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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from brandonh]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[totally unrelated. i am deeply disappointed that dilbert.com greeted me with a popup ad. this spruced up site is too fancy for my breeches.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from apathybert]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think what you are really saying, is that studies have proven that ADHD individuals are highly creative and have poor memory...  Has something to do with the way the synapses work.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from notna2000]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Search problem solved!

What good are ideas if they remain just that.  There is a Free service (evernote.com) that will take images, look for text in them and make that text searchable.  Long story short, here is a few years of Dilbert:

http://www.evernote.com/pub/notna2000/Dilbert/

Go ahead search for &quot;head explode&quot; and see what comes up.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from delius1967]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I don't understand why you don't index your old cartoons and then just search them for key phrases.  Pay some Scott-worshipping flunky on this forum to go through all 19 years of comics and enter them into a database, then pay some underappreciated code monkey to write you a searching algorithm.   You could even, if it were clever enough, search for particular drawings, not just words, although words would have sufficed in this case.

Or, hec, strike a deal with Larry Page to get them all indexed by Google and search for it yourself.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Clumpy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[To be fair, most of the early Dilbert strips relied on unique situations and punchlines. If I'd drawn 4,000 strips over the last decade wherein somebody handed a damned document to somebody else, I'd probably start blurring them together as well.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from the_muteKi]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, considering how the second comic has a much more interesting and difficult perspective in the second panel, the follow-up comic is rather interesting. It's like the remixed version of the original one. Compared to a Sabbatical, it's not bad at all.

I find it interesting that you call the second one a &quot;fraternal twin&quot;. It's the same people, the same places, the same punch line. It's just drawn in a different manner, and it does seem to (like the other similarity comic's you've posted) flow better; in the latter comic the reason for Ted's head exploding is better connected to the boss's actions. In the first he's so busy he feels like his head will explode, and given another task it does. There is a connection but it isn't as strong as the second. In the second one the boss says that Ted said that being given another task will cause his head to explode, and when the boss gives him another task it does just that.

This sort of disconnect makes the humor less accessible. While in this case it all follows very well, in the most recent Sunday comic (Sept. 21) there was a disconnect between the start and the end of the comic that made it difficult to follow, and the reader had to make a few assumptions in order to properly get the joke.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Quizblorg]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have excellent memory and really poor creative skills. Your hypothesis may be accurate !]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dwbrant]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[quote:
Creativity is highly correlated to poor memory.
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Ouch.  I *used* to consider myself creative, now I cannot.  Thanks a lot, Scott.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Fair Witness]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think your subconscious was trying to warn you that you had done this comic before.  This time you wrote &quot;Ted, I know you said.....&quot;  as if you knew you had already said the same things before.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Ladewig]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Of the two, I prefer the earlier one.  We don't actually see the head exploding, and the PHB shows the effects of being close to the explosion.  Having to imagine what is going on in the cubicle makes it funnier.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from kls]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[My first thought was, I'm surprised it doesn't happen a lot more often.

My second thought was, what really interesting are the differences, not the similarities. After all, if two products come from the same source, and they are different, what has changed at the source?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from flipit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today I made the sad discovery that I can't vote for my blog entries anymore (: 
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Dunkelseele]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Don't view this as plagiarism. See it as a sequel. Obviously the Boss is capable of Pavlovian Learning. The second time around he knew to stand far enough away to not be impacted by the concusive force, or brain bits. He kept his suit in pristine condition!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Treetrunk123]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;User Name: JoshP Sep 19, 2008  2   
No worries, mate. 

As you just demonstrated, it happens to the best of us. Keep up the good work.&quot;

I second what Josh said. 

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from BobNL]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[OMG @tkjohns, this happened to me as well, not in the garage but that doesn't matter. LOL!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mikedcasey]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The demands of the newspaper comics industry are about as anti-creativity as one can imagine - high volume, constant deadlines, extremely tight restrictions on what you're allowed to do, etc.  You're a badass because you've remained creative for longer than most people in your field have, Scott, and for doing it solo.  It's worth noting that many long-running strips have been handed from one artist to another, or have multiple people working on them.

Personally, I prefer what you come up with when you're given the most freedom, maybe that's why I read this blog everyday and your strip once every so often (my favorite strips often stray from the office).  You have a very powerful mind, and it's fun to see what you can do when you have the most artistic control.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from KevinKunreuther]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, I'd think the idea would make a neat video game (see comments section  of 09/18/08 comic).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from charlesfunnish]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm calling for a congressional investigation.  This should never have happened.



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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tkjohns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I don't know why, but this discussion reminds me of the day I walked into my garage to find some tool or other, couldn't find it, and actually considered hitting ctrl-f.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from flipit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just a thought.
Those with an innate ability for memorization file things neatly in their minds. Those that do not have good memories file in disparate parts of the brain. When the former try to recall something they efficiently go to the right place. The latter must search a multitude of areas; this takes more time but in the process they put together connections that the former would miss. Filing in such a disorganized way unites dissimilar ideas and facts and from these original/creative ideas are formed. If the latter practiced memorization techniques it may improve their creativity (as one blogger suggested) because the data are still being filed inefficiently but they are simply better at retrieving. 
If you had difficulty remembering to which type of memory former and latter refer to in the above paragraph, you are probably creative :)

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