Dilbert wants a fuel-efficient car
Feb. 23rd, 2009 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javasaurusFrom yesterday's Dilbert page-a-day calendar:
Dilbert and Dogbert, taking a walk.
Dilbert: I'm thinking about buying a more fuel efficient car.
Dogbert: Why?
Dilbert: It's my patriotic duty to reduce this country's dependence on foreign sources of oil.
Dogbert: Why?
Dilbert: Because then the countries that hate us will have less money to fund terrorists.
Dogbert: Actually, developing countries would buy the oil you saved, thus adequately funding those same terrorists.
Dilbert: At least I wouldn't be funding them myself.
Dogbert: Oil is a fungible commodity. the capitalist system virtually guarantees that you'll end up buying the lowest cost oil from sources unknown to you.
Dilbert: Well, maybe, but I want my car to make a statement.
Dogbert: And the statement would be "hey, everyone, I don't understand what fungible means!"
From dictionary.com
fungible: (esp. of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
Dilbert and Dogbert, taking a walk.
Dilbert: I'm thinking about buying a more fuel efficient car.
Dogbert: Why?
Dilbert: It's my patriotic duty to reduce this country's dependence on foreign sources of oil.
Dogbert: Why?
Dilbert: Because then the countries that hate us will have less money to fund terrorists.
Dogbert: Actually, developing countries would buy the oil you saved, thus adequately funding those same terrorists.
Dilbert: At least I wouldn't be funding them myself.
Dogbert: Oil is a fungible commodity. the capitalist system virtually guarantees that you'll end up buying the lowest cost oil from sources unknown to you.
Dilbert: Well, maybe, but I want my car to make a statement.
Dogbert: And the statement would be "hey, everyone, I don't understand what fungible means!"
From dictionary.com
fungible: (esp. of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
