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"Johnson, Mike C. @ SLG" <MCJOHNSO -at- SLC -dot- UNISYSGSG -dot- COM> wrote:
> Sunday's paper here in Salt Lake City carried a Scott Adams cartoon about
> tech writing. In a nut shell, a lady writer blows up at an engineer for not
> I didn't like the cartoon for four reasons:
> 1. It wasn't even mildly funny.
It certainly was mildly funny. It just wasn't extremely funny.
> 2. It maligns women. (My fuse is rather short on this one: I have four
> daughters)
> 3. It maligns tech writers.
Humorlessness is a terrible disease. I hope you aren't passing it on
to your daughters.
Adams is a developer, and he makes fun of developers, too. He also
makes fun of managers, dogs, cats, rats, . . .
> 4. I paid good money to get insulted.
How much do you pay per copy of the newspaper, and how much of that
pays for a day of Dilbert?
> Is this a great country or what?
It certainly is, but the Humorless Liberation Front is an everpresent
danger.
