Same First Panel, Different Directions

[Tad Ashlock]

Today's strip (2008-11-01) has a first panel that is nearly identical
to the 2005-01-23 strip, but they quickly diverge into two entirely
different directions.

See <http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-01-23/> and <http://
www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-01/>.

I originally didn't have a point to that, but while I was writing it,
I discovered one:

I know that Scott doesn't deliberately reuse ideas. (See <http://
www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_creative_process/>.) But I enjoyed
both strips, so maybe he should consider revisiting some of his old
strips and creating new endings from the same first panel. Sort of do
his own mashups.

Tad