Wednesday, November 27, 2019
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
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
East Oregonian
B5
DEAR ABBY
Old flame is on man’s mind
while marriage loses intimacy
Dear Abby: I am in a 14-year
addiction. Since he would no longer
marriage, but there has always been
speak to me but spent all his time
another woman, “Emily,” I have
scrolling on his device, I went out and
thought about almost daily the whole
bought a realistic-looking baby doll.
time. My wife and I have just turned
When he pulled out his cell, I pulled
40. We have no kids, but we have a
out my doll. I talked to it, fiddled with
dog. I always thought I would want
its buttons and carried it everywhere.
kids, and we tried half-heartedly, but
He finally yelled at me, “It’s not real!”
there is no real intimacy to this day. I
to which I replied, “It’s real; it’s just
J eanne
not alive. Like your cellphone.”
kiss her goodbye in the morning and,
P hilliPs
This final scene was played out
for years, that’s been it.
ADVICE
in the dining room of our country
Emily is all in on a relationship
club, which was filled with mem-
with me still to this day. We had a
bers. The phone and “baby” stayed in
great relationship with great sex, and
the car after that. We laugh about it now, and
I miss all of that. I’m struggling about the right
she’s resting comfortably in her carrier, just in
thing to do, partly because I know the pain this
case she’s ever needed again. — Thought I’d
will cause.
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My wife and I still have good times
Dear Thought: I hesitate to endorse
together with friends, but when we’re home,
implied threats in marital disagreements, but
it’s like we’re just best friends with no benefits.
your solution worked — brilliantly. So who
One of the last times we had sex, she ended it
am I to argue with success? Congratulations!
abruptly. The flame I felt for her is gone. I feel
Dear Readers: Tomorrow is Thanksgiv-
like I should go the other direction because she
ing, and no Thanksgiving would be complete
wants kids and still loves me deeply after all
without sharing the traditional prayer penned
these years. Please advise. — Wrestling With
by my dear late mother:
It in Wisconsin
Oh, Heavenly Father,
Dear Wrestling: Clearly you have never
We thank Thee for food and remember the
stopped talking to Emily. Quit “wrestling”
hungry.
and talk with your wife. She may have ended
We thank Thee for health and remember
your last sexual encounter because it was
the sick.
physically painful or because she no longer
We thank Thee for friends and remember
feels emotionally connected to you.
the friendless.
The person who can help you determine
We thank Thee for freedom and remem-
what to do next is the woman to whom you
ber the enslaved.
are married. Whether this marriage is salvage-
able is debatable, but this I do know: A healthy
May these remembrances stir us to service.
marriage takes two committed individuals,
That Thy gifts to us may be used for
others.
and in this case, one of them (you) has been
Amen.
missing in action.
Have a safe and happy celebration, every-
Dear Abby: I am an older woman who
one! — Love, Abby
finally got fed up with my husband’s cellphone
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 27, 1919
Gasoline will sell in Pendleton for 30 cents
a gallon beginning Dec. 1, according to a deci-
sion made by individual garage and automobile
men. Gasoline has been selling in Pendleton
for 27 cents. The increased cost of doing busi-
ness is given as the reason for the increase. In
Portland the retail price is 24 cents, but in vari-
ous parts of the county the price is higher than
in Pendleton. Pilot Rock dealers have been
charging 30 cents for some time.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 27, 1969
A service station that sells gasoline cheaper
than any other in Pendleton is adding to the
woes of Pendleton service stations already
combatting the formidable problem of the free-
way bypass. “It’s unfair competition” for the
Maverik Station at SW 15th and Emigrant to
retail gasoline at 32.9 cents a gallon for regular
and 34.9 cents for high test because it is listed
as a bulk plant, said Jim Udy, Udy’s Round-Up
Service. But, the Pendleton City Council said
the Maverik Station meets all requirements of
city codes. George Bonbright, Phillips 66 dis-
tributor, said the Maverik operation was an
“injustice” to other Pendleton stations.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 27, 1994
Pendleton Republican Gordon Smith, who
will serve as Senate president when the Ore-
gon Legislature convenes in January, likes to
say he wants everyone home in time for pea
harvest in early June. That’s fine with state
Rep. Bev Clarno, the Bend Republican who
will serve as speaker of the house. “They could
help with the first cutting of hay,” she says. The
ascension of the two semimoderate Eastern
Oregon residents has folks on the far side of
the Cascades believing they’ve gained strong
voices for farming, ranching and other rural
interests. But don’t expect a fleet of big pick-
ups to suddenly fill the Capitol parking lot in
Salem, because Smith and Clarno are not hay-
seeds looking to settle a grudge with urban
liberals.
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 Nov. 27, 1978, San
Francisco Mayor George
Moscone and City Super-
visor Harvey Milk, a gay-
rights activist, were shot to
death inside City Hall by for-
mer supervisor Dan White.
(White served five years for
manslaughter; he committed
suicide in Oct. 1985.)
In 1924, Macy’s first
Thanksgiving Day parade
— billed as a “Christmas
Parade” — took place in
New York.
In 1942, during World
War II, the Vichy French
navy scuttled its ships and
submarines in Toulon to
keep them out of the hands
of German troops.
In 1945, General George
C. Marshall was named spe-
cial U.S. envoy to China
by President Harry S. Tru-
man to try to end hostilities
between the Nationalists and
the Communists.
In 1962, the first Boe-
ing 727 was rolled out at the
company’s Renton Plant.
In 1970, Pope Paul VI,
visiting the Philippines,
was slightly wounded at
the Manila airport by a
dagger-wielding Bolivian
painter disguised as a priest.
In 1973, the Senate voted
92-3 to confirm Gerald R.
Ford as vice president, suc-
ceeding Spiro T. Agnew,
who’d resigned.
In 1998, answering 81
questions put to him three
weeks earlier; President
Clinton wrote the House
Judiciary Committee that
his testimony in the Mon-
ica Lewinsky affair was “not
false and misleading.”
In 1989, a bomb blamed
on drug traffickers destroyed
a Colombian Avianca Boe-
ing 727, killing all 107 peo-
ple on board and three peo-
ple on the ground.
In 2003, President Bush
flew to Iraq under extraor-
dinary secrecy and security
to spend Thanksgiving with
U.S. troops and thank them
for “defending the American
people from danger.”
Today’s
Birthdays:
Author Gail Sheehy is 82. TV
host Bill Nye (“Bill Nye, the
Science Guy”) is 64. Acad-
emy Award-winning screen-
writer Callie Khouri is 62.
Rock musician Mike Bordin
(Faith No More) is 57. Actor
Fisher Stevens is 56. Actress
Elizabeth Marvel is 50. Rap-
per Skoob (DAS EFX) is 49.
Actor Kirk Acevedo is 48.
Rapper Twista is 47. Actor
Jaleel White is 43. Actor
Arjay Smith is 36. Actress
Alison Pill is 34. Actress
Lashana Lynch (TV: “Still
Star-Crossed”) is 32.
Thought for Today:
“Man’s loneliness is but
his fear of life.” — Eugene
O’Neill, American play-
wright (born 1888, died this
date in 1953).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE