From: Timothy Newsham 
  To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.blackdown.org
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 20:49:01 -1000 (HST)

[PANEL 1]
MOM:      Here's some nice chocolate cake for you and Dogbert.
DILBERT:  Thanks, mom.
DOGBERT:  Thanks, mom.

[PANEL 2]
MOM:      Tell me all about your job at the railroad.

[PANEL 3]
DILBERT:  It's not a railroad.  I'm an engineer at a big corporation.

[PANEL 4]
MOM:      Do you fix the typewriters when they break?

[PANEL 5]
DILBERT:  No... today I debugged a TCP/IP driver for an application that
          runs over ISDN with BONDING.

[PANEL 6]
MOM:      You mean, all you do is slap a BRI analyzer on a circuit and
          look for bad packets?

[PANEL 7]
DILBERT:  [very small type]   Well... yeah.
                              But it's really hard.

[PANEL 8]
DILBERT:  I was doing okay until she offered to pay my tuition to
          typewriter repair school.
DOGBERT:  You shouldn't have compared her cake to packing foam.