September 1992 Comic Strips
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Tuesday September 01,
1992
Tags rivers, trees, management, start, trust-building, exercise, minute, decide, eat, donuts, co-worker, bear, donut, committee, Wally, alice
Transcript
An instructor says to Dilbert, Wally and Alice, "We'll start with a trust-building exercise." The instructor points to a person dangling by a rope over a bear and a plate of donuts. The instructor says, "You have one minute to decide to eat these donuts or to save your co-worker from the bear." Alice asks, "Okay, who wants to be on the donut option working committee?" Wally says, "Oops . . . Problem solved."
Wednesday September 02,
1992
Tags Dilbert, rivers and trees, management, creativity, exercise, task, commercial, airport, landing, strip, leaf, dead, bee, voted, design, construction
Transcript
An instructor says to Dilbert, Wally and Alice, "Next, we have a creativity exercise." The instructor continues, "Your task is to build a commercial airport landing strip using nothing but a leaf and a dead bee." Wally says to Dilbert, "Look, we already voted. WE'RE design and YOU'RE construction." The instructor looks at his watch and says, "Time."
Thursday September 03,
1992
Tags rivers and trees, management, course, exercise, favorite, rope, team, figure, cross, muddy, patch, feet, dirty, ranger
Transcript
An instructor says to Dilbert, Wally and Alice, "This next exercise is always a favorite." The instructor points to a muddy streambed and says, "Using only a rope, your team must figure out how to cross the muddy patch without getting your feet dirty." The instructor lies across the muddy patch, bound by the rope. He says, I could have been a forest ranger, but no-o-o-o . . ."
Friday September 04,
1992
Tags Dogbert, ratbert, channeling, hostility, art, bowl, fruit, banana, hates, apple
Transcript
Dogbert sits at the table and Ratbert stands on the table holding a paintbrush and palette. Ratbert looks at his easel and says, "I'm channeling all of my pain and hostility into my art." Dogbert says, "All I see is a bowl of fruit." Ratbert makes angry brushstrokes and replies, "The banana HATES the apple."
Saturday September 05,
1992
Tags Dogbert, ratbert, think, spare, feelings, hideous, compost, random, colors, hackneyed, poorly, executed, embarrassing, proof, utter
Transcript
Dogbert sits at the table and Ratbert stands on the table in front an easel. Ratbert says, "Tell me what you think, and don't try to spare my feelings." Dogbert says, "It's a hideous compost of random colors. It seems both hackneyed and poorly executed. It's an embarrassing proof of your utter lack of talent." Dogbert continues, "As for you personally, spend some time on a 'Stairmaster.'" Ratbert says angrily, "Stick to the art, please!"
Monday September 07,
1992
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, multimedia, include, video, music, computer, programs, morning, face, theme, star wars, budget, spreadsheet, forgot, survived, ugly, science, collide, art
Transcript
Dilbert stands at a desk in front of a computer and video camera. Dilbert says, "It's called multimedia, Dogbert. Now I can include video and music with my computer programs." Dilbert continues, "This morning I added my face plus the theme song from 'Star Wars' to my budget spreadsheet." Dilbert continues, "I already forgot how I survived without it." Dogbert replies, "It can get pretty ugly when science and art collide."
Tuesday September 08,
1992
Tags Dilbert, programming, sissy, icons, zeros, sometimes, entire, database, program, letter
Transcript
An older man, Dilbert and Wally sit at the lunch table. The man says, "When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy 'icons' and 'windows.'" The man continues, "All we had were zeros and ones - and sometimes we didn't even have ones." The man continues, "I wrote an entire database program using only zeros." Dilbert asks, "You had zeros? We had to use the letter 'O.'"
Wednesday September 09,
1992
Tags Dilbert, Dogbert, testing, theory, advertising, sell, anything, asked, thing, least, desired, earth, ladies, date, quantities, men and women
Transcript
Dilbert sits in his chair reading the newspaper. Dogbert enters and says, "I'm testing my theory that good advertising can sell anything." Dogbert continues, "So I asked myself 'What is the thing LEAST desired on earth?'" A woman looks at a billboard with Dilbert's picture on it. The billboard says, "Ladies! Date a Dilbert call 510-803-9338. Quantities are limited." The woman says, "Hmm . . ."
Thursday September 10,
1992
Tags Dilbert, the boss, light, travels, sound, shout, speak, lips, appear, sync-up, words, knowledge, ridiculous, thing, heard
Transcript
Dilbert sits at his desk. The Boss enters and says, "I just heard that light travels faster than sound." The Boss continues, "I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words." Dilbert thinks, "A little knowledge can be a ridiculous thing." The Boss thinks, "He probably hasn't heard me yet."
Friday September 11,
1992
Tags Dilbert, flowers, woman, non-refundable, date, deposit, diskette, dating, history, personal, references, financial, disclosure, rejection, notice, verbal
Transcript
Dilbert hands a woman flowers and says, "Here are the flowers and the non-refundable date deposit." Dilbert hands the woman a diskette and says, "This diskette has my dating history, personal references and full financial disclosure." Dilbert asks, "When may I expect the rejection notice?" The woman replies, "I can give you a verbal now . . ."


