{"id":419,"date":"2002-07-01T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2002-07-01T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-01T17:05:00","slug":"concerning-dilbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/concerning-dilbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerning Dilbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/schnookiemuffin.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">schnookiemuffin<\/a> asked me why I don&#8217;t read Dilbert anymore. My stock answer was, &#8220;It&#8217;s just too painful.&#8221; I decided that this doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense so I managed to come up with a clearer reason today:<\/p>\n<p>From earlier conversation:<br \/>\n<i>I can&#8217;t read Dilbert because it just plain isn&#8217;t funny anymore. Too real. I go to comics to see outrageous things that are funny because they can&#8217;t happen. Not outrageous because they do&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else get this? I mean I have no problem with <a HREF=\"www.userfriendly.org\">UserFriendly<\/a> (which I&#8217;m about 3 months behind on) or Helen or GPF (The latter 2 of which I really haven&#8217;t read in years)<\/p>\n<p>Just more random short comments for the day<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-419\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/concerning-dilbert\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-419\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/concerning-dilbert\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-419\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/concerning-dilbert\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/concerning-dilbert\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today schnookiemuffin asked me why I don&#8217;t read Dilbert anymore. My stock answer was, &#8220;It&#8217;s just too painful.&#8221; I decided that this doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense so I managed to come up with a clearer reason today: From earlier conversation: I can&#8217;t read Dilbert because it just plain isn&#8217;t funny anymore. Too real. 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