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Word: mouthless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dilbert is a phlegmatic, mouthless engineer at a nameless firm who, explains Adams with some understatement, "is not fully drinking all of the passion and variety that other people might be." His sidekick, a dog named Dogbert, is far savvier--and merciless about his owner's many failings. From its debut in 1989, the cartoon featured some of what Adams calls "cubicle culture": a natural subject, since he himself occupied Cubicle 4S700R as an applications engineer at Pacific Bell. (He has also been a computer programmer and a commercial lender and was robbed twice at gunpoint during a stint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAYOFFS FOR LAUGHS | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

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