Dilbert cartoon first published on Thursday 19th September 1991

Dilbert//887, first published 35 years ago on Thursday 19th September 1991

Tags

dilbert man rectangles heard boss geometry major good thinking geography rectangle states

Official transcript

Dilbert sits at a conference table with several people. The man next to him whispers, "What's your presentation going to be about?"

Dilbert replies in a whisper, "Rectangles. We heard the Boss was a geometry major."

The man says, "Good thinking. But I heard he was a geography major, not geometry."

Dilbert points to a rectangle projected onto the wall and says, "Wyoming: one of the many rectangular states."

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

WHAT'S YOUR PRESENTATION GOING TO BE ABOUT?

RECTANGLES WE HEARD THE BOSS WAS A GEOMETRY MAJOR

GOOD THINKING.

BUT I HEARD HE WAS A GEOGRAPHY MAJOR, NOT GEOMETRY.

WYOMING: ONE OF THE MANY RECTANGULAR STATES.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Comic Strip Title: "Geometric Dilemma"

Summary:

• A boss presents a geometric shape and asks the team to identify it.
• The team responds with various geometric shapes, but the boss reveals that the shape is actually a state in the US, Wyoming.
• The team is confused and amused by the unexpected twist.
• The comic strip pokes fun at the common misunderstanding between geometric shapes and states.

generated by llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct

Accompanying textual content, such as title, tags and transcripts, is shown here if we have it. Not every comic has all of these, and they seem to be a bit hit and miss even on the official website.