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[theweaselking]

I prefer the original script:

Panel 1
Captain:
IT'S FUNNY THAT I CAN WORK
SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH A TENTACLED
MONSTER. MY ANCESTORS WOULD
HAVE BEEN HORRIFIED.
Alien:
AH.
Captain:
YES, ANCIENT HUMAN LORE IS FILLED
WITH TALES OF SEA MONSTERS AND SLIMY
CREATURES OF THE NETHERWORLD. IT'S
A FIXATION OF SORTS FOR MY PEOPLE.
Alien:
MM.

Panel 2
Captain:
THE JAPANESE, FOR EXAMPLE, HAD A WHOLE
SUBCULTURE OF ART AND LITERATURE REVOLVING
AROUND SEXUAL RELATIONS BETWEEN HUMANS
AND TENTACLE BEASTS.
Alien:
SO YOU'VE SAID.
Captain:
AH, DID I? THAT'S RIGHT.

Panel 3
Captain:
AND YOU SAID YOU DON'T DO THAT.
NOT EVER.
BUT WHAT ABOUT SPECIAL
CIRCUMSTANCES, SUCH AS...
Alien:
CAPTAIN, YOU'RE ABOUT ONE
RHETORICAL HOP FROM A
SEXUAL HARASSMENT CHARGE.

Comments

[toku666.livejournal.com]

Dilbert is bad at that. He should have argued using her terms, because by the wording he used, he lost the bet based on his own information.

SPF 4 will by no means prevent a sunburn. But it is, technically, protection.

This just in: Dilbert sucks great heaping bags of dog turds. Film at 11.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Given the discussion he was in, it's possible that he used the word protect in the context of providing complete protection--that is, completely preventing a sunburn, rather than only providing minimal SPF.

I feel for the guy. I've been getting really pissed off at factually inaccurate statements lately.

[toku666.livejournal.com]

I can safely say that I have never felt for Dilbert.

But I would say you are correct, and he was using "protect" as shorthand for whatever Lola was babbling about.

I do have to say that Lola is probably one of the best "new characters" in a comic strip in quite some years. But that's still not saying much.