Tuesday, November 01, 2005

dilbert: is this funny?

nov 1st

i am not sure this is particularly funny. i used to like this strip, but this character 'asok' makes me wonder.

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20051030.html

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought it was funny and not insulting.

Asok is supposed to be an IIT graduate who has the productivity of many workers combined. There are other strips in which Asok is the project manager, but chooses to do the entire project in one weekend. This strip actually betters the reputation of IIT in the west, in my opinion.

The guy in the hat, on the other hand, is portrayed as an ignorant fellow from the American south, which makes sense. Due to his lack of global awareness, he makes silly comments, only to pay for it later.

Anonymous said...

San,my heart refuses to bleed for britain; it has deservedly earned its "ummahgration".May it get more entrenched!

Your use of the word "imperiously" says it all.By the way,did the brits before entering India, click their heels and say "Excuse me,may I invade ,colonise your country and minds...." in Emily Post's style?

Be it britain or america, God's weird sense of humour is in full display!

Anonymous said...

San, as long as Hindus (and their cultural ethos) were extinguished or subjugated this very same "ummahgration" was not anathema to the Hindu haters(read churchians,converters etc).Now that the whites are getting garrotted by this 'ummahism',so much of wailing and all-is-not-well-with-the-world kind of cogitation!Even now there are a lot of apologists rising in 'ummahism's defense,our own secularists for instance.

The dutch are "tolerant"you claim;tolerant towards who?Themselves and fellow christists,right? So peace loving that they pillaged our 'THIRUCHENDUR' temple,looted the treasures and the 'MOOLAVAR VIGRAHAM' too.(I am giving you just one instance among many....it applies to the french too).When their ship was about to be wrecked,in haste,did they throw(sic)Sri Subrahmanyar Vigraham in the sea. It was not contrition but self preservation that triggered it.

Heard of wheels of Justice grinding slow?

Anonymous said...

San, Ummahgration, 'Hotel Nation'.. these are apt terms indeed. But as Kalyani as said Ummahgration to Europe and America may be as bad from Indian point of view. Europeons and Americans then may better understand how 'peaceful' the so called religion of peace is, and stop being hypocritical all the time.

Anonymous said...

I disagree... what happens in the west has a negative bearing on what happens here. Say the west acts tough on these ummahgrants. The liberal media in India will play the west-vs-east card and influence Indian policy to be more pro-muslim.

Anonymous said...

San
Which Dilbert title are u referring to?