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Dilbert cartoon first published on Monday 12th January 2004

Dilbert//5385, first published 22 years ago on Monday 12th January 2004


Tags

need approval exhausted bored head ache business travel


Official transcript

"I need your approval to.."

originally published on dilbert.com


Open source transcript

I NEED YOUR APPROVAL TO...

BE EXHAUSTED, BORED, STIFF, HEAD - ACHEY, ANNOYED AND CONSTIPATED FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS.

ALSO KNOWN AS "BUSINESS TRAVEL." I MUST BE TRAVELING RIGHT NOW!

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive


AI Analysis

Title: "Business Travel"

Summary:

The comic strip features Dilbert, a bespectacled man with a bald head, wearing a white shirt and red tie. He approaches his boss, who is seated at a desk, and says:

"I need your approval to..."

The boss responds, "Be exhausted, bored, stiff, headachey, annoyed and constipated for the next three days."

Dilbert then says, "Also known as 'business travel.' I must be traveling right now!"

The comic strip humorously highlights the common experience of feeling unwell during business travel, with Dilbert's boss providing a tongue-in-cheek description of the symptoms.

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