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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from XX_EE]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[i always knew i was defective ... i think 2/13/13 is hilarious.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from hiimlydia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[hmm, maybe that makes the adult comic-reading population extra self-absorbed...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from BobNL]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I suppose I'm normal then. I didn't even get the joke untill you explained it here. The topic is just so out-of-place in the Dilbert-surrounding. Personally I find nothing turns me off more in that sense than office-stuff. Now that I know what it is about, I think the 3rd panel is quite funny.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from EMU]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I don't understand - I loved it.
Still grinning when I'm browsing back to it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Petethefed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I thought it was funny.  That is how the brain works in a senior manager, and I used to be one.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Telanis]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I must have a defect then, because that is effin hilarious.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from workerant]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The great success of Dilbert world wide is in the recognisability of the work based situations. The stupidity and greed of management and the ground-down feeling of being a powerless drone. Your fart-based sense of humour probably finds a more receptive audience here in the UK where we have no trouble with double entendres (or even single ones come to think of it).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Smith25]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Honestly, I knew something was up with your sense of humor being weird when you said you enjoyed &quot;This is 40.&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from DilgalLives]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I love a little naughty humor - keep it up! No wait...I didn't mean...oh, you know what I mean.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Drowlord]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On some previous occasions you've mentioned this, and I've agreed... not very funny.  However, in this particular instance, I love the comic.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from whtllnew]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you can make two Dilberts a day.  One for yourself and folks like you and the other, more professional one, for the newspapers.  Yes, I am trying to make you work harder.  You've said before that you like work, right?  You're welcome.

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Jurgen1957]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[These strips are so close to the truth in my experiences in a county Police Force that Scott Adams must surely have been sitting on my shoulder for about 20 years.

The pointy haired one is the epitome of so many Chief Superintendents  ... it surely can't be a coincidence. 

Before I retired I used to print out the very best cartoons and pin them on the station notice boards ... do you think they understood what I was telling them ... not a chance.

If you don't believe me then I suggest you look at the cartoon for March 3 1993 ... truly a masterpiece amongst masterpieces.

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from harrykrak]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By now Scott, you should be successful enough to be able to write the comics you find funny rather than the ones that will sell. 

Remind the newspapers how easy it will be to find a replacement artist who can produce 365 days a year, let alone produce consistently witty material.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from uhmdown]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I also suspect that there's a little schadenfreude involved on Scotts part. He probably knew that it would catch those preferring pure office humor completely flatfooted, and took delight in it   : P]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from uhmdown]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I personally found that strip to be hilarious.
The way I explain it is that its precisely because it came out of nowhere.

I'm a picture-thinker and pattern-recognizer, so my preferred type of humor is the random, completely-nonsense kind that totally blindsides you. Because that's the thing a pattern-recognizer isn't really unable to predict: stuff that is random. That's why I love e.g Spongebob Square Pants and Joe Cartoon, and black, slapstick humor in general.

The randomness has to be a surprise, so just doing nothing but randomness isn't funny; at that point the randomness will become expected. Its a specific pattern of having non-randomness punctuated by randomness that does it.

The opposite is true as well. If you have a bunch of randomness, that is suddenly punctuated by something totally non-random, you pretty much get the same effect.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from EricZ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dear Scott,
I am proud to say I have the same brain defect! I love this Wally cartoon, indeed Wally is my favorite character of all and seems to posess exactly the right kind of humor.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from CliffClaven]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think it was inspired, more so than today's which was essentially a generic version of the same gag. Perhaps I enjoyed it more because I once worked with managers who made a mantra of &quot;customer obsession.&quot; 

It worked on multiple levels. Wally finds a way to embrace the CEO's command with no actual work, a character speciality. It entails a satirical commentary, since fantasizing an emotional connection -- even without sexual connotations -- is probably as effective and doable as any concrete business strategy to that end. And who's to say Wally ISN'T fantasizing about empathizing so strongly with end users that he will produce superior products for them? An innocent reading is still funny; the CEO wants to move because Wally is subverting his message by literalizing it. Using his great power to move just one seat away from a subversive gadfly succeeds is being arrogant and ineffective at the same time.

Of course double meanings are likely to trigger mirth, especially if one of the meanings transgresses respectable norms for that context (either the meeting room or the very medium of the comic strip). We get Wally expressing something his coworkers don't want to be aware of in any form. The CEO switching to another chair -- and insisting an employee be closer to the source of ickiness -- implies he expects something more than Wally's imagination coming into play. And Wally's closing line is the perfect double-entendre for the occasion.

By comparison, Dilbert taking &quot;how are you&quot; as a serious request for information is mild and familiar. What would have been funnier -- and completely in established character -- would be the pointy-hair individual stopping Dilbert mid-rant, explaining he was simply feigning an interest in an attempt to be a good manager.  And then adding, &quot;Did it work?&quot; (The pointy-haired one will often defeat a personal strategy by explaining up front his cynical new &quot;management technique.&quot;)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from uncyspam]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[had to create an account just to say, this strip made me laugh very loudly, while reading this over my lunch break in the office. It may be that our marketing guy said exactly what the CEO in the strip said only a few hours before I'd read it...

So Scott, I say blow a big raspberry to all the joyless individuals who are complaining about this one, it was good humour, very well delivered!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from GlennR]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This was an LOL comic for me, too.  But then, Wally is my hero.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from wtinasky]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[LOL. Apparently the word e-r-e-c-t-i-o-n gets censored too. How long can I keep this up? How about 'turgid member'?]]></description>
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