- Alice: What's the old familiarity technique?
- Wally: It involves spending so much time with a woman that she gets used to your faults. It's like falling in love but without the expense.
- Dilbert: If I could have made this tobacco lobbyist spend enough time with me...
- Wally: ...while she was using you...
- Dilbert: ...then maybe, just maybe, the inertia would carry her beyond the point of being repulsed by my personality.
- Wally: Then one day if she breaks up with a socially functional boyfriend, she might be to emotionally crippled to date again. And there Dilbert will be.
- Alice: Why don't you just date a woman who respects you in the first place?
- Wally: You can do that?