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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, November 23, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Lighthearted wedding invitation rubs recipient the wrong way FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: We received a wed- Once in a while one neighbor will ding invitation in the mail today have a few of the others over for a from my husband’s nephew. First of party, but no one wants to invite the all, we are to RSVP by tomorrow. new couple because of her. What do (What?) we say if either one asks why they aren’t invited to some of the par- Here are our options in ties we have? We live close enough responding: to each other that they might see us Gladly attend Jeanne entertaining without them. Please Regretfully decline Phillips don’t suggest we invite them and Resentfully attend Advice suck it up since we tried that and the Enthusiastically decline evening was not fun for anyone. — I’ll surprise you The invitation also asked which song Struggling For An Answer Dear Struggling: Don’t worry, I won’t. we’d like “blasted over our awkward small talk.” Granted, there is some animosity No one should ask a question like that unless among the groom’s father’s siblings, but I prepared for the answer. If one of them is so think this is rude, sarcastic and inappropri- bold as to ask why they weren’t included, ate. I have a sense of humor but do not find I think you should tell the person the truth. this funny. Am I off the mark? — Insulted Dear Abby: I’m a boy in sixth grade. Recently, my best friend has been hitting Guest In The Midwest Dear Guest: Obviously, you and your me. I try to get her to stop. I’ve done every- husband would have preferred a more for- thing I can think of, but she keeps doing it. mal — and possibly more timely — invita- Today in math class, she pinched me or tion. Considering the sorry state of family something — I can’t remember — so I did it relations on the groom’s side, the wording back. Afterward she beat on me with a ruler. may have been an attempt at humor. It may I could really use some of your advice. — also have been sincere. If you cannot gladly Tired Of It Dear Tired Of It: The person you call attend, rather than fume, send your regrets. Dear Abby: We don’t care much for the your best friend isn’t acting like one. She wife of one of our new neighbors. The hus- may do it to get attention because she has a band is nice, but his wife is overbearing. On crush on you, or because she’s a bully. Tell the occasions we get together, she interrupts her to stop touching you because you don’t conversations or takes over the conversation like it, but do not retaliate by hitting her whenever she speaks. Occasionally, we see back. If she persists, tell your teacher what each other around the neighborhood, and it’s she has been doing because it’s creating a always a friendly meeting since we can walk distraction when you need to be concentrat- ing in class. away from them. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 23, 1918 This morning Dr. H.J. Kavanaugh stated that with the strict enforcement of a quar- antine of homes in which there are influ- enza cases and the isolating of such cases he thinks the flu can be stamped out. He says it will be much easier to stamp it out with a strict quarantine of the cases and the town open than it has been with the town closed and no quarantine on the homes and places where the cases have been. For the present he says he doesn’t think there will be any change in the closing regulations for the town. If after a few days of the quarantine he finds the number of cases are not increasing, he hopes it will be possible to open up and things may become normal in the city. Blue flags will be displayed both at the front and back doors of homes having flu. And nobody will be permitted to enter or leave the home without the permission the city physician. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 23, 1968 Opening of a new market for wheat will be presented the Oregon Wheat Growers league at its annual meeting in Portland Dec. 8-11 by Morrow County Wheat Growers. The idea is to promote more use of wheat by bread baking demonstrations in the under- privileged areas in the United States. This “traveling kitchen” showing how to improve diets through use of wheat has proved very successful since started in the Middle East by the Wheat League several years ago. It is part of the program to open new mar- kets which is financed by a one-quarter cent assessment paid by farmers on each bushel of wheat they raise. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 23, 1993 The computer hacker who broke into the Umatilla County computer system last sum- mer and installed a program-destroying virus was sentenced this morning to pay $14,728 in restitution and serve 18 months probation on each of six counts of felony computer crimes. Thomas E. Marquez, 34, a former Umatilla County data processing employee, was arrested in August for breaking into the county computer with a home computer and a modem, and for installing the virus. Police said they believed Marquez was seeking revenge against the county for firing him in April. The sentence handed down by Circuit Court Judge Jack Olsen called for restitution to repay the county for lost personnel time spent repairing computer damage caused by the virus. 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 On November 23, 1963, President Lyndon B. John- son proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourn- ing following the assassi- nation of President John F. Kennedy. In 1765, Frederick County, Maryland, became the first colonial American entity to repudiate the Brit- ish Stamp Act. In 1804, the 14th pres- ident of the United States, Franklin Pierce), was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. In 1889, the first jukebox made its debut in San Fran- cisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coin-operated device consisted of four lis- tening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.) In 1903, Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appear- ing in “Rigoletto.” In 1936, Life, the pho- tojournalism magazine cre- ated by Henry R. Luce, was first published. In 1971, the People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council. In 1980, some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy. In 1996, a comman- deered Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the water off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board, includ- ing all three hijackers. In 2004, Dan Rather announced he would step down as principal anchor- man of “The C-B-S Eve- ning News” in March 2005. In 2006, former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko died in London from radia- tion poisoning after making a deathbed statement blam- ing Russian President Vlad- imir Putin. Today’s Birthdays: For- mer Labor Secretary Wil- liam E. Brock is 88. Actor Franco Nero is 77. Screen- writer Joe Eszterhas is 74. Actor-comedy writer Bruce Vilanch is 71. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is 68. Singer Bruce Hornsby is 64. TV personality Robin Rob- erts (“Good Morning Amer- ica”) is 58. TV personal- ity Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is 31. Actress-singer Miley Cyrus is 26. Thought for Today: “Music expresses that which cannot be said and which cannot remain silent.” — Victor Hugo, French author (1802-1885). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE