Pointy-haired Boss had a girlfriend named Liz for a little over two years, but she started dating other men, stating that she would still date Dilbert, but date other men at the same time.
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Pointy-haired Boss had a girlfriend named Liz for a little over two years, but she started dating other men, stating that she would still date Dilbert, but date other men at the same time.
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Pointy-haired Boss is hopelessly incompetent at management, and often tries to compensate for his lack of skills with countless group therapy sessions and business strategies which usually never bear fruit.
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Pointy-haired Boss's brother is a demon named "Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light", and according to Adams, the pointy hair is intended to remind one of devil's horns.
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Pointy-haired Boss often carries a cup of coffee, calmly sipping from it even in the midst of chaos or office-shaking revelations.
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Pointy-haired Boss is even more socially inept than Dilbert, and references to his lack of personal hygiene are not uncommon.
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Pointy-haired Boss has openly admitted that all his good ideas are about coffee, that sometimes include sabotaging rival companies coffee so they only have decaf.
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Pointy-haired Boss is often frustrated at her work because she does not get proper recognition.
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Pointy-haired Boss believes it is because she is female, though in reality it is likely because she has a quick, often violent temper, sometimes putting her lethal "Fist of Death" to use, even with the Pointy-Haired Boss.
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Pointy-haired Boss once succeeded, but became bored with the ensuing peace, and quit.
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Pointy-haired Boss enjoys pulling scams on unsuspecting, and usually dull customers to steal their money.
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Pointy-haired Boss is Indian, and has graduated from the Indian Institutes of Technology.
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Nonetheless he is often called upon by the Pointy-haired Boss to do odd jobs, and in meetings his ideas are usually left hanging.
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Pointy-haired Boss is seen regularly at the lunch table with Wally and Dilbert, experiencing jarring realizations of the nature of corporate life.
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Pointy-haired Boss is referenced by name more often in older comics, but he is still seen occasionally now.
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Pointy-haired Boss is a friend of Dilbert and Wally, but is not seen interacting with Alice or Asok as much.
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Pointy-haired Boss has been fired and killed numerous times, so it is likely that he is rehired and brought back to life in a similar way to the other main characters who die and come back.
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Pointy-haired Boss's character was based on all the bad experiences Adams ever had with any secretary.
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Pointy-haired Boss is voiced by Tress MacNeille in the animated TV series.
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Pointy-haired Boss usually gets all the lowest jobs but has been seen as a consultant before.
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Pointy-haired Boss has made the pointy-haired boss fall under his consultant spell.
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Pointy-haired Boss was not originally intended as a regular character, but because of his popularity with readers he was kept.
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Pointy-haired Boss was not originally intended to be a regular, instead being part of a series of strips featuring a lab scientist's cruel experiments.
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Pointy-haired Boss was not initially accepted by the residents, especially Dilbert, who was highly prejudiced against rats.
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Pointy-haired Boss became CEO after a series of strips that involved the previous CEO jumping into a volcano and the first replacement burning up due to daylight.
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Pointy-haired Boss received a severance package of $100 million, the corporate jet, perpetual benefits and a salary of $1 million per year.
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Pointy-haired Boss tries to impress those he considers his friends on various occasions, and nearly always fails miserably.
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Pointy-haired Boss has the help of his "Life Suck 3000", and his library of HR binders that give strategies on downsizing and hiring of morons specifically.
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Pointy-haired Boss used to think Dilbert worked at a railroad because he is an engineer.
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Pointy-haired Boss is often selfish and openly uncaring towards her son; in the TV series she states that, although she loves him, she does not actually like him.
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Pointy-haired Boss has nearly the same level of technical knowledge as Dilbert, although she has him do technical work for her.
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Pointy-haired Boss is obsessed with Scrabble and has been accused of cheating with "counterfeit vowels".
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Pointy-haired Boss's husband has been missing for years, at a 24-hour "All-You-Can-Eat" restaurant in the local mall ; in the animated series, she was touched by a surveillance video of him, given to her by Dilbert and Dogbert.
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Pointy-haired Boss is called "Dilmom" in the TV series episode "Hunger", by Dogbert and later a TV announcer.
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Pointy-haired Boss was found after Dilbert calculated that dinosaurs could not be extinct, and they therefore must be in hiding.
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Pointy-haired Boss has revealed that, being a dinosaur, he is of course mistaken for a COBOL programmer.
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Pointy-haired Boss appears for the first time in the strip of December 5,1989.
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Pointy-haired Boss occasionally solves extremely complex problems for Dilbert and in various strips has developed several futuristic inventions.
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Pointy-haired Boss never appears in the TV series, but she appears in some of the animated shorts.
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The Pointy Haired Pointy-haired Boss uses his bitterness to shut down any project he dislikes.
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Pointy-haired Boss's motives are unclear, although his demeanor suggests he simply takes pleasure using his management and technical powers to make the users of "his" systems suffer.
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Pointy-haired Boss appeared once with a sidekick, "Walter the Budget Man", in the "Merger" episode of the animated series.
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Pointy-haired Boss seems to be genuinely offended when the others express disbelief in his purported exploits.
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Pointy-haired Boss left the family during a trip to the mall in 1992 in order to visit a 24-hour all-you-can-eat restaurant.
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Pointy-haired Boss refuses to leave until he is sure he has had all he can eat.
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Pointy-haired Boss met her at a soccer game, where she rebounded a ball off his head to score a goal.
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Pointy-haired Boss has appeared with white, black and brown hair, but all appearances include suspenders.
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