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In article <t1iihg$q19$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no. Oh no.

Dogbert is an unreliable narrator.

--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. —-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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On 3/24/2022 9:59 PM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <t1iihg$q19$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no. Oh no.

Dogbert is an unreliable narrator.

So unreliable you can rely on it.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
   https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

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On 3/25/22 1:16 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
   https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

A certain scene involving a court jester. (Remember, we know that Scott
Adams is a big fan of “Babylon 5”, and even played a cameo role.)

--
John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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On 3/25/2022 1:26 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:

On 3/25/22 1:16 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
     https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

A certain scene involving a court jester. (Remember, we know that Scott
Adams is a big fan of “Babylon 5”, and even played a cameo role.)

Wanted to hire Garibaldi to find his cat and dog before they took over
the galaxy.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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On 3/25/22 8:34 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 3/25/2022 1:26 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:

On 3/25/22 1:16 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
     https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

A certain scene involving a court jester. (Remember, we know that
Scott Adams is a big fan of “Babylon 5”, and even played a cameo role.) >>

Wanted to hire Garibaldi to find his cat and dog before they took over
the galaxy.

Yup. And because he’d already been Taft-Hartleyed on “Newsradio”, he actually had to join SAG.

--
John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:26:06 -0400, John W Kennedy
<john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/25/22 1:16 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
   https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

A certain scene involving a court jester. (Remember, we know that Scott
Adams is a big fan of “Babylon 5”, and even played a cameo role.)

The only scene featuring a court jester I remember is one in which the
jester mocked the emperor, was greatly relieved when the emperor
laughed, but not much later his head came rolling across the floor.

Did anybody say "humor is subjective" in that scene?

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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On 3/25/2022 7:40 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:26:06 -0400, John W Kennedy
<john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/25/22 1:16 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
   https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

A certain scene involving a court jester. (Remember, we know that Scott
Adams is a big fan of “Babylon 5”, and even played a cameo role.)

The only scene featuring a court jester I remember is one in which the
jester mocked the emperor, was greatly relieved when the emperor
laughed, but not much later his head came rolling across the floor.

Did anybody say "humor is subjective" in that scene?

The Emperor to Mollari as the guards were dragging the jester away IIRC.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/25/22 1:16 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
   https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

A certain scene involving a court jester. (Remember, we know that Scott
Adams is a big fan of “Babylon 5”, and even played a cameo role.)

I knew about Harlan Ellision, but Scott Adams was new to me. Dog and
cat trying to take over the galaxy... yes, fits.


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On 25 Mar 2022, Joy Beeson wrote
(in article<77vs3hdjpgo8ub1oel6bs15iafjvrtd171@4ax.com>):

On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:26:06 -0400, John W Kennedy
<john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/25/22 1:16 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy<john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no. Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

A certain scene involving a court jester. (Remember, we know that Scott Adams is a big fan of “Babylon 5”, and even played a cameo role.)

The only scene featuring a court jester I remember is one in which the
jester mocked the emperor, was greatly relieved when the emperor
laughed, but not much later his head came rolling across the floor.

his hat flew across the flow. the emperor picked it up.

Did anybody say "humor is subjective" in that scene?

the emperor, to Molari. Molari was not impressed but kept his mouth shut.

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On 3/26/22 5:43 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/25/22 1:16 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:

John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> schrieb:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
   https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I didn't (and I am currently in the process of re-watching it).

What is it?

A certain scene involving a court jester. (Remember, we know that Scott
Adams is a big fan of “Babylon 5”, and even played a cameo role.)

I knew about Harlan Ellision, but Scott Adams was new to me. Dog and
cat trying to take over the galaxy... yes, fits.

Harlan Ellison was on the staff—the only TV series he never quit. But he
had a couple of cameos, too, and a couple of story credits. His title
was a newly-invented one, “Conceptual Consultant”, described as the man responsible for telling Joe Straczynski to do a better job whenever
Ellison thought he was slipping.

Another big fan of B5 was Howard Stern. When Warner Brothers heard about
it, they offered to send some cast members to do his show, but he
demurred, because his persona would require him to mock them, and he
didn’t want to mock them.

One more was the legendary NYC DJ, “Cousin” Bruce Morrow, who had a perfectly straight cameo as the XO of the strangely doomed Babylon 4.

--
John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:51:36 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

Did anybody say "humor is subjective" in that scene?

The Emperor to Mollari as the guards were dragging the jester away IIRC.

Thank you.

--
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGESEW/

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On 3/24/22 11:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/24/2022 4:43 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
    https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I have never seen Babylon 5.

It’s streaming now on HBOMax, in newly mastered prints.

You should watch it. After all, how many US television series can you
name with an episode that is (among other things) a parody-pastiche of
“The Lady’s Not For Burning”?

--
John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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In article <DfydnbTJlrZgXt3_nZ2dnUU7-InNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/24/22 11:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/24/2022 4:43 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
    https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I have never seen Babylon 5.

It’s streaming now on HBOMax, in newly mastered prints.

You should watch it. After all, how many US television series can you
name with an episode that is (among other things) a parody-pastiche of
“The Lady’s Not For Burning”?

Hm. What's the name of that episode? The only one I've seen is
the one where the good guys are pursuing the bad guys while a
gospel chorus sings "No Hiding Place" in the background.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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On 3/27/22 4:46 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

In article <DfydnbTJlrZgXt3_nZ2dnUU7-InNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/24/22 11:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/24/2022 4:43 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
    https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I have never seen Babylon 5.

It’s streaming now on HBOMax, in newly mastered prints.

You should watch it. After all, how many US television series can you
name with an episode that is (among other things) a parody-pastiche of
“The Lady’s Not For Burning”?

Hm. What's the name of that episode? The only one I've seen is
the one where the good guys are pursuing the bad guys while a
gospel chorus sings "No Hiding Place" in the background.

"Sic Transit Vir”.

--
John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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In article <DbSdncP4v4bNR93_nZ2dnUU7-a3NnZ2d@giganews.com>,
John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/27/22 4:46 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

In article <DfydnbTJlrZgXt3_nZ2dnUU7-InNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/24/22 11:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/24/2022 4:43 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
    https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I have never seen Babylon 5.

It’s streaming now on HBOMax, in newly mastered prints.

You should watch it. After all, how many US television series can you
name with an episode that is (among other things) a parody-pastiche of
“The Lady’s Not For Burning”?

Hm. What's the name of that episode? The only one I've seen is
the one where the good guys are pursuing the bad guys while a
gospel chorus sings "No Hiding Place" in the background.

"Sic Transit Vir”.

Thanks!

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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On 3/27/2022 7:16 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

In article <DbSdncP4v4bNR93_nZ2dnUU7-a3NnZ2d@giganews.com>,
John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/27/22 4:46 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

In article <DfydnbTJlrZgXt3_nZ2dnUU7-InNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/24/22 11:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/24/2022 4:43 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:

On 3/24/22 3:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Dilbert: Hacking The Simulation
    https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-03-24

Oh no.  Oh no.

Lynn

Catch the “Babylon 5” allusion?

I have never seen Babylon 5.

It’s streaming now on HBOMax, in newly mastered prints.

You should watch it. After all, how many US television series can you
name with an episode that is (among other things) a parody-pastiche of >>>> “The Lady’s Not For Burning”?

Hm. What's the name of that episode? The only one I've seen is
the one where the good guys are pursuing the bad guys while a
gospel chorus sings "No Hiding Place" in the background.

"Sic Transit Vir”.

Thanks!

The episode that proved that on Centari Prime you don't have to be
married to have marital problems. :D

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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