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Your inbox pings with a cheerful "quick favour" from someone in another department. You spend the afternoon sorting it out. The next morning they've sent a thank-you to everyone except you, and somehow the blame for the delay lands on your desk.

A shop changes its returns policy to thirty days, one day after your thirty-first. You stand at the counter holding the receipt and a perfectly reasonable smile. Meanwhile the real culprit is a mystery, and it's definitely not you.

The clocks change, and your oven, car and microwave each disagree about what time it is. You blame the government. The government is not listening. Someone, somewhere, is quietly responsible for all of it.

Every group project has one: the delay, the missing file, the wrong version sent to the client. Nobody confesses. You just mutter a name under your breath and move on with your life.

Why it caught on: the picture is Mr Turner, Timmy's dad, from the cartoon *The Fairly OddParents*, scowling and shouting at his neighbour, whom he calls "Dinkleberg", and blaming him for whatever has gone wrong. People started pasting it onto any problem with a made-up culprit, and the fun is in how absurd the chosen villain is: a government shutdown, daylight saving time, even a social media timeline. It spread because everyone has a Dinkleberg they'd rather blame.

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