Scott Adams Blog: Timing 12/04/2009

Timing

Dec 4, 2009 General Nonsense | Notify

On December 2nd Dogbert stepped down as CEO of Dilbert's company and was replaced by a dried-up corpse. At about the same time, GM was announcing that CEO Fritz Henderson was stepping down and being replaced by 68-year old Ed Whitacker.

Here's my comic to refresh your memory:

http://dilbert.com/2009-12-02/

And here's a picture of Ed Whitacre:

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/communications/news/stories/images/whitacre.jpg

The timing was just a coincidence. My comic was drawn and submitted several weeks before the GM announcement. But as coincidences go, this is a funny one.

Another coincidence is that Dilbert was created when I was working my old day job at Pacific Bell, a company that Ed Whitacre later absorbed when he was CEO of SBC. I left before the merger, but one could make a case that Ed Whitacre was Dilbert's CEO. Sort of.

Kidding aside, Ed Whitacre is probably a good choice for tough job. 68 is the new 50. And I don't believe he takes prisoners. It should be interesting.

Votes: +10

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sjanlaird

Dec 7, 2009

He has the teeth of a much younger man.

Auldbreck

Dec 6, 2009

I also remember a really bizarre Dilbert comic coincidence back in 2001.

mazarlarry

Dec 4, 2009

I have seen coincidences between Dilbert and my offices over the years so am not that surprised.

KevinKunreuther

Dec 4, 2009

I linked that comic (with Decirst blog entry) here: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/12/scot-adams-blog-120109.html

Leora

Dec 4, 2009

I believe his head is already starting to blow away...

Phantom II

-7

Dec 4, 2009

Looks like Scott's blog software removed the URL. I'll try one more time with an abbreviated version - if this one doesn't work, just Google "Climategate," and you'll get all the !$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%

Phantom II

-3

Dec 4, 2009

Yeah, pretty funny, yuk yuk yuk.

OK, now that I've commented on your post. . .

I haven't been on the blog in the past few days, so I scrolled back to see the post I was sure I'd missed: the one where you commented on "Climategate," the cracked release of memos highlighting the intentional bias of certain global warming scientists at the U of East Anglia CRU and their subsequent cooking of the data followed by their subsequent refusal to release their data and internal communications under the UK freedom of information act. Rather than go into more detail, here's a URL to a CBS (not a conservative source) report on this: !$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$%*!$ same kind of freedom of information request has been moldering in the bowels of NASA for the past two years. In light of these revelations at East Anglia, a lawsuit is ready to be filed if NASA hasn't released their data and internal communications by the end of the year. The crux of the FOI request centers around what happened when two Canadian researchers realized that NASA hadn't corrected their temperature data for calibration errors, and what internal communications and actions they took, if any, to try to cover up the actual numbers or re-cook the books to make global warming look real.

I'm not saying you shouldn't believe in AGW if you want to. If you, as the Red Queen in "Alice In Wonderland," want to ". . .believe in six impossible things before breakfast," that's OK with me. I'm just saying that, while you certainly have the right to believe what you want, don't ask the rest of us to destroy our economy through massive wealth transfers such as "Cap and Trade." Don't make me pay for your fantasies, nor try to justify horrendously punitive taxes through this fable created by scientists lying about climate change to try to justify their grant funding.

Have a nice day, Scott. I'll be glad to send you a crow to eat. Or, we can just start calling you "Red Queen."

rambis

Dec 4, 2009

He may not take prisoners, but I'll bet he uses Outlook in 'grandpa' mode.

phb

Dec 4, 2009

ah-ha! I knew it...you caused Friz to resign!

dgmartin

Dec 4, 2009

Wow. A rare Scott Adams typo - "Whitacker" in the first paragraph.

It's no Honus Wagner baseball card, but still...

ideamannumber1

-8

Dec 4, 2009