He took the most boring, the most unglamorous, and the most important jobs in America and made them FUNNY. He had an unerring eye for institutionalized stupidity. And he departed this life with dignity and grace. He will be sorely missed.
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I don’t know how many times this has already been posted, but I think every cubicle in every office in every company I worked had at least one Dilbert cartoon pinned to the wall.
My carrer consisted of teaching SCUBA diving, ski patrolling and being a firefighter/pararmedic. Far from the office life, but I still found Dilbert hillarious. RIP Scott.
To really fully appreciate the “brown ring of quality joke”, I believe Scott Adams worked for an AT&T division at one time. I was an engineer at AT&T’s Bell Labs. When the Labs were spun off as Lucent Technologies, they had the red circle logo which we employees locally referred to as “the flaming a**hole of excellence”. When Adams came out with the brown ring strip, we all found it hilarious and our management was not too pleased when they would find it posted around our offices, especially after “team-building” meetings and the like.
My husband was an engineer for the phone company (I think he said Scott got his start in that industry?) and he always laughed about Dilbert strips. He would tell me how they were so spot on. I was a stay at home mom after 15 years of work and got many smiles from Scott Adams. He was truly talented..
Before I retired from the Air Force a couple of decades ago, Dilbert strips had overtaken The Far Side comics as the most frequent comics seen on office doors, cubicle walls, and workspace benches. You will be missed, Scott Adams!
(I’ve attached one of my favorite strips to this post.)
“The Knack” is forever funny!
As a trained Chemical Engineer, I consider “The Knack” to be one of the funniest and most accurate bits I’ve even seen..
Worked Aerospace for 40+ years, usually starting w/Dilbert (from 1989 on). Scott was always spot on w/r/t corporate silliness. I then switched to Coffee w/Scott Adams. Reframe Your Brain is the best use of $19, and time I can think of. His insights and observations (on white boards) will be sorely missed. Scott believed he was living in a simulation (think quantum entanglement) so I hope that he’s now happy and pain free, in another reality, in another dimension or galaxy, far far away. C’est la vie 🙁
For a time events in my office were followed a few weeks later by a a spot on Dilbert on the same subject. Someone asked me if I was Scott Adams.
The art of putting together a three-panel gag is much more difficult than most think it is. I tried in HS and again in college with a partner who was better at drawing. We thought we were funny and observant. But trying to translate it into something that looked like Setup-Conflict-Gag (or payoff) is extremely challenging. Scott Adams was able to create a world that was not just recognizable to so many, but to do it within the confines of a strict and concise medium. He was humorous, poignant at times, but always observant and pointing out our own foibles.… Read more »
without builders you have NOTHING. America and most of the world have difficulty saying “sex, died, and how Caitlyn Jenner iOS a biological male”
Some dumbass clicked the “thumbs up” on your comment not realizing that what you said was utter nonsense because they “agreed” that Caitlyn Jenner is a biological male. I fixed that. Caitlyn Jenner is absolutely a biological male. What you are doing is saying a true thing to make the rest of your nonsense valid by association. This is a propaganda tactic. You have said that the world is flat. You have said Donald Trump is a criminal for following and enforcing U.S. law. You have said that all police are criminals. Etc. Anyone with that level of cognitive disconnect… Read more »