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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
COFFEE BREAK
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
DEAR ABBY
Man who flirts online brushes
aside his girlfriend’s concerns
Dear Abby: My boyfriend
know, but that’s it. Mom doesn’t
and I have been a couple for three
know, and neither do my gramma
years. We live together and have
or papa. I’m afraid if I tell them
an incredible relationship and an
they’ll be disappointed in their
amazing sex life. A while ago,
little girl. Also, I’m growing up
he was approached by a strange
without a father, so that may have
woman on social media. Through
something to do with it. I wonder
Hangouts he told her she was beau-
if not having a male role model is
why I’m driven to like girls.
tiful and that he was looking for the
J eanne
It took me a while to figure out
right woman to be with. Their com-
P hilliPs
munication lasted about a week.
that I was bisexual. It was at the
ADVICE
It has now happened again. He
beginning of seventh grade, when
handed out his phone number, and
people were talking about being bi.
this one has sent him videos of her
So I guess I need to find out who I
am as a person.
dancing wearing next to nothing. He tells
When I told my friend I was bi and I
her she has an amazing body and made
liked her, she was shocked and surprised. I
comments to the effect that she must be
think she took it the wrong way and thought
wild in bed and he thinks only of her. When
I was asking her out. That afternoon she
he talks to these other women, he tells them
came up to me and said, “I like you, but
he lives alone.
only as a friend. I hope this doesn’t damage
When I tell him this bothers me, he
our friendship.” For me it did, and I haven’t
doesn’t get upset. He swears he has feel-
ings for only me and no one else, and that
gotten the courage to go talk to her about it
he’s just having a little fun. I want to believe
again. I was only saying that to tell her how
I feel, not to ask her out. — Insecure and
him, but I feel hurt and disrespected when I
Confused
read what he’s saying to these women. My
Dear Insecure and Confused: You are
heart is heavy because he used to talk to me
right that you need to find out who you are
like that and no longer does. Should I be
as a person. You are very young and still
worried? — Sharing Him in Ohio
discovering. People do not become gay or
Dear Sharing Him: You should not
bisexual because of conversations they hear
only be worried, you should be out of there.
in the seventh grade or because their fathers
You may have invested three years in this
are absent. Sexual orientation is simply a
person, but the sooner you divest your-
part of who we are.
self of him the better it will be for you.
You were clumsy about the way you
His actions show that his word cannot be
“outed” yourself to your friend. Put aside
trusted. He’s not only lying to these women,
your fears, talk to her again and explain that
he is also lying to you. Men who love and
you weren’t asking her out, and the feelings
respect women do not treat them the way he
you were describing were not directed at
is treating you.
her. If she’s truly a friend, everything will
Dear Abby: I’m a 13-year-old girl, and
be all right.
I’m bisexual. Some of my closest friends
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 22, 1919
One of the biggest attractions at the
Round-Up this year, September 18, 19 and
20, will be Tom Mix, cowboy film star, with
his company of moving picture artists. Tom
Mix, himself, will give exhibition bucking
and bulldogging while his men and women
will enter the regular contests. This feature
was endorsed Monday by the Round-Up
directors. The William Fox Film company,
starring Tom Mix and his company, asked
permission to appear at the Round-Up to
work Mr. Mix into a Round-Up feature
story.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 22, 1969
Bob Stoddard, talented young local pia-
nist, will represent the senior division of
the Northeast Oregon district at the Oregon
Music Teachers’ Convention recital next
month at Salem. Bob was selected for the
honor at auditions held at Whitman Con-
servatory of Music last week. Bob is the
16-year-old son of Mrs. and Mrs. Henry
Stoddard.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 22, 1994
Steve Magnuson, a graduate of Pendle-
ton High School and Blue Mountain Com-
munity College, sings the lead in Benjamin
Britten’s opera “Noye’s Fludde” (Noah’s
Flood), opening at 8 tonight at Portland
State University. Currently a senior at PSU,
24-year-old Magnuson is an honors student
majoring in biology and music. His par-
ents are Bill and Donna Magnuson of Mil-
ton-Freewater. Magnuson expects to pursue
pre-dentistry after graduation, but he also
plans to continue performing. He wants to
travel to Europe — “the mecca for opera.”
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 May 22, 1992, after a
reign lasting nearly 30 years,
Johnny Carson hosted NBC’s
“Tonight Show” for the final
time (Jay Leno took over as
host three days later).
In 1939, the foreign min-
isters of Germany and Italy,
Joachim von Ribbentrop and
Galeazzo Ciano, signed a
“Pact of Steel” committing
the two countries to a mili-
tary alliance.
In 1960, an earthquake of
magnitude 9.5, the strongest
ever measured, struck south-
ern Chile, claiming some
1,655 lives.
In 1964, President Lyn-
don B. Johnson, speaking
at the University of Michi-
gan, outlined the goals of his
“Great Society,” saying that
it “rests on abundance and
liberty for all” and “demands
an end to poverty and racial
injustice.”
In 1968, the nuclear-pow-
ered submarine USS Scor-
pion, with 99 men aboard,
sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
(The remains of the sub were
later found on the ocean floor
400 miles southwest of the
Azores.)
In 1969, the lunar module
of Apollo 10, with Thomas P.
Stafford and Eugene Cernan
aboard, flew to within nine
miles of the moon’s surface
in a dress rehearsal for the
first lunar landing.
In 1981, “Yorkshire Rip-
per” Peter Sutcliffe was con-
victed in London of mur-
dering 13 women and was
sentenced to life in prison.
In 2011, a tornado dev-
astated Joplin, Missouri,
with winds up to 250 mph,
claiming at least 159 lives
and destroying about 8,000
homes and businesses.
In 2017, a suicide bomber
set off an improvised explo-
sive device that killed 22
people at the end of an Ari-
ana Grande concert in Man-
chester, England.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Michael Constantine is 92.
Conductor Peter Nero is 85.
Actor-director Richard Ben-
jamin is 81. Retired MLB All-
Star pitcher Tommy John is
76. Songwriter Bernie Taupin
is 69. Singer Morrissey is
60. Actress Ann Cusack
is 58. Rock musician Jesse
Valenzuela is 57. Actor Mark
Christopher Lawrence is 55.
Rhythm-and-blues
singer
Johnny Gill (New Edition)
is 53. Actor Michael Kelly is
50. Model Naomi Campbell
is 49. Actress A.J. Langer is
45. Actress Ginnifer Good-
win is 41. Rhythm-and-
blues singer Vivian Green is
40. Actress Maggie Q is 40.
Olympic gold medal speed
skater Apolo Anton Ohno
is 37. Tennis player Novak
Djokovic is 32. Actress Anna
Baryshnikov (TV: “Superior
Donuts”) is 27. Actress Cam-
ren Bicondova is 20.
Thought for Today:
“We have all, at one time
or another, been perform-
ers, and many of us still are
— politicians, playboys, car-
dinals and kings.” — Lau-
rence Olivier, British actor
(born this date in 1907, died
in 1989).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE