# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=337 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 338 --- ## [Found the" professor of rock" channel on youtube anyone else watch him?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-professor-of-rock-channel-on-youtube-anyone-else-watch-him/940520)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-the-professor-of-rock-channel-on-youtube-anyone-else-watch-him/940520 "2021-04-22T15:11:47Z")
found him on youtube a few weeks ago and wow smartest dude I’ve ever heard talking about rock from the 50s on… and the artist seems to like and respect him too namely because he doesn’t ask all the usual stupid questio… --- ## [When did the modern concept of a "novel" come into being?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-modern-concept-of-a-novel-come-into-being/939769)
**Author:** [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-modern-concept-of-a-novel-come-into-being/939769 "2021-04-22T12:18:38Z")
I’m finally getting into seriously tackling “classic literature”, and some old “novels” I’ve read recently and in the past have made me wonder when the concept of the “novel” became formalized in its current form, that i… --- ## [Yul Brynner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yul-brynner/939351)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yul-brynner/939351 "2021-04-22T10:12:25Z")
Easter weekend - and our local TV stations always show “Ben-Hur” and the “Ten Commandments”. The latter features Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. Brynner also starred in “The King and I” on Broadway - taking part in over… --- ## [Rock producer Jim Steinman, has died at 73](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-producer-jim-steinman-has-died-at-73/940395)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-producer-jim-steinman-has-died-at-73/940395 "2021-04-22T08:36:44Z")
amn this stinks … meats gotta be upset … https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/rock-producer-jim-steinman-who-helped-pen-hits-for-meat-loaf-and-bonnie-tyler-has-died-at-73/ar-BB1fRrYi?li=BBnb2gh&ocid=SK2DDHP --- ## [Where is this British "Slide" Tower?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-british-slide-tower/920715)
**Author:** [@Ptolomy57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ptolomy57)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-british-slide-tower/920715 "2021-04-22T07:50:50Z")
In this Kinks video (link below) for the song “Do It Again” from the late 1980s, there is a “larger than life” spiral slide wrapped around a tower about the height of a lighthouse. Apparently, it is part of an amusement … --- ## [A cool video of fictional starship size comparisons, set against NYC to start](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cool-video-of-fictional-starship-size-comparisons-set-against-nyc-to-start/940252)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cool-video-of-fictional-starship-size-comparisons-set-against-nyc-to-start/940252 "2021-04-22T02:43:18Z")
Check out the Statue of Liberty at 4:42. I’d heard of quite a few of these ships, space stations etc., but by no means all. Towards the end they’re just ridiculously huge. --- ## [ISO The Song "Lean On" Popular Version(s)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iso-the-song-lean-on-popular-version-s/940470)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iso-the-song-lean-on-popular-version-s/940470 "2021-04-21T22:55:49Z")
If you know this song, “Lean On”, I believe the original version is by Major Lazer (and DJ Snake). But, this does not sound like the version of which I am most familiar. Do the SDopers know of other popular versions that… --- ## [I don't understand Arlo and Janis today April 18 2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-arlo-and-janis-today-april-18-2021/940264)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-arlo-and-janis-today-april-18-2021/940264 "2021-04-21T17:59:14Z")
Jimmy Johnston frequently slips in subtle sexual humor, and I suspect (from her smirk) that he’s doing it here. But for the life of me, I can’t figure out what the joke is supposed to be, whether it’ssexual or not. … --- ## [Cooking Serendipity: “Just threw it together”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-serendipity-just-threw-it-together/940118)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-serendipity-just-threw-it-together/940118 "2021-04-21T16:56:47Z")
Yesterday I decided to make some ribs. I made a barbecue dry rub and coated the meat, wrapped it in foil, and ended up cooking it too long (albeit at low temperature) until it was a carbonaceous lump. Today I had a spi… --- ## [Robert De Niro 'forced' to work to fund ex's 'thirst for Stella McCartney'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-de-niro-forced-to-work-to-fund-exs-thirst-for-stella-mccartney/940239)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-de-niro-forced-to-work-to-fund-exs-thirst-for-stella-mccartney/940239 "2021-04-21T16:11:33Z")
I put this here because it’s about an actor … feel free to have it moved if it doesn’t belong Robert DeNiro’s divorce is getting messier in court as he’s crying poor due to her high maintenance lifestyle… Here’s my thi… --- ## [Songs that "sound" like covers of another band or group, but aren't](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-sound-like-covers-of-another-band-or-group-but-arent/851982)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-sound-like-covers-of-another-band-or-group-but-arent/851982 "2021-04-21T12:22:44Z")
On the way to work this morning, I was listening to Queen and the song “You’re My Best Friend” came on. Now I know it is an original song written by John Deacon, who wrote it about his wife. But to me, it sounds like a… --- ## [Who's heard of Randy Rainbow? :)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-heard-of-randy-rainbow/835923)
**Author:** [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-heard-of-randy-rainbow/835923 "2021-04-21T04:02:10Z")
http://www.youtube.com/user/Tday4U He’s the new internet sensation. It took me a while to appreciate his talent, but now I’m a fan. He writes, performs, and edits the videos all by himself. Here are a couple of my fav… --- ## [Swedish Fish Salad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swedish-fish-salad/940325)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swedish-fish-salad/940325 "2021-04-21T01:43:10Z")
You can salad most fish, why not Swedish Fish? I bought the ingredients this weekend and just tried my first batch. As Dom Perignon said “Come quickly! I am tasting stars!” My initial recipe (which I will spend the rest… --- ## [Mogambo - (1953) Clark Gable](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mogambo-1953-clark-gable/604114)
**Author:** [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mogambo-1953-clark-gable/604114 "2021-04-20T19:15:52Z")
I’m sure this question is completely out of left field, but the dope is the best place to get answers to these questions, so here goes. Thanksgiving morning, a movie called Mogambo was on television. I’d never heard of… --- ## [Songs where you like the harmony/background more than the melody/lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-you-like-the-harmony-background-more-than-the-melody-lyrics/940234)
**Author:** [@blabbermeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blabbermeister)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-you-like-the-harmony-background-more-than-the-melody-lyrics/940234 "2021-04-20T18:40:06Z")
I’m listening to “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes now and I’ve always loved the harmony more than anything else about this song. Love how each phrase of the harmony ends “unresolved” except at a couple of points in the … --- ## [The sap must flow! 2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sap-must-flow-2021/933946)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sap-must-flow-2021/933946 "2021-04-20T18:28:30Z")
The tree is the sap. The sap is the tree. The sap maple, of course. (and a few other tree varieties.) After the arctic blast, we had nice thaw with daily temperatures above freezing, and nights below. Which around h… --- ## [Help me identify another movie from one line](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-another-movie-from-one-line/940387)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-another-movie-from-one-line/940387 "2021-04-20T15:37:46Z")
This was one of the movies my mother dragged me along to see because she didn’t like going alone. I must have been around five years old, which would place it in 1960 or thereabouts. I remember it was a long Western th… --- ## [Popcorn salad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcorn-salad/939964)
**Author:** [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popcorn-salad/939964 "2021-04-20T12:36:20Z")
So I check out the news this morning and apparently popcorn salad is “breaking the internet”. Have you guys ever heard of this stuff? Would you eat it? I’ll try anything once, but my expectations would be low… --- ## [Songs You'd Swear Were Sung by Someone Else](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331 "2021-04-20T00:42:36Z")
Sheryl Crow’s If It Makes You Happy popped up on my playlist recently. All through the 90s I was absolutely sure it was sung by Alanis Morissette. Of course, Rod Stewart was just messing with us. --- ## [Does anyone else remember that one podcast from about 5 years ago where a man read old news stories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-remember-that-one-podcast-from-about-5-years-ago-where-a-man-read-old-news-stories/940128)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-remember-that-one-podcast-from-about-5-years-ago-where-a-man-read-old-news-stories/940128 "2021-04-19T19:59:42Z")
It was recommended on here about 5-7 years ago in a topic I can’t find, but basically it was a single guy reading old news stories for 30-40 minutes and he had a bunch of production around it to make it “old timey” inclu… --- ## [Fictional Future Fashion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-future-fashion/939799)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-future-fashion/939799 "2021-04-19T18:41:19Z")
The future of fashion is totally unpredictable-If you could show someone from the '20s what people would be wearing in the '50s, '80s, 2000s etc. their jaws would drop, and I’m pretty sure our jaws would drop if we got … --- ## [Who was the most expendable character on Friends?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-expendable-character-on-friends/939415)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-expendable-character-on-friends/939415 "2021-04-19T17:00:23Z")
I define expendable as having the least effect on the show if the character had been written out. I vote for Phoebe. IMO, she didn’t really add much to the show. In second place would have been Joey. Chandler and Ross co… --- ## [Best Fourth-Wall Breaking Moments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fourth-wall-breaking-moments/937840)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 143\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fourth-wall-breaking-moments/937840 "2021-04-19T07:36:59Z")
What are your favorite moments of characters breaking the fourth wall in fiction? I liked the line Sweeney Todd sang in “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” in the eponymous musical, in which he said, “What happened then, well,… --- ## [Godzila Evolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzila-evolves/940273)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzila-evolves/940273 "2021-04-18T23:53:26Z")
Worth the watching. --- ## [Would you say that you "baked a meatloaf"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-say-that-you-baked-a-meatloaf/940088)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-say-that-you-baked-a-meatloaf/940088 "2021-04-18T23:25:43Z")
This came up in a discussion at work today. I made a meatloaf yesterday and I definitely baked it for almost an hour and a half (it was delicious BTW) but when I said that I “baked a meatloaf”, it just doesn’t sound rig… --- ## [Movies that had multiple actors who eventually became famous](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-had-multiple-actors-who-eventually-became-famous/939488)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-had-multiple-actors-who-eventually-became-famous/939488 "2021-04-18T04:20:52Z")
the movie the outsiders from 1983 had multiple major actors who went on to become pretty well known. Patric Swayze, Tom cruise, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Diane lane, Ralph macchio, etc. any other movies like this that had … --- ## [Unofficial "National" songs that young and old know](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-national-songs-that-young-and-old-know/938143)
**Author:** [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-national-songs-that-young-and-old-know/938143 "2021-04-17T20:48:15Z")
I was listening to three versions of Arirang on my way home and thought of the topic question. Ask any Korean and the vast majority of them will know the traditional version of Arirang and probably other local versions. … --- ## [Cousin Itt (Adams Family) aka Felix Silla died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cousin-itt-adams-family-aka-felix-silla-died/940210)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cousin-itt-adams-family-aka-felix-silla-died/940210 "2021-04-17T18:46:06Z")
Felix was 3" 11" and a former circus acrobat. I can’t recall ever seeing the person inside the Cousin Itt costume. It was a cool costume and memorable character. I remember Felix better as Twiki the robot on Buck Roger… --- ## [Sexiest people in their 40s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-people-in-their-40s/938551)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-people-in-their-40s/938551 "2021-04-17T12:53:33Z")
I hit 46 a couple months ago, and on most days I waffle between “My freaking joints just don’t seem to line up inside my chubby-ass body anymore” and “I’m still pretty ok-looking, love handles and all.” But I know, squin… --- ## [Who listens to yacht rock anyway?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-listens-to-yacht-rock-anyway/918414)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 154\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-listens-to-yacht-rock-anyway/918414 "2021-04-17T10:46:04Z")
While listening to comedy radio, there are ads for a yacht rock channel. This refers to heavily synthesized music coming out of (Southern) California at the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s. (They always emphasi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=336) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=338)