Tuesday, November 23, 2021
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
A17
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Boyfriend is descriptive
when identifying women
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: On two occa-
Dear Abby: When my boy-
sions, I have given my girlfriend
friend talks about women, he
money (several thousand dol-
doesn’t always refer to them
lars) to help her cover medical
by their name. In most cases, I
expenses. Both times her father
don’t know the individual. But
promised to pay me back. He
even if he does refer to her by
made good on his promise the
name, what bothers me is he al-
first time, but it has been almost
ways follows it by describing her
J EANNE
two months since I fronted the
boobs (i.e., “the one with the big
P HILLIPS
money and he hasn’t paid me
boobs, she has got to be at least
ADVICE
back. He promised to do it when
a 42D, they stick straight out,”
he got paid, but he has “gotten
or, “she’s petite with a very small
paid” several times since.
waistline”). Yet, he says he loves
I’m considering taking him to small
my figure and always expresses he loves
claims court. It wouldn’t be his first time
the way I’m built.
I have ignored the “big boob” com- in that situation. Am I cheap? Or am I
ments because (I’m guessing) he gets right for wanting to be repaid? If I’m
some kind of satisfaction from mak- right, how should I proceed? — Unpaid
ing them, so I have gone along with it. In Pennsylvania
Dear Unpaid: You were kind to front
However, it is becoming increasingly an-
noying. How can I get him to stop these the money for your girlfriend’s medical
comments and either refer to the women treatment. Her father should not have
by name, or “Jerry’s wife,” “the woman” promised to repay you if he didn’t intend
or “the lady”? Frankly, I’m not interest- to follow through. Contact him again
ed in the description; her name will suf- and see if you can’t agree on a payment
fice. Also, can you explain why he always plan that will be easier for him than pay-
slips in the description of the woman’s ing you a lump sum. But if that doesn’t
work, I hope you got the promise he
anatomy? — More Than A Body
Dear More: A direct way to get your made IN WRITING. If you didn’t, and
boyfriend to cut it out would be to tell you take him to small claims court, you
him in plain English that the graphic de- will have no proof to show a judge.
That said, if you DO have something
scription of these women’s anatomy is a
huge turnoff. As to your second ques- in writing, proceed by contacting the
tion, your boyfriend does it because this county clerk in the small claims court
is how he classifies the females he meets. district closest to where her father lives,
He does not view them as individuals; he fill out a “statement of claim” form at
identifies them according to their anat- the clerk’s office and pay the filing fee. I
wish you luck!
omy.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1921
Several members of the city council are
getting mighty dad-burned tired of wading
through snow on the sidewalks in front of their
neighbors’ properties, and they came forth
boldly last night and let the world understand
their attitude on the matter. Also, they want
to know why the present ordinance cover-
ing this matter of cleaning streets of snow
and ice should not be enforced. As a result
of the airing which the matter was given in
the discussion which followed, it is probable
that some citizens who have been notoriously
slack in this respect may have an opportunity
to bid the police judge good morning some of
these snowy days. The judge also may hand
them fines ranging from $5 to $50, according
to the ordinance.
50 years ago — 1971
Volunteer fireman David L. Knerr, a
machinist, and life-long resident of Hermis-
ton, figured heavily in Saturday night’s activ-
ities of the Hermiston Fire Department. The
Eagles Lodge was the host of an apprecia-
tion dinner for firemen and their wives. At
the dinner firemen presented to Fire Chief
Bob Russell a portrait of the chief painted by
Knerr. Following the dinner and during the
social hour came a fire alarm, and 24 of the
firemen poured out of the Eagles’ building
and headed for the fire station. When he was
on the truck, Knerr learned his home on S.E.
4th Street was the site of the fire. Mrs. Knerr,
who had left the dinner early because of a
baby sitter problem, said it was fortunate she
was at home when the malfunction occurred
in the furnace causing the fire.
25 years ago — 1996
The Oregon Environmental Qual-
ity Commission has agreed in principle
to approve a hazardous waste permit for a
proposed chemical weapons incinerator at
the Umatilla Chemical Depot near Hermis-
ton. By unanimous, but in some cases some-
what reluctant consensus, the five member
board found incineration to be the best avail-
able technology for destroying thousands of
weapons containing nerve and mustard gas
stored at the depot. Commission members
clearly agonized over the decision. Some
waiting to speak were close to tears, others
bowed their heads on their folded arms on the
table. Commissioner Carol Whipple hedged
her affirmation with doubts about the risks of
continued storage of about 12 percent of the
nation’s stockpile of chemical weapons.
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Nov. 23, 1971, the
People’s Republic of Chi-
na was seated in the U.N.
Security Council.
In 1889, the first juke-
box made its debut in San
Francisco, at the Palais
Royale Saloon. (The coin-
operated device consisted
of four listening tubes at-
tached to an Edison pho-
nograph.)
In 1903, Enrico Caruso
made his American debut
at the Metropolitan Op-
era House in New York,
appearing in “Rigoletto.”
In 1914, the seven-
month U.S. military oc-
cupation of Veracruz,
Mexico, ended.
In 1936, Life, the pho-
tojournalism
magazine
created by Henry R. Luce,
was first published.
In 1963, President
Lyndon B. Johnson pro-
claimed Nov. 25 a day of
national mourning fol-
lowing the assassination
of President John F. Ken-
nedy.
In 1980, some 2,600
people were killed by a
series of earthquakes that
devastated southern Italy.
In 1992, country mu-
sic star Roy Acuff died in
Nashville, Tennessee, at
age 89.
In 1996, a comman-
deered Ethiopian Air-
lines Boeing 767 crashed
into the water off the
Comoros Islands, killing
125 of the 175 people on
board, including all three
hijackers.
In 2000, in a setback
for Al Gore, the Florida
Supreme Court refused
to order Miami-Dade
County officials to resume
hand-counting its elec-
tion-day ballots. Mean-
while, Gore’s lawyers ar-
gued in a brief filed with
the U.S. Supreme Court
that the high court should
stay out of the Florida
election controversy.
In 2003, five U.S. sol-
diers were killed in a
helicopter crash in Af-
ghanistan. Eduard She-
vardnadze resigned as
president of Georgia in
the face of protests.
In 2006, former KGB
spy Alexander Litvinenko
died in London from ra-
diation poisoning after
making a deathbed state-
ment blaming Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE