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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, June 17, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wedding plans cover
almost everything
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I am getting married,
about picking up their poop. It
and my fiance’s daughters, 19 and
grosses me out. OK, so I have been
21, are in the wedding party. I have
doing it for a couple of years, but I
purchased the dresses they are wear-
don’t want to do it anymore. But if I
ing, which are light and flowing. I
say that or don’t do it, she’ll think I’m
have told the girls that on the day
not committed to her. What should I
of the wedding I do not want them
do? — Dog Walking in Texas
wearing thong underwear. The older
Dear Dog Walking: Stand up
one then went to her dad and said she
for
yourself. Because you feel so
Jeanne
didn’t want to wear regular under-
strongly, tell her that from now on
Phillips
wear. He told her she could wear
you will walk her dog together or
ADVICE
whatever she wants. I have tried tell-
she’ll have to do it herself. You may
ing them that as young ladies there
have been raised on a farm, but you
are times you don’t wear thongs, and under a
are now part of a community with ordinances
against leaving excrement on the streets. Your
flowing dress is one of them. It’s one day of
their lives. How can I get my point across? —
devotion to this person should not be predi-
Wise Bride in Phoenix
cated upon your willingness to perform a task
she should have been doing herself.
Dear Wise Bride: Explain to your fiance
exactly why you are concerned about his
Dear Abby: My wife and I are having a
daughters wearing thong underwear under
minor argument, and we are seeking your
their bridesmaid dresses and, when you do,
help in resolving it. We live in an age when
be graphic. After that, if he still feels the
we commonly experience “conversations”
same, accept it. Then pray no slip-ups occur
with robo-calls, virtual assistants (Alexa
and Echo) and phone routing software. All
while they are dancing, and no strong gusts
of wind come along when the wedding photos
this technology is powered by artificial
are taken.
intelligence. So given that we are talking to
Dear Abby: I’m dating a lady and commit-
machines, do we need to follow the rules of
ted to our relationship, but every time I visit
etiquette with these robots? My wife insists
we should say “Thank you” and “Please”
her at her apartment, she expects me to take
her dog out. The building has a policy that
to these software creations, while I say no
if the dog poops, you have to pick it up and
manners are needed. Your thoughts? —
dispose of it, so they have bags at different
Mulling It Over in Montana
locations.
Dear Mulling It: Although it isn’t manda-
tory, I know of at least one AI “assistant” that
I don’t like doing it. I grew up on a farm
would acknowledge the courtesy.
where we had dogs, but never would I think
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
June 17, 1921
A tourist who left Pendleton this morning
at 7 o’clock for La Grande passed through
Mission shortly afterward and then after
losing his way returned to Mission at noon,
says D. C. Bowman, of the Mission Store
and Mission highway service station. Mr.
Bowman states that the motorist, because
there were no signs to guide him, took the
left road in the vicinity of Deadman’s hill and
lost his way. Mr. Bowman says travelers are
frequently misled because the roads are not
plainly marked.
50 Years Ago
June 17, 1971
Connie McCready, commissioner of public
utilities for the City of Portland, doesn’t view
too kindly Stanfield Mayor John Hoskins’
refusal to appoint a woman to the Stanfield
City Council. In a letter to Hoskins she said:
“And please don’t ask me to appoint you to
fill any vacancies in my fire bureau. So there!
Your councilmen certainly must be versatile!”
She signed the letter “Connie McCready,
girl commissioner,” and sent a copy to “Rep.
Irv Mann, boy legislator.” Hoskins said last
week he wouldn’t appoint a woman because
“women don’t know anything abut laying
pipe or overhauling a pickup.”
25 Years Ago
June 17, 1996
A Portland-bound Greyhound bus was
gutted by flames in Umatilla Sunday after-
noon. All nine passengers and the driver
escaped without injury. The bus was trav-
eling south on Interstate 82 when the driver
noticed smoke coming from the bus’ engine
compartment. The driver, John Lane, of
Spokane, pulled off the freeway at the
Highway 730 exit, turned on to an empty
stretch of Brownell Boulevard near the Port
of Entry, and evacuated the bus. Passengers
were impressed with Lane’s calm decisive-
ness during the fire. Umatilla Fire Chief
Steve Flegel said a fuel leak was responsi-
ble for what he said was “a very, very stub-
born fire.”
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 June 17, 1994, after
leading police on a slow-
speed chase on Southern
California freeways, O.J.
Simpson was arrested and
charged with murder in
the slayings of his ex-wife,
Nicole, and her friend,
Ronald Goldman. (Simpson
was later acquitted in a crim-
inal trial but held liable in a
civil trial.)
In 1885, the Statue of
Liberty arrived in New York
Harbor aboard the French
ship Isere.
In 1933, the “Kansas City
Massacre” took place outside
Union Station in Kansas
City, Missouri, as a group
of gunmen attacked law
enforcement officers escort-
ing federal prisoner Frank
Nash; four of the officers
were killed, along with Nash.
In 1963, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Abington (Penn-
sylvania) School District v.
Schempp, struck down, 8-1,
rules requiring the recita-
tion of the Lord’s Prayer or
reading of Biblical verses in
public schools.
In 1967, China success-
fully tested its first thermo-
nuclear (hydrogen) bomb.
In 1972, President Rich-
ard Nixon’s eventual down-
fall began with the arrest
of five burglars inside the
Democratic headquarters in
Washington, D.C.’s Water-
gate complex.
In 2009, President Barack
Obama extended some bene-
fits to same-sex partners of
federal employees. Nevada
Sen. John Ensign resigned
from the GOP leadership a
day after admitting an affair
with a former campaign
staffer.
In 2012, Rodney King,
47, whose 1991 videotaped
beating by Los Angeles
police sparked widespread
outrage and who struggled
with addiction and repeated
arrests, died in Rialto, Cali-
fornia, in an apparent acci-
dental drowning.
In 2013, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled 7-2 that states
can’t demand proof of citi-
zenship from people regis-
tering to vote in federal
elections unless they get
federal or court approval to
do so.
In 2015, nine people were
shot to death in a historic
African-American church in
Charleston, South Carolina;
suspect Dylann Roof was
arrested the following morn-
ing. (Roof was convicted
of federal hate crimes and
sentenced to death; he later
pleaded guilty to state murder
charges and was sentenced to
life in prison without parole.)
Today’s Birthdays: Singer
Barry Manilow is 78. Rock
singer Jello Biafra is 63. Movie
producer-director-writer
Bobby Farrelly is 63. Actor
Greg Kinnear is 58. Actor
Kami Cotler is 56. Actor-co-
median Will Forte is 51. Latin
pop singer Paulina Rubio is 50.
Tennis player Venus Williams
is 41. Actor Jodie Whittaker is
39. Actor Manish Dayal is 38.
Actor Marie Avgeropoulos is
35. Rapper Kendrick Lamar
is 34.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE