# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=145 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 146 --- ## [Please identify a song for me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-a-song-for-me/998092)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-a-song-for-me/998092 "2024-02-26T08:37:59Z")
It starts at 11:19 (right after Gilbert O’Sullivan’s) and only last a few seconds. I stumbled across this series on PBS at four in the morning. I quite like it. --- ## [I Want To Make Not-Sweet Pop Rocks At Home (explained why in OP) - How To Do This](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-make-not-sweet-pop-rocks-at-home-explained-why-in-op-how-to-do-this/998026)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-make-not-sweet-pop-rocks-at-home-explained-why-in-op-how-to-do-this/998026 "2024-02-26T07:33:50Z")
Here is a recipe for at-home Pop Rocks. Pop Rocks being a candy, a principal ingredient is sugar. The thing is, Taco Bell had a promotion a while back where they put cayenne-flavored Pop Rocks in a burrito. I want to tr… --- ## [Id this bodybuilder (possibly Dave Draper?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bodybuilder-possibly-dave-draper/998084)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-bodybuilder-possibly-dave-draper/998084 "2024-02-26T03:20:57Z")
From 1967 Rowan and Martins Laugh-Ins pilot episode. (45) Laugh-In: Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot | Full Episode - YouTube You can see the bodybuilder at 48:22 and 49:06. This was during a time when Draper was making smal… --- ## [Let's cook up a Pot of Beans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cook-up-a-pot-of-beans/996766)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-cook-up-a-pot-of-beans/996766 "2024-02-26T02:58:18Z")
I’m cooking a pot of Great Northern White Beans today. I’m doing it on the top of the stove in my heavy dutch oven. I’ve added onion and big pieces of a smoked beef sausage and salt and pepper. That’s it. Oh water, of … --- ## [Help me recall a comedy routine featuring the 2001 Theme and touching boobies...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recall-a-comedy-routine-featuring-the-2001-theme-and-touching-boobies/599642)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recall-a-comedy-routine-featuring-the-2001-theme-and-touching-boobies/599642 "2024-02-25T23:22:19Z")
I want to say it was from the 1980’s or 1990’s?? A male comedian “re-enacts” the first time he touched a girl’s boobs and the musical accompaniment for his bit was Also Sprach Zarathustra, aka the 2001: A Space Odyssey … --- ## [Mac and Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-and-cheese/998019)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-and-cheese/998019 "2024-02-25T17:10:10Z")
I know there are lot of recipes here for this old favourite but I just found an English one from 1390 which somewhat surprised me, Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh, and kerve it on pieces, and cast hem on boilling w… --- ## [From The Commitments - What is This Accent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-commitments-what-is-this-accent/544110)
**Author:** [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-commitments-what-is-this-accent/544110 "2024-02-25T01:33:31Z")
The Commitments - it’s one of those movies I can watch again and again. I’ve seen it at least a dozen times. It was on last night and I was wondering something. The character, Joey ‘The Lips’ Fagan, his mother - what … --- ## [The Beatles Cinematic Universe is coming in ‘27](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-cinematic-universe-is-coming-in-27/997968)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-cinematic-universe-is-coming-in-27/997968 "2024-02-24T18:15:32Z")
I’m getting in early; can’t wait for this to be a resurrected zombie in 3 years. There has been announced a quarter of movies, all coming in 2027, about the Beatles. Each movie will come from the perspective of a membe… --- ## [Mr. Teacake - Discworld?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-teacake-discworld/998003)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-teacake-discworld/998003 "2024-02-24T04:43:29Z")
I recall a character named Mr. Teacake… pronounced ‘Tee-uh-KAH-kay’. ISTR he was an assassin. Where is this character from? --- ## [X2 X-Men United still holds up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x2-x-men-united-still-holds-up/997763)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x2-x-men-united-still-holds-up/997763 "2024-02-24T01:15:05Z")
I had been thinking of this movie recently and wanted to watch it again (the first time in years) but as recently as a month or so ago it was not on streaming but this weekend I noticed it arrived on Disney Plus so I wat… --- ## [Question about cake texture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-cake-texture/997961)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-cake-texture/997961 "2024-02-24T01:08:39Z")
I baked a banana cake the other day. It came out good, but the texture was very different from normal. Much more spongey like bread. I can peel off little bite size pieces without dropping crumbs and I can also dunk it w… --- ## [What are your favorite songs that begin with a numeral or a symbol released on or after January 1, 2000? See rules in OP (Final POLL ADDED)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-that-begin-with-a-numeral-or-a-symbol-released-on-or-after-january-1-2000-see-rules-in-op-final-poll-added/997793)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-that-begin-with-a-numeral-or-a-symbol-released-on-or-after-january-1-2000-see-rules-in-op-final-poll-added/997793 "2024-02-24T00:32:57Z")
Submissions must begin with a punctuation mark, a character, or a numeral. Note that if the title spells out the number it is ineligible for this poll. “2 Become 1” is ok, “Seven Nation Army” belongs in the S poll. Song… --- ## [Eric Idle is still looking at the bright side, but is also cranky about some things](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-idle-is-still-looking-at-the-bright-side-but-is-also-cranky-about-some-things/997498)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-idle-is-still-looking-at-the-bright-side-but-is-also-cranky-about-some-things/997498 "2024-02-23T18:50:00Z")
This has been going on for the better part of a week. “We own everything we ever made in Python and I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously. But I guess if you put a Gilliam… --- ## [Has the new Night Court series acknowledged the deaths of previous cast members?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-new-night-court-series-acknowledged-the-deaths-of-previous-cast-members/997640)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-new-night-court-series-acknowledged-the-deaths-of-previous-cast-members/997640 "2024-02-23T18:46:54Z")
I know there’s a current revival version of the series Night Court but I haven’t watched it. I do know that it stars John Larroquette from the original series and that Marsha Warfield has appeared as a guest star. But L… --- ## [Steve Miller (the author, not the musician) dies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-miller-the-author-not-the-musician-dies/997898)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-miller-the-author-not-the-musician-dies/997898 "2024-02-23T00:06:07Z")
Steve Miller, who, with Sharon Lee, wrote the very successful Liaden Universe novels, was found unresponsive last night. CPR and EMTs couldn’t help. I’ve known Steve and Sharon for a couple of decades, and this is a sho… --- ## [Airline guitar: acoustic arch-top f-hole...where can I learn more?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-guitar-acoustic-arch-top-f-hole-where-can-i-learn-more/997951)
**Author:** [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airline-guitar-acoustic-arch-top-f-hole-where-can-i-learn-more/997951 "2024-02-22T16:51:56Z")
My new landlady has had this guitar for maybe 50 years and I offered to find out about it. --- ## ["Smoke, smoke smoke that cigarette..." song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoke-smoke-smoke-that-cigarette-song/997897)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoke-smoke-smoke-that-cigarette-song/997897 "2024-02-22T14:46:43Z")
Do you remember it? I haven’t thought about it in decades but I certainly remember it. Looking it up in Wikipedia there have been so many covers that I have no idea what version I heard. The song was written when I was o… --- ## [Another piece of childhood disappears ..... uniliever discontiunes choco tacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-piece-of-childhood-disappears-uniliever-discontiunes-choco-tacos/968609)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-piece-of-childhood-disappears-uniliever-discontiunes-choco-tacos/968609 "2024-02-22T04:26:21Z")
I first encountered these years before they went nationwide and were bought by big ice cream as they were one of a few ice cream treats I could/can eat due to having overly sensitive teeth in fact the ice cream truck own… --- ## [Latest meme I don't understand: "lobotomy" songs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-meme-i-dont-understand-lobotomy-songs/997865)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-meme-i-dont-understand-lobotomy-songs/997865 "2024-02-21T23:34:09Z")
Basically taking a innocent children’s tune like Mary Had A Little Lamb, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, etc. and adding a bizarre score of notes to it. Plus, what the heck is the “fire in the hole” references got to do with i… --- ## [When did you learn White bread lacks nutrients?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-learn-white-bread-lacks-nutrients/997747)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-learn-white-bread-lacks-nutrients/997747 "2024-02-21T20:52:00Z")
I’m rewatching the History Channel series The Food That Built America. For people that haven’t watched the series. Here is a short summary. The episode on bakeries starts with Lee Marshall and Continental Baking. Marsh… --- ## [Does anyone else watch the BBC Comedy "The Office"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-the-bbc-comedy-the-office/153326)
**Author:** [@constantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constantine)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-the-bbc-comedy-the-office/153326 "2024-02-21T20:27:48Z")
I saw this show, starring Ricky Gervais, for the first time on a flight from LA to London. I thought it was hilarious and I think its awesome that BBC America is now showing it. So far they have only shown episodes 1 a… --- ## [Meet the artist who inspired Edward Hopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-artist-who-inspired-edward-hopper/997799)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-the-artist-who-inspired-edward-hopper/997799 "2024-02-21T03:32:43Z")
We all know Hopper’s Nighthawks. But did you know his teacher & inspiration, Martin Lewis? CHECK OUT SOME OF HIS URBAN ART. SHRIEKS OF URBAN ISOLATION. (LINK) --- ## [One day and night in New Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-day-and-night-in-new-haven/997711)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-day-and-night-in-new-haven/997711 "2024-02-21T02:59:26Z")
We’re going up tomorrow (Sunday Feb 18) arriving around noon. Probably doing a self (app) guided tour of Yale but other than that have no clue. We’re staying close to campus and it looks like there are many bars and rest… --- ## [The Sound of Music](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760)
**Author:** [@Petek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petek)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sound-of-music/997760 "2024-02-21T01:29:37Z")
Hulu offers The Sound of Music now. I watched it earlier this evening for the first time in about 50 years. --- ## [TV series with aliens as neighbors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-with-aliens-as-neighbors/997810)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-with-aliens-as-neighbors/997810 "2024-02-20T23:14:52Z")
I’ve started rewatching The Neighbors (which I don’t think I saw all the way through on the first run) and it is reminding me that there was another recentish (maybe inside of 5 years ago, definitely inside of 10) series… --- ## [Blue Bloods Season 14 premieres Feb 14 at 10 Eastern](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-season-14-premieres-feb-14-at-10-eastern/997098)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-season-14-premieres-feb-14-at-10-eastern/997098 "2024-02-20T20:12:38Z")
Viewers will remember Blue Bloods got cancelled in May 2023. CBS decided to air one more season. 10 episodes will air this Spring and 8 in the Fall. I think the entire cast is returning. :smiley: Tom Selleck is 79 now.… --- ## [Why are my plum pits exploding?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-my-plum-pits-exploding/515385)
**Author:** [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-my-plum-pits-exploding/515385 "2024-02-20T18:37:41Z")
I’ve gotten some plums lately that have a pit which has separated inside the fruit. It hasn’t been all my plums (I’ve been canning, so I have a large sample size), but maybe a third to a half. Some of them are just spl… --- ## [Singers that make you reach for the dial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-that-make-you-reach-for-the-dial/997480)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 143\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-that-make-you-reach-for-the-dial/997480 "2024-02-20T13:51:14Z")
Whilst overall having a huge sweatspot for “OKish” voices (80% of which I neither greatly like or dislike), there are one or 2 that really yank my chain: the 12 year old kid singing for Rush Michael McDonald (competent… --- ## [A curious line from the play "Harvey"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-line-from-the-play-harvey/997620)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-curious-line-from-the-play-harvey/997620 "2024-02-20T00:20:31Z")
The Lil’wrekker is in a Harvey production (she’s the young nurse) The Doctor says, in reference to Elwood, at one point "Outdated as a cast iron deer. Does anyone know what this means? --- ## [Musicians you probably never heard of (but should have)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-you-probably-never-heard-of-but-should-have/997525)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-you-probably-never-heard-of-but-should-have/997525 "2024-02-20T00:12:42Z")
A thread about musicians that have huge talent, but are widely unknown … Let me start out with a guy that was Frank/Nat/Sammy/Dean all rolled into one (and a level of musicality that probably surpasses all of them) … y… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=144) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=146)