Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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It's called the simultaneous sip. Go. Yes, it is laundry day. I'm sorry I'm not wearing my usual shirt. Sometimes you've got to do the laundry. Well, I had been working pretty hard, but I managed to take some of my workload off by hiring a part-time assistant. So thankfully a lot of the chores that one normally does, I managed to put off on my part-time assistant, who immediately had a sporting a…

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, but it will. It will. It's going to get on track any moment now.

Have you seen the video of the Iranian women knocking the headgear off of clerics during it? It's really fun to watch. So you know you're watching the government cracking down on the women who are trying to not wear the traditional face coverings and stuff, and it's becoming a really big deal. The protests continue. I thought they would be stamped out by now, but they continue. So maybe this has some legs.

But apparently there's a number of videos. You can see a compilation where the young women, it looks like, will run up behind a cleric who's got on the big hat. What's the name of the headgear that a cleric wears? It's not a hat, right? Turban? Turbin? Is it really a turban? Headpiece? All right, don't get all racist on me. Let's call it a hat. And here's the fun part. The clerics tend to be not very athletic, but the young women are. You know, they could just knock the hats off the clerics and just run away because there's nothing that the cleric could do about it.

And I thought to myself, the mullahs or the clerics, what would be the correct word? Isn't a mullah a higher-level cleric? There's a cleric lower than a mullah. I'm not sure how all that works. But anyway, here's my suggestion. I think they should do more of that. But here's what I would do if I were the women in Iran. I would start to all dress alike everywhere, all the same. I would wear all black bottoms, all black tops of the same kind, and then I would have a black headgear, and I would cover myself completely in public.

Do you know why I would do that? Because I'd be knocking the hat off of every cleric within miles, and they wouldn't be able to catch anybody b

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ecause they'd all look the same, right? So I think that the Iranian women should embrace and amplify. They should over-cover themselves and all look the same so they could be knocking hats off clerics all day long and nobody can get caught. Be like, oh, there's like 600 of them. I have no idea which one did that. Am I right? Just give them what they want. Just all dress the same, wear masks. And…

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