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Re: DILBERT NEWSLETTER (Fwd)

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From: ronald.h.davis
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 23:56
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In article <94133.164311U63974@uicvm.uic.edu> Gwendolyn E. Osborne <U63974@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>
>Dilbert Newsletter 1.0
>-----------------------
>
>5/94
>
>Hi.  I'm Scott Adams, author of Dilbert.  And this is the first-ever Dilbert
>Newsletter.  Feel free to forward it, post it and distribute it to people who
>you know would like to see it (within the bounds of good netiquette of
>course).
>
>I've gotten about 15,000 messages from readers since I started including my
>e-mail address in the strip.  Many people ask the same questions.  So as a
>public service (sprinkled with self-serving promotional bits) I thought I'd
>answer them this way.
>
>Here are the most frequently asked questions and my oh-so-clever responses.
>
>
>Is Dilbert a Virgin?
>--------------------
>
>Sadly, yes.  I tried to solve that problem once but my editor decided the
>funny papers weren't ready.  I drew a series of strips where Dilbert had a
>female co-worker who was a nymphomaniac.  She confessed to Dilbert that she
>had "torrid romances with half of the men in the department in the past year"
>and asked if Dilbert thought she should seek counseling.  Dilbert's reply was
>"Oh, I'd give it another year."  In the strips that followed, it was clear
>that a happy Dilbert had become her most recent conquest.
>
>I always wished that series had made it through the editorial net.  But
>Dilbert gets another shot at it this summer when he meets a woman named Liz.
> Liz will either take Dilbert's innocence or be killed by a meteor.  I
>haven't penned the ending yet.  I'm going to monitor my e-mail and see how
>the sentiment flows after Liz gets introduced.  There will be a two month lag
>while I decide her fate.
>
>Any opinions?
>
sorry, but this is a pretty un-clever response...

come on scott, with the kind of money that dildo is knocking down working
as an engineer are you trying to tell us that the guy isn't actually
PAYING FOR IT if he can't get action any other way?  we're all adults 
here...who are you trying to kid here?

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