# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=328 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 329 --- ## [Brian Caldwell's "We All Fall Down"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-caldwells-we-all-fall-down/185081)
**Author:** [@HoviBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoviBaby)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-caldwells-we-all-fall-down/185081 "2021-06-07T11:57:18Z")
Hey kids. I just finished reading “We All Fall Down” by Brian Caldwell, and I have never been more afffected emotionally by a book. I read all the time, and had forgotten how disturbing the written word could be. If an… --- ## [What is that novel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-novel/943730)
**Author:** [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-novel/943730 "2021-06-07T09:01:42Z")
A modern novel, a story within a story. The framing story is about a poor grad student whose focus is a famous 19th century poet, and how he and a woman discover the poet’s secret life through a series of adventures. The… --- ## [Supporting Cast with Multiple Roles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-cast-with-multiple-roles/943671)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-cast-with-multiple-roles/943671 "2021-06-06T20:18:21Z")
Continuing the discussion from Things that bother me about M asterisk A asterisk S asterisk H (the TV show): I’ve forgotten the term, but there is a term for the kind of actors who are associated with a television prog… --- ## [Need help making Jell-O](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-making-jell-o/943717)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-making-jell-o/943717 "2021-06-06T19:57:33Z")
Now that sounds truly pathetic, doesn’t it? :grin: My problem is that I have some sugar-free Jell-O instant pudding mixes, and on the box it says for instructions on using dairy free milk substitutes please consult jel… --- ## [Yucky crawlies in my lettuce?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-crawlies-in-my-lettuce/943563)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yucky-crawlies-in-my-lettuce/943563 "2021-06-05T19:01:56Z")
So I have a head of store bought green leaf lettuce. I put it in a special plastic container for preservation. I open it today, and notice a small grey gooey lump on the inside lid. I toss it, figuring it’s probably just… --- ## [Help identify this episode: Law and Order, or maybe CSI:NY](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-episode-law-and-order-or-maybe-csi-ny/943626)
**Author:** [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-episode-law-and-order-or-maybe-csi-ny/943626 "2021-06-05T16:23:04Z")
Last night, the Law and Order rerun was “Floater”, where they pull a body that had been in the water a month or two (“I’m not even sure it is human”, and the classic line from the on-scene ME\*, “Did I mention the eels?”… --- ## [Where was this Sci--fi scene from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-sci-fi-scene-from/943620)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-sci-fi-scene-from/943620 "2021-06-05T14:26:18Z")
Probably 50s: there is a reflective globe hovering over a crater. A net attached to a crane has been thrown over the globe, which refuses to budge from where it’s hovering. I don’t know if this was a movie or TV show. Th… --- ## [Hot Sauce Bottle Aperture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-sauce-bottle-aperture/942368)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-sauce-bottle-aperture/942368 "2021-06-05T01:50:03Z")
For years, the bottle of the Kroger brand hot sauce I enjoy included a plastic insert under the cap that reduced the diameter of the opening thus requiring several shakes of the bottle to release an appropriate amount of… --- ## [Embarrassingly bad "comic relief" in old TV drama](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassingly-bad-comic-relief-in-old-tv-drama/943187)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/embarrassingly-bad-comic-relief-in-old-tv-drama/943187 "2021-06-05T00:32:28Z")
I was watching E. R. the other day, and some of the comic relief scenes are cringe-worthy. For example: A birdwatcher with minor injuries tells Doctor Greene that she studies the similarities between bird courting beha… --- ## [Help me find the right grill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-right-grill/623674)
**Author:** [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-right-grill/623674 "2021-06-04T17:29:23Z")
I’m in the market for a grill. Our needs are modest (just the two of us) but we would like to entertain once or twice a summer. We would likely be cooking steak, chicken, vegetables, maybe fish. I suppose hamburgers and… --- ## [Your favorite movie/TV henchmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506)
**Author:** [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-tv-henchmen/942506 "2021-06-03T17:13:18Z")
T’was watching SPECTRE with my far better half last night, and I got to thinking to myself, “Self, I once considered a top-five list of favorite henchmen, but I totally forgot it. . .” I know I’ve got two on my list, in… --- ## [The Muppet's, Name that tune help?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-muppets-name-that-tune-help/943488)
**Author:** [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-muppets-name-that-tune-help/943488 "2021-06-03T01:14:01Z")
The Muppet’s, Name that tune help? The background is dark, with only two dancing tubes in the foreground dancing to music. The ending has the tubes straightening out and firing a cannon like shot at each other. For so… --- ## [Potato growing/cooking question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potato-growing-cooking-question/943308)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potato-growing-cooking-question/943308 "2021-06-02T23:54:13Z")
So my kids’ school has this garden that they basically piddle around with and use for occasional educational purposes. It’s open for people in the community to come harvest stuff as they like, although few actually do.… --- ## [I don't think that song means what you think it means: sneaky subtext](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-that-song-means-what-you-think-it-means-sneaky-subtext/943128)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-that-song-means-what-you-think-it-means-sneaky-subtext/943128 "2021-06-02T22:26:04Z")
ITT: songs with a yawning chasm between what they’re pretending to be about vs. what everybody knows they’re really about. With the substitution of one anatomical noun for another, for example, an ostensibly innocent tr… --- ## [Great Movies w/ Toxic Couples?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-w-toxic-couples/942974)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-w-toxic-couples/942974 "2021-06-02T21:06:47Z")
They could be in love, too. But besides just being great, if we can try to list the lesser known gems, since most of us have probably seen “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” for example, but that movie is kinda beating a … --- ## [Stargate SG-1 - my wife demands I stop poking holes and, instead justify](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-my-wife-demands-i-stop-poking-holes-and-instead-justify/943205)
**Author:** [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stargate-sg-1-my-wife-demands-i-stop-poking-holes-and-instead-justify/943205 "2021-06-02T20:23:06Z")
I am the only person on the planet my age that has not watched Stargate SG-1. I have started and am more than halfway through season 1. I have been enjoying it but…hooboyyy…the plot holes…like a woman held in stasis fo… --- ## [Questions about Hesiod's epic poem, the 'Theogony' and Golden Race of Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-hesiods-epic-poem-the-theogony-and-golden-race-of-man/943447)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-hesiods-epic-poem-the-theogony-and-golden-race-of-man/943447 "2021-06-02T14:28:19Z")
Regarding Hesiod’s epic poem, the ‘Theogony’ (which I have not read) and specifically the Golden Race of Man, I was curious to know where, logistically speaking, the Golden Race actually lived. Was it on Olympus itself,… --- ## [Movies With Someone Being Interviewed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-someone-being-interviewed/941901 "2021-06-02T06:13:46Z")
Featured films… I don’t mean someone trying to get a job… But someone who’s interviewed, mostly likely for being famous, but it could have been a reporter who finds a witness who witnessed something. “La Dolce Vita” is… --- ## [Identify a cartoon: space ships, giant monsters, and clone zombies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379)
**Author:** [@smilingbandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingbandit)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-cartoon-space-ships-giant-monsters-and-clone-zombies/943379 "2021-06-02T06:03:57Z")
By chance, I happened to watch a few minutes of a cartoon I’d never seen before, but didn’t catch the title or the network. It looked liked a modern western animated show, where a giant humanoid monster was attacking a s… --- ## [Is there a name for this cake?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-cake/943318)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-cake/943318 "2021-06-02T01:17:04Z")
I made it up, but it’s so obvious that I can’t be the first. I took a package of yellow mix (it’s what I had) and mixed in a cup of water and 3 eggs. It called for a half cup of oil, but I subbed about a cup of apple pie… --- ## [Alternatives to "Atlas Shrugged"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternatives-to-atlas-shrugged/943107)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternatives-to-atlas-shrugged/943107 "2021-06-01T23:58:16Z")
Regardless of what one thinks of Ayn Rand or her Objectivist philosophy, the general consensus is that “Atlas Shrugged” simply isn’t a good novel by literary standards. So what would be a good alternative? A story that d… --- ## [Earliest TV commercial you remember verbatim](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917 "2021-06-01T21:44:50Z")
I always kind of resented the substantial portion of my brain seemingly devoted to the puerile commercials popular when I was young. What Canadian could forget the wonder of Zoodles animal-shaped noodles (which my paren… --- ## [Songs with Woman in the Title](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-woman-in-the-title/943042)
**Author:** [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-woman-in-the-title/943042 "2021-06-01T15:36:47Z")
So today I decided to play only songs with Woman in the title. So far I have off the top of my head: Sweet Talking Woman Jet City Woman Pretty Woman Evil Woman Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress) I am Woman I’m Every W… --- ## [Miami Vice the movie, question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-vice-the-movie-question/504250)
**Author:** [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-vice-the-movie-question/504250 "2021-06-01T12:33:57Z")
I have seen this movie twice, and they should be the only good guys in that meet, so who tossed the party favor to Crockett. Declan --- ## [Anyone Remember Bart Simpsons Phony Phonecalls?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-bart-simpsons-phony-phonecalls/943262)
**Author:** [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-bart-simpsons-phony-phonecalls/943262 "2021-06-01T12:13:42Z")
This is the origin. These are phony phonecalls made to a Jersey bar called The Tube Bar. Howard Stern fans will remember Billy Wests imitation of Red the Bartender. Definitely NSFW. --- ## [Miami Vice (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-vice-open-spoilers/366606)
**Author:** [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-vice-open-spoilers/366606 "2021-06-01T06:04:51Z")
I didn’t like it. I think my biggest criticism is that it seemed fractured and confused and unresolved. Now, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, if the movie is trying to show what real life is like. Real life doesn’t h… --- ## [Movies that take place over a few hours](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-over-a-few-hours/942139)
**Author:** [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-take-place-over-a-few-hours/942139 "2021-06-01T04:38:05Z")
I’ve been re-watching some of my favorite movies and I have found that most of them take place during a single day, night or a few hours. I just finished Bill Murray’s Quick Change and it is my favorite Murray movie. It… --- ## [Seeking Dopers' opinions on jackfruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-dopers-opinions-on-jackfruit/943064)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-dopers-opinions-on-jackfruit/943064 "2021-06-01T02:26:43Z")
I’ve seen these tropical fruits, which in a whole state look like pillow-sized pine cones, for a long time, and a local store had a slice for $3 today (the whole fruit can cost upwards of $100) so I decided to try it. T… --- ## [When Kenny Loggins Sings "Seems as though a month ago I was Beta Chi"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kenny-loggins-sings-seems-as-though-a-month-ago-i-was-beta-chi/713089)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kenny-loggins-sings-seems-as-though-a-month-ago-i-was-beta-chi/713089 "2021-05-31T23:23:32Z")
A quick search of Wikipedia reveals no social fraternities nor academic honor societies (such as Phi Beta Kappa) named “Beta Chi,” and it doesn’t appear Kenny went to college anyway. Is (was) there some sort of honor so… --- ## [IP for movie characters, e.g., James Bond](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ip-for-movie-characters-e-g-james-bond/943314)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ip-for-movie-characters-e-g-james-bond/943314 "2021-05-31T23:23:11Z")
Amazon is buying MGM. And along with it, James Bond. But James Bond is a character. Ian Fleming’s novels are copyrighted, but I didn’t think you could copyright a character. Sherlock Holmes has been done to death. If I h… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=327) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=329)