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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Why Did That Guy's Tie Point Upwards?

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The creator of the popular Dilbert comic strip created an uproar with his unfiltered comments about a recent poll...is he a racist?  

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0:00.0

Why did that guy's tie point upwards?

0:02.1

It's one more thing.

0:04.1

Armstrong and Getty.

0:05.3

One more thing.

0:12.5

When was the peak of the popularity of the comic strip Dilbert?

0:16.5

I'm feeling like it was early 90s?

0:19.5

90s?

0:20.7

It's been around for a while, though. I'd say definitely

0:22.9

through the 90s and how universally loved. Is there been anything as universally loved as

0:30.4

Dilbert? Oh, and it's still popular in calendars and posters and all that sort of stuff. Just, you know, cubicle life.

0:41.0

Mocking cubicle life.

0:42.5

That is what Scott Adams of Dilbert fame did.

0:45.7

Well, it's going to be hard to find now.

0:48.8

One network which operates hundreds of newspapers has pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip,

0:54.3

The Washington Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other newspapers that individually

1:00.1

used to Kerry Dilbert will no longer carry the comic.

1:03.8

By the way, that's a really good name for a newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

1:09.3

I like that.

1:10.2

It's good.

1:12.6

So Scott Adams, who's, uh, he's been dipping his toe in controversy now for a while.

1:18.1

He did it all through the COVID, right? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yep. And, you know, he was mostly a,

1:27.4

he was somebody who, he was somebody who wanted the contrarian point of view explored.

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