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- diggymow, on 04/11/2009, -1/+573Follow up: http://dilbert.com/fast/2009-04-11/
- inactive, on 04/11/2009, -5/+471Some girls actually like the intelligent type.
We need to find these girls and clone them! - Feep, on 04/11/2009, -10/+438Wait. He doesn't live at home? Isn't "home" defined as where one lives?
- bridow, on 04/11/2009, -2/+385That works if you are 35 and trying to get a girl that needs to get married in a hurry. I wish it would work on girls in college...
- DavidTurnbull, on 04/11/2009, -0/+295Chicks dig the homeless. That's what I'm getting from this comic.
- Krumm, on 04/11/2009, -0/+257Yes...yes you are :(
- inactive, on 04/11/2009, -13/+232This is the best xkcd ever!
- AlJensen, on 04/11/2009, -3/+219Hey I think I'll give that a try.....
Edit.
No Luck with hot chicks but boy does it bring a lot of Cougars..... - inactive, on 04/11/2009, -0/+165Are you kidding? You're next to impossible to find.
- OUPablo, on 04/11/2009, -0/+136I will pass on the knowledge that my professor gave to me:
"The closer you get to graduation and the girls see the salary you will make, the more attractive you appear" - synapz, on 04/11/2009, -2/+133@ShadowFoxx and ShelleighOo:
I'm calling BS on you two. All women appreciate intelligence, but it would be an outright lie to say that you don't want an attractive significant other, as well. Given the choice, virtually any woman would settle on intelligence in favor of increased attractiveness.
Fellow nerds & geeks, trust me on this: we simply have to start working out if we want hotties. - Vindexus, on 04/11/2009, -1/+106I'm guessing that wasn't your English professor.
- d2002, on 04/11/2009, -7/+106"girl that needs to get married in a hurry"
Girls in their 30s are still pretty hot. - ShadowFoxxx, on 04/11/2009, -5/+99Are we really that hard to find?
- Chompy, on 04/11/2009, -1/+90They're caught somewhere between chick and cougar.
Chougar? - nanded, on 04/11/2009, -1/+86You mean the attractive actors who are made "Hollywood ugly" with glasses and bad hair and a few star trek quote sometimes get hot women according the script? Surely you jest...
- scecilio, on 04/11/2009, -1/+83When I was in college I had no real job and I lived at home.
- inactive, on 04/11/2009, -2/+78Science! FTW!
- darkslide29, on 04/11/2009, -4/+79Haha, it's funny because it doesn't work that way at all.
- Vulphaestion, on 04/11/2009, -0/+74Took you less than 5 minutes to try?
- MtheoryX, on 04/11/2009, -0/+69She was probably just relieved that you're not watching midget porn... again.
- UNL1M1T3D, on 04/11/2009, -1/+53It's all about confidence. If you don't have it, fake it till you do.
- wakingrufus, on 04/11/2009, -4/+53I am in college, and I live at my own place, and I have a real job. Doesn't seem to help me much... I'm too busy to go out and meet many people
- Jeffler, on 04/11/2009, -0/+46He's at a bar with his browser-enabled phone
- GoatMonkey2112, on 04/11/2009, -0/+46"They're not girls at 30!"
But somehow they could still be your girlfriend. - Seth024, on 04/11/2009, -1/+46Maybe not, but there are not enough of you in the world.
- kevinmoulton, on 04/11/2009, -1/+42A page out of his book "The Dilbert Future"
http://www.amazon.com/Dilbert-Future-Thriving-Stup ...
(I typed it up for a blog post a few years ago about books I was reading, and remembered I still had it. Enjoy.)
We're attracted to the people who have the best ability to survive and thrive. In the old days, it was important to be able to run down an antelope and kill it with a single blow to the forehead. But that skill is becoming less important every year.
Now it only matters if you can install your own Ethernet card without having to confess your inadequacies to a disgruntled tech support person.
It's obvious the world has three distinct classes of people, each with it's own evolutionary destiny:
1. Knowledgeable computer users who will eventually evolve into godlike non-corporeal beings who will rule the Universe.
2. Computer owners who try to "pass" as knowledgeable but secretly use a hand calculator to add totals for their Excel spreadsheets. This group will gravitate towards jobs as high school principals and operators of pet crematoriums. Eventually, they will become extinct.
3. Non-computer users who will eventually grow tails, sit in zoos, and fling dung at tourists.
Obviously, if you're a woman and you're trying to decide which evolutionary track you want your offspring to take, you don't want to put them on the luge ride to the dung-flinging Olympics. You want a real man. You want a knowledgeable computer user with evolution potential.
And women prefer men who listen. Computer users are excellent listeners because they can look at you for long periods of time without saying anything. Granted, early in a relationship it's better if the guy actually talks. But men use up all the stories they'll ever have after six months. If a woman marries a guy who's in, let's say, retail sales, she'll get repeat stories starting in the seventh month and lasting forever. Marry an engineer and she gets a great listener for the next 70 years.
Plus, with the ozone layer evaporating, it's a good strategy to mate with somebody who has an indoor hobby. Outdoorsy men are applying suntan lotion with SPF 10,000 and yet by the age of 30 they still look like dried chili peppers in pants. Compare that with the healthy glow of a man who spends 12 hours a day in front of a video screen.
It's also well established that computer users are better lovers. I know because I heard an actual anecdote from someone who knew a woman who married a computer user and they reportedly had sex many times. If you still doubt the sexiness of male PC users, consider their hair. They tend to have either: (1) male pattern baldness -- a sign of elevated testosterone -- or (2) unkempt jungle hair -- the kind you see only on people who just finished a frenzied bout of lovemaking. If this were a trial I think we could reach a verdict on the strong circumstantial evidence alone.
Henry Kissinger said power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. And Bill Clinton said that knowledge is power. Therefore, logically, according to the U.S. government, knowledge of computers is the ultimate aphrodisiac. You could argue with me -- I'm just a cartoonist -- but it's hard to argue with the government. You would think this was enough to convince anyone that men who use computers are sexy.
Finally, there's the issue of mood lighting. Nothing looks sexier than a man in boxer shorts illuminated only by a 15-inch SVGA monitor. If we agree that this is every woman's dream scenario, then I think we can also agree that it's best if the guy knows how to use the computer. Otherwise, he'll just look like a loser sitting in front of a PC in his underwear. - jynweythek, on 04/11/2009, -3/+44dugg for dilbert, one of the few good comics in the newspaper these days.
- Mark03, on 04/11/2009, -8/+48They're not girls at 30!
- ShelleighOo, on 04/11/2009, -3/+43I don't see why we are that hard to find. Many women find intelligence sexy. I for one do not want to have a conversation with a nitwit, let alone be in a relationship with one.
- mikeknick, on 04/11/2009, -0/+38It scares off the stupid ones.You don't want them anyway. They're just boys.
- metamethod, on 04/11/2009, -4/+42"Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex."
from Revenge of the Nerds - evileddy60, on 04/11/2009, -3/+38Women are turned on by money.
Which is why I pad my wallet with Canadian Tire money. - sapo916, on 04/11/2009, -1/+35I think it's just that many intelligent people manage to look like idiots all the time.
Look at something like a Star Wars convention for example... - MtheoryX, on 04/11/2009, -2/+34You, sir, are no Binky.
- Locupleto, on 04/11/2009, -2/+29Not true. A smart girl is a plus. She just needs to not speak her mind sometimes. true for everyone I think.
- inactive, on 04/11/2009, -10/+37Dugg for Dilbert.
Does anyone watch the Big Bang Theory? http://www.tv.com/the-big-bang-theory/show/58056/s ...
They are science geeks but still manage to get some decent chicks every so often. - Epitaph, on 04/11/2009, -2/+28if a girl actually talks to me intelligently, my interest in her increases 10 fold. If you can't hold a conversation with me and there's no chance that you'll sleep with me, there's really no reason for me to be interested.
- drmangrum, on 04/11/2009, -0/+24I guess it's a subtle cultural change that a lot of of define "home" as where our parents are.
Or maybe it's where our family is, for those of us without a wife and kids, home is parents. For those with, home is where the wife and kids are. I sense a study in the works. - TetchyTony, on 04/11/2009, -1/+25Showed them to the wife. She didn't even *understand* the first one. But laughed at the second. Was it the 'science' or the 'boring'?
- dsimonpower, on 04/11/2009, -0/+23Guys come on if you still think its mostly a matter of whether she likes intelligent men or stupid men or x over z then you've got it all wrong and that's your problem. As calidin said, most girls will definately prefer intelligent guys, but you've got to learn how to 'flirt' (more simply: talk to them) properly if you want to stand a chance. I'll give you a clue: she's probably not going to want to know about your mechanics project, but this isn't the only way you can infer your intelligence to her. Nerdiness can be attractive but rarely the bumbling social idiot type.
- MadcapLaugher, on 04/11/2009, -0/+23A promotion
- Revovisionary, on 04/11/2009, -0/+23I love it!
- sooska, on 04/11/2009, -2/+24Dugg for Canadian Tire money.
Greetings, fellow Canuck! - red923, on 04/11/2009, -0/+20I wished this worked on boys in college... being smart seems to scare them off
- Dan6963, on 04/11/2009, -2/+21You must be fat.
- jennyvan, on 04/11/2009, -0/+17I was being silly, not meaning to sound douchey about it. My husband is pretty darn amazing, but he's at work right now, and I'm here with a napping 2 year old. So yeah I guess I have nothing better to do at the moment.
- inactive, on 04/11/2009, -23/+40Read and learn, xkcd.
- ksgant, on 04/11/2009, -0/+17Women when they're younger pick guys because of what they are: "He's a Doctor. He's a Lawyer. He owns his own business".
Women when they're older pick guys because of what they're not: "He's not married. He's not an ex-con. He's not gay". - Paulish, on 04/11/2009, -1/+17Unless he still thinks "home" is his parents house. It is quite a revealing statement.
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