B6
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Overserved party guest hides
mishap on sofa under pillows
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: We need some
ents understand? — Away From
Everything
advice. Recently we hosted our
Dear Away: You stated that you
annual holiday party and invited
worked hard to get into this school,
all of our neighbors and friends.
but you miss being with your
Our invitation stated that the party
friends back home. The quality of
would run between 5 and 11:30 so
education you are now receiving
our guests could also attend other
will prove very important when
parties that might be going on at
you are getting ready for college.
the same time.
J eanne
It’s possible that with some help
As our party was winding
P hilliPs
you can make new friends at this
down, it was noticed that one of our
ADVICE
school. Stop crying alone and talk
guests — who had been at a previ-
ous party — had wet themselves
about your feelings with a trusted
on our sofa and covered the spot
teacher or administrator. I’m sure
up with throw pillows. We served wine,
it won’t be the first time the person has
punch, etc. at our party, but this couple
heard something like this, and the input you
receive could prove helpful.
arrived pretty tipsy already. In the future,
Dear Abby: I work at a job that requires
should we just not invite these neighbors?
I call several businesspeople each day.
We are very distressed about this. What do
Often I need to leave a voicemail message.
you suggest? — Oops! in the Midwest
It has become more and more common for
Dear Oops!: The guilty party should
voicemail greetings to say, “I will call you
have owned up to what happened and
back at my earliest convenience.” I find this
offered to pay for having your couch pro-
fessionally cleaned rather than try to cover
very off-putting and rude, as if my call is
an intrusion and they will call back “when-
it up. If you are 100 percent sure it was one
ever.” I think the word “convenience” is
particular couple, not inviting them to more
best used when offering it to someone
gatherings would absolutely guarantee that
else, as in, “Call me at your earliest conve-
it won’t happen again.
nience.” I always try to return phone calls
P.S. Covering your furniture in water-
proof slipcovers when you entertain a
promptly, whether it’s convenient or not.
Am I just old-fashioned or what? — Not So
crowd may be something you might want
Convenient in Sacramento
to consider in the future.
Dear Not So: The individuals you are
Dear Abby: I am a boarding school stu-
dent, and I absolutely hate it here! I worked
calling have the right to put any message
hard to get in, and I realize how lucky I
they wish on their voicemail greeting. He
am to have been accepted, but I just want
or she may be on another business call or
away from the office.
to go home and go to school at my pub-
lic high school with all of my friends and
The voicemail message is not being
addressed to you personally.
my brother. My friends understand, but my
You are old-fashioned. You also appear
parents think I’m over-exaggerating. I am
to be overly sensitive, and I think, for your
sad all the time, and I cry at least once a
own sake, you should get over it.
day. How do I approach this to help my par-
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 28-29, 1919
Many of the Troop D men who left
Pendleton early in the fall of 1917 are now
sojourning on the river Rhine in Germany,
being stationed at Coblenz, as members
of Battery D, 148th field artillery. A letter
received at Patriotic Service League head-
quarters from Eddie Lannings, who left
Pendleton with the troop, says most of the
Troop D boys are together, excepting those
in the hospital with influenza. The people of
Coblenz seem glad the American soldiers
are there and treat them well.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 28-29, 1969
Serious drifting in some places caused
the closure of Pendleton public schools
today. Drifting snow on some hills in Pend-
leton and especially in the Despain Gulch
and Holdman areas resulted in the closure.
Some problems were encountered getting
students home last night. Thirty to 50 chil-
dren made it home from school Monday
thanks to parents and other people with four
wheel drive rigs. Some Pendleton school
buses, unable to get through roads north
of Highway 395, turned around and took
the children to the Hawthorne multi-pur-
pose room. As to when schools would open
again, Superintended Ellis “Bud” Neal said,
“I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what
conditions are like in the morning.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 28-29, 1994
Michelle and Frank Rios like the fact
that house payments on their new home are
going toward building a home for another
family under the Habitat for Humanity
program. They moved into their home on
Southeast Sixth Street in Hermiston a week
and a half into the new year. Before then,
Michelle, her two children and her brother,
Frank, and his two children lived with fam-
ily in cramped rentals. The Rios’ new home
was the first built in Hermiston by the Ore-
gon Trail Chapter of the International Hab-
itat for Humanity. The program also has
completed a home in Pendleton.
TODAY 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 Jan. 29, 1936, the
first inductees of baseball’s
Hall of Fame, including Ty
Cobb and Babe Ruth, were
named in Cooperstown,
New York.
In 1820, King George III
died at Windsor Castle at
age 81; he was succeeded by
his son, King George IV.
In 1845, Edgar Allan
Poe’s famous narrative
poem “The Raven” (“Once
upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and
weary...”) was first pub-
lished in the New York Eve-
ning Mirror.
In 1861, Kansas became
the 34th state of the Union.
In 1863, the Bear River
Massacre took place as the
U.S. Army attacked Sho-
shone in present-day Idaho.
In 1919, the ratification
of the 18th Amendment
to the Constitution, which
launched Prohibition, was
certified by Acting Secre-
tary of State Frank L. Polk.
In 1963, poet Robert
Frost died at age 88.
In 1975, a bomb exploded
inside the U.S. State Depart-
ment in Washington, caus-
ing considerable damage;
the radical group Weather
Underground
claimed
responsibility.
In 1998, a bomb rocked
an abortion clinic in Bir-
mingham, Alabama, killing
a security guard and criti-
cally injuring a nurse. (The
bomber, Eric Rudolph, was
captured in May 2003 and is
serving a life sentence.)
In 2002, In his first State
of the Union address, Pres-
ident George W. Bush said
terrorists were still threat-
ening America.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Writer-composer-lyricist
Leslie Bricusse is 88. Femi-
nist author Germaine Greer
is 80. Actor Tom Selleck is
74. Rhythm-and-blues/funk
singer Charlie Wilson is 66.
Talk show host Oprah Win-
frey is 65. Actor Terry Kin-
ney is 65. Rock musician
Johnny Spampinato is 60.
Olympic gold-medal diver
Greg Louganis is 59. Rock
singer-musician
Roddy
Frame (Aztec Camera) is
55. Actor-director Edward
Burns is 51. Actor Sharif
Atkins is 44. Actor Sam Jae-
ger is 42. Writer and TV per-
sonality Jedediah Bila is 40.
Actor Andrew Keegan is 40.
Pop-rock singer Adam Lam-
bert (“American Idol”) is 37.
Thought for Today:
“Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.” —
Robert Frost, American poet
(born 1874, died this date in
1963).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE