Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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to go live here today, I was getting catfished. I got some messages from a nice woman named Christina Basham. Christina Basham. And this nice woman named Christina Basham, who doesn't seem to know who I am, is interested in maybe a relationship. I look at her picture and she's very beautiful, very beautiful. And so I texted back and I said, "You think I will believe you are my wife?" And the catfi…

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ia is widely used on social media by catfishers. Catfishers, yeah. And you know, about once every two weeks or so we get these disturbed messages from people who say, "But I've been sending you money for years." No, you've been sending money to a photograph with somebody else.

Well, here's the story of the day. Do you know entertainer Cher? She was walking out of a movie theater and saw this beautiful young couple and asked if she could take their picture just because they were such a good-looking young couple. So she takes their picture, posts it on social media, and it became a big viral sensation. And here's what she tweeted. She said, "When we were coming out of a movie I saw a beautiful couple. He was taking her picture. She had flowers. I said, 'Can I take your picture?' I had my ma

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sk on so they didn't know who I was. Maybe just a crazy woman." It could be. It could be that they didn't recognize her. This 20-something beautiful young couple, it could be they didn't recognize Cher because she had her mask on. That's one of the possibilities. The other possibility is that they're a young couple who have never heard of Cher. How many people in their 20s even would recognize Che…

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