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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, February 28, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Off-and-on relationship may be off again after confession 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: My boyfriend, “Al,” 1/2-year-old boy’s fingernails when and I have been together for two he begs me to? I’m a stay-at-home years off and on. We dated casually mom and very close with my son. for six months before we decided to When I paint my nails (I paint them be exclusive. Unbeknownst to him, I pink), my son sees me and insists I was also sleeping with someone else, paint his toes and fingers “just like “Brandon.” Mommy.” Al and I had a fight and broke up I see it as all in fun, but my moth- for a few months, and during that er-in-law makes snide comments Jeanne time I slept with another good friend Phillips about him being a boy and that boys of mine, “Marc.” When Marc and I shouldn’t have their nails painted. My Advice decided it wasn’t serious and moved husband has also said I should stop. on, Al and I got back together. I know my son will want me to I didn’t feel obligated to tell Al about it paint his nails only a little while longer. It’s at the time, since “technically” I did nothing not harming anyone, and I’m sick of all the wrong. But as we became more and more gender barriers. Am I wrong here? — Pretty serious, it occurred to me that it was a lie of In Pink Dear Pretty: Your mother-in-law appears omission, since we interact with both men on a social level. I told Al, and he isn’t handling to think that polishing your 2-year-old’s nails it well, so now I’m at a loss about what to do. will “make” him effeminate. It’s no more Honesty and time are key, I know, but he valid than her not doing it has “made” your is distancing himself from me. Do I let him husband masculine. Ignore the snide remarks go? I am fighting hard right now, but I’m because you are not going to change her. feeling beaten down at every turn. — Wrong Whether your little boy wants you to In The East continue painting his nails pink — or, for Dear Wrong: Not all relationships last that matter, to wear something pink — is far forever. It’s possible that this one has run its less important than making sure he knows course. you love and support him and it’s OK to If you and Al had agreed you would both be HIMSELF. That’s the way parents raise be abstinent after the separation, he has confident and successful children. reason to be upset. If you had promised each Dear Abby: What is your opinion about other there would be an accounting of who elderly parents who no longer drive having each of you had been with and you didn’t live to pay their children to drive them to appoint- up to it, I can see why he would be distancing. ments, grocery, etc.? Think of all the times However, if an understanding wasn’t in place, parents drove them when they were growing then you were free to be with others and you up. — Returning The Favor did nothing wrong. Dear Returning The Favor: Most adult If Al no longer wants to be with you — for children with a memory would never dream whatever reason — you have no choice but of asking to be paid for driving their elderly to let him go. For your sake, quit allowing parents. A child who would do this must be yourself to be beaten down and make it as desperate for money. In my opinion, because painless for yourself as possible. they are paying for it, the parents should Dear Abby: Is it wrong to paint my 2 make other arrangements for transportation. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 28, 1918 The Scharpf home in Pilot Rock was the scene of quite a hold-up Sunday night. Quite a party had gathered to spend the evening playing cards. About ten o’clock two masked men entered the room and the occupants were ordered to raise their hands. From the different men the “robbers” collect about four hundred dollars. When the excitement was at the highest the men unmasked and were found to be George Done and Levi Eldridge. Mr. Bracher who furnished $200 of the loot was later found to be one of the conspirators. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 28, 1968 Ron Rainwater, Boyd Marlatt and Gary Key were the main cogs for Umapine but they had to battle to overshadow Echo’s Joe Rosenberg as the Chiefs edged past the Cougars 69-68 in Weston Monday to gain fourth place in the Umatilla-Morrow League and a spot in the District 7-B hoop tourna- ment. One of the largest crowds ever to pack into the Weston gym was on hand to witness the donnybrook and they saw plenty as Rosenberg and Rainwater battled to the hilt, both getting in foul trouble early but staying in the fracas and giving their teams fine clutch performances. Rainwater, sitting out much of the second and third periods because of foul trouble, wound up with 42 points on 14-25 from the field and 14-16 from the free throw line — the last 13 in a row. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 28, 1993 Two local teachers have turned a tried- and-true board game on its head — and they’re hoping to turn a profit in the process. “We didn’t want to duplicate the game that was already made,” said Pendleton Junior High School industrial arts teacher Jim Davis, who created a made-over Monopoly with special education teacher Judy Emerick. The new game comes with a new name, Pendle- tonopoly. And players vie for equipment and horses, instead of hotels. But the most striking difference is the game’s goal: the Round-Up Grounds. There players-turned-riders participate in a wide range of events from bulldogging to wild cow milking. Winning depends on the quality of equipment paid for during the player’s traditional trips around the game’s perimeter. 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 59th day of 2018. There are 306 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Purim begins at sunset. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 28, 1993, a gun battle erupted at a religious compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to arrest Branch Davidian leader David Koresh on weapons charges; four agents and six David- ians were killed as a 51-day standoff began. On this date: In 1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded as the ship was sailing on the Potomac River, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secre- tary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others. In 1861, the Territory of Colorado was organized. In 1917, The Associated Press reported that the United States had obtained a diplo- matic communication sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to a German official in Mexico proposing a German alliance with Mexico and Japan should the U.S. enter World War I. (Outrage over the tele- gram helped propel America into the conflict.) In 1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced they had discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. In 1960, a day after defeating the Soviets at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California, the United States won its first Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia, 9-4. In 1975, 42 people were killed in London’s Under- ground when a train smashed into the end of a tunnel. Today’s Birthdays: Architect Frank Gehry is 89. Actor Gavin MacLeod is 87. Singer Sam the Sham is 81. Actor-director-dancer Tommy Tune is 79. Hall of Fame auto racer Mario Andretti is 78. Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu is 70. Actress Ilene Graff is 69. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is 65. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is 63. Actor John Turturro is 61. Country singer Jason Aldean is 41. Actress Melanie Chandra (TV: “Code Black”) is 34. Thought for Today: “In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.” — Mary McCarthy, American author and critic (1912- 1989). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE