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"Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons"
Book No.:	1
Dates:	April 16, 1989 - October 21
Published:	January 1994
Author:	Scott Adams Scott Adams Scott Raymond Adams is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation....

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons is the first anthology of Dilbert

Dilbert

Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. First published on April 16, 1989, Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character...

 comic strips. It features six months of comic strips, and an introduction by Scott Adams

Scott Adams

Scott Raymond Adams is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation....

. Its genre

Genre

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 is humour

Humour

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The book introduces Dilbert, a semi-successful engineer and amateur scientist, and his pet dog, Dogbert

Dogbert

Dogbert is Dilbert's anthropomorphic pet talking dog from the Dilbert comic strip. According to creator Scott Adams, the character is being based on, if not a member of, the beagle breed.-Characterization:...

, a megalomaniac beagle

Beagle

The Beagle is a breed of small to medium-sized dog. A member of the Hound Group, it is similar in appearance to the Foxhound, but smaller, with shorter legs and longer, softer ears. Beagles are scent hounds, developed primarily for tracking hare, rabbit, and other game...

 with ambitions of world domination. Unlike later strips, which de-emphasize Dilbert as the main character and focus primarily on corporate culture and office life, these early strips feature hardly any of Dilbert's life as an engineer. Rather, the main source of humor comes from Dilbert's nerd

Nerd

Nerd is a derogatory slang term for an intelligent but socially awkward and obsessive person who spends time on unpopular or obscure pursuits, to the exclusion of more mainstream activities. Nerds are considered to be awkward, shy, and unattractive...

iness, social ineptitude, and inability to form meaningful relationships. Some surrealist strips—including one in which Dilbert and Dogbert are magically transported to a land populated by men in togas who speak only in cliché

Cliché

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s—demonstrate a mode that Adams completely abandoned within the strip's first year.