# Did your paper show today's Dilbert? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045 "2006-07-03T14:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/41 "2006-07-05T22:30:12Z")
You, I find myself sympathizing somewhat with Stinky Pete – having to work among all those Philistines who have **no** appreciation of creative fartistry! For my part, my body odor is by all accounts negligible, but I am a man extraordinarily gifted in flatulence. My preferred performance _metier_ is the so-call silent-but-deadly form, with the sewer-gas variations as pioneered by the immortal Stinky Horgenheimer. An unorthodox combination, I’ll admit, but it won me a bronze at the winter games in Helsinki in '98! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/42 "2006-07-06T00:13:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Patrons/users [have BO - **BoD**]. (Mainly, users of our bank of Internet-linked computers – I must get three times as many requests for help using those as for help finding a book.) _Hypothesis:_ People who are interested in using the internet, but do not have access at home or work, are more likely to be a) homeless and without easy access to personal hygiene, or b) socially out-of-it enough that personal hygiene is a relatively low priority for them. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/43 "2006-07-06T00:34:46Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > _Hypothesis:_ People who are interested in using the internet, but do not have access at home or work, are more likely to be a) homeless and without easy access to personal hygiene, or b) socially out-of-it enough that personal hygiene is a relatively low priority for them. I’m sure practically none of them are homeless, at any rate. You can spot **those** at a glance (or whiff, as the case may be). We’ve only one homeless guy who regularly hangs out here. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/44 "2006-07-06T06:32:20Z")
The paper that I work at ran it. I don’t think anyone really gave it a thought. We haven’t received any complaints about it. I just thought it was kind of dumb. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/45 "2006-07-06T06:49:38Z")
Anyone who doubts Scott adams’ comic wit should check out his blog, where he frequently dispenses biting sarcasm that far outshines the confines of his three-panel strip. [This recent entry,](http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/06/burning_flags.html) for instance, easily made up for several months of meh-quality _Dilbert_ strips. Not that I’m saying the “Stinky Pete” strip was a flawless classic, but I think one of the drawbacks of _Dilbert_ nowadays is that Adams is getting a bit constrained in what topics he can address. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/46 "2006-07-06T17:01:13Z")
I think its DAMN funny! I actually laughed out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/47 "2006-07-06T17:13:25Z")
I like a good poop joke, and I didn’t think it was particularly funny or offensive. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/48 "2006-07-06T18:35:51Z")
I’ve had to work with a few “Stinky Petes” before; those comic strips are rather accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045/49 "2006-07-06T18:46:40Z")
I thought it was funny; those first two panels are gold, Jerry, gold: “I was jogging to work and eating an onion sandwich when I spotted a sewage spill. So I did what anyone would do in that situation – I rolled around in it.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-paper-show-todays-dilbert/363045.md?page=2)