UPI Almanac for Monday, June 8, 2009.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, June 8, 2008.

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A new story line for the popular "Dilbert" comic strip takes up the plight of an Iowa casino worker who was fired after posting a strip in his office.

DES MOINES , Iowa, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- An Iowa man was reportedly fired from Catfish Bend Casino after posting a "Dilbert" comic strip that likened corporate managers to drunken lemurs.

ZEELAND, Mich., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The staple of the U.S. office work space, the cubicle, turns 40 next year.

UPI almanac for Friday, June 8, 2007.

SEATTLE, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A Washington state man faces nearly $8,000 in unpaid cigarette taxes and penalties for cigarettes he ordered from out of state.

DUBLIN, Calif., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Scott Adams, the creator of the popular U.S. cartoon strip, Dilbert, says he has cured himself of a neurological condition that made him unable to speak.

Today is Thursday, June 8, the 159th day of 2006 with 206 to follow.