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aflukasz | 9 months ago

Some of you cite your favorite strips. I will too.

Dilbert comes down to the caves where trolls (accountants) reside and gets a tour. The guide points to a troll sitting behind a desk, and mumbling in a stupor: "nine, nine, nine...".

Guide: And this is our random numbers generator.

Dilbert: Are you sure those are random?

Guide: That's the problem with randomness - you can never be sure.

Edit: Found it here: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-quest-for-rand....

And thank you, Scott - many laughs thanks to you.

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judah|9 months ago

The following[0] is my favorite because my company is hardening security by making everything difficult and painful, especially single-sign on:

[Mordac] "Security is more important than usability. In a perfect world, no one would able able to use anything."

[Asok's computer screen]: "To complete login procedure, stare directly at the sun."

[0]: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2007-11-16

FireBeyond|9 months ago

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fe...

Dilbert is trapped in the bowels of Accounting.

Dogbert: I understand you have Dilbert. Free him, or else...

Troll: Or else what?

Dogbert: Or else I will put this cap on my head backwards! Your little hardwired accounting brain will explode just looking at it!

Dilbert: What was that popping sound?

Dogbert: A paradigm shifting without a clutch.

bayindirh|9 months ago

I keep this taped on my cubicle: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2008-02-12

Not because somebody did that to me, but I had to migrate two racks of systems in one night under literal and proverbial heat due to former one.

You can think pointy haired as the embodiment of Murphy of Murphy's laws.

ja27|9 months ago

One of my favorites.

Also the one where Wally insists his towel gets cleaner every time he uses it: https://br.omega.com/dilbert/311.html

There's one somewhere where they're eating lunch and I think Wally asks Dilbert if he has any extra napkins and Dilbert says he won't know until he's done eating.

profsummergig|9 months ago

I remember reading this one in the late nineties. Never been able to find it again. It was probably in one of his books:

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pointy haired boss making making a presentation: "research shows that customers want high-quality products at low-prices.

but we make low-quality products.

so we are going to sell them at high-prices and call it a strategy"

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If anyone has a link to the original comic, please share it, I would like to see it again. It captures so many themes succinctly, and was very very astute for the late nineties when corps were doing crazy things and calling it a "strategy".

ghurtado|9 months ago

That reads like a XKCD comic disguised as a Dilbert strip.

Very nice.

And also, what a cool read that was, thanks for sharing the article.

bbaron63|9 months ago

I still have my Etch-a-Sketch as laptop mouse pad.