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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, May 3, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife is annoyed that husband
answers call of nature outside
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: We moved to the
favorite letters are, I tell them the
country, but we’re not really far
correspondence generated by “The
out of town. My educated, urbane,
Whiz-zard’s Wife’s” letter ranks
professional husband who has always
among them. A sample:
lived in the city, now bypasses our 2
Dear Abby: Though a frequent
1/2 bathrooms and relieves himself
reader (after my wife), I’ve only
outdoors in a “king of all he surveys”
now found reason to write to you, in
pose.
response to the lady who feared her
We no longer have children living
husband’s habit of urinating on their
Jeanne
at home, and he refrains from doing it Phillips lawn was inappropriate. So it may be,
when we have company or there’s any
but all men pee outdoors.
Advice
possibility of his being seen, but it still
My best to you and continued good
drives me crazy! Could I be jealous
luck with your column. — Charlton
because I am female, or should I join him? Heston, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Is it truly as unsanitary as it seems, and is my
Dear Charlton: Thank you for the
letter a “first”? — Tempted In California
input. Your letter is but a drop in the bucket
Dear Tempted: “Public” urination is compared to the deluge that has flooded my
against the law in most communities because office since I printed that letter.
Dear Abby: My husband did the same
of sanitation — as well as indecent exposure
— issues. That said, however, the practice thing over my vigorous objections, always
is not as unusual as you may believe. If you after dark. When we moved to our new
want to try it, I can’t stop you, but I do suggest home, we had a wooden fence built. I decided
you bring along some tissue and plan ahead to teach him a lesson and do the same. He
for a place to dispose of it.
was shocked. He told me I had better not do
As to whether your letter is a first, the it again. I told him as long he continued, I
answer is no. The topic arose about 20 years would do it too.
ago when “The Whiz-zard’s Wife” wrote me
Abby, he hasn’t done it since. Sometimes,
about her husband doing it after dark, and when they won’t listen, you have to SHOW
occasionally in the side yard during daylight ‘em. — Happy Wife, Forney, Texas
hours. She wondered if it was a normal male
Dear Abby: I strongly disagree with your
ritual. I replied:
answer to “Whiz-zard’s Wife.” You said
“This is not a subject that’s often you suspect the practice is not unusual. My
discussed, but I suspect the practice is not husband doesn’t do it, my ex didn’t (except
unusual. Dogs and cats urinate to mark their when he was drunk) and I’ve never seen my
territory. Your husband may be doing it for neighbors do it. My husband says the guy is
the same reason. For pets, the problem can be an exhibitionist. I say he’s lazy and ignorant.
resolved by neutering; however, I wouldn’t
However, I once knew a psychiatrist who
recommend that for your husband. The Los confessed to occasionally “watering” the
Angeles Police Department informs me that rubber tree in his outer office in this manner.
it’s ‘not illegal as long as it is not in public I can’t imagine why he disclosed this to me,
view.’”
unless it was to coax me into sharing personal
I then suggested she check with the police secrets. — Arizona Annie
Dear Annie: I can’t imagine why he did it,
in her city to be sure there are no ordinances
against it.
either. It would certainly discourage a patient
When people ask me what some of my from using the chair closest to the plant.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 3, 1918
Clyde Connor, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.W.
Connor of Stanfield, was aboard the ill-fated
“City of Athens,” which was sunk by a French
cruiser off the Delaware capes Wednesday
morning, but was rescued and is now safe
and well according to a telegram received by
his parents. Clyde was one of the 24 Marine
Corps recruits en route to southern naval
training camps.
According to the dispatches, the newly
enlisted marines upheld the tradition of the
services, and assisted in the rescue of the
passengers, several giving their lives in an
effort to save others. Only 12 of the 24 have
been accounted for. The death toll has been
placed at 68, among whom were two women
and a child. The collision occurred in a dense
fog and is thought to have been the result of a
misinterpretation of signals between the two
boats.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 3, 1968
Seven thousand pounds of explosive lifted
an acre of rock high into the air at about 2:30
p.m. Wednesday a short distance west of the
Pendleton airport junction on Highway 30. A
grader cleared the highway even before dust
from the blast had settled. Other blasts were
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
expected to be set off today as construction
crews prepare a roadbed for Interstate 80
North. The ticklish job of placing explosive
in holes in the rock and connecting the wires
so the charges go off at the same time goes to
Gene Uhalde, Dufur, and John Millison and
Andy Folkner of Pilot Rock. Match Corp.
crews, directed by Ed Morris, lay 5,080 feet
of 24-foot wide paving in a 10-hour day.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 3, 1993
Brandon Case of Pendleton follows in
his father’s footsteps as he pursues his Eagle
Scout — the highest rank in Boys Scouts of
America. Many fathers and sons share the
Eagle status. But as Native Americans, Louis
and Brandon Case may be considered unique.
Brandon belongs to Troop 743, where Louis
earned his Eagle. Dean Faro, a troop leader,
says few Native American boys become
scouts. So two generations of Eagle Scouts in
an Indian family would be uncommon. The
Cases are enrolled as Cayuse in the Confed-
erated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reser-
vation. Brandon’s mother is Kathy Seleen
of Willamina. The 14-year-old recently
completed his Eagle Scout project with a
weekend work party at Meacham Creek
about 24 miles from Pendleton. Brandon’s
crew planted more than 400 trees to fight
erosion and shade the spawning fish.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On May 3, 1978, spam
email was born as Gary
Thuerk, a marketing exec-
utive for the Digital Equip-
ment Corp. of Maynard,
Massachusetts, transmitted
an unsolicited sales pitch for
a new line of computers to
400 prospective customers on
ARPANET, a precursor to the
internet; the stunt generated
some business, as well as
complaints. “Sun Day” took
place on a Wednesday as
thousands of people extolling
the virtues of solar energy
held events across the country.
In 1916, Irish nationalists
Padraic Pearse, Thomas
Clarke
and
Thomas
MacDonagh were executed
by a British firing squad; they
were among 16 people put
to death for their roles in the
Easter Rising.
In 1937, Margaret Mitchell
won the Pulitzer Prize for her
novel, “Gone with the Wind.”
In 1952, the Kentucky
Derby was televised nation-
ally for the first time on CBS;
the winner was Hill Gail,
ridden by Eddie Arcaro.
In 1960, the Harvey
Schmidt-Tom Jones musical
“The Fantasticks” began a
nearly 42-year run at New
York’s Sullivan Street Play-
house.
In 1999, some 70 torna-
does roared across Oklahoma
and Kansas, killing 46 people
and injuring hundreds.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Alex Cord is 85. Sports
announcer Greg Gumbel is
72. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
is 69. Actress Amy Ryan is
50. TV personality Willie
Geist (TV: “Today”) is 43.
Actress Christina Hendricks
is 43. Country singer Eric
Church is 41. Actress Tanya
Wright is 40. Actress Jill
Berard is 28. Actress Zoe De
Grand Maison is 23. Rapper
Desiigner is 21.
Thought for Today: “A
man can become so accus-
tomed to the thought of his
own faults that he will begin
to cherish them as charming
little ‘personal characteris-
tics.’” — Helen Rowland,
American writer, journalist
and humorist (1876-1950).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE