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Your newspaper's comic page isn't even immune to the news of economic hardship the country is experiencing - iconic cartoon character Dilbert was let go from his job. Dilbert creator Scott Adams appeared on the Feb. 2 ‘CNBC Reports' to explain why. "Well, you know his company was slowing down just like everybody else's company has been slowing down and he didn't have much to do, so he started a side business in his cubicle - which is what a lot of people did, including myself and he got caught," Adams said. "So, it just seemed like a good time...

Be sure to have a look at Dilbert for November 1 ! Strip at the Source URL changes every day. The following may work for folks who want to see the strip I am referring to after Nov. 1. Nov 1 Strip ML/NJ

NEW YORK Many e-mailers praised or criticized this week's "Dilbert" sequence featuring an office worker named Jesus (pronounced Hay-Soos). The series "caused quite a stir," cartoonist Scott Adams wrote in his blog today. "I drew those strips a few months ago, and in my typical careless way I didn't realize they would be running around Easter time. Oops." Adams -- whose comic runs in more than 2,000 newspapers via United Media -- reported that e-mails "were about evenly divided between people who are deeply offended and people who think it was my best work yet.... "My favorite rhetorical question, which...

Des Moines, Iowa (AP) -- A judge has sided with a man who was fired for posting a "Dilbert" comic strip that made fun of managers on an office bulletin board. David Steward was fired from the Catfish Bend Casino because management found the cartoon "very offensive," human resources director Steve Morley testified at a recent unemployment benefits hearing. The casino had challenged his claim for unemployment benefits. "Basically, he was accusing the decision-makers of being drunken lemurs," Morley testified. "We consider that misconduct when you insult your employer." According to state records, Steward posted the comic in late October,...

DUBLIN, Calif. - A balding, bespectacled working stiff inexplicably loses his voice - except when speaking in rhyme or pinching his nose. It may sound like a farcical plot for a popular cartoon satirizing American office culture, but "Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams says he recovered less than a week ago from just such an affliction. "I don't want to give false hope to people who are suffering from the same thing," Adams said, sitting at his drawing tablet in his suburban San Francisco office. "I don't even know if my voice is going to last. Maybe this is an illusion....

There’s some sort of unwritten rule that the worse a movie makes you feel, the longer it must be. Comedies and animated movies are generally well under two hours. But a movie about well-dressed people drowning in ice water is going to threaten the four hour mark.

See for example this thread first. In a tragic attempt to be hip The creator of the Dilbert strip Shows himself at a loss (Like his pointy-haired boss! Next time, THINK!!! Or else button your lip!

SAN FRANCISCO -- "Dilbert" comic strip creator Scott Adams called his weekend wedding aboard a yacht in the San Francisco Bay "tremendous," but said he doesn't expect to win a dance competition anytime soon. Adams, 49, and Shelly Miles, 37, were married Saturday evening on the Commodore Galaxy yacht by the ship's captain. About 150 guests attended the ceremony. It's the first marriage for Adams and the second for Miles. The couple met at Adams' health club four years ago. Miles has two children, a 6-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter, and both participated in the wedding, Adams said. "We...

See this thread first. The man who invented the "cube" Admits that he feels like a rube A box with a hole that steals your soul and reduces your status to "noob"

NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) - Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity." Propst is the father of the cubicle. More than 30 years after he unleashed it on the world, we are still trying to get out of the box. The cubicle has been called many things in its long and terrible reign. But what it has lacked in beauty and amenity, it has made up for in crabgrass-like persistence....

Rosen: Our silly little 'addiction' Sometimes you get great life lessons in unexpected places. Kudos to Scott Adams, the cartoonist who writes the Dilbert comic strip. Adams cut through the fog and gave his readers a valuable insight into the real-world international politics and economics of the energy conundrum. In a recent strip, Dilbert readers were treated to the following exchange: Dilbert: I'm thinking about buying a more fuel-efficient car. Dogbert: Why? Dilbert: It's my patriotic duty to reduce this country's dependence on foreign sources of oil. Dogbert: Why? Dilbert: Because then the countries that hate us will have less...

It's time for the third-annual Weasel Poll. Vote for your favorite weasel in each category below. Remember that weasels are the people who tried to get away with something, not just the people you hate. Voting will end on December 1, 2004 and the winners will be announced on December 7, 2004.

The poll asks who is the weasel and it includes topic choices like Bush, sKerry, Dan Blather, Haliburton, etc. Lets freep it!

In the spirit of democracy Dilbert creator Scott Adams' encourages citizens to cast their ballot in the third annual Weasel Poll. Starting today on Dilbert.com, legions of Dilbert fans and zealous voters who just didn't get enough this past election, will be able to determine a truly unshakable question -- Who is the Weaseliest of them all? From Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore highlighting the media pundit/reporter category to professed celebrities such as Paris Hilton and President George W. Bush, there is no shortage of Weasels to choose from this year. Commenting on this year's poll, Adams says "2004 provided...

TRUE TALES OF INDUHVIDUALS ========================== INDUHVIDUAL QUOTES ================== Here now, some quotes from Induhviduals, submitted by DNRC field operatives. "Let’s lick this one in the butt." "If you fall and break your leg, don't come running to me!" "He's as sharp as a new penny." "I just want to be sure that we cross all the i's and dot the t's." "Let’s not stick our heads in the mud and drink our own bath water." Here are some more true tales of Induhviduals, as reported by vigilant DNRC operatives in the field. = When our printer ran out of...

Play the office politics gameBy Cynthia Broderick • Bankrate.com Let's play Office Politics! All you need are two people and the game begins.Playing the game of office politics is inevitable. Oh, perhaps you believe that you're above such foolishness, but that's really just one more way to play the game. Office politics is simply human nature in the workplace. If you work with humans -- even if they only resemble humans -- then you are dealing with politics. "If there's more than one person, you've got office politics," explains Rob Sarmiento, a Houston psychologist, also known as the CyberPsychologist....

Weaseliest Organization Recording Industry Association of America 7950 White House 6322 Democratic Party 4470 ACLU 3989 Organized religion 3859 Fox News Corporation 3039 Republican Party 3008 Congress 1860 New York Times 1323 Weaseliest Country France 12739 USA 10761 Saudi Arabia 5845 North Korea 4668 Iran 801 Canada 509 Germany 219 Weaseliest Individual George W. Bush 13959 Michael Moore 5104 Yasser Arafat 3057 Jacques Chirac 2820 Saddam Hussein 2141 Tom Daschle 1883 Arnold Schwarzenegger 1105 Al Franken 1095 Ariel Sharon 1023 Bill O'Reilly 932 Ann Coulter 695 Charles Schumer 483 Sean Penn 400 Jayson Blair 383 Richard Grasso 230 Gerhardt Schroeder...

The second annual exuberantly non-scientific Weasel Poll results are in. 35,874 people voted. The winners are... Weaseliest Organization Recording Industry Association of America 7950  White House 6322  Democratic Party 4470  ACLU 3989  Organized religion 3859  Fox News Corporation 3039  Republican Party 3008  Congress 1860  New York Times 1323  Weaseliest Country France 12739  USA 10761  Saudi Arabia 5845  North Korea 4668  Iran 801  Canada 509  Germany 219  Weaseliest Company Microsoft 12854  Halliburton 7645  MCI WorldCom 7220  Kmart 2425  Merrill Lynch 1313  HealthSouth 1173  Freddie Mac 1017  Salomon Smith Barney 970  Weaseliest Profession Politicians 10309  Lawyers 7854  News media 6234  Tobacco...

President Bush, Recording Industry and France Named 'Weaseliest' by Dilbert Fans in Second Annual Weasel Awards Poll Monday October 20, 5:20 am ET weasel n: a long-tailed carnivorous mammal. --Webster's weasel n: any person or group that operates in that vast gray area between good ethical behavior and the sort of activities that might send you to jail. --Scott Adams NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- President George W. Bush was voted overwhelmingly the number one weasel in the 2003 Dilbert Weasel Awards Poll by Dilbert readers who also named the Recording Industry Association of America and France as being...

The second annual exuberantly non-scientific Weasel Poll results are in. 35,874 people voted. I'll be spending the next few weeks publicly embarrassing the winners. They are... Tally Weaseliest Organization 7950 Recording Industry Association of America 6322 White House4470 Democratic Party 3989 ACLU 3859 Organized religion 3039 Fox News Corporation 3008 Republican Party 1860 Congress1323 New York Times Tally Weaseliest Country12739 France 10761 USA 5845 Saudi Arabia 4668 North Korea 801 Iran 509 Canada 219 Germany Tally Weaseliest Company 12854 Microsoft 7645 Halliburton 7220 MCI WorldCom 2425 Kmart 1313 Merrill Lynch 1173 HealthSouth 1017 Freddie Mac 970 Salomon Smith Barney Tally...

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/shop/html/weasel_poll.html Fun Poll that needs to be FReep'd. For Weaseliest Individual of the year, you have Michael Moore, Jacques Chirac or Tom Daschle to choose from. Moore was of course, the personal preference...

It's time to vote for the 2003 Weasel Awards. This is your chance to shine the spotlight of public ridicule on the weasels that deserve it most. Weaselness is a subjective quality, but you know one when you see one, unless that weasel happens to be yourself, in which case you had good reasons for doing what you did. Put the greatest weight on recent weasel behavior. I know that some of you are still angry about the Crusades, but try to put it behind. We want fresh, innovative weasels that did their best work in 2003. Remember that being...

Dilbert Newsletter 49.0"A Little Ray of Bitter Sunshine"Ironic Banshees---------------You've probably heard the old saying, "She screamed like a banshee." I didn't learn much about banshees in school but I deduce that they are dead people who scream loudly. That seems unpleasant enough. But lately I have been learning more about the bad qualities of banshees. I've overheard these nuggets from people who apparently have detailed banshee knowledge:"I had to pee like a banshee.""My head hurt like a banshee.""I was sweating like a banshee."It's no wonder that banshees are rarely invited to parties. No one wants to hang around with a...

Dumb Rich Peopleby: Scott Adams I recently read an article by an economist who said that poverty causes people to become terrorists. He used big words and was very convincing.Then I watched TV coverage of a high school hazing ritual in an upscale suburban neighborhood. Dozens of well-to-do Induhviduals paid for the privilege of sitting in a field and having mud, paint, garbage, eggs, pig guts, and excrement shoved up their nostrils while being beaten with blunt objects.I'm not an economist, but my theory is that you can convince a certain percentage of Induhviduals to do any dangerous thing, whether...

Dumb Rich People I recently read an article by an economist who said that poverty causes people to become terrorists. He used big words and was very convincing. Then I watched TV coverage of a high school hazing ritual in an upscale suburban neighborhood. Dozens of well-to-do Induhviduals paid for the privilege of sitting in a field and having mud, paint, garbage, eggs, pig guts, and excrement shoved up their nostrils while being beaten with blunt objects. I'm not an economist, but my theory is that you can convince a certain percentage of Induhviduals to do any dangerous thing, whether...

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Business April 16, 2003, 11:22AM Frame by frame, Enron art to be sold By BILL MURPHY and ERIC BERGER Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg Soft Light Switches by Claes Oldenburg, part of the Enron collection, may attract bids of $700,000 or more. What Enron hoped would be a world-class collection of contemporary art promoting its cutting-edge image will go on the block next month. The first round of the auction, approved by a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday, is scheduled for May 15-16 in New York. Up for sale will be the most...

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This was part of the most recent Dilbert Newsletter sent out to over 600,000 members of Dogbert's New Ruling Class.Weasel Poll Results Here are the results of the Weasel Poll on Dilbert.com. Don't blame me for any of it. I was only one of the 19,000 voters. I'm not entirely sure why France beat out Iran, North Korea, Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as the weaseliest country. I suspect we got a lot of votes from England. Weaseliest Organization ----------------------- Democratic Party 5,727 Major League Baseball 4,118 White House 3,700 Congress 2,702 Republican Party 2,333 FBI 872 Weaseliest Country ------------------...

Rep. Gary A. Condit, D-Calif., not only lost his March 5 primary election, now he's finished second to decorating diva Martha Stewart -- but neither one of them is likely to trumpet this award. Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip "Dilbert," asked readers of the dilbert.com Web site to vote for "weaseliest" people and organizations of 2002. About 116,000 people voted, the Associated Press reported, with top "honors" going to Stewart, Condit -- who sidestepped questions about an alleged relationship with federal intern Chandra Levy -- and a French ice skating judge for her role in the voting...

This Dilbert Weasel Poll needs serious FREEPING. Whitehouse is leading as weaseliest organization.

July 11, 2002 Cubicle Crimes By SCOTT ADAMS ANVILLE, Calif. — Apparently, without anyone's noticing, our entire universe collapsed into a black hole and emerged in another dimension where everything is backward: Bill Gates (who used to be evil) is spending billions to vaccinate children in third-world countries, while the Catholic Church (which used to be good) is defending priests accused of molesting children. The stock market (which used to go up) now only drifts downward. And the surest way to lose respect is to mention you started a dot-com. But here's the strangest backwardism of all: People seem surprised...

The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business By: Tim Carvell, Adam Horowitz, Thomas Mucha  Issue: April 2002 Print Article | Email This Article    In a perfect world, a list like this would not exist. In a perfect world, businesses would be run with the utmost integrity and competence. But ours is, alas, an imperfect world, and if we must live in one where Enron, Geraldo Rivera, and Cottonelle Fresh Rollwipes exist, the least we can do is catalog the absurdities. 1. Houston, We Have a Problem, Part 1: Enron states billions of dollars in extra revenue through aggressive accounting and complicated off-the-books partnerships managed by its own executives,...

Dilbert Newsletter 40.0 ----------------------- To: Dogbert's New Ruling Class (DNRC) From: Scott Adams (scottadams@aol.com) Date: March 2002 Highlights ------------------------------------------------- * Enron Irony * Movie Review * Boss and Cow-orker Quotes * True Tales of Induhviduals ------------------------------------------------- DNRC Update ----------- There are 500,000 shockingly attractive and freakishly intelligent members of the DNRC. That's enough people to form our own country, tentatively named Dogbertistan. Our territory will be comprised of bubbles of space that surround each of our bodies wherever we happen to be. If an Induhvidual tries to hug you -- and this is a big problem for people as attractive...