Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells. Good morning everybody, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year a little bit early. Well, if you'd like your experience today to go up to levels that even Santa Claus couldn't understand, all you need for that is a coffee mug or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, a stein, or a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now…

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know the theme. You might know that Mickey Mouse came off copyright, but not the total Mickey Mouse, not the modern version, only the version that's 95 years old. There's a black and white Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie. So in honor of him coming off of copyright I have him visiting Dilbert's boss. So that's black and white Mickey, so I have to draw him in black and white even though the comi

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c is color. So Mickey says, "Hi, my name is Mickey." And the boss says, "Get out of here." And Mickey says, "Settle down, my copyright expired. I'm a free mouse. Disney can't sue you." And the boss says... Then Mickey says, "Can I get a job here or do you discriminate against black and white characters?" And the boss says, "That's a gray area." Yeah, it's a dad joke but a solid one, I think. Sol…

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