Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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what you call a full-body experience, and I think we just had it together. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Now I have a question for you. How do you plan a vacation in the current environment? Is anybody having that problem? You think to yourself, you know, a few weeks from now or whatever, a few months, I think I'll book myself a plane trip and I'll take myself a trip. You don't know…

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or to closer to, what, 65 percent? I'm not even sure what the odds are of missing your flight these days or at least being a day late or something like that. I mean, I don't know how you plan to do anything these days. Anyway, get your flight insurance or something, because if you plan a big vacation, you don't want to blow it.

I saw the best suggestion I've seen from a tweet by David Boxenhorn, and he's helping us out with this whole pronoun stuff. I was saying that what we need is some pronouns that everybody can agree on that aren't being used for something else. You know, don't use "they" because that's already being used for something else. So David suggests that since there are all these different pronouns, you get yours, you know, he, she, they, that if you just took the first letter from the pronouns that are out there, you could create your own sort of universal one.

So let's see what we'd get if you just took the first letter of the solution: she, he, it, and they. Now that would be an S, H, I... oh, wait. All right, so it wasn't the best idea in the world, but I like whe

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re it's heading generally speaking. Maybe you need to arrange the letters a little differently. Now somebody mentioned that this had already been done with the letter Z, like calling people "Z" instead of he or she. Yes, he did that, and I said to myself, almost there. I mean, I can see what you're doing there. It's a brand-new word, so that's good, right? But here's what I suggested. Could we ha…

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