Tech cartoons
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Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore? Either my sense of humor has been dulled by the years or the comic strips used to actually contain comedy which they don't anymore. I remember as a kid, enjoying all of the Sunday paper comic strips...except for Doonsbury, which I never understood. :confused:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
kmoorevs wrote:
Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore?
Define the parameters of 'funny'! In general I think comic strips have always been intended to be 'wry' rather than laugh-out-loud funny. If you did indeed find them 'funny' in the past (and one must always beware of golden age memory syndrome) it may say more about the immaturity of your sense of humour then than the dullness of it now.
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Hi, I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip. I just come away with meh. I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny. Am I alone in this? :Ron
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Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore? Either my sense of humor has been dulled by the years or the comic strips used to actually contain comedy which they don't anymore. I remember as a kid, enjoying all of the Sunday paper comic strips...except for Doonsbury, which I never understood. :confused:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Close to home (less of a daily hit than before) but funny to me. Most of the tech cartoons poke arrogant fun at the lesser informed which to me is not funny but a sad commentary.
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Hi, I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip. I just come away with meh. I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny. Am I alone in this? :Ron
How about: The Help Desk at www.eviscerati.org/comics. He hasn't updated in months, but you can just start at the beginning.
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Hi, I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip. I just come away with meh. I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny. Am I alone in this? :Ron
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Hi, I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip. I just come away with meh. I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny. Am I alone in this? :Ron
Possibly your English is not advanced enough to appreciate it; I don't mean this as a slight, just an observation based on my own experience. When I read "Tortilla Flat" in its original and my native language, English, I thought it was the funniest thing since Twain. When I recently re-read it in Spanish (which I understand pretty well, but not at a native speaker level), it was not nearly as funny.
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Hi, I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip. I just come away with meh. I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny. Am I alone in this? :Ron
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Ron Anders wrote:
I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. :-\ He cracks me up. It's so real to life. He has dry humor, I like it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
RyanDev wrote:
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. :-\
Here Here. I worked in an office with a Pointy Haired Like manager, and a guy who WAS TOTALLY WALLY. While some of the humor is a little bizzare, I find I totally relate to it. My daughter is Alice. So much so, that this Halloween, we are doing it Dilbert Themed. I also think it is "irony" based humor. Just look at the "Watch that predicts when people will die in a few minutes", and the companies decision to use Scare Tactic ads (that confuse the users into thinking they may die). Ironic. Almost Realistically sad. And funny because you know the watch will fail because the business can't figure out how to get the ads to make revenue. (Truth portion was that good engineering can be undermined by bad companies. Xerox and the Mouse, GUI, etc.)
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Hi, I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip. I just come away with meh. I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny. Am I alone in this? :Ron
Here's one I started reading, very tech funny. http://MetaphoricalInking.com[^]
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Hi, I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip. I just come away with meh. I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny. Am I alone in this? :Ron
Please send a link to a video of you tripping over a network cable or something. I've been practicing my Viking guffaw, with some tips from my wife. :-)
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Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore? Either my sense of humor has been dulled by the years or the comic strips used to actually contain comedy which they don't anymore. I remember as a kid, enjoying all of the Sunday paper comic strips...except for Doonsbury, which I never understood. :confused:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Ron Anders wrote:
I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. :-\ He cracks me up. It's so real to life. He has dry humor, I like it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
RyanDev wrote:
Ron Anders wrote:
I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. :-\
A sense of humor and a job. In my 20s, my friends would look through my Dilbert and complain that they just weren't funny. Then one of them got a real job (ie, not cleaning pools or making pizzas) and suddenly they started to understand Dilbert and why it's funny.
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Hi, I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip. I just come away with meh. I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny. Am I alone in this? :Ron