# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=110 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 111 --- ## [Any jigsaw puzzle fans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-jigsaw-puzzle-fans/961634)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 145\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-jigsaw-puzzle-fans/961634 "2024-09-22T21:41:27Z")
We usually have one going at all times over the winter months. I just cracked open the number one rated puzzle from this site, which ranks the top 18 best 1000 piece puzzles. This is it: … --- ## [How many strings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strings/1007508)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strings/1007508 "2024-09-22T15:39:54Z")
This one will probably be too short to get buried in the huge thread. Simple question. The Guitar Fairy will gift you one acoustic guitar with a pickup. You have a choice, 7 or 10 strings? Martin made a Roger McQuinn 7… --- ## [Time Travel: What 5 performances would you see?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-what-5-performances-would-you-see/1007472)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-what-5-performances-would-you-see/1007472 "2024-09-22T15:21:45Z")
Concerts, plays, operas, movie premiers, &c. You are limited to 5! Rat Pack at the Sands in Las Vegas. 'Nuff said. The Beatles during the early years when Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best were in the band. I’m not sure i… --- ## [Most disturbing death scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061)
**Author:** [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Replies:** 225\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061 "2024-09-22T13:58:52Z")
SPOILERS HEREIN I saw Nurse Betty the other day, and I can’t get the end outta my head. The way Chris Rock is screaming “Daddy” and then the second gun shot. Good Lord! This has completely freaked me out. Anyone else af… --- ## [The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rivals-of-sherlock-holmes/1007550)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rivals-of-sherlock-holmes/1007550 "2024-09-22T06:24:38Z")
Has anyone else been watching this series on Britbox? It’s one-shots based on various fictional detectives in England around the time Sherlock was supposed to have been based. For example, there’s an episode based on a s… --- ## [Re: 12 Bar Blues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-12-bar-blues/1003553)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-12-bar-blues/1003553 "2024-09-21T19:17:26Z")
Nu? Am I cheating if I toss a IV chord for all of Bar 2. How about a V7 for the last half of Bar 12? --- ## [Classical, Popular, and Movie Music Ruined by Other Associations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-popular-and-movie-music-ruined-by-other-associations/1006871)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-popular-and-movie-music-ruined-by-other-associations/1006871 "2024-09-21T13:02:08Z")
Whenever she hears Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie my wife inevitably thinks of Emer Fudd singing “Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit!” (Although a big Bgs Bunny fan, I think of Apocalypse Now. Or the DR. Manhattan in Vietn… --- ## [Best neutral, odorless cooking oil for routine sauteing that's NOT canola oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-neutral-odorless-cooking-oil-for-routine-sauteing-thats-not-canola-oil/1007364)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-neutral-odorless-cooking-oil-for-routine-sauteing-thats-not-canola-oil/1007364 "2024-09-21T10:38:35Z")
I like olive oil. I use it a lot for cooking and non-cooking preparations. Sometimes I use olive oil and butter together for great flavor, like with potatoes and other veggies. Other times I don’t want any taste from th… --- ## [How to cook a ribeye steak](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-ribeye-steak/1007263)
**Author:** [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-a-ribeye-steak/1007263 "2024-09-20T22:57:38Z")
(I know there are likely some good ‘how to cook steaks’ in the history here, but who doesn’t like a fresh discussion about food?) I got a 1lb ribeye from my local farmer’s market. It’s thawing in the fridge, and I’d lik… --- ## [Question about the "Fifty Ships" episode of Foyle's War](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-fifty-ships-episode-of-foyles-war/1007227)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-fifty-ships-episode-of-foyles-war/1007227 "2024-09-20T20:15:54Z")
I just finished watching this on PBS, and there’s something I don’t understand. Foyle left the skeleton key with the gear attached on his desk where the note from the photographer was left. The Special Service broke in… --- ## [Survivor 47 -- No interest at all?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-47-no-interest-at-all/1007529)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-47-no-interest-at-all/1007529 "2024-09-20T17:37:42Z")
So, a new season has started, and looks to be much the same as the previous. Too early to tell if the cast will have a ton of interest or not. Mostly I’m curious about the first ouster. Why did Gata decide to book Jon… --- ## [Movies You Didn't See for a Long Time: Me, "No Country for Old Men"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744 "2024-09-20T14:58:06Z")
Ever not see a great movie for a long time? For some reason I never saw “No Country For Old Men” - I just don’t have a lot of time these days and somehow it just slipped by - but I watched it last night. Jesus. Why di… --- ## [Most jaw-dropping/WTF! television moment you've seen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-youve-seen/1007238)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-youve-seen/1007238 "2024-09-20T14:22:15Z")
And it can’t just be a theatrical moment rebroadcast on television, and no looking up what others consider to be a WTF moment-This is personal remembrances, not fastest/bestest interwebber. --- ## [Did Ralph Milne Farley's "The Radio Man" inspire Marvel's Ant Man?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ralph-milne-farleys-the-radio-man-inspire-marvels-ant-man/1007466)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2024, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-ralph-milne-farleys-the-radio-man-inspire-marvels-ant-man/1007466 "2024-09-20T12:04:17Z")
This comes out of a discussion on another thread about Roger Sherman Hoar writing under the pseudonym “Ralph Milne Farley” . It got me thinking. I first came across Farley’s works when Ace books reprinted “The Radio Bea… --- ## [Passion Of The Christ sequel to begin filming next year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passion-of-the-christ-sequel-to-begin-filming-next-year/1007463)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passion-of-the-christ-sequel-to-begin-filming-next-year/1007463 "2024-09-20T01:31:29Z")
Of all of the movies I expected to get a sequel this was not one of them. I will leave it to you folks to come up with a good subtitle. https://collider.com/passion-of-the-christ-sequel-update-mel-gibson/ --- ## [Name that tune: Goon Show edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-goon-show-edition/1007474)
**Author:** [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune-goon-show-edition/1007474 "2024-09-19T23:50:10Z")
What’s the tune that’s heard from 0:25-0:30 in this video (between the “Sailor’s Hornpipe” and “What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?”)? --- ## [Most jaw-dropping/WTF! television moment you’ve seen SCRIPTED Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283 "2024-09-19T23:10:29Z")
@Czarcasm’s thread is focusing on real-life, real-time events on TV that stopped us in our tracks. But what about fictional events. Scriptwriters labored to create the words, camera operators and lighting directors set t… --- ## [Jeopardy! Season 40](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427)
**Author:** [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Replies:** 448\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427 "2024-09-19T20:56:41Z")
Anybody watching the “Second Chance” tournament? I think I’ve recognized maybe two of the contestants so far. They’re apparently pulling not just from last season but from the past several years (possibly to get enough p… --- ## [Jeopardy! Season 41](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41/1007490)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41/1007490 "2024-09-19T20:55:00Z")
Someone suggested a new thread for the new season, so here we go. Thus far, I don’t believe that we’ve had a champion last longer than 2 games. Yesterday’s champ was the only player who knew the correct answer of Fanta… --- ## [Seattle is America's best pizza city, says study](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seattle-is-americas-best-pizza-city-says-study/1007462)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seattle-is-americas-best-pizza-city-says-study/1007462 "2024-09-19T18:58:57Z")
…at least according to a study by a group called Mandoe Media, who rated it the best place in America to get a pizza based on four criteria; average review scores on online review sites, percentage of those ratings which… --- ## ["Cartman says this, but Jesus says \*this\*" - Christian pamphlet that quoted South Park?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartman-says-this-but-jesus-says-this-christian-pamphlet-that-quoted-south-park/1007389)
**Author:** [@GoodZuckerbergs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodZuckerbergs)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartman-says-this-but-jesus-says-this-christian-pamphlet-that-quoted-south-park/1007389 "2024-09-19T18:38:54Z")
At some point in the late 90s/early 00s I was watching an interview clip with Trey Parker and Matt Stone in which they mention that after South Park first came out they eventually saw one day that there was a religious p… --- ## [Movies have greatly exaggerated the number of alleyways in New York City](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-have-greatly-exaggerated-the-number-of-alleyways-in-new-york-city/1007407)
**Author:** [@GoodZuckerbergs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodZuckerbergs)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-have-greatly-exaggerated-the-number-of-alleyways-in-new-york-city/1007407 "2024-09-19T18:01:38Z")
I’ve done some Googling to confirm my observation, and apparently New York City has never really had many alleyways, due to the manner in which they designed it. One of the only remaining alleyways in Manhattan is Cortl… --- ## [Incredible](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredible/1007429)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredible/1007429 "2024-09-19T16:01:17Z")
No, not one of the many songs with that name. This thread was inspired by my re-watching The Incredible Shrinking Man on Svengoolie over the weekend. The movie is based on Richard Matheson’s novel The Shrinking Man, but… --- ## [Best scene in Television](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483)
**Author:** [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Replies:** 216\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-television/1006483 "2024-09-19T15:37:18Z")
As a companion to thread with “Best Scene in Film” : https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-scene-in-film/1006452 I decide I would start a new thread to talk about the best scenes from TV shows. As the other thread said… --- ## [Parallax View (1974) comic book reference](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallax-view-1974-comic-book-reference/1007435)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallax-view-1974-comic-book-reference/1007435 "2024-09-18T22:23:42Z")
OK, a product of its time. A political assassination involving shady people and witnesses that just keep dying. In one sequence Warren Beatty is subjected to, I dunno, brainwashing? He’s forced to watch a several minut… --- ## [\_We Didn't Start the Fire\_ - who is still alive?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-who-is-still-alive/1007328)
**Author:** [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-who-is-still-alive/1007328 "2024-09-18T15:48:53Z")
As best I can tell, there are four people named in the song We Didn’t Start the Fire who are still alive (counting either people mentioned by name, or people uniquely personally identified, ie, QE2 in the lyric “England’… --- ## [Your 6 greatest non-American and non-British bands](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-6-greatest-non-american-and-non-british-bands/1007121)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2024, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-6-greatest-non-american-and-non-british-bands/1007121 "2024-09-18T12:29:37Z")
Continuing the discussion from The 6 greatest British bands of all time: Inspired by the linked thread, I thought about the fact that music threads around here are almost always very anglo-centric. That’s not a criticis… --- ## [Dr. Strangelove bomber sequence](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-strangelove-bomber-sequence/1007259)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-strangelove-bomber-sequence/1007259 "2024-09-18T02:41:58Z")
I watched a clip from Dr. Strangelove where James Earl Jones played the bombardier of a B-52. Is the sequence of arming the nuclear weapons legitimate, or created for drama by the writers? --- ## [New movie, Flight Risk, doesn't want to alienate it's audience... yet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-movie-flight-risk-doesnt-want-to-alienate-its-audience-yet/1007394)
**Author:** [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-movie-flight-risk-doesnt-want-to-alienate-its-audience-yet/1007394 "2024-09-17T21:20:11Z")
One of the trailers I saw before Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was for a movie called Flight Risk. About a minute in, title cards pop up that say “From the Academy Award Winning Director of Braveheart, And Apocalypto, And Hac… --- ## [TV opening credit sequences—the long and the short of it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-opening-credit-sequences-the-long-and-the-short-of-it/1007268)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-opening-credit-sequences-the-long-and-the-short-of-it/1007268 "2024-09-17T17:45:58Z")
As I was marveling over the efficiency of the opening credits of a show I’m currently binging (The Good Wife, a 3- or 4-second sequence consisting of the title and the creators’ names) I tuned in to Bill Maher’s HBO sho… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=111)