# Today's Dilbert is bugging me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787 "2007-04-19T15:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **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:** [April 19, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/1 "2007-04-19T15:07:31Z")
[Thursday, April 19.](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070419.html) I found myself a little shocked by this cartoon. Yes, I know, it’s only a cartoon, Asok’s soul isn’t really trapped in his body, but I just found this cartoon - unsettling. It’s one thing for your employer to make this life a living hell, but the idea of your employer messing with your eternal soul? Too far. Does this bug anyone else, or do I just have my sensitivity meter set on “Way Too High” today? ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/2 "2007-04-19T15:10:48Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] Does this bug anyone else [/QUOTE] It bugs me only because I do not find it funny. Other than that, meh. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/3 "2007-04-19T15:11:08Z")
Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/4 "2007-04-19T15:11:21Z")
Didn’t bug me, but maybe that’s because I don’t believe in an eternal soul (or non-eternal ones either, for that matter). ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/5 "2007-04-19T15:11:55Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] [Thursday, April 19.](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070419.html) I found myself a little shocked by this cartoon. Yes, I know, it’s only a cartoon, Asok’s soul isn’t really trapped in his body, but I just found this cartoon - unsettling. It’s one thing for your employer to make this life a living hell, but the idea of your employer messing with your eternal soul? Too far. [/QUOTE] Do you mean the employer has gone too far? Or that Adams has gone too far? Or what? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/6 "2007-04-19T15:28:53Z")
It bugs me because it means that Adams has scraped the bottom of the barrel so much that he’s digging into the dirt underneath it. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/7 "2007-04-19T15:29:57Z")
The employer (as the Evil HR Director) has possibly gone too far. Adams is a cartoonist - it’s his business to say controversial things (or at least, it should be). ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/8 "2007-04-19T15:33:47Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] The employer (as the Evil HR Director) has possibly gone too far. Adams is a cartoonist - it’s his business to say controversial things (or at least, it should be). [/QUOTE] But the employer is a cartoon. It’s his business to say what Adams writes in the balloon? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/9 "2007-04-19T15:35:20Z")
I believe in an eternal spirit, and it didn’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/10 "2007-04-19T15:36:07Z")
[Wednesday 4/18](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070418.html) was better… ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/11 "2007-04-19T15:44:19Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] The employer (as the Evil HR Director) has possibly gone too far. Adams is a cartoonist - it’s his business to say controversial things (or at least, it should be). [/QUOTE] It’s hard for me to see how this in particular, out of all the things the employer in Dilbert has done, should be thought of as “going too far.” It’s inexcuseably evil, just like everything else the corporation does. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/12 "2007-04-19T15:50:16Z")
Working in the corporate world is soul destroying. Oh, look at the tortured metaphor. Ha ha. Eh. It’s not funny, but I’m not troubled by it, either. It’s simply a very poor attempt at humor. ---
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/13 "2007-04-19T15:57:04Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] Adams is a cartoonist - it’s his business to say controversial things (or at least, it should be). [/QUOTE] I think his _primary_ business is to say funny things–that is, if he hopes to mainatin the satire. But the basic premise of **Dilbert** is pretty much played out; variations on the “the corporate world is an absurd torture” theme. When I walk into my director’s office and see **Dilbert** strips pasted on the wall, I know it’s no longer relevant of funny… ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/14 "2007-04-19T15:59:43Z")
[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD] [Wednesday 4/18](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070418.html) was better… [/QUOTE] And [Tuesday](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070417.html) was downright funny. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/15 "2007-04-19T16:10:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zakalwe] And [Tuesday](http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070417.html) was downright funny. [/QUOTE] I didn’t think the “doughnut” spelling was used in the USA? Has Dilbert been internationalised? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/16 "2007-04-19T16:16:44Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] I didn’t think the “doughnut” spelling was used in the USA? Has Dilbert been internationalised? [/QUOTE] As far as I can tell, it’s 50/50. Krispy Kreme, for example, calls their product doughnuts. I think the Donut spelling is most associated with Dunkin’. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/17 "2007-04-19T16:17:43Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] Working in the corporate world is soul destroying. Oh, look at the tortured metaphor. Ha ha. Eh. It’s not funny, but I’m not troubled by it, either. It’s simply a very poor attempt at humor. [/QUOTE] I think the joke was supposed to be that Catbert was so evil that he’s gone beyond soul destroying into preventing Asok’s soul from being reincarnated? But by cauterizing? Adams seems to have used up not only his ideas but has run out of reader ideas. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/18 "2007-04-19T16:20:04Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] Has Dilbert been internationalised? [/QUOTE] You mean “internationalized”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/19 "2007-04-19T16:29:15Z")
I didn’t find any of those last trips funny. Unfortunately, that’s typical of Dilbert these days. It’s been played out for years. Occasionally, it’ll amuse me, but for the most part it’s just another comic that really should have taken a cue from Bill Watterson and called it quits. (I do believe in a soul, BTW, and I din’t find those strips unsettling or offensive. Just lame.) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787/20 "2007-04-19T16:37:23Z")
I hardly ever read Dilbert and the only time I do is when someone on a board links to it. Most of the time I do not find it funny. But the three listed in this thread I found funny. Tuesdays and Wednesdays were funnier than today’s. Isn’t Catbert? supposed to be an evil sumama bitch? If so then he’s being himself and the over-topped-ness I find funny. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-dilbert-is-bugging-me/400787.md?page=2)