Dilbert Does the Deed
Lee Roll
comic strip by Scott Adams had a "deflated" tie in the 8/9/94
strip? Those "in the know" will recognize that our hero, Dilbert,
is no longer a virgin!
From the "Dilbert Newsletter":
>
> Is Dilbert a Virgin?
> --------------------
>
> Sadly, yes. I tried to solve that problem once but my editor decided the
> funny papers weren't ready. I drew a series of strips where Dilbert had a
> female co-worker who was a nymphomaniac. She confessed to Dilbert that she
> had "torrid romances with half of the men in the department in the past year"
> and asked if Dilbert thought she should seek counseling. Dilbert's reply was
> "Oh, I'd give it another year." In the strips that followed, it was clear
> that a happy Dilbert had become her most recent conquest.
>
> I always wished that series had made it through the editorial net. But
> Dilbert gets another shot at it this summer when he meets a woman named Liz.
> Liz will either take Dilbert's innocence or be killed by a meteor. I
> haven't penned the ending yet. I'm going to monitor my e-mail and see how
> the sentiment flows after Liz gets introduced. There will be a two month lag
> while I decide her fate.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> (If Dilbert gets lucky, I'll draw the strip one day this summer with his
> necktie hanging flat. That's how you'll know.)
>
>
A nice end-run past the "editorial net", Adams.
- Lee
OBJ?
Well, today I heard a new commercial. Crosby, Stills, Nash was rocking
the first few bars of "Woodstock" in the background as the announcer says:
"They were naked.
They were stoned.
They were... your parents."
Mark E. Mallett
Lee Roll <flr...@cray.com> wrote:
>Did anyone notice that the central character in the Dilbert
>comic strip by Scott Adams had a "deflated" tie in the 8/9/94
>strip? Those "in the know" will recognize that our hero, Dilbert,
>is no longer a virgin!
I noticed also (having read the newsletter)-
but I didn't get the actual printed punchline. Unitarian?
-mm-
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