Dilbert
Thursday 22nd June, 2006 11:08 Comments: 3
Scott Adams caused some controversy the other day with a recent Dilbert cartoon, about a place called Fecalruba.
Man, did I get angry e-mail from Aruba when that comic ran. Apparently the Arubans, or Arubians, or Arubitarians - whatever they call themselves - think that Fecalruba is my way of mocking Aruba. Apparently they\'re still quite touchy about the bad press when American Natalee Holloway disappeared there.
The blog entry is quite funny, but I think the prize has to go to one of the comments:
Maybe you could mollify them somewhat by doing another strip where the residents of Fecalruba want badly to go to Aruba, but get turned down for visas because they haven\'t committed any unsolved murders
But the biggest complaint is the strip itself, and Scott's misuse of the apostrophe. With mistakes like that, no wonder kids are using "txt msg" abbreviations in their exams, and making mistakes when spraying graffiti on walls around the corner of my office (apparently, "Adam is a cunut").
The other day Ian asked us in the office how we spell misconfiguration, as Word's spellchecker complained it wasn\'t a real word. I said the correct spelling; someone else suggested a hyphen, so I threw the hyphenated version into Google, and up comes the message:
Did you mean: misconfiguration
It's good to be right. Just a shame I don\'t have a spellchecker on here, as I\'m forever making typos, and if I use my mobile the predictive text often makes me write nonsense.
Man, did I get angry e-mail from Aruba when that comic ran. Apparently the Arubans, or Arubians, or Arubitarians - whatever they call themselves - think that Fecalruba is my way of mocking Aruba. Apparently they\'re still quite touchy about the bad press when American Natalee Holloway disappeared there.
The blog entry is quite funny, but I think the prize has to go to one of the comments:
Maybe you could mollify them somewhat by doing another strip where the residents of Fecalruba want badly to go to Aruba, but get turned down for visas because they haven\'t committed any unsolved murders
But the biggest complaint is the strip itself, and Scott's misuse of the apostrophe. With mistakes like that, no wonder kids are using "txt msg" abbreviations in their exams, and making mistakes when spraying graffiti on walls around the corner of my office (apparently, "Adam is a cunut").
The other day Ian asked us in the office how we spell misconfiguration, as Word's spellchecker complained it wasn\'t a real word. I said the correct spelling; someone else suggested a hyphen, so I threw the hyphenated version into Google, and up comes the message:
Did you mean: misconfiguration
It's good to be right. Just a shame I don\'t have a spellchecker on here, as I\'m forever making typos, and if I use my mobile the predictive text often makes me write nonsense.
Robert - Thursday 22nd June, 2006 11:24 Note to self: Must edit this entry to remove Scott's dodgy characters, otherwise my page isn't XHTML compliant. I really should improve my script to strip out/replace invalid characters.
Yes, that's right, you pick up on the one rude word hidden in the middle of an entry, but you ignore my plea for advice in my most recent post! Looking forward to Saturday? A small part of me wants to have a lie in, but I'll just have to do that on Sunday instead.