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Scott Adams challenged over Elbonian/Estonian jokes
- talles 13y agoWhat GrabCAD has to do with it?
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoThey provide an innovative technology for harvesting water in dry locations?
- scott_karana 13y agoRight, but why them specifically out of the hundreds of other water-delivery-to-poor-nation companies and contests?...
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoThey are in Estonia
- cafard 13y agoBecause, face it, the Elbonians dress just like Estonians? Really, why don't the Albanians get up in arms? The two-vowel substitution preserves more of the sound than then two consonants.
- tbirdz 13y agoIs it a joke, or do they actually believe Scott Adams made this comic to make fun of their company?
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoWorse yet: years ago I noticed that Elbonians is an anagram for 'no lesbian'. Coincidence? Then why are there no female Elbonians present in the strip at all? Answer that, Scott Adams!
- talles 13y agohaha genius
- lambda 13y agoI have no idea what GrabCAD has to do with this, or what the GrabCAD challenge even is. I don't see why Elbonia would necessarily represent Estonia. It's a fictional country, that represents all of the small, relatively poor, Soviet Bloc states that people in the US don't know much about; Estonia, or Latvia, or Albania, or Moldova, or Slovenia. This just seems like some false outrage to garner hits for his site.
- BerislavLopac 13y agoSlovenia was not a Soviet Bloc state.
- lambda 13y agoYou're right! Hence emphasizing my point about Americans (like me) not knowing much about them. After checking Wikipedia, technically Slovenia was briefly Eastern Bloc as part of Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1948, but after that split and was independent of the USSR. For some reason I had thought that it was an Eastern Bloc country for longer than that.