KevinKunreuther: answer to question 1: some months ago Wally had a cost saving idea that would save one dollar per year for one billion years. He asked the boss what kind of raise he would get. In the last picture, Dilbert asks Wally "He gave you a billion dollar raise?". Wally replies: "It's not as good as it sounds". Quite similar. Maybe that's why it sounds familiar.
1.)Why does this punchline sound familiar? Did Scott Adams repeat himself again?
2.)BTW, read this article folks(http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print) and you'll realize that Dogbert is a mere amateur and has much to learn. He is a naive hick compared to the real psychopaths running the show.
3.) friendlyfires attempt at news in brief is non-canon.
4.) news in brief - while most shares took a hit today from profit seekers, shares of Revalued AmeriProducts and Emulations continued to climb ending the week at a high of USD 20.09, after successful negotiations concluded to the satisfaction of union and management. At celebratory luncheon, a pack of crazed dancing engineering werewolves (http://mtblog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/DancingDilbertwerewolf.jpg) invaded the proceedings and dessicated and gobbled up all attending union management and a passerby who was looking for directions to nearest Radio Shack. CEO Dogbert commented, "I've never seen any of those beings before in my life and I think their pirouettes needs work, but hey, I'm not Simon Cowell, and frankly, who is? Shame about the crab salad, I think the mayo was spoiled, it might have been mass food poisoning. Lucky I ordered the chicken, eh?" The werewolves offered no comments and did the hokey-pokey out the side exit before animal control officers arrived and bazooka vomited in disgust at the proceedings. A severely medicated Jim Cramer on CNBC recommended in a zombie monotone sell everything and BUY shares at RAPE, predicting an end of June trading value of fifty dollars. a