# Dung Beetle, You're Featured in Today's "Dilbert!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296 "2005-12-19T15:25:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/1 "2005-12-19T15:25:36Z")
[See?](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20051219.html) šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/2 "2005-12-20T15:15:22Z")
Shortest thread **EVAH!!!**. Hee. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/3 "2005-12-21T22:55:04Z")
Whoa, sorry! Iā€™m paying attention, I really am! I wish someone _would_ let me roll cow-orkers out the doorā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/4 "2005-12-22T15:16:52Z")
Aw, man, it was the shortest thread EVAH! Now youā€™ve gone and ruined it. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/5 "2005-12-22T15:45:37Z")
I really \*had \* to. Iā€™ve never gotten to be part of a thread title before, so I wanted to bump it back up to the top and wave it around a bit. Wheeee! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/6 "2005-12-22T15:47:08Z")
I didnā€™t want to answer this until Dung Beetle had had a chance to see it! I thought it was pretty funny, myself. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/7 "2005-12-22T15:50:02Z")
[This one was funny](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20051221.html) ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/8 "2005-12-22T15:53:18Z")
Looks like a Katamari to me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/9 "2005-12-23T15:23:51Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [This one was funny](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20051221.html) I really did laugh out loud at that one. That one could be featuring my husband (love ya, Jim!) Katamari, **NicePete**? I googled it, but Iā€™m still not sure what that is. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/10 "2005-12-23T20:46:54Z")
Brilliant. Simply brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/11 "2005-12-23T21:20:44Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Wow, I love your username. Simply love it. ---
**Author:** ![Homesick\_Alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecd19e/32.png) [@Homesick\_Alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homesick_Alien)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/12 "2005-12-23T21:28:41Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Katamari, **NicePete**? I googled it, but Iā€™m still not sure what that is. [Katamari Damacy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy) ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/13 "2005-12-23T21:32:25Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > I really did laugh out loud at that one. That one could be featuring my husband (love ya, Jim!) > > Katamari, **NicePete**? I googled it, but Iā€™m still not sure what that is. [Katamari Damacy](http://katamari.namco.com/) (and its sequel, We Love Katamari) are great but pretty much indescribable video games which involve rolling up various and sundry stuff, people and buildings into gigantic sticky balls. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/14 "2005-12-24T04:16:09Z")
Well, in that case, thatā€™s _exactly_ what the cartoon was like. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/15 "2005-12-25T04:23:01Z")
Just for the sake of bumping **Dung Beetle** ā€™s thread back to the front page in time for Christmas, herewith is presented, at no small expense and effort, this posterā€™s elementary-school opus, commissioned specifically as an alternative to failing fourth-grade science, titled: \*\*\*\*Our Friend The Dung Beetle There are many species of Dung Beetle. All of them eat #$@\*, and all eventually die, so they satisfy the requirements carved into the bleachers nearest the entrance to the school gym. All dung beetles belong to the order Coleoptera and the family Scarabaeidae. I belong to the family \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ and the order ā€œtake out the trash.ā€ That was a joke. Dung beetles depend on dung, or solid and semisolid animal waste, that usually comes out of the butt, or ā€œhindquarters,ā€ to eat, build their homes, and generally live the dung beetleā€™s idea of the American Dream. America is the greatest country in the world because everyone in it is free to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, unlike the commonists who are not free and donā€™t even get to go to church like we are forced to every Sunday because they donā€™t believe in God since he decided he likes America best. Our society is best because, metaforicly speaking, our people are like dung beetles and America is full of what the people need. In conclusion to this 250-word report on the dung beetle, if it were not for them our cows would have to find somewhere besides the fields and meadows to relieve themselves and that would be really bad because I have three sisters and therefore from personal experience I know our great nationā€™s bathrooms are crowded enough already. Also, dung beetles can be anywhere from a tenth of an inch to almost three inches long. **The End** Shortest thread ever? Hardly. Merry Christmas, friend **Dung Beetle**. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/16 "2005-12-25T19:24:58Z")
**King of Soup** , that was just beautiful, man. {wipes away a tiny tear}. I think you should make it into your sig line, **Dung Beetle**. To blazes with the ā€œthree lines maxā€ rule! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/17 "2005-12-26T04:59:40Z")
> [@The King of Soup](#): > > Shortest thread ever? Hardly. Merry Christmas, friend **Dung Beetle**. Wow. Iā€™mā€¦Iā€™mā€¦honored. **King of Soup** , I hope your fourth-grade teacher gave you an A for that one. Iā€™m thinking of having it done in calligraphy and framed. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dung-beetle-youre-featured-in-todays-dilbert/336296/18 "2005-12-28T03:39:57Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Wow, I love your username. Simply love it. Thanks. Iā€™m a Tolkien fan from 'way back. **King of Soup** , I think with just a little polishing, youā€™ve got yourself the nub of a Ph.D. thesis thereā€¦