# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=230 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 231 --- ## [Show me "Dead!" - Richard Dawson dead at 79](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-dead-richard-dawson-dead-at-79/623937)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-dead-richard-dawson-dead-at-79/623937 "2012-06-07T20:44:20Z")
Breaking news --- ## [Boris Karloff does Monster Mash](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-karloff-does-monster-mash/515877)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-karloff-does-monster-mash/515877 "2022-10-27T20:56:35Z")
For years I’d heard that Boris Karloff had done his own version of Bobby “Boris” pickett’s “Monster Mash”. I’d heard it was on Dick Clarke’s American Bandstand. Evidently I heard wrong. This site says it was on the prim… --- ## [Dr. Who - best way to watch the series?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-best-way-to-watch-the-series/973803)
**Author:** [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-best-way-to-watch-the-series/973803 "2022-10-27T20:45:45Z")
I have never seen more than a few minutes of Dr. Who. I was thinking of starting at the very beginning, but might starting at another point be better? Also, is there a good free, or at least cheap way to see the whole… --- ## [Good comebacks that you thought of to snarky lines in movies.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-comebacks-that-you-thought-of-to-snarky-lines-in-movies/853707)
**Author:** [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-comebacks-that-you-thought-of-to-snarky-lines-in-movies/853707 "2022-10-27T19:46:48Z")
I have a few, but to start off, let’s do Meet the Parents. “I had no idea you could milk a cat” “Oh, yeah, you can milk anything with nipples” \[awkward pause\] "I have nipples Greg. Could you milk me? Comeback “I’m … --- ## [Yet another name that movie thread (two British ones in fact)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-name-that-movie-thread-two-british-ones-in-fact/973605)
**Author:** [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2022, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-name-that-movie-thread-two-british-ones-in-fact/973605 "2022-10-27T08:53:14Z")
Since it seems like this month is “ID this movie” month, I wish to add 2 more to the mix that have been bugging me for awhile. Having wailed thru hundreds of movies on YouTube over the past few years (some good, some fa… --- ## [Today's "Foxtrot" comic (10/23/2022)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-foxtrot-comic-10-23-2022/973692)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2022, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-foxtrot-comic-10-23-2022/973692 "2022-10-27T06:15:25Z")
We have them both here: a bad vegan-wannabe cook, and a true-crime aficionado! Enjoy. --- ## [Advice about cooking with rice wine?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-about-cooking-with-rice-wine/973727)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-about-cooking-with-rice-wine/973727 "2022-10-27T05:06:33Z")
Vaderling is taking on special cooking projects at home, trying things, stretching his palate, sorta. Anyhoo, he has found a recipe, it calls for chinese rice wine. I don’t have that easily available, but I do have a c… --- ## [Best restaurant in the world](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-restaurant-in-the-world/973682)
**Author:** [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-restaurant-in-the-world/973682 "2022-10-27T02:06:16Z")
We haven’t traveled much in the Covid years. We’ve had some spectacular meals mostly in the US, but some internationally. If you had your choice, and money, where would you go? French Laundry? Nobu? Or your local bu… --- ## [Futuristic household robots in an old Saturday-morning cartoon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuristic-household-robots-in-an-old-saturday-morning-cartoon/972354)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuristic-household-robots-in-an-old-saturday-morning-cartoon/972354 "2022-10-27T00:36:51Z")
Does anybody remember a cartoon–probably Warner Brothers–that featured a futuristic house full of servant robots? They were not humanoid, they were more like what you might see in today’s car factories, although they wer… --- ## [Help me decide what piano to eventually buy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-what-piano-to-eventually-buy/973607)
**Author:** [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-decide-what-piano-to-eventually-buy/973607 "2022-10-26T23:22:30Z")
I recently got a Yamaha P-45, and I’m enjoying learning to play piano. (I play guitar already so I think having musical experience is making the learning process more fun than it would be if I was starting from scratch.)… --- ## [Why are Shakespeare plays Two Noble Kinsman and Henry VIII not included in many Complete Shakespeare Works?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-shakespeare-plays-two-noble-kinsman-and-henry-viii-not-included-in-many-complete-shakespeare-works/973663)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-shakespeare-plays-two-noble-kinsman-and-henry-viii-not-included-in-many-complete-shakespeare-works/973663 "2022-10-26T22:02:25Z")
Why are the last of Shaksspeae plays “The Two Noble Kinsman” and “Henry VIII” not included in many Complete Shakespeare Works? --- ## [Building a sept from gingerbread for a holday display](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-sept-from-gingerbread-for-a-holday-display/973842)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-sept-from-gingerbread-for-a-holday-display/973842 "2022-10-26T21:28:41Z")
In my city there is an annual holiday event downtown. The main feature is a display of gingerbread creations. I’ve entered many times back when I was working, but since retirement I haven’t. Now I want to get back in.… --- ## [Jules Bass (‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ ‘Frosty the Snowman’) passes away at 87](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jules-bass-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-frosty-the-snowman-passes-away-at-87/973823)
**Author:** [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jules-bass-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-frosty-the-snowman-passes-away-at-87/973823 "2022-10-26T17:42:53Z")
What to say? Jules Bass’ and Arthur Rankin’s specials have brightened up the holiday seasons for decades … both for my generation and my children’s. --- ## [Who likes "Hollywood" plastic surgery?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-hollywood-plastic-surgery/940087)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-hollywood-plastic-surgery/940087 "2022-10-26T17:28:33Z")
Not sure if this is more appropriate for another forum, but I was wondering why so many actors (I mostly notice the females) get so much plastic surgery. Maybe more get subtle work than I notice, but when I see an actre… --- ## [Authors with particular linguistic habits or tics, like often repeated or misused words or phrases](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-with-particular-linguistic-habits-or-tics-like-often-repeated-or-misused-words-or-phrases/973332)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 146\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-with-particular-linguistic-habits-or-tics-like-often-repeated-or-misused-words-or-phrases/973332 "2022-10-26T16:32:59Z")
Mrs. solost tried to download a book from an online lending library to her Kindle, but to do this you use Amazon, and she was accidentally logged into my Amazon account, so it showed up on my Kindle. So she says eh, go a… --- ## [John Clarke (of Clarke and Dawe) RIP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-clarke-of-clarke-and-dawe-rip/784165)
**Author:** [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-clarke-of-clarke-and-dawe-rip/784165 "2022-10-26T15:31:26Z")
I caught a marathon of The Games on PBS many years ago and absolutely fell in love with his sense of humor. Through Youtube I’ve watched many more hours of his work. Brilliant satirist, painfully funny guy. ETA - sorr… --- ## [Low-effort Halloween costumes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-effort-halloween-costumes/973499)
**Author:** [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-effort-halloween-costumes/973499 "2022-10-26T12:29:00Z")
Hi, y’all. So the thing is this: My husband and I are dutifully going to a neighborhood gathering on Halloween night. It’ll be held outdoors, mostly adults attending, and we don’t plan to stay long. However, costumes… --- ## [Question about the Star Trek franchise](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-star-trek-franchise/973681)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2022, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-star-trek-franchise/973681 "2022-10-26T02:16:16Z")
I’ve seen there have been a lot of ST reboots and new series. I haven’t watched any of them. I kind of stopped watching sometime during Voyager. Now, I’ve been re reading a book series collectively titled the Ring of … --- ## [How I Met Your Mother - Ted Mosley is way worse than Barney](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-ted-mosley-is-way-worse-than-barney/963775)
**Author:** [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-met-your-mother-ted-mosley-is-way-worse-than-barney/963775 "2022-10-25T17:13:23Z")
Kind of inspired by this thread (and because it’s free on Amazon Prime), I’ve started rewatching episodes of How I Met Your Mother. Everyone kind of goes on about Barney’s outlandish behavior and treats Ted as the “nice… --- ## [Does anyone remember this weird TV movie, possibly 1970s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-weird-tv-movie-possibly-1970s/973441)
**Author:** [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-weird-tv-movie-possibly-1970s/973441 "2022-10-24T21:23:26Z")
I’m trying to track down a TV movie, from the 1970s or thereabouts, looking back the plot seems so improbable that I’ve been thinking I must have dreamed it! Anyway – a deep sea project is trying to find the wreck of a … --- ## [Can you think of instances when people who've left shows for new (and failed) series were quickly written back in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-instances-when-people-whove-left-shows-for-new-and-failed-series-were-quickly-written-back-in/951757)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-instances-when-people-whove-left-shows-for-new-and-failed-series-were-quickly-written-back-in/951757 "2022-10-24T17:19:29Z")
I’m bummed that an actress I really liked on Chicago Med has left to star in a new show (note that she wasn’t killed off). I started watching the pilot of that show…and I don’t think it’s going to last. If the new show f… --- ## [Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti, or 'Funny Duet For Cats'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duetto-buffo-di-due-gatti-or-funny-duet-for-cats/973683)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duetto-buffo-di-due-gatti-or-funny-duet-for-cats/973683 "2022-10-24T09:43:21Z")
The absolutely silly opera, called “Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti,” or “Funny Duet For Cats,” is clearly about … well … a cat fight. A friendly cat squabble, if you will, as indicated by all the different va… --- ## [Movie Characters Cast in TV Roles inspired by Their Movie Role](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467 "2022-10-24T07:37:55Z")
This will be hard to describe and I suspect we’ll see a few answers outside of the parameters. I can only think of two examples: Brad Dourif’s Role in The first season X-Files episode “Beyond the Sea” is the Gemini Kill… --- ## [The Scooby Gang is back! (not really, but close. )](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scooby-gang-is-back-not-really-but-close/973672)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scooby-gang-is-back-not-really-but-close/973672 "2022-10-24T02:25:24Z")
CW has a new show “The Winchesters”- a sorta prequel to “Supernatural.” But we have six young people (seven sometimes) with a mix of young men and women, who travel around in a sort of hippie van, solving supernatural… --- ## [Scenes that were serious back then but risible now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-were-serious-back-then-but-risible-now/972223)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-were-serious-back-then-but-risible-now/972223 "2022-10-24T01:09:36Z")
I just got back from a public screening of The Fellowship of the Ring at a local movie theatre. When Sean Bean delivered Boromir’s much-parodied line, “One does not simply walk into Mordor!”, the entire auditorium erupt… --- ## [Help Me Find This Movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/973449)
**Author:** [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/973449 "2022-10-23T20:24:50Z")
I watched in the early 70’s with my cousin on TV but it must have been older. It was about a British officer in Africa that was captured by the native African tribesmen and forced to run for his life to the next British… --- ## [Extremely passionate (in a positive way), niche content creators](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-passionate-in-a-positive-way-niche-content-creators/973496)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-passionate-in-a-positive-way-niche-content-creators/973496 "2022-10-23T18:12:21Z")
Continuing the discussion from What would you do with a big storage amount of emergency-ration meals that you inherited?: I love the guy running\_coach linked. Not because I give a particular shit about MREs, but becaus… --- ## [Does your city have a song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-a-song/973191)
**Author:** [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-a-song/973191 "2022-10-23T12:10:36Z")
The largest American cities have popular songs associated with them: New York CIty has “New York” by Frank Sinatra; Los Angeles has “I Love L.A.” by Randy Newman, Chicago has “That Toddlin Town” … but what about Miami,… --- ## [The Andromeda Strain - did they kill those poor rats just for a movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-andromeda-strain-did-they-kill-those-poor-rats-just-for-a-movie/441886)
**Author:** [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2022, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-andromeda-strain-did-they-kill-those-poor-rats-just-for-a-movie/441886 "2022-10-23T04:16:09Z")
or was the same technique used on the monkey used on the rats as well? does anyone know one way or the other? i hadn’t seen the movie in eons and we happened to catch it on tv over the weekend. i researched on how the… --- ## ["Wild dog piano" in Tom Petty song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wild-dog-piano-in-tom-petty-song/973637)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wild-dog-piano-in-tom-petty-song/973637 "2022-10-23T02:51:35Z")
I was watching Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” and read the Wiki entry about it. In the personnel section it lists: Alan “Bugs” Weidel – wild dog piano. Are they just having fun or does it actually mean someth… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=229) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=231)