# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=249 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 250 --- ## [Trying to remember a comedian's name](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-comedians-name/967981)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-a-comedians-name/967981 "2022-07-15T14:52:59Z")
He was active in the late 60s and 70s. Moon face, dark curly hair, big walrus mustache. I remember the routine he did with another guy where he was an automaton on a subway platform who would talk and give advice for c… --- ## [When I hear the song (blank) it makes me think of (blank)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-the-song-blank-it-makes-me-think-of-blank/967834)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-hear-the-song-blank-it-makes-me-think-of-blank/967834 "2022-07-15T08:46:24Z")
So, I’m at the doctor’s office this morning, waiting to get my COVID booster. The radio in the waiting room starts playing “Funky Town” by Lipps, Inc. Every time I hear that song, it makes me think of the “Malcolm In The… --- ## [You Tube Narration](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-tube-narration/967938)
**Author:** [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-tube-narration/967938 "2022-07-15T02:28:30Z")
What is with the computer generated vaguely English accent on some of the 'Unsolved Mysteries’ videos? I know it is generated because it makes pronunciation errors on some words - words I know that my British friends hav… --- ## [How are the Dresden books nowadays? No spoilers, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-the-dresden-books-nowadays-no-spoilers-please/967839)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-the-dresden-books-nowadays-no-spoilers-please/967839 "2022-07-14T22:37:02Z")
I dropped off after Skin Game, which was pretty good, Dead Beat and Fool Moon. I’ve heard he hasn’t gotten any better at female characters. How are the more recent ones? --- ## [X-rated films of the late 1960s , or R-rated after X denoted porno films](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-rated-films-of-the-late-1960s-or-r-rated-after-x-denoted-porno-films/967776)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-rated-films-of-the-late-1960s-or-r-rated-after-x-denoted-porno-films/967776 "2022-07-14T18:19:53Z")
I’m writing an article about those films of the late 60s and early 70s that featured explicit (or very suggestive) sex scenes, where actors were at least partially nude but totally and plainly engaged in sex acts on scre… --- ## [What was the most anachronistic thing you've seen in a fictional work that wasn't intentional or an accident?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-anachronistic-thing-youve-seen-in-a-fictional-work-that-wasnt-intentional-or-an-accident/953956)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 489\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-anachronistic-thing-youve-seen-in-a-fictional-work-that-wasnt-intentional-or-an-accident/953956 "2022-07-14T13:58:16Z")
Barring stuff like Blazing Saddles where all the anachronisms are a joke, or something that was unavoidably left in by mistake like seeing airplane contrails in a work set in the Middle Ages, or something where that was … --- ## [I can no longer read David Baldacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-no-longer-read-david-baldacci/920277)
**Author:** [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2022, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-no-longer-read-david-baldacci/920277 "2022-07-14T06:43:23Z")
I have read a number of his books over the years. I never thought he was a particularly good writer, but his books helped fill the gaps when I needed something to read. I remember liking the Camel Club series and the Wil… --- ## [What We Do In The Shadows Season 3 hits Sept 2nd (Plus Trailer!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-season-3-hits-sept-2nd-plus-trailer/948643)
**Author:** [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-season-3-hits-sept-2nd-plus-trailer/948643 "2022-07-13T23:05:04Z")
What the title says. Trailer: --- ## [X-Men's Rogue's "stolen" powers—who WAS "Miss Marvel"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-mens-rogues-stolen-powers-who-was-miss-marvel/209802)
**Author:** [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-mens-rogues-stolen-powers-who-was-miss-marvel/209802 "2022-07-13T15:44:13Z")
…Those X-Men fans among us know that Rogue\* permenantly gained powers of flight, invulnerability, and superhuman strength after absorbing them from a superheroine named “Miss Marvel.” The thing is, though, that I can’t … --- ## [Old country song with yodeling on the current Better Call Saul trailers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-country-song-with-yodeling-on-the-current-better-call-saul-trailers/967739)
**Author:** [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-country-song-with-yodeling-on-the-current-better-call-saul-trailers/967739 "2022-07-13T03:44:57Z")
I’ve listened to Jimmie Rodgers and Slim Whitman, can’t find the song. Anyone know it? --- ## [Georgia's Guidestones get partially blown up!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgias-guidestones-get-partially-blown-up/967505)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2022, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgias-guidestones-get-partially-blown-up/967505 "2022-07-13T03:02:15Z")
I put this in Cafe Society because John Oliver covered them last month in a free web exclusive. JohnOliver: There’s a whole satanic theory around them, and there’s a gubernatorial candidate saying she woul… --- ## [Looking for a music fantasy book](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-music-fantasy-book/967841)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-music-fantasy-book/967841 "2022-07-13T02:56:27Z")
This is probably from a few decades back. By listening the the last albums from performers whose lives were cut tragically short, this guy is able to either go back in time or enter another universe to prevent the death… --- ## [Your idea of a weak album start](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-idea-of-a-weak-album-start/966435 "2022-07-12T17:33:55Z")
Niel Young’s Harvest opens with “Out On the Weekend”. Looking through the rest of that album’s songs, I couldn’t find a weaker, lifeless, simplistic, more “phoned in” number than OOTW. I get it that the “hits” and “stro… --- ## [Are Garfield and U.S. Acres set in the same universe?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-garfield-and-u-s-acres-set-in-the-same-universe/965622)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 12, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-garfield-and-u-s-acres-set-in-the-same-universe/965622 "2022-07-12T17:30:33Z")
Garfield and U.S. Acres are both comic strips by Jim Davis. Animated versions of both strips appear in the TV show Garfield and Friends, albeit in separate segments. With one minor exception mentioned below, I don’t re… --- ## [New Air Fryer Results](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-air-fryer-results/964919)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-air-fryer-results/964919 "2022-06-06T22:53:41Z")
Figured I’d start a new thread (somehow couldn’t find the old one)… Finally broke it out after almost a week. It’s an Instant brand (I did ZERO research, was grief-shopping). I’ll be honest, the chicken was of unknown v… --- ## [Anybody have a counter top ice maker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-counter-top-ice-maker/953392)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 2, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-counter-top-ice-maker/953392 "2021-11-02T05:18:43Z")
Would they be useful in freezing mixed drinks or Kool Aid type liquids? Or would it eventually gum up the works? Would they be easily cleanable? At the price they’re available at, I’m tempted to buy one just to freeze my… --- ## [Festivals/bands this summer? (I'm seeing old farts at Summerfest)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festivals-bands-this-summer-im-seeing-old-farts-at-summerfest/967000)
**Author:** [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/festivals-bands-this-summer-im-seeing-old-farts-at-summerfest/967000 "2022-07-11T22:59:34Z")
I was so relieved that after a couple of years of cancelations and postponements, Summerfest is back. (Oh, it’s a huge and ridiculously cheap festival on Milwaukee’s lakefront; I’ve been going since the early 70s) Now,… --- ## [Stumbling Upon Old Movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbling-upon-old-movies/966232)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbling-upon-old-movies/966232 "2022-07-11T18:47:22Z")
I watch a lot of movies, but I still manage to stumble upon an old movie here and there that I really like but somehow managed to never see over the many years of its existence. The latest of these is a 1998 move entitl… --- ## [Summer fruit day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fruit-day/967352)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fruit-day/967352 "2022-07-11T15:31:33Z")
Today I’m processing summer fruit. Specifically I’m making red currant jelly from the currants i picked at my sister’s patch last week. I’m making spiced stewed fruit from a lot of peaches and plums i bought at the far… --- ## [BBC : "The Final Day" - available on streaming?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-the-final-day-available-on-streaming/967743)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2022, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-the-final-day-available-on-streaming/967743 "2022-07-11T04:32:53Z")
BBC has produced a documentary on the last day and the asteroid strike, but the BBC streaming isn’t available in Canada. Is there any way to see it? Apparently it was on PBS a month ago? --- ## [Larry Storch (F-Troop) has died at 99](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-storch-f-troop-has-died-at-99/967661)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-storch-f-troop-has-died-at-99/967661 "2022-07-11T01:39:48Z")
Corporal Agarn has ridden into the sunset. --- ## [looking for a certain old commerical](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-certain-old-commerical/547798)
**Author:** [@musky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musky)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-certain-old-commerical/547798 "2022-07-10T23:28:16Z")
the commercial with a girl taunting her brother, "Hamster brain any ideas…:smack: --- ## [Sandwiches: Best Bread to Stuffing Ratio?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-best-bread-to-stuffing-ratio/967356)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwiches-best-bread-to-stuffing-ratio/967356 "2022-07-10T19:40:47Z")
It seems to me the best sandwiches have large amounts of content and just enough bread to keep things together. Big buns are okay but only if squishable so that the former is true. Not a universal truth. But when I lo… --- ## [..'bout a ghost from a wishin' well](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bout-a-ghost-from-a-wishin-well/21409)
**Author:** [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bout-a-ghost-from-a-wishin-well/21409 "2022-07-10T19:40:43Z")
In “If You Could Read My Mind” Gordon Lightfoot sings: “…Just like an old time movie ‘bout a ghost from a wishin’ well.” Is there such a movie? --- ## [What’s up with prescription drug ads all being the same?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-up-with-prescription-drug-ads-all-being-the-same/967650)
**Author:** [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-up-with-prescription-drug-ads-all-being-the-same/967650 "2022-07-10T18:39:37Z")
They all seem to involve seemingly normal people going about their day, with smiles on their faces, doing interesting things; well, interesting to them but not usually anything I would ever do. Sure I get it: these peop… --- ## [Gold Rush show on Discovery with 1 annoying thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-rush-show-on-discovery-with-1-annoying-thing/967297)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2022, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gold-rush-show-on-discovery-with-1-annoying-thing/967297 "2022-07-10T11:14:39Z")
I know it’s not 100% real but I like it. They really mine gold and some of them make a lot of money. The latest season the video guy keeps doing video selfies for no reason. I guess the producers are OK with that… --- ## [Tony Sirico RIP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-sirico-rip/967645)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-sirico-rip/967645 "2022-07-10T10:53:04Z")
He was 79. Great in the Sopranos . --- ## [How were you meant to order off this kind of 19th century menu?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-you-meant-to-order-off-this-kind-of-19th-century-menu/967536)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-were-you-meant-to-order-off-this-kind-of-19th-century-menu/967536 "2022-07-10T04:17:28Z")
One of my favorite idle activities when I’m sitting up late at night is to browse menus for restaurants I’ll probably never go to. Whether it’s because it’s in a city I’ll never visit or because it doesn’t exist anymore,… --- ## [Anybody watching "The Dropout" on Hulu? (Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos) - spoilers for eps 1-4](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-watching-the-dropout-on-hulu-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-spoilers-for-eps-1-4/961048)
**Author:** [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2022, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-watching-the-dropout-on-hulu-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-spoilers-for-eps-1-4/961048 "2022-07-10T04:01:11Z")
I remember when the story broke being somewhat interested, and then I read Carreyrou’s book Bad Blood - and became a Theranos obsessive. I also watched The Inventor - but skipped the podcast that the Hulu series is based… --- ## [What's the fastest you've gone from really liking a new series to hating it/abandoning it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-gone-from-really-liking-a-new-series-to-hating-it-abandoning-it/923966)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 314\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-fastest-youve-gone-from-really-liking-a-new-series-to-hating-it-abandoning-it/923966 "2022-07-09T16:27:53Z")
As in, a new TV show/book/podcast/website comes up, and you’re automatically hooked, eagerly wait for every new installment, only to see either the format change or the writing just get terrible really quickly and instan… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=248) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=250)