As someone who spends most of his waking life reading other people’s blogs in search of ideas that I can steal inspiration, I happened to notice that one of the current trends in blogging is to take the copyrighted work of newspaper cartoonists, deface their work, and somehow profit from it. Some of the best examples of this booming new genre of comic improvement include Garfield Minus Garfield, Marmaduke Explained, The Nietzsche Family Circus, and this spiffy little creation that, for some reason, makes me giggle so long it hurts my intestines.

It’s like I want to stop laughing, but somehow I am unable to do so.

Anyway, being long on aspiration but short on talent, I of course wanted in on this racket. So I needed a comic that wasn’t already being plagiarized, and some means of defacing said comic strip in a convenient manner. Fortunately for me, Scott Adams was able to provide me with both.

Scott Adams, if you didn’t already know, is the cartoonist of Dilbert, a comic centered on the wacky day-to-day hilarity involved in the modern American office workplace, not unlike The Office, Office Space, and your own tragic, not-at-all-funny personal existence. And on the official Dilbert website (ironically enough, located at http://www.dilbert.com), one of the features is the ability to add your own punchline to recent Dilbert strips. So that’s what I did all day, and for your perusing pleasure, gentle reader, I now present my original creations. Please let me know if you like them or not, so I know if I should print them into greeting cards and charge you for them.

So I’m a genius, right? Go on, you can tell me. I love being told how smart I am.