• Re: end of Dilbert

    From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 06:03:58
    Verily, in article <10k6p0l$7i8q$1@dont-email.me>, did alms@last.inc
    deliver unto us this message:
    On 2026-01-13 01:23 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
    Wasn't his comic dropped from most places due to some earlier scandal?

    Yes it was dropped after he questioned that "6 million" number (you know what I mean) during a podcast. He also talked about race on more than
    one occasion and suggested segregation is a good idea.

    I never even heard about the final cancellation.

    I noticed that his ex-wife is handling arrangements. I guess the young girlfriend flitted off.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 04:30:42
    In article <10k5t3h$3920l$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

    The ex wife of Scott Adams told TMZ he had entered hospice. >https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/12/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-hospice-prostate-cancer/

    His death from complications of metastatic cancer was announced.

    https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/scott-adams-dead/

    I notice that leftists didn't wait long to start dancing on his grave.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 04:30:43
    In article <10k5v25$39nkt$1@dont-email.me>, ijball@mac.invalid wrote:

    Wasn't his comic dropped from most places due to some earlier scandal?

    No, he just supported President Trump in 2016.

    Was he still putting out material recently?

    I think he was producing online material.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, January 15, 2026 04:30:44
    moviepig wrote:
    On 1/13/2026 10:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jan 13, 2026 at 4:46:11 PM PST, "Alan Smithee" <alms@last.inc> wrote:
    On 2026-01-13 01:23 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

    Wasn't his comic dropped from most places due to some earlier scandal? >>>
    Yes it was dropped after he questioned that "6 million" number (you know >>> what I mean) during a podcast. He also talked about race on more than
    one occasion and suggested segregation is a good idea.

    You mean like they routinely do on college campuses now, with "minority-only >> study spaces", black dorms, and separate graduation ceremonies for black
    students?

    Weird how it's okay to openly supportive segregation when you're black,
    but it's racist to support it when you're white.

    Superficially ironic, maybe, but too inevitable to be weird.

    Nonresponse noted. Get back to us when you have a real argument to make.

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Friday, January 16, 2026 06:38:51
    Verily, in article <Nt6dnWRSvsRZPPT0nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com>, did plutedpup@outlook.com deliver unto us this message:

    Dilbert's last 20 years of strips wasn't that good;
    it's the period of around 1995 - 1999 that are gold!


    That's completely normal for comics. My father once told me that Blondie
    was funny when it started out; I was startled. I once read some very old Family Circus comics, and it was a very different strip in which their neglectful father drank a lot and ogled hotties while the kids did some genuinely bad things.

    I respect the creator of Calvin and Hobbes for ending it before it began
    to stink.

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  • From Your Name@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, January 17, 2026 10:44:38
    On 2026-01-16 11:38:51 +0000, The True Melissa said:
    Verily, in article <Nt6dnWRSvsRZPPT0nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com>, did plutedpup@outlook.com deliver unto us this message:

    Dilbert's last 20 years of strips wasn't that good;
    it's the period of around 1995 - 1999 that are gold!

    That's completely normal for comics. My father once told me that Blondie
    was funny when it started out; I was startled. I once read some very old Family Circus comics, and it was a very different strip in which their neglectful father drank a lot and ogled hotties while the kids did some genuinely bad things.

    I respect the creator of Calvin and Hobbes for ending it before it began
    to stink.

    It's the "American way" to keep churning something out until everybody
    is thoroughly sick of it and not bothering to watch / read / listen to
    it (and then make some more just to make sure) ... just look at The
    Simpsons. :-\

    Then there's the UK comedy "Ghosts" which ran for 5 seasons, 34
    episodes in total before the makers chose to end it. The US decided to
    copy it, but the US version has been renewed for a sixth season and
    already has 82 episodes.

    Also the numerous spin-off of shows like Stargate, Star Trek, NCIS, Law
    & Order, etc.

    If Star Wars had been a UK project, it probaly would have ended with
    the Original Trilogy. Because it's a US project, it has had two more
    trilogies and lots of spin-off movies and TV shows, with more planned (including yet another trilogy "continuing the story after Episode IX", despite saying that was the end of the Saga).



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  • From Alan Smithee@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, January 17, 2026 21:08:54
    On 2026-01-16 05:44 PM, Your Name wrote:
    On 2026-01-16 11:38:51 +0000, The True Melissa said:
    Verily, in article <Nt6dnWRSvsRZPPT0nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com>, did
    plutedpup@outlook.com deliver unto us this message:

    Dilbert's last 20 years of strips wasn't that good;
    it's the period of around 1995 - 1999 that are gold!

    That's completely normal for comics. My father once told me that Blondie
    was funny when it started out; I was startled. I once read some very old
    Family Circus comics, and it was a very different strip in which their
    neglectful father drank a lot and ogled hotties while the kids did some
    genuinely bad things.

    I respect the creator of Calvin and Hobbes for ending it before it began
    to stink.

    It's the "American way" to keep churning something out until everybody
    is thoroughly sick of it and not bothering to watch / read / listen to
    it (and then make some more just to make sure) ... just look at The
    Simpsons. :-\


    Same thing with the "Peanuts" strip. It was funny at first but it went
    to total crap in its last decades.

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 01, 2026 03:30:59
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:46:11 -0400, in rec.arts.tv Alan Smithee
    <alms@last.inc> wrote:

    On 2026-01-13 01:23 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
    Wasn't his comic dropped from most places due to some earlier scandal?

    Yes it was dropped after he questioned that "6 million" number (you know >what I mean) during a podcast. He also talked about race on more than
    one occasion and suggested segregation is a good idea.

    Hadn't heard about either though with respect to the Holocaust does it
    really matter in terms of depth of evil if the number is 6 million, 4
    million or 12 million? It was one helluva lot of deaths that were
    indisputably planned with industrial precise by all sorts of means
    throughout the way including up to the last week of the war.

    (I suppose if it had been that last number there wouldn't have been a
    state of Israel since with only 15 million Jews worldwide there
    wouldn't have been enough survivors to have a state of Israel but you
    get what I mean - once you get past a certain number genocide is
    completely unimagineable especially when done with the precision it
    was. Note that half the Holocaust deaths had already been done by
    September 1942 well before the tide of the war had decisively changed
    against them and that the killings didn't stop until literally a week
    before the Germans surrendered - that's well documented and was a LOT
    more people than just Dietrich Boenhoffer who was the best known
    victim of the last week of the war)

    (Back in my student days I sat in the university library and read
    several hundred pages of the Nuremberg Trials transcripts
    until I just couldn't take it any more - what was 30 or 40 musty
    volumes then is a Harvard Law School website now https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/)

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 01, 2026 03:33:42
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:23:42 -0500, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    On 2026-01-13 11:49 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    The ex wife of Scott Adams told TMZ he had entered hospice.
    https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/12/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-hospice-prostate-cancer/

    His death from complications of metastatic cancer was announced.

    https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/scott-adams-dead/

    R.I.P. Scott Adams :-(

    As they say in the British Parliament: "Some honourable gentlemen -
    hear hear!"

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