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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Husband’s threat of divorce
compels wife to lose weight
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I have been married
your image of yourself. Then, once
for 18 years and have two wonderful
you have achieved your goal and feel
kids, ages 14 and 12. Ten months
better about yourself, decide whether
ago, my husband said to me, “I told
you want to remain married to a man
you I would divorce you if you ever
who has such poor “muscle tone”
got fat.” I was shocked! Yes, I have
between the ears.
gained some weight over the years,
Dear Abby: I am a 63-year-old
but at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 150
widow. I have not been with a man
pounds, I was not exactly obese.
since my husband died 10 years
Jeanne
I was frightened by what he said, so Phillips ago. I am now dating a 31-year-old
I took off 25 pounds. He didn’t appear
man. I am deeply in love with him.
Advice
to notice, so I asked him, “Now what
He says he’s in love with me, too,
do you think?” He said, “You have no
but his family says he doesn’t know
muscle tone!”
what love is. He was previously in a four-year
Abby, nothing I do is good enough. I work relationship with someone his own age.
part-time and take care of our kids and the
Am I crazy for dating a man who is 31?
house. I go out of my way to cook and bake He’s everything I have always wanted, and
interesting things for them. Any appreciation? what I would consider the perfect man for
me. He claims his only problem with dating
His praise is, “Not bad.”
Abby, what should I do? — Biggest Loser me is that I will probably pass away in 20
years, and he will be alone and devastated.
In New York
Dear “Loser”: Before I answer your My concern is I feel I am preventing him
question, I should point out that the way some from future children and a possible wife his
abusers maintain control is by withholding own age. He says he doesn’t want kids, but
I’m not so sure. Please tell me what to do. I
approval, love, money, etc.
According to the National Institutes of have never been in this situation before. —
Health, a woman who is 5 feet 5 inches tall Help, Please, In Pennsylvania
should weigh between 114 and 144 pounds
Dear Help, Please: As relationships
to be considered a normal weight. For your evolve, couples learn more about each other.
husband to threaten you with divorce if you You didn’t mention how long you and this
didn’t lose weight was brutal. Nothing you do man have been involved with each other,
is good enough because keeping you insecure but if it has been less than a year, you would
and always trying to gain his approval is how be wise to slow things down. It would be in
he maintains the upper hand in your marriage. your interest to know why his family thinks
Losing weight is not easy. You should have he doesn’t know what love is. The answer to
been praised for your success.
that question could be enlightening.
Since you asked what to do, I’ll tell you:
As to your not being certain that he doesn’t
Take him at his word. Your husband may want to be a father, in spite of the fact that he
have said your muscle tone is flabby, but from says he doesn’t, not everyone wants children.
where I sit, what’s sagging is your self-esteem. If you aren’t sure that everything he’s telling
Go to the gym. Get into a training program. you is the truth, I suggest you wait a few more
Improve that muscle tone, and along with it innings before swinging for a home run.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 27, 1917
John McCourt, former Pendleton lawyer
and now a member of the commission on
training camp activities, would have Pend-
leton declare a quarantine against social
diseases both as a protection of soldiers
passing through this city and for the residents
of the community. Such an ordinance has
been passed by Portland and many other
cities in the country in response to a request
from the military authorities. Mr. McCourt
proposes that the city should have the
power to isolate persons afflicted with social
diseases whenever necessary for the protec-
tion of others. He declares that the British and
French armies have found these diseases a
real menace against efficiency and he quotes
some alarming statistics as to the prevalence
and effects of the diseases.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 27, 1967
A pair of Pendleton High School gradu-
ates are the big winners on the Seattle Pacific
College wrestling team. Bill Lemm, team
captain and two-year letterman, has a 7-2-1
mark and Drake Lemm, a freshman, is 7-2.
Bill, 32-4 when the season started, was the
first outstanding wrestler to enter Seattle
Pacific, now in its third full year of wrestling.
Bill’s championship performance in the
University of Washington invitational last
weekend was his second in that tournament.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 27, 1992
The Elks Club will re-open its kitchen
Tuesday after a 12-day voluntary closure —
but health officials have yet to draw an official
conclusion on the wave of viral illness that
swept the community in early December. The
Umatilla County Health Department linked
the fraternal restaurant with an outbreak of
vomiting and diarrhea among those who ate
there. But health department director Sharon
Kline said the restaurant’s re-opening would
pose few health problems. “As soon as you
eliminate the infected people — they’re well.
They’re not going to be a continuing source
of transmission of that virus,” she explained.
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 361st day of
2017. There are four days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Dec. 27, 1927, the
musical play “Show Boat,”
with music by Jerome
Kern and libretto by Oscar
Hammerstein II, opened at
the Ziegfeld Theater in New
York, beginning a run of 572
performances.
On this date:
In 1831, naturalist Charles
Darwin set out on a round-
the-world voyage aboard the
HMS Beagle.
In 1892, the cornerstone
was laid for the Cathedral of
Saint John the Divine in New
York City.
In 1904, James Barrie’s
play “Peter Pan: The Boy
Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”
opened at the Duke of York’s
Theater in London.
In 1932, New York City’s
Radio City Music Hall first
opened.
In 1945, the World Bank
and the International Mone-
tary Fund were formally
established.
In 1947, the original
version of the puppet char-
acter Howdy Doody made
his TV debut on NBC’s
“Puppet Playhouse.”
In 1949, Queen Juliana
of the Netherlands signed an
act recognizing Indonesia’s
sovereignty after more than
three centuries of Dutch rule.
In 1968, Apollo 8 and its
three astronauts made a safe,
nighttime splashdown in the
Pacific.
In 1979, Soviet forces
seized control of Afghani-
stan. President Hafizullah
Amin, who was overthrown
and executed, was replaced
by Babrak Karmal.
In 1995, Israeli jeeps sped
out of the West Bank town of
Ramallah, capping a seven-
week pullout giving Yasser
Arafat control over 90 percent
of the West Bank’s one
million Palestinian residents
and one-third of its land.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor John Amos is 78. ABC
News correspondent Cokie
Roberts is 74. Rock musician
Mick Jones (Foreigner) is
73. Singer Tracy Nelson is
73. Actor Gerard Depardieu
is 69. Jazz singer-musician
T.S. Monk is 68. Sing-
er-songwriter Karla Bonoff
is 66. Rock musician David
Knopfler (Dire Straits) is
65. Actress Tovah Feldshuh
is 64. Journalist-turned-pol-
itician Arthur Kent is 64.
Actress Maryam D’Abo
is 57. Country musician
Jeff Bryant is 55. Actor
Ian Gomez is 53. Actress
Theresa Randle is 53. Actress
Eva LaRue is 51. Wrestler
and actor Bill Goldberg is 51.
Rock singer Hayley Williams
(Paramore) is 29.
Thought for Today:
“Everybody gets so much
information all day long
that they lose their common
sense.” — Gertrude Stein,
American author (1874-
1946).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE