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Is anyone as excited as I am about meeting Scott Adams, 
creator of "Dilbert," my favorite comic strip?  

Before or afterwards we could do lunch at House of Siam, the awesome Thai
restaurant recently discovered in downtown San Jose.

This afternoon I had an idea for a Dilbert series while mountain biking.  I'll
tack it on after this part:
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              AN EVENT AT COMPUTER LITERACY BOOKSHOPS

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           HUMOR AT WORK, OR THINGS I'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH
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A free FUN presentation by Scott Adams, the creator of the "Dilbert"
comic strip and 4 "Dilbert" books: "Build a Better Life by Stealing
Office Supplies", "Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons",
"Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless", and his newest "Shave the Whales".

"I will show some cartoons that got stopped before they were printed
because they would have gotten me into trouble, and some cartoons
that got me into trouble AFTER they got printed."

Date:  Saturday, May 21st, 1994
Time:  1:00 p.m. 

Location: Computer Literacy Bookshops
          2590 North First Street (at Trimble)
          San Jose
          (408) 435-1118

Stay tuned.  There are more events to come.

Events at our stores are always free.
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DILBERT SERIES IDEA

Dilbert's company is sponsoring a charity bike-a-thon, you know, 
Pac Bell 100-Mile Ride for Myopia.  Someone says that 10,000 men 
and women will be in the ride.  Dilbert thinks: the elite men 
will all be riding too fast, leaving 5,000 Lycra-clad women 
for the slow guys.

So he buys a mountain bike and spends 150 hours computer-analyzing 
tire tread patterns to come up with the most efficient design, and 
15 minutes training for the ride.

He insists the Dogbert run alongside on a leash, looking adorable, 
to attract women.

So off they go on the ride.  Dogbert gets tired and insists that 
Dilbert carry him.  Given Dilbert's poor bike-handling skills, 
Dogbert insists that Dilbert pedal while Dogbert steers.

All the elite men whoosh past them.  All the women whoosh past.  
There's just two women left, coming up behind.  Dilbert pedals 
hard so they won't pass him.  They catch him, and they're his 
mother and grandmother.

After 7.75 hours, they're out of sight of the parking lot.  They 
have 15 minutes to finish the 100-mile ride.  These mountain bikes 
are a lot harder to pedal than Dilbert expected.  Then Dogbert 
notices that the tires are mounted backwards.  The uni-directional 
super-efficient tread design is slowing them down!  There's no 
time for taking the tires off and putting them on the right way, 
so they turn the bike around, and Dilbert sits backwards and pedals 
while Dogbert steers.  They whoosh past all the other riders and 
finish the ride.
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"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692
Thomas David Kehoe     kehoe@netcom.com     Casa Futura Technologies
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