Despite the topic shift to computers, I've had just about all I can take of naive jokes from the Family Circus. Bil Keane seems to think that children incorrectly assimilating vocabulary or not possesing a tongue deft enough to properly pronounce a word "heart-warmingly funny". Which it very well might be, if the comic strip had any other legs to stand on. so I guess the point here is that- yes, there are some times when based upon our "indoctrination" (maybe that's too strong a word, "mind set" might be better)we encounter an outsider's point of view that make's us fall down and laugh. Hey, make a comic out of it! but don't make that the basis of an entire strip. So in the case of Dilbert's lame rants against management (regardless of how deserved they are) I get bored, because that's all it is. P.S.- I still laugh at/dev/null jokes.
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Despite the topic shift to computers, I've had just about all I can take of naive jokes from the Family Circus. Bil Keane seems to think that children incorrectly assimilating vocabulary or not possesing a tongue deft enough to properly pronounce a word "heart-warmingly funny". Which it very well might be, if the comic strip had any other legs to stand on. so I guess the point here is that- yes, there are some times when based upon our "indoctrination" (maybe that's too strong a word, "mind set" might be better)we encounter an outsider's point of view that make's us fall down and laugh. Hey, make a comic out of it! but don't make that the basis of an entire strip. So in the case of Dilbert's lame rants against management (regardless of how deserved they are) I get bored, because that's all it is. P.S.- I still laugh at /dev/null jokes.