Tuesday, May 29, 2018
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Family urges bride to choose
flaky cousin as maid of honor
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I have an extremely
what is not.
difficult decision to make. I recently
I recently met someone I really
got engaged to the love of my life.
like, but I’m not sure if he feels the
However, with this comes the deci-
same way. I have never felt this
sion of who should be my maid of
way about anyone before, and I am
honor.
scared I’ll mess it up. I don’t want
Until a couple of years ago, the
to be alone and I’m afraid that’s
choice was obvious — my cousin.
what is going to happen to me.
Jeanne
Over the past couple of years,
I am not sure how to interact
though, we’ve become distant. Phillips with other gay guys. It took me so
Advice
She’s an extremely flaky person and
long to come out, I don’t want it to
can’t be counted on for much. Now,
take forever to find someone. How
I also have a best friend who is always there do I get over this fear of being alone and be
when I need her, but we’ve been friends for comfortable around guys? — Feeling Lost
only a couple of years.
In Massachusetts
My immediate family says I should still
Dear Feeling Lost: Make a conscious
ask my cousin to be my maid of honor decision to relax and just be yourself
because her feelings will be hurt if I don’t. because it isn’t necessary to be anyone but
Abby, I don’t want to give such a special who you are. In time, you will realize there
title to someone I can no longer depend on. are as many kinds of relationships in the
She has hurt my feelings countless times by
gay community as there are in the straight
not being there. She shouldn’t get the honor
community. Some men are looking for
just because I’ve known her forever. Please
casual hookups while others want the same
help. — Stuck At A Crossroads
Dear Stuck: Talk to your cousin and kind of solid, lasting relationship you do.
Because you are confused about “how
also your best friend. When you do, remind
to
fit
into the gay community,” you might
your cousin there are serious responsibil-
find
guidance
if you contact the nearest gay
ities that go along with being a maid of
and
lesbian
center
and join one of their talk
honor and ask if they would create a prob-
lem for her. Tell her that if it’s too much for groups. One that’s comprised of individu-
her, she could be a bridesmaid. If she says als who are “newly out” would be perfect
she wants to be maid of honor, give her for you.
Dear Abby: I feel much more comfort-
the chance. However, if she flakes EVEN
able
eating gluten-free. But it creates prob-
ONCE, ask your best friend to step in.
Dear Abby: Last year I came out as a lems when I’m invited to the homes of
gay man. I’m 35, and it was a very diffi- friends. What’s the best way to deal with
my dietary restrictions when invited to
cult decision.
I haven’t been in a relationship with a these affairs? — Restricted Eater
Dear Restricted: If catering to your
man before and have dated only women up
until now. I have been on a few dates, and dietary restrictions is a problem for your
I feel like I fall too fast and easy for a guy. host, deal with it by asking if he or she will
I’m struggling to fit into the gay commu- be serving salad and bring something with
nity and understand what is acceptable and you that you can eat with it.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 28-29, 1918
Damage amounting to approximately
$25,000 was caused in Heppner yesterday
afternoon by fire which started from a box
of hot ashes in the rear of the Opera house
building. Dick Johns, of Monument, who
recently engaged in the garage business in
this city, was badly burned about the face
and head and is in a serious condition. B.G.
Sigsbee, who conducted a photograph stu-
dio in the second floor of the opera house
and Oscar Otto, music store proprietor, were
in the studio when the fire started and were
cut off from the stairway. They were rescued
from the high window with difficulty. They
sustained slight burns and were almost over-
come by heat and smoke. A wind storm pre-
vailed during the fire and had the wind not
changed from the northwest into the east
the entire town probably would have been
wiped out.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 28-29, 1968
Voluntarily going back to Vietnam for
seven months more of service with 3d Bat-
talion, 1st Marines, is Cpl. Roesch Kish-
paugh, 22, here on leave with relatives. The
decision came despite 80 days in the bush,
rigors of field warfare, including 57 days
without a bath, and many days of substance
on only C rations. Kishpaugh, who joined up
two years ago, has spent 14 months in the
Asian area, and as a member of the Marine
Battalion Landing Team was based on the
ship Valley Forge. The six-footer went down
to 155 pounds while in the bush, regained
10 pounds, a pound a day, on leave in the
Philippines, and intends to store up pound-
age until going back to Vietnam June 6. His
30 day leave here was granted as a reward
for his promised return to Vietnam, instead
of remaining on a U.S. base.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 28-29, 1993
It has taken a full year of pounding nails,
hanging sheet rock and pouring concrete for
the house at Southwest 45th Street to fully
take shape. But Pendleton High School
senior Cody Holmes says he remembers
construction “started with nothing but dirt
and weeds.” For Holmes and the 13 other
graduating seniors who began building the
five-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Sep-
tember, its completion coincides with the
end of their high school education. Students
have worked diligently on the house for two
hours a day throughout the school year. But
in just three weeks, the formal amenities of
linoleum and carpet will replace the exposed
flooring, the brown primer-stained exterior
will get a paint job, and eventually a family
will move in.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On May 29, 1953, Mount
Everest was conquered as
Edmund Hillary of New Zea-
land and Tensing Norgay of
Nepal became the first climb-
ers to reach the summit.
In 1765, Patrick Henry
denounced the Stamp Act
before Virginia’s House of
Burgesses.
In 1790, Rhode Island
became the 13th original
colony to ratify the United
States Constitution.
In 1932, World War I
veterans began arriving in
Washington to demand cash
bonuses they weren’t sched-
uled to receive until 1945.
In 1961, a couple in
Paynesville, West Virginia,
became the first recipients
of food stamps under a pilot
program created by President
John F. Kennedy.
In 1988, President Ron-
ald Reagan and Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev
opened their historic summit
in Moscow.
Today’s Birthdays: For-
mer Baseball Commissioner
Fay Vincent is 80. Movie
composer Danny Elfman
is 65. Singer LaToya Jack-
son is 62. Actor Ted Levine
is 61. Actor Rupert Everett
is 59. Singer Melissa Ether-
idge is 57. Cartoonist Aaron
McGruder (“The Boon-
docks”) is 44. Singer Mel-
anie Brown (Spice Girls) is
43. Actor Billy Flynn is 33.
Actor Blake Foster is 33.
Actress Riley Keough is
29. Actor Brandon Mychal
Smith is 29. Actress Lorelei
Linklater is 25.
Thought for Today:
“A pessimist and an opti-
mist, so much the worse; so
much the better.” — Jean
de La Fontaine, French poet
(1621-1695).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE