Tuesday 30 September 2008

The perfect cartoon. Is Dilbert a person?

I saw this in The Nation this morning. If you're writing about what a person is, you might enjoy it. 

The daily Dilbert cartoon as published in the Nation, September 30, 2008

For more of this, see the Dilbert website at http://www.dilbert.com/strips/ 

3 comments:

  1. I don't get the point of this comic,especially the right box. Could anyone explain how it joke?

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  2. Me too. i really don't understand their joke but i guess that they may try to joke on someone in the government.

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  3. In the 2nd panel, Dilbert suggests that Elbonian's see non-Elbonians as cattle, not persons.

    Dilbert's new supervisor, the cow, is walking into the 3rd panel, so Dilbert's implication that being cow is a lowly, thing might not go down too well.
    When people "get off on the wrong foot", they start off on bad terms in a new relationship. Cows have hooves, not feet.

    Is the cow a person?
    Is Dilbert a non-person?

    And is he in serious trouble with his new supervisor?

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