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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, October 9, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Roommate’s presence complicates ‘friends with benefits’ setup FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’ve been spending can tell these men that what they’re time with a certain gentleman for doing is vulgar and embarrassing, more than five years. I am in love and it’s rude to do this in public? with him. We dated at first, then I’m almost tempted to caress my became friends with benefits. He breasts with both hands and push had another woman move in with upward. But I guess that would be worse. Any ideas? — Infuriated in him a few years ago, but we are Topeka still friends with benefits, and he Dear Infuriated: Forget hoisting has become my best friend. He lis- J eanne tens when I need someone to talk to your breasts skyward. Rather than P hilliPs and knows how to give a good pep succumb to infuriation, dig deep ADVICE talk when I need one. We talk sev- and try to feel some sympathy. This has everything to do with our Cre- eral hours a day and text throughout ator’s grand design. Because men’s the day. genitalia are external, they sometimes get I know in my heart we are meant to be pinched in their clothing, which is uncom- together. He tells me he loves me but says fortable. It’s only natural that they reflex- he can’t ask the other woman to move out ively try to remedy the situation. Because it because she doesn’t have anywhere to go bothers you so much, try looking elsewhere. until she makes the person living in her Dear Abby: After a long period of infer- house move out. How do I talk to him about tility, a dear friend of mine found out she is this? — Other Woman expecting. Unfortunately, a mutual friend at Dear Other Woman: Friends do not work stole her thunder and told me about the string friends along for years, which is what pregnancy before she had a chance to tell me this “gentleman” has been doing to you. herself. While I’m pleased to hear that she’s He invited the other woman to move in pregnant, I’m also a bit upset that because I because she is providing something he finds already know, I can no longer give her a gen- of value. (Are you sure they haven’t got- ten married or enjoy similar benefits?) If uine reaction consisting of love, shock and he wanted her out, he would find a way to excitement when she tells me face-to-face. do it. During your next “hourslong” phone Of course I will still express how happy I call, tell him that as much as you care for am, but should I let her know I was already informed? — Already Know in the South him, you can no longer continue to live in Dear Already Know: By all means tell limbo. Give him a deadline to get rid of his your friend how happy you are for her and houseguest and, if he doesn’t meet it, cut off that you know how long she has wanted this. his “benefits.” Express to her how exciting the news is, but Dear Abby: As a woman, I am infuriated do not tell her you already heard it from a by men of all ages who have to adjust their co-worker. crotches all the time. Is there any way we 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 Oct. 9, 1919 Hamley & Co. started excavation today for a one story brick building, 30 by 25 feet, which will be an addition to its present work- shop and will be located in the rear of the room recently vacated by the American Express Co. The additional 750 square feet of floor space will be occupied by more facilities for the rap- idly increasing business of the company. Par- titions between the two rooms in the building west of the present store have been removed and a portion of these rooms will be used for offices. The partitions in the present store will be moved forward to enlarge still further the workshop and new display space and shipping quarters will be evolved out of the additional space from the recently vacated rooms. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 9, 1969 Jim Casterline told students they didn’t have any business running schools. That’s when his audience came alive. Casterline, 23, graduate student at Southern Oregon Col- lege, spoke last night as part of the “Student Unrest” program sponsored by the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, bringing to Pendle- ton spokesmen for various groups involved in student uprisings. Heavy-set and quiet spo- ken, Casterlie began his talk referring to the fallacies of the radicals with their “harmless verbalizing.” “They preach non-violence,” he said, “but use violence to get their way We (the new right) don’t make the news as much as the radicals because we don’t present a long list of non-negotiable ideas or take over build- ings.” The “new right” tends toward the con- servative viewpoint, the “new left” toward the radical, he said. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 9, 1994 In his mind Stan Carnine of Condon replays pictures of his 12-year-old son’s face when he discovered him bloody and fright- ened, wrestling a 200-pound charging buck to save his life. Travis Carnine, on his first hunt, went head-on Sunday with a wounded buck that later turned on his father, goring him also. The freak hunting accident is a harsh lesson about wounded animals and the damage they can cause. The father and son bear the bandages and stitches of the acci- dent, and they walk with some pain. Travis’ legs are covered with bruises, and he has eight stitches in his chest where the buck’s antler pierced him. On his upper right thigh stitches hold together the five-inch gouge left by the angry deer. Stan also was gored, the buck’s antler going through his left calf. 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 Oct. 9, 1967, Marx- ist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was summarily executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture. In 1776, a group of Span- ish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco. In 1910, a coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado left 56 miners dead. In 1914, the Belgian city of Antwerp fell to German forces during World War I. In 1930, Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine- stop journey from Roos- evelt Field, N.Y., to Glen- dale, Calif. In 1936, the first genera- tor at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. In 1940, rock legend John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. (On this date in 1975, his son, Sean, was born in New York.) In 1974, businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, died in Frankfurt, West Germany (at his request, he was buried in Jerusalem). In 2001, in the first day- light raids since the start of U.S.-led attacks on Afghan- istan, jets bombed the Tal- iban stronghold of Kanda- har. Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., were sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Pat- rick Leahy; the letters later tested positive for anthrax. In 2012, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison following his con- viction on 45 counts of sex- ual abuse of boys. Today’s Birthdays: C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb is 78. Actor Scott Bakula is 65. Movie direc- tor Guillermo del Toro is 55. Singer P.J. Harvey is 50. Movie director Steve McQueen (Film: “12 Years a Slave”) is 50. Rock singer Sean Lennon is 44. Actress Spencer Grammer is 36. Thought for Today: “I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.” — Al McGuire, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach (1928-2001). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE