrested were Don Carlos Ball Jr., 22, of Hermiston; Steven Lee DeRushe, 22, of Stanfield; and Nathaneual John Miller, 21, of Umatilla. Although officials say they have a motive in the murder, they would not give details. However, they said the victim and the three suspects were all acquaintances. 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 321st day of 2017. There are 44 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 17, 1917, French sculptor Auguste Rodin died in Meudon at age 77. On this date: In 1558, Elizabeth I acceded to the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary, beginning a 44-year reign. In 1800, Congress held its first session in the partially completed U.S. Capitol building. In 1869, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt. In 1889, the Union Pacific Railroad Co. began direct, daily railroad service between Chicago and Portland, Oregon, as well as Chicago and San Francisco. In 1925, actor Rock Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman, in an address to a special session of Congress, called for emergency aid to Austria, Italy and France. (The aid was approved the following month.) In 1968, NBC outraged football fans by cutting away from the closing minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin the TV special “Heidi” on schedule. (After being taken off the air, the Raiders came from behind to beat the Jets, 43-32.) In 1973, President Richard Nixon told Associ- ated Press managing editors in Orlando, Florida: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” In 1979, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. In 1987, a federal jury in Denver convicted two white supremacists of civil rights violations in the 1984 slaying of radio talk show host Alan Berg. (Both men later died in prison.) Today’s Birthdays: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is 83. Rock musician Gerry McGee (The Ventures) is 80. Singer Gordon Lightfoot is 79. Singer-songwriter Bob Gaudio is 76. Movie director Martin Scorsese is 75. Actress Lauren Hutton is 74. Actor-director Danny DeVito is 73. “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels is 73. Baseball Hall of Famer Tom Seaver is 73. Movie director Roland Joffe is 72. Former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean is 69. Former House Speaker John Boehner is 68. Enter- tainer RuPaul is 57. Actress Rachel McAdams is 39. Rock musician Isaac Hanson (Hanson) is 37. Actor Justin Cooper is 29. Musician Reid Perry (The Band Perry) is 29. Thought for Today: “Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.” — Lillian Smith, American writer and social critic (1897-1966). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
