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Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. C7 BLONDIE by Chic Young THIS LAST STUPP6D POSK CHOP WILL ST) r. A VACANCY JUST OPENED UP BEANS, GO TO THE FREEZES DEA.8 Thursday, March 26, 1992 NO THANKS, I IOW 90UT-'NpPe, SJ I'M ALL SOME TOO PULL Ann Landers I PILLED UP BKCKuui tV 2 L.M. Boyd aWWT.I BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker YES. 111 7 YOU CAtVT SEE HIM PI (7 YOU TELL GEWERAL in PERSONALLY TOPAf, BUT (i PLEASE ACCEPT THIS HALFTRACK I WANTED TO SEE HIM 1 'O COMPLIMENTS 1 Hr A.

rN ENGLISH MUSTARD The English of old ate mustard by the spoonful. Research into their household records show numerous families listed expenditures for as much as 10 gallons ofmustardamonth. A tropical fish dealer in Florida imported Walking Catfish from Asia in the 1960s, but a lot of them ran away. Q. Did Napoleon smoke? A.

He dipped snuff, according to the historical footnotes, "to stimulate his intellect." However else he did tobacco is not in the notes at hand. A young man who frequents singles bars says his favorite conversational opener is: "What time should I get you up in the morning?" ON TOUCHING Are you a "toucher" when you talk? Probably not, if you're British. Americans in conversation touch one another about twice an hour, typically. The French, approximately 1 10 times an hour. The Puerto Ricans, as frequently as 180 times an hour.

Or so say the hidden-camera researchers. Porcupines never attack. "Coco" meant "skull" in Latin. What the Portuguese traders thought they saw in the South Pacific palms seemed appropriate enough. Coconuts.

Q. Do England's roads have rest stops? A. They do. Signs for them read "Lay By." WASHINGTON What we think of George Washington depends on the current economy. So contends an historian.

In booms, we deify George. In slumps, we disparage him. Only scholars know something of the man. To the rest of us, he's just a variation of Uncle Sam. That hair style called "bangs" started out as stable talk.

An allusion to how early grooms cut horses' tails, said horses thereafter being called bangtails. According to the genetic scientists, the essential difference between people and gorillas is about 1 percent. Q. How long is a day on the planet Venus? A. 118 Earth days.

MARY WORTH by Ernest Saunders MAY BE TRUTH EV-W I MUST SAY MV RAITH IN THE LAWS NOU'RE INiV OF NATURE IS ONTHE RS I'-iM GOOOWOOO, t( BRINK OF RESTORATION! IN THE CLAWl 'KJK tvtKY AWt 1 THERE 5 A DEAR ANN LANDERS: Two years ago my father moved out of the state because he drank too much, his second marriage broke up, and he couldn't afford to live here. One day he called and asked me if he could put his car insurance under my name. 1 Ic admitted that he had been cited three times for driving while intoxicated and couldn't afford the $1,400. The insurance would only be $300 under my name. He asked for my license number, and I couldn't say no, so I gave it to him.

I told him I wanted to talk to his agent before anything was done. He said, "No problem." A few phone calls and a couple of months went by and there was no mention of the incident. Finally I called and said, "Dad, I haven't heard from your agent. What's going on?" "Oh, I took care of it," he said. To make a long story short, he not only forged my name with his agent, he had one of his bar girls pose as me at the Department of Motor Vehicles and she registered his car in my name.

I found this out through his agent. Needless to say, 1 was outraged. After numerous calls putting a stop to everything, he made me feel like the bad guy, saying I was a lousy daughter and didn't care about him. It's been over a year now and it bothers me that he has no interest in speaking to me. My siblings keep in touch with him and tell me he is drinking more than ever and is in poor health.

Should I make the first move? I don't want to feel guilty if something should happen to him before the rift between us is healed. How should I handle this, Ann? I value your advice. Forged, J.B., Northport, N.Y. DearJ.B.: Forgive him if not for his sake, for yours. Wait until the next family occasion a birthday, his or yours, or some other family event, Easter or July 4.

Reach out to him and patch things up. What he did was pretty rotten, not to mention illegal, but holding a grudge till the grave profits no one. DEAR ANN LANDERS: I recently placed my aunt in a nursing home. Her husband is dead, she has no children and she wanted to go there. "Aunt Molly" has received letters from well-meaning friends who say, "So sorry to hear you're in a home.

I hope the food is good." She was offended by these comments and said, "Don't they know 1 need this care and I'm happy I'm here? I still make my own decisions and when 1 no longer can, I'll be in the right place." Please, Ann, print this for those who believe nursing homes are for the disabled and incompetent. It makes me sad that people think my aunt is in a miserable place and that she has been "warehoused." Boston Dear Boston: Many seniors who are in nursing homes are in pretty good physical condition and enjoying life. Some have written to say they are happy to be free of the burden of keeping house and the social life is a godsend. Not long ago, an 84-year-old woman wrote to tell me she had met a lovely 86-year-old man in the home and they plan to be married as soon as they can get their children 's consent. Js that sweet or what? Gem of the Day: People of high intelligence talk about ideas.

People of average intelligence talk about things. People with no intelligence talk about other people. 1992, Creators Syndicate, Inc. Bradley Edgington REX MORGAN, M.D. I WgttlflH? IMMHSls WHO PO WE TELL'? THE WIZARD of ID by B.

Parker and J. Hart "THQSg HJY? AT mtip-ur I wot. hcb Yoo (fa t. ciTir council' jjL 1 rSJQ, B.C. by Johnny Hart THE ULTIMATE OKtfORCM MY GOOD BOND Powell woman finds relatives POWELL (AP) With help from the TV-show "Unsolved Mysteries," a Powell woman has found her long-lost nieces and nephew.

Ethel Sheme had been searching for years for her sister's two daughters and son, now in their 40s. But it wasn't until "Unsolved Mysteries" aired her story that the three were found. A niece and nephew had been raised together by adoptive parents, while the third had grown up in foster care not knowing what happened to her brother and sister. They will be reunited in Hardin, this summer. "It's going to be fantastic for everyone to have them back with us," Sheme said.

Sheme came from a family of 17 children. A younger sister, Elnora Madding Hamilton, divorced in the early 1950s. She had three children, Steven Ward Case Madding, Rita Kay Madding, and Pamela Ray Madding. After the divorce, Elnora headed to Seattle, where she found a woman to attend the children while she worked as a cocktail waitress. Eventually Elnora left the children with a baby-sitter and never returned.

She remarried and moved to Virginia. She died a few years ago. No one knew for certain what happened to the three children. Sheme believed the unknown baby-sitter found foster homes for the children. Sheme traveled twice to the Seattle area to try to find her nieces and nephew.

She advertised in Tacoma and Seattle newspapers, tried to persuade school districts to help her search and contracted welfare agencies. She found nothing until "Unsolved Mysteries" was aired March 4. Brokaw memorizes road scripts PITTSBURGH (AP) NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw calls himself "Rain Man" when he's on the road because he has to memorize his scripts, instead of using a prompter as he can do in New York. Brokaw, who broadcast Tuesday's show from WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, has dubbed himself "Rain Man," after the autistic savant who memorized the telephone book in the movie starring Dustin Hoffman. "Rain Man's only got so many of these in him," Brokaw said when he learned of a glitch Tuesday that meant he had to redo about a third of the show.

Brokaw said at a news conference that NBC will occasionally take the show on the road to get away from the "New York-Washington axis." He said for too long the networks' relationship with viewers has been "too much on a level of we talk, you listen. "This is an effort for me to come to communities like Pittsburgh and find out what's on the minds of viewers here," he said. 7K I. IMi CMttOM tWCI MC ANDY CAPP by Reggie Smythe OwUNm frc IV-LV WvAfL Dm Br Co fry mmmtmm WrTi you ve opt outs, percy) "It's okay, Mommy. This is an executive jet.

and havins ANOTHER GO AT HIM HAVING A GO AT HIM IS MV (STRONG POINT 3 1 ONE OF WEAK ONES 3 ait 1 GOOD NEWS '6: VOO'RE NOT PAWftHOiDl BAP NEWS THAT EVERVONE REAU.W iS (2 HI and LOIS by Walker Browne fAPAP BAYS We're InJ TME YOUR raMilV UPPER LOWER VWPCH-E RICH OR POOR? i i ri it i) West Wind Gallery Casper Artist's Guild Stephen Naegles (1937-1980) Show and Sale to be held at the West Wind Gallery 1040 West 15th Month of April Reception Sunday, April 5th from 2p.m. to 5p.m. at the West Wind Gallery. Public is invited. Gallery Hours 10a.m.

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