# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=434 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 435 --- ## [Animated movie ID attempt.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-movie-id-attempt/849454)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-movie-id-attempt/849454 "2020-03-14T04:13:58Z")
I have only vague memories of this–I saw part of it it on MeTV or a similar OTA secondary digital channel network in the last 10 years or so and part of it one other time years earlier. Probably from the 60s or 70s. Sort… --- ## [So .... on Ridiculousness ...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-on-ridiculousness/849450)
**Author:** [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-on-ridiculousness/849450 "2020-03-14T02:26:28Z")
… what exactly is Steelo doing behind those pieces of red wood? I used to think he had a DVD player without a cover on it and he was spinning the DVDs with his fingers, but at 5400rpm (or 7200rpm) wouldn’t he have to sp… --- ## [Death Metal Inspires Joy, Not Violence](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-metal-inspires-joy-not-violence/849406)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-metal-inspires-joy-not-violence/849406 "2020-03-13T22:36:32Z")
The BBC shits all over a classic parental fear: The study in question’s TL;DR: And, the professors summarizing the summary, in the BBC article: --- ## [displaying my craft](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/displaying-my-craft/849291)
**Author:** [@shinnen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shinnen)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/displaying-my-craft/849291 "2020-03-13T20:38:17Z")
Hi, I’m looking for advice from someone who knows the ins and outs of posting one’s art or craft online. I used to have a site, many years ago, and am not sure it’s the way to go NOW. I make stick pins, and would like t… --- ## [Plague- or pandemic-themed movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plague-or-pandemic-themed-movies/849354)
**Author:** [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plague-or-pandemic-themed-movies/849354 "2020-03-13T11:42:32Z")
Supposing one wanted to entertain oneself while quarantined with nothing but films depicting plague- or pandemic-related scenarios. Make some suggestions for me. The Seventh Seal Love in the Time of Cholera Monty Pyth… --- ## [Does glass bakeware need to be seasoned?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-glass-bakeware-need-to-be-seasoned/849316)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-glass-bakeware-need-to-be-seasoned/849316 "2020-03-13T09:39:52Z")
I’ve been baking my own bread recently. I have two old glass breadpans: one hand me down, one resale. The baked bread just falls out of them, zero resistance. My sister bought me a third, new, so I would bake some for h… --- ## [Simpson's Hallowe'en Specials 'Noncanonical'.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-specials-noncanonical/849093)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-specials-noncanonical/849093 "2020-03-13T07:14:33Z")
I sometimes notice you Simpsons fan posters mention that their Hallowe’en specials are not canonical. Actually I am surprised none of you seem to know the reason why. They never age. So therefore it’s always the same ye… --- ## [Shows that were changed by executives.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-were-changed-by-executives/849170)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-that-were-changed-by-executives/849170 "2020-03-13T03:38:35Z")
Sometimes, a show can be changed by demands from the executives running the network the show airs on, usually in an attempt to make the show more appealing to audiences. TV Tropes calls this, “Executive Meddling”. When … --- ## [Do you think Who's on First is funny?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-whos-on-first-is-funny/849018)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-whos-on-first-is-funny/849018 "2020-03-13T00:04:12Z")
As a baseball fan, I’ve suffered through the foul smelling excrement that is the ‘comedy’ routine of Who’s on First. It sucks! Maybe I had to be there. Maybe comedy doesn’t age well. Regardless, it’s awful and I’m glad … --- ## [Soda (Coke?) commercial with mermaid, centaur, other creatures doing a focus group](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soda-coke-commercial-with-mermaid-centaur-other-creatures-doing-a-focus-group/849301)
**Author:** [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soda-coke-commercial-with-mermaid-centaur-other-creatures-doing-a-focus-group/849301 "2020-03-12T21:04:02Z")
Seen parts of it, very funny. What”s the product? Where can I find it online? --- ## [Anna Torv and Carrie Coon are the same person, right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-torv-and-carrie-coon-are-the-same-person-right/849229)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anna-torv-and-carrie-coon-are-the-same-person-right/849229 "2020-03-12T17:57:56Z")
Can anyone actually prove they’re not? --- ## [books in which a chapter could be a complete short story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-in-which-a-chapter-could-be-a-complete-short-story/848694)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-in-which-a-chapter-could-be-a-complete-short-story/848694 "2020-03-12T17:34:27Z")
A friend of mine recently brought up The Grapes of Wrath which I read a couple of times but years ago, anyway I thought of the chapter about used cars. Could stand alone. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. “Holy co… --- ## [Songs by women about other women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-women-about-other-women/830801)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-women-about-other-women/830801 "2020-03-12T16:05:25Z")
How many songs can you think of written by women in honor of other women? I got to thinking about this listening to the great song “Suddenly I See” by British singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. She sings of her admiration f… --- ## [I tried Coke Energy drink](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tried-coke-energy-drink/849306)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tried-coke-energy-drink/849306 "2020-03-12T14:20:12Z")
Seems to be Coke’s answer to Red Bull type drinks. I tried the zero sugar version and it tasted OK, mostly like diet coke. They add guarana and extra caffeine to it. I guess the guarana gives it a different taste… --- ## [Give me your best (or worst) drunk recipes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-your-best-or-worst-drunk-recipes/849012)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-your-best-or-worst-drunk-recipes/849012 "2020-03-12T11:47:18Z")
I am an old woman-- to old to be drunk cooking. And yet when a cousin came to visit us last week, we had a burger and beer blast laughing, drinking and eating delicious homemade burgers with sweated minced onions and gar… --- ## [Until the rivers dry up and the mountains fall down songs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/until-the-rivers-dry-up-and-the-mountains-fall-down-songs/849026)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/until-the-rivers-dry-up-and-the-mountains-fall-down-songs/849026 "2020-03-12T01:42:17Z")
A friend of mine brought up Kim Richey and the only song I have by her is Every River, covered by Brooks and Dunn. “I’m gonna love you until the stars fall from the sky” etc. Great song. Always reminds me of Pete Towns… --- ## [I'm making a pizza.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-making-a-pizza/849065)
**Author:** [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-making-a-pizza/849065 "2020-03-12T01:03:05Z")
Made the dough, autolyse flour for 30 minutes, rise for 2 hours, deflate, another 2, sauce is just San marzanos with salt and pepper, uncooked, thick cut pepperoni, and feta, along with the traditional mozz. Now the que… --- ## [How are these magic tricks done? Britian's Got Talent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-these-magic-tricks-done-britians-got-talent/849232)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-these-magic-tricks-done-britians-got-talent/849232 "2020-03-11T22:52:00Z")
Note: there are two tricks here, probably with different methods and results I know how many mentalist tricks are done. There is very often a complicated(sometimes insanely complicated) code in the spoken words of one t… --- ## [Recommend me an Android Music Player App](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-an-android-music-player-app/849241)
**Author:** [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-an-android-music-player-app/849241 "2020-03-11T20:39:28Z")
I have Pulsar on my phone, and while it works fine for playing albums, it is missing some stuff I’d like to have. Since I got a new car without a CD player having an app I can listen to in the car using Bluetooth is more… --- ## [Buffy "Go Fish"--eat or rape?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buffy-go-fish-eat-or-rape/849296)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buffy-go-fish-eat-or-rape/849296 "2020-03-11T20:08:11Z")
I am in the midst of a full Buffy rewatch for the first time in several years, and just finished 2x20, Go Fish. Near the end, the coach pushes the school nurse who was having second thoughts into the well with the Creatu… --- ## [What Did Jack Do? Funny or just weird?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-jack-do-funny-or-just-weird/848861)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-jack-do-funny-or-just-weird/848861 "2020-03-11T17:52:17Z")
A friend recently suggested I watch the short film What Did Jack Do? It is a 17 minute film by David Lynch, available on Netflix. My buddy described it as hilarious - and weird. I made it through about 7 minutes befor… --- ## [McMillions on HBO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcmillions-on-hbo/847620)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcmillions-on-hbo/847620 "2020-03-11T14:46:11Z")
Documentary in 6 parts on how McD monopoly game was a scam from 1989 to 2001. Small group won all the big money. Very good show. Mondays at 10. This Sunday is part 2. --- ## [PSA: you can't make it better and cheaper at home.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-you-cant-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/848148)
**Author:** [@Calavera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calavera)\ **Replies:** 162\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-you-cant-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/848148 "2020-03-11T13:28:48Z")
OK there may be a couple of outliers here, but virtually all of you who think you’re the outliers are not, you’re just deluded. You can’t make it “better” and “cheaper” at home. You say you can make it “better”, most of… --- ## [Favorite Actor Who Was Never In A GREAT Movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-actor-who-was-never-in-a-great-movie/848980)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-actor-who-was-never-in-a-great-movie/848980 "2020-03-11T07:36:29Z")
James Cagney Again, your favorite, and movies you consider great… He was in many good films, a lot of 80 minute manufactured quickies, but a GREAT movie? --- ## [Yet again life imitates William Gibson](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-life-imitates-william-gibson/849037)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-life-imitates-william-gibson/849037 "2020-03-11T05:14:49Z")
If you recall, in one of William Gibson’s books, people wanted to get custom eyes to match those of internet star Tally Isham. Well, you can’t get whole custom eyes yet, but we are getting there. (An earlier instance, o… --- ## [Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger" is one of the greatest "concept" albums of all time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willie-nelsons-red-headed-stranger-is-one-of-the-greatest-concept-albums-of-all-time/849091)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willie-nelsons-red-headed-stranger-is-one-of-the-greatest-concept-albums-of-all-time/849091 "2020-03-11T04:54:07Z")
And there is Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. Love is like a dying ember and only memories remain and all through the ages I will remember blue eyes crying in the rain. Love me some Willie. --- ## [RIP Max von Sydow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-max-von-sydow/849148)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-max-von-sydow/849148 "2020-03-11T04:53:52Z")
Actor Max von Sydow, the title character in The Exorcist, has died at 90. --- ## [RIP Earl Pomerantz](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-earl-pomerantz/849197)
**Author:** [@AlTraina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlTraina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-earl-pomerantz/849197 "2020-03-10T10:18:53Z")
The former co-executive producer of The Cosby Show and writer on Mary Tyler Moore, The Bob Newhart Show, and Taxi died Saturday at 75. His brother Hart was the former partner of Lorne Michaels pre-SNL. --- ## [So...there's this. I guess.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-this-i-guess/849134)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-this-i-guess/849134 "2020-03-11T02:03:53Z")
Swing-y This is what I imagine the lifestyle of most Dopers to be. --- ## [Shows disappearing from Amazon Prime/Netflix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-disappearing-from-amazon-prime-netflix/849208)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-disappearing-from-amazon-prime-netflix/849208 "2020-03-11T01:16:16Z")
A couple of times my wife and I have gotten into streaming shows, only to have them suddenly disappear from Amazon/Netflix. (IIRC, Californication - Netflix and Boston Legal - Amazon) In neither case do I recall seeing… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=433) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=435)