# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=427 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 428 --- ## [Albums that were recorded at the same time at the same studio/complex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-were-recorded-at-the-same-time-at-the-same-studio-complex/851159)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-were-recorded-at-the-same-time-at-the-same-studio-complex/851159 "2020-04-07T06:47:54Z")
I remember from Nick Mason’s Pink Floyd memoirs that “Sergeant Pepper’s” and “The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn” were recorded door to door at Abbey Road Studios and that the guys met each other on the corridors from time t… --- ## [Paradise Lost 3 Documentary (West Memphis 3)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paradise-lost-3-documentary-west-memphis-3/527209)
**Author:** [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paradise-lost-3-documentary-west-memphis-3/527209 "2020-04-07T04:42:35Z")
Paradise Lost 3 is in post-production (for Spring 2010 release, per directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, who also directed the first two Paradise Lost documentaries). For those unfamiliar with the West Memphis 3 … --- ## [RIP Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-honor-blackman-pussy-galore/851201)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-honor-blackman-pussy-galore/851201 "2020-04-07T04:35:19Z")
James Bond actress Honor Blackman dies aged 94 ‘In a statement, her family said she died peacefully of natural causes at home in Lewes, East Sussex.’ --- ## [So long, Pussy -- Honor Blackman Dies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-pussy-honor-blackman-dies/851226)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-pussy-honor-blackman-dies/851226 "2020-04-06T23:21:22Z")
I should never have started that Avengers/Bond CRossover thread. i’m a proven jinx. Farewell Cathy Gale, Pussy Galore, Hera, and Lady on the Titantic. --- ## [Being Erica - Anyone else watch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-erica-anyone-else-watch/569430)
**Author:** [@atlantic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atlantic)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/being-erica-anyone-else-watch/569430 "2020-04-06T21:16:06Z")
I discovered this show while watching Beverly Hills, 90210 reruns on the soap network. Season 3 just started here in the US and I was wondering if anyone else watched and what your opinions were of the show. My husband… --- ## [Worst Movie By Your Favorite Director?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-by-your-favorite-director/850441)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-by-your-favorite-director/850441 "2020-04-06T20:10:35Z")
Vittorio De Sica - Indiscretion of an American Wife --- ## [Dark chocolate ice cream recipe?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-ice-cream-recipe/851149)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-ice-cream-recipe/851149 "2020-04-06T19:16:37Z")
I’d like to make chocolate ice cream, but I want it dark, not like the “milk chocolate” color, or flavor, one usually gets. Don’t get me wrong, I love that too. What I want is like the difference between the lighter ch… --- ## [Huge hit singles that were much better than you feared](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-hit-singles-that-were-much-better-than-you-feared/851209)
**Author:** [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-hit-singles-that-were-much-better-than-you-feared/851209 "2020-04-06T18:53:07Z")
Inspired by – and as a kind of antidote to – RickJay’s thread on awful number one hit singles - how about a list of pleasant surprises? Once in a while a song you thought was going to be terrible turns out much better th… --- ## [Keeping Ron Swanson likeable](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-ron-swanson-likeable/851146)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-ron-swanson-likeable/851146 "2020-04-06T17:34:42Z")
I was thinking about how Ron Swanson would react to certain things (such as these days) and realized keeping him true to anti-govt Libertarianism and keeping him likeable in a current environment would be a challenge. I… --- ## [Scotch whisky](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotch-whisky/850495)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotch-whisky/850495 "2020-04-06T15:25:56Z")
I went to a Renaissance Faire sometime back in the… late-80s? Someone shared a swig of 10-year-old Laphroaig. I fell in love with it. For many years, it was my preferred scotch. As I grew older, I got invited to fewe… --- ## [Milking the Soy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-soy/851101)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-soy/851101 "2020-04-06T14:06:20Z")
I have a soymilk maker and it has been tucked away for some time. With milk availability problems, it seemed like a good idea to haul it out and start milking the soy again. My previous soymilk adventures included a mag… --- ## [Name that Mystery Film!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-mystery-film/851078)
**Author:** [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-mystery-film/851078 "2020-04-06T04:14:54Z")
Yep, it’s another one of those. I saw it in the late 80s-early 90s at an art house cinema. (God, I miss those.) It takes place in the plagues of yore in a coal-mining community in England. For some reason the desperate … --- ## [Most Misunderstood Artists?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misunderstood-artists/851000)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-misunderstood-artists/851000 "2020-04-06T03:50:34Z")
I would choose Jim Morrison. Some people confuse some silly movie, or a bad source, and then pass it along as fact, and when many people accept it, its hard for them to break that pattern of thinking, especially if someo… --- ## [Google Doodle Wants You to Stay at Home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-wants-you-to-stay-at-home/851167)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-doodle-wants-you-to-stay-at-home/851167 "2020-04-06T03:36:46Z")
Since 4 April 2020, Google has had this doodle on their main search page. I don’t know how long they plan on leaving it up. It’s simple, to the point, and kind of cute. --- ## [Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine" cover...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-withers-aint-no-sunshine-cover/851160)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-withers-aint-no-sunshine-cover/851160 "2020-04-06T02:42:16Z")
Elise LeGrow --- ## [Help me remember a movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-movie/851157)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-movie/851157 "2020-04-06T01:30:13Z")
All I remember is that there was a rookie cop with an experienced one, and when the newbie started reading the Miranda rights, the experienced one screwed him up by including “stowed securely in an overhead bin.” Anyone… --- ## [RIP Adam Schlesinger, damn it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-adam-schlesinger-damn-it/850840)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-adam-schlesinger-damn-it/850840 "2020-04-05T18:54:35Z")
One of the cleverest and most versatile songwriters, from Fountains of Wayne --- ## [Real World Bass-O-Matic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-world-bass-o-matic/851132)
**Author:** [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-world-bass-o-matic/851132 "2020-04-05T16:29:17Z")
A month ago I picked up a couple of cans of jack mackeral for my pandemic pantry. I’m tempted to puree the contents and see if it works as a high-nutrient soup base, or (with vegetables and spices) as a sauce for rice or… --- ## [Without looking it up, how many Oscar nominees have been in Marvel films?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-how-many-oscar-nominees-have-been-in-marvel-films/686700)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-how-many-oscar-nominees-have-been-in-marvel-films/686700 "2020-04-05T15:13:18Z")
Off the top of my head: Robert Downey Jr. Ben Affleck Robert Redford Samuel Jackson Jennifer Lawrence Halle Berry Natalie Portman Anthony Hopkins Nicholas Cage Don Cheadle Then there’s a \*\*\*\*load I’m not 100% … --- ## [COVID-19 v Otis Lee Crenshaw on a TKO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-v-otis-lee-crenshaw-on-a-tko/851121)
**Author:** [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-19-v-otis-lee-crenshaw-on-a-tko/851121 "2020-04-05T10:15:31Z")
The three males in the PT clan were going to have a evening of raucous entertainment in a few weeks time courtesy of the mastery of Rich Hall. Not exactly a surprise, and in the circumstances it would be profoundly ungr… --- ## [Benny Goodman - Bach Goes To Town - common riff?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benny-goodman-bach-goes-to-town-common-riff/851109)
**Author:** [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benny-goodman-bach-goes-to-town-common-riff/851109 "2020-04-05T05:01:05Z")
Goodman’s recording of this piece (actually just the last half) by Alec Templeton was very popular. Benny Goodman - Bach goes to Town - YouTube My question is about the clarinet’s opening notes. Was that a common riff? … --- ## [How's the Republic of Gilead handling Covid19?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-republic-of-gilead-handling-covid19/851083)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-republic-of-gilead-handling-covid19/851083 "2020-04-05T04:30:59Z")
Since the TV series seems to be set in a parallel universe rather than the future the Covid19 pandemic could be happening at the same time as real life. So how would the Gileadean authorities handle it? On hand Gilead … --- ## [Your pandemic playlist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pandemic-playlist/849448)
**Author:** [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pandemic-playlist/849448 "2020-04-05T02:48:18Z")
What, no thread yet? Y’all must be standing in line to buy toilet paper. Post songs for your pandemic playlist, preferably with a link! --- ## [Late night talk shows in the age of social distancing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-talk-shows-in-the-age-of-social-distancing/850975)
**Author:** [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-talk-shows-in-the-age-of-social-distancing/850975 "2020-04-05T02:25:04Z")
Do any of you regularly watch any of the late night talk shows (The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, etc)? Normally, I watch The Late Show, The Daily Show and Conan O’Brien… --- ## [Khadaji's Whatcha Reading Thread - March 2020 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-reading-thread-march-2020-edition/848690)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-reading-thread-march-2020-edition/848690 "2020-04-05T01:02:34Z")
Is that spring I see? Not according to the National weather service which is predicting snow this weekend sigh Okay, I’ll stay in and read… Currently, my list on Goodreads is… well, long. But I’m aiming to finish these… --- ## [Xkcd 04-03-20](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-04-03-20/850971)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-04-03-20/850971 "2020-04-04T23:18:00Z")
Another click and drag strip: Although I’m not sure I get the point. Various memes mixed with cutouts from the strip, repeated at random? If there’s something clever here, I’m whooshed. --- ## [Gram Parsons' "$1000 Dollar Wedding"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gram-parsons-1000-dollar-wedding/850901)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gram-parsons-1000-dollar-wedding/850901 "2020-04-04T21:44:43Z")
“$1000 Dollar Wedding” is one of the highlights of Gram Parsons’ posthumous album “Grievous Angel” from 1974, but he had written the song quite some years before. There exists a piano demo from around 1967 that has been … --- ## [What do you watch on Disney+?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-watch-on-disney/850061)
**Author:** [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-watch-on-disney/850061 "2020-04-04T18:14:45Z")
When it came out, I decided I wasn’t interested, but I could use some warm and familiar cartoony nostalgia right now, so I’m considering it. I’m very much on the fence, though- $6.99/month isn’t much and I do have a kid… --- ## [Ain't No Sunshine. RIP Bill Withers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-no-sunshine-rip-bill-withers/850964)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-no-sunshine-rip-bill-withers/850964 "2020-04-04T07:18:28Z")
Damn. I just heard about this and it was devastating. --- ## [Blending makes yogurt salad dressing too runny](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blending-makes-yogurt-salad-dressing-too-runny/850969)
**Author:** [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blending-makes-yogurt-salad-dressing-too-runny/850969 "2020-04-04T07:09:10Z")
I’ve been making a yogurt-based dressing that comes out very runny when I take a stick blender to it. If I chop the ingredients fine and mix them together the thickness stays about the same as the yogurt. The thinning is… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=426) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=428)