Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ Creator, Dies at 68

[ZLoth]

From Variety:

Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' Creator, Dies at 68

Scott Adams, creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip, who became controversial for his right-wing statements, has died following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68.

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[NWI_Irish96]

Not a very good human for sure.

[hbelkins]

Not a very good human for sure.

And what makes you say that?

[Life in Paradise]

I know that there are many that despised his political statements, but separating that; I found Dilbert are real hoot.  When that strip was still running, and before that the days of Bloom County were the ones that I savored in the newspaper.  I also lament the passing of the newsprint media, which is a faint shadow of what it was across the country.

[1995hoo]

This one was always one of my favorites:

[Rothman]

Not a very good human for sure.

And what makes you say that?

Probably the statements he made that got his distribution shellacked (e.g., where he said that white people need to "stay the hell away from black people"...said black people were a "hate group"...).

Another one of these situations where I'll think of a particularly memorable work ("If people are starving in Africa, they should move to France..."), but then think about how nutty/bad the artist was.

[kphoger]

I know that there are many that despised his political statements ...

I don't know a whole lot about him, but I gather that some of his despised statements are more basic than just 'political'.

But can we all just agree to not tank the thread with arguing about that?

I loved his strip, still do.

[kphoger]

This one was always one of my favorites:

At work, I've recently started seeing username BRAIN every so often.  It turns out there's a local Cox store employee whose last name is Rain and whose first initial is B.

Before I looked it up, I was wondering if he worked in a cubicle next to user PINKY somewhere.

[NWI_Irish96]

I know that there are many that despised his political statements

I love how we now consider outright hatred of other people to be a "political statement"

[ZLoth]

At work, I've recently started seeing username BRAIN every so often.  It turns out there's a local Cox store employee whose last name is Rain and whose first initial is B.

Ages ago, I worked with a tech whose user name was "aryan" thank to the first letter of the first name and last name. My username was the first letter of my first and middle followed by my last name because there was a username conflict. This meant that my login name was "ma(lastname)" while another woman co-worker had the username of "pa(lastname)". You can blame a long-defunct Unix limitation where usernames were limited to eight characters.

[kphoger]

Ages ago, I worked with a tech whose user name was "aryan" thank to the first letter of the first name and last name. My username was the first letter of my first and middle followed by my last name because there was a username conflict. This meant that my login name was "ma(lastname)" while another woman co-worker had the username of "pa(lastname)". You can blame a long-defunct Unix limitation where usernames were limited to eight characters.

We long-timers at work still have usernames that are first initial, middle initial, last name.  But several years ago, they started issuing usernames like B62015 or C21884 or whatever.

[GaryV]

Years ago I had a coworker who didn't have a legal middle name, just a baptismal name. They refused to use her middle initial in her email name.

[Rothman]

Years ago I had a coworker who didn't have a legal middle name, just a baptismal name. They refused to use her middle initial in her email name.

Makes me think of my grandfather, who only said his middle name was "G," but we're pretty sure it was meant to be Gamaliel.

[kphoger]

We long-timers at work still have usernames that are first initial, middle initial, last name.  But several years ago, they started issuing usernames like B62015 or C21884 or whatever.

Oh, I got this wrong.  We old-timers have usernames of the first two letters of our first name, followed by the first four letters of our last name.

[Big John]

We long-timers at work still have usernames that are first initial, middle initial, last name.  But several years ago, they started issuing usernames like B62015 or C21884 or whatever.

Oh, I got this wrong.  We old-timers have usernames of the first two letters of our first name, followed by the first four letters of our last name.

kphoge

[Molandfreak]

Not a very good human for sure.

And what makes you say that?

What are you going to do, share more Matt Walsh shit explaining  how an unabashed racist was actually a good person?

[kphoger]

We old-timers have usernames of the first two letters of our first name, followed by the first four letters of our last name.

kphoge

Hate to be the one to break it to you, but my first name does not actually begin with Kp.

[akt85]

I like how Dogbert was drawn like a giant cotton ball but was also an evil genius at times.

[JREwing78]

At an employer relatively early in my adult career, I built a "Wall of Dilbert" comics in my cubicle to protect me from the PHB across the building.

My PHB justified the effort. There was at least two occasions I was asked to break federal law in the execution of my job duties. I was *NOT* paid nearly enough to take the risk. 

I've been fortunate enough in subsequent employment not to need to deploy the "Wall of Dilbert", though choice examples would make my corkboard to poke fun at the crap I regularly encountered working in IT.

[Henry]

I wonder how Drew Carey feels about this?

(because we all remember when everybody was comparing Dilbert to his eponymous sitcom)

[Rothman]

I wonder how Drew Carey feels about this?

(because we all remember when everybody was comparing Dilbert to his eponymous sitcom)

Everybody?  Drew Carey certainly had more whimsy.

[LilianaUwU]

Jim Davis pwns Scott Adams.

[TheCatalyst31]

This one was always one of my favorites:

I used to work at a large company with a similar email address structure (first initial plus first seven letters of last name). Someone else working there was named Sam Harting, which left him with a very unfortunate email.

[oscar]

I like how Dogbert was drawn like a giant cotton ball but was also an evil genius at times.

As opposed to human resources director Catbert, who was evil all the time.

[mgk920]

I liked the one where Dogbert advised a grunt employee to change her password to six asterices.

Also (and Roadgeek alert! here), taking the unpaid office intern along on a site visit so that she can use the H.O.V. lane.

Mike