# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=358 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 359 --- ## [How to get a written manuscript turned into music?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-written-manuscript-turned-into-music/930342)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-written-manuscript-turned-into-music/930342 "2021-01-15T18:09:52Z")
Many years ago, I wrote as my master’s thesis a 3-movement piece of music for orchestra. I never heard it performed. I know there is elaborate software that can be used to convert a written score to an approximation of t… --- ## [References You Probably Wouldn't Get without a Certain Bit of Knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/references-you-probably-wouldnt-get-without-a-certain-bit-of-knowledge/930558)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/references-you-probably-wouldnt-get-without-a-certain-bit-of-knowledge/930558 "2021-01-15T17:53:59Z")
In the opening of tonight’s episode of Endeavour, a barber asks one gentleman if he needs “anything for the weekend” when he’s finished with him. Not in a million years would I realize the significance of that question … --- ## [Joni fans/guitarists - do you know about the book 'Complete So Far..'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-fans-guitarists-do-you-know-about-the-book-complete-so-far/930610)
**Author:** [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joni-fans-guitarists-do-you-know-about-the-book-complete-so-far/930610 "2021-01-15T17:09:23Z")
I did not know of it but it seems it was published in 2014. It has the music and lyrics for all of her songs but more importantly has the correct tuning for each. My beautiful and exceptional wife bought it for me this … --- ## [Marinating foods: How does a vaccuum environment help?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marinating-foods-how-does-a-vaccuum-environment-help/930492)
**Author:** [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marinating-foods-how-does-a-vaccuum-environment-help/930492 "2021-01-15T15:31:40Z")
I figured there’d be a thread about this kind of thing already, but my search came up empty so I’ll post my question. Redirect me to an existing thread if you know of one… While browsing for stuff on Amazon I stumbled … --- ## [Is Dexter actually a good show?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dexter-actually-a-good-show/930531)
**Author:** [@KennyT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennyT)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dexter-actually-a-good-show/930531 "2021-01-15T13:19:34Z")
I felt the first two seasons were watchable. Like Breaking Bad, it had a premise that’s really only good for two season but unlike Brekaing Bad, they stretched the show into 8 seasons (and now there’s a reboot/continuati… --- ## [Needing sausage recipes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needing-sausage-recipes/930550)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needing-sausage-recipes/930550 "2021-01-15T11:46:55Z")
I got a meat grinder for Christmas and want to start making sausage. I know I can go on the internet but that is hit or miss and the Dope has never let me down. I’m thinking country breakfast sausage, italian sausage, … --- ## [Tis the season to try new Whisk(e)y](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-to-try-new-whisk-e-y/928139)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-to-try-new-whisk-e-y/928139 "2021-01-15T06:16:23Z")
I decided to buy my self an early Christmas present, after I was talking with a friend I hadn’t see in a while about not being able to go to the bar for a while. Then we got to talking about Whiskey. He was saying to he… --- ## [Help me identify a Leonard Cohen song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-leonard-cohen-song/930556)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-leonard-cohen-song/930556 "2021-01-15T00:40:21Z")
The song I remember is a somewhat upbeat (for Cohen) song. It’s not from any of his regular studio albums. I’m pretty sure it’s middle aged or old Leonard. I think the song had some reference to Elvis. It may have be… --- ## [Cookie Baking Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-baking-question/930541)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookie-baking-question/930541 "2021-01-14T19:54:25Z")
I bake a lot of cookies and have gotten pretty good at controlling the finished color of the cookies but not perfect. If I break a cookie in half I can see where the brownness on the bottom is greater than the browness o… --- ## [London restaurants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-restaurants/643976)
**Author:** [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [December 18, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-restaurants/643976 "2012-12-18T22:51:09Z")
I’m traveling to London soon and am looking for restaurant recommendations. Anything from really fancy to gastropub to cutting edge to ethnic hole in the wall. Thank you all in advance! --- ## [Do you buy name brand or store brand ketchup and/or mustard?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-name-brand-or-store-brand-ketchup-and-or-mustard/929729)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-buy-name-brand-or-store-brand-ketchup-and-or-mustard/929729 "2021-01-14T15:57:22Z")
I’ve always been perfectly happy with store brand (usually Publix or Walmart’s Good Value) and saving a few cents. But a lot of people must buy the Heinz and French’s since they take a lot of shelf space. Do people rea… --- ## [What is this tune from The Lucy Show and Sooper Goop?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune-from-the-lucy-show-and-sooper-goop/930498)
**Author:** [@Hakushon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakushon)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune-from-the-lucy-show-and-sooper-goop/930498 "2021-01-14T13:23:38Z")
In Season 5 Episode 3 of The Lucy Show, “Lucy the Bean Queen” (1966), Ed Begley (Sr.) sings a jingle about a fictitious brand of beans. You can listen to it at the 6:15 mark, here: The Lucy Show |TV-1966| LUCY AND THE BE… --- ## [Movies that can't possibly be real](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-cant-possibly-be-real/929289)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-cant-possibly-be-real/929289 "2021-01-14T11:05:41Z")
I’m watching Frankie & Alice, whose plot description sounds like an SNL sketch: Halle Berry as a stripper, Frankie, with dissociative personalities. One of them is just Halle Berry speaking baby talk, lisp and all, and a… --- ## [Movie so bad you had to keep watching](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 121\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848 "2021-01-14T10:37:18Z")
Sometimes I fall asleep with the TV in the bedroom on and wake up to a really bad movie. So bad that I can’t tear my eyes away from it. Or weird. Weird enough that I’ve come here to ask if perhaps I hallucinated it. Two … --- ## [Rinsing Ground Beef? Dear God, why, Why?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rinsing-ground-beef-dear-god-why-why/928164)
**Author:** [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rinsing-ground-beef-dear-god-why-why/928164 "2021-01-14T05:56:02Z")
So, this came across my news feed. The short version is that the video poster is rinsing cooked ground beef to reduce the fat content according to advice of a nutrition class taken years ago. My first response was ho… --- ## [Is Hardtack just a Big Cracker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hardtack-just-a-big-cracker/930298)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hardtack-just-a-big-cracker/930298 "2021-01-14T02:39:23Z")
I considered this thread for General Questions, but it’s food after all. So, hardtack = giant cracker? Was Long John Silver’s parrot the first to say, “Polly wanna cracker.”? (If indeed the animal did say that. I hav… --- ## [Upper Altitude Parachuting Survivability](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upper-altitude-parachuting-survivability/930095)
**Author:** [@Jack\_Reynolds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Reynolds)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [January 14, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upper-altitude-parachuting-survivability/930095 "2021-01-14T00:35:33Z")
I’m writing a novel, and I have a scene in mind where two of the main characters are ejected into the upper atmosphere with minimal survival equipment. I’ve tried researching the effects of upper-atmospheric exposure on … --- ## [Did I Invent Two Drinks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-invent-two-drinks/930248)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-invent-two-drinks/930248 "2021-01-13T22:14:45Z")
I know you all think I make all this stuff up. But I swear to God that the following story is true. About 20 years ago, I want to say around 1998, me, my father, aunt and uncle used to go to a mall to walk, after we had… --- ## [Is that Nina Simone singing for a commercial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-nina-simone-singing-for-a-commercial/930449)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-nina-simone-singing-for-a-commercial/930449 "2021-01-13T16:57:28Z")
I thought I heard her voice for a 1 ADAY vitamin commercial. Kind of sad. --- ## [Any novels/book series that now seems out of date/risque that wasn't back then?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-novels-book-series-that-now-seems-out-of-date-risque-that-wasnt-back-then/930279)
**Author:** [@smokey78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smokey78)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-novels-book-series-that-now-seems-out-of-date-risque-that-wasnt-back-then/930279 "2021-01-13T16:35:37Z")
the subject came up with books my friend and I grew up with in the past decades. Oddly, we talked about the Baby Sitters Club that we read as preteens. It was very youthYA and seemed simple right? Until we brought up St… --- ## [Does Beef Based Matzoh Ball Soup Exist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beef-based-matzoh-ball-soup-exist/930346)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-beef-based-matzoh-ball-soup-exist/930346 "2021-01-13T15:36:36Z")
Well, yeah - it’s not like the Kitchen Police would stop me if I tried it - but I was wondering if anyone else had had the notion and possibly put it into practice. If you’re totally goy I expect the fat used to make th… --- ## [Animated characters voiced by someone of the opposite gender](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-characters-voiced-by-someone-of-the-opposite-gender/930140)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-characters-voiced-by-someone-of-the-opposite-gender/930140 "2021-01-13T04:11:47Z")
I think it’s fairly well known that Bart Simpson is voiced by a woman – Nancy Cartwright. IIRC, Cartwright also voices a couple of minor male characters on The Simpsons – Ralph Wiggum, either Rod or Todd Flanders, and s… --- ## [Why is the guitar the primary instrument in rock music?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-guitar-the-primary-instrument-in-rock-music/842005)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-guitar-the-primary-instrument-in-rock-music/842005 "2021-01-12T12:19:35Z")
I’ve always wondered how it is such a huge amount of popular music is guitar driven. Why? As Elton John demonstrates, rock music doesn’t HAVE to be guitar driven, and modern pop music has spun off varieties of music, l… --- ## [Shakespeare's Plays and Repetitiveness--Plus What's the Big Deal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeares-plays-and-repetitiveness-plus-whats-the-big-deal/929373)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeares-plays-and-repetitiveness-plus-whats-the-big-deal/929373 "2021-01-12T05:12:07Z")
This one is two for the price of one. Have you ever noticed how repetitive some of Shakespeare’s plays are? He seems to repeat in the next line, what he basically said in the first line. I know I read some place that pe… --- ## [Gas Station Food offerings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-station-food-offerings/930214)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-station-food-offerings/930214 "2021-01-12T03:51:55Z")
Lately I’ve noticed that large gas station chains, that aren’t necessarily on the interstate, have pretty good ready meals. I mean the aren’t the usual wieners on the Farris wheel and warm up sandwiches. There are some … --- ## ["The History of Swear Words" series on Netflix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-history-of-swear-words-series-on-netflix/929806)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-history-of-swear-words-series-on-netflix/929806 "2021-01-12T03:51:03Z")
This just came out on Netflix-- my wife and I watched ep1, and I have to say, it was a goddamn delight. In a bit of inspired casting, Nicolas Cage hosts the show, sitting besuited in front of a fireplace, “Masterpiece T… --- ## [Star Trek Discovery Season 3 (Open Spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-3-open-spoilers/923007)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 230\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-discovery-season-3-open-spoilers/923007 "2021-01-12T01:24:42Z")
The sticky warns that spoilers should be avoided in the first six or seven lines of an OP because of the mouseover effect. So that was one line, here’s the second. And now a third. After three comes four. Five gol-de… --- ## [How often do Brits cook fry-up breakfasts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-brits-cook-fry-up-breakfasts/929153)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 113\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-brits-cook-fry-up-breakfasts/929153 "2021-01-12T01:17:40Z")
On any morning, how many households in the UK are, in fact, cooking a fry-up breakfast (tomatoes, eggs, sausage, bacon, potatoes, mushrooms, beans, blood pudding, bread, etc.)? Over 50 percent? Is it one of those “despi… --- ## [Did Fred ever threaten Wilma?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-fred-ever-threaten-wilma/929402)
**Author:** [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-fred-ever-threaten-wilma/929402 "2021-01-11T19:31:16Z")
Ralph often (although only in hyperbole) threatened Alice. Did Fred ever utter anything threatening, of a similar nature, to Wilma? My memory is that he did…but my memory has more errors in it than a bad baseball game… … --- ## [Mandarin Blush \[drink\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandarin-blush-drink/930269)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mandarin-blush-drink/930269 "2021-01-11T18:08:24Z")
This question was inspired by the new drink thread. Do any of you remember a drink called the “Mandarin Blush” that used to be served exclusively at Chili’s Restaurant? I really loved that drink. I even emailed them a… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=357) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=359)