OT: Obituaries Thread

[FearlessF]

what politics???


oh shoot, you read Nubbz posts?!?!!?

there's your problem

[utee94]

what politics???


oh shoot, you read Nubbz posts?!?!!?

there's your problem

[MrNubbz]

Let's stay away from politics, yeah? So far we had avoided it re this comic writer, who created a brilliant comic strip, full stop. Can we just leave it there?

My absolute favorite strip still standing, so don't mention the Truth that he returned their  serve and got ran for it - Mkay. We're either part of the solution or part of the problem

[ELA]

Is Dilbert the only comic strip that is a product of its time?  I think largely TV and movie comedies translate poorly generation to generation.  But when my oldest got into Calvin & Hobbes, it held up.  Dilbert was probably the best at what it did, but it very much lives in the era in which it was drawn.  I was too young to appreciate it in the 90s, and reading it later, it's not funny.  It's rare for a comic strip to be "you had to be there", but I think Dilbert is

[MikeDeTiger]

Nothing beats Calvin and Hobbes, but I disagree that Dilbert doesn't hold up.  It still gets a chuckle out of me when I see the old stuff. 

If Dilbert isn't funny, then Office Space isn't funny.  And Office Space is hilarious.  

[ELA]

I think it holds up if you remember that era.  I dont think a 20 year old reading it for the first time would

[MaximumSam]

I always liked Dilbert but man, I don't remember the last time I read a comic strip. My parents still get a newspaper and I ask them to save a few to give me because they are great for starting the grill.

[utee94]

I think it holds up if you remember that era.  I dont think a 20 year old reading it for the first time would

I haven't read Dilbert in many many years, but in my office-place/cubicle farm, the themes that Scott Adams was highlighting and lampooning 20 years ago, are still very much the same.  The buzzwords might have changed from "Y2K" to "internet of things" to "work from home" to "return to work" to "AI revolution"-- but the activities and personalities are really not any different.

Almost anyone working in high tech is still having those same experiences, 20 and 30 years later.

[SFBadger96]

I would think anywhere with a lot of middle-management, which is a huge part of the white-collar work force in the tech, service, and financial-based economy.

I rarely found Dilbert laugh-out-loud funny, but I often found it directly on point in a way that made me cringe smile. Which, for me at least, is a solid form of humor.

[MikeDeTiger]

Yeah, a lot of that strip--at least back in the years I was reading it frequently--was built around Dogbert's condescension toward stupidity and unnecessary corporate rules, and Catbert's representation of HR as evil overlords.  Both seem extremely relevant still, in my world, and I'm not really in tech or even the private sector.  

[jgvol]

Yeah, a lot of that strip--at least back in the years I was reading it frequently--was built around Dogbert's condescension toward stupidity and unnecessary corporate rules, and Catbert's representation of HR as evil overlords.  Both seem extremely relevant still, in my world, and I'm not really in tech or even the private sector. 

Same.

[utee94]

Yeah for sure, it could absolutely apply elsewhere, I just can only comment from personal experience, on high tech/engineering firms.

Main point being-- I don't think it would be any less relevant now, than it was 20-30 years ago, for people still working in the large corporate offices.

Now, for people working from home or participating in the "gig economy" or being influencers or doing OnlyFans-- sure, they wouldn't get it.