a:... - while they might not start out as the best, How is like you? they're determined to find the quickest solu­ I shared his dating history. [ now have a ~ tion. If there's an orgasm in there, they're long-time girlfriend, but my early dating ~ going to find it. years-my 20s-were a long dry period. a. Your e-mail address is listed on your col­ Is it true that people, "the cubicle club," with umn. How many do you get a day? actually have sex in their work cubicles? i the creator of Dilbert I get a few hundred. I try to read every one. [ I don't get the details. I just hear from peo­ c can't respond to all of them, nor do they all ple that they've had sex in the office. More ca , deserve responses. Some of them are: "Adams, often I hear that it's behind an office or -c:a. you motherfucker, you suck." conference room door. But it's just suspi­ Do you get propositions? cious, all these claims. I have to think Yes, but I assume it's a 300-lb man named they're not as prevalen t as people say. Bruno who's doing the writing, so I never Otherwise everywhere you go, you'd open up take it seriously. a door and ..."Oops. Sorry." Who is the most powerful character of How important is sex to the working world? the strip? Fundamentally, men make money to , of course. He's kind of an expression improve their odds at having sex. Scott Adams toiled at a number of my untamed ego--the part of me that What turns you on? of "humiliating and low-paying would say what Dogbert says if I did not fear Um, naked women? I hate to be so boring, jobs" for over 17 years. Now 14 retribution, being thrown in jail and ostracized. but it's really a simple life I lead. books and a TV show later, his Who is the most sexual character? Do you think men and women can be comic- strip character Dilbert, the lowly cubicle-dwelling engineer, Dilbert's necktie. There's something in that friends? has become famous-although he suggestive image at all times. It kind of Aips up Sure. As long as they're having sex. Otherwise stiU can't get laid. towards the sky. It's got that it's just frustrating for the guy. No, of course, perpetual semi-aroused look. I they can be friends. It just requires more self PLAYGIRL: Why doesn't Daben get any? think on the subliminal level, control. Well, he's an engineer, of course. he's purring out the vibe.~. If you could change women in just one way, Engineers are ill-equipped to deal But yet Dilbert still does­ what would you do? with any aspect of the n't get any. Why there's a question that could get me in pleasureable and social He puts out the vibe and trouble. You're trying to ruin me for life. Boy, then people go have sex with I have so many answers, and yet all of them engineers are other people. That's the trouble are lethal. best lovers. with subliminal messages. You So don't censor yourself. Why is that? don't know where they came I think now that I've reached my forties, I'd Engineers from. You just know like them to be more and more nearsighted. problem solvers, you're horny. -Sandra Mardenftld

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