# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=435 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 436 --- ## [The Outsider on HBO: Yet Another Stephen King Adaption](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-outsider-on-hbo-yet-another-stephen-king-adaption/846443)
**Author:** [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-outsider-on-hbo-yet-another-stephen-king-adaption/846443 "2020-03-10T23:05:12Z")
This is an adaption of the unofficial 4th book of the Bill Hodges trilogy. Its a murder mystery with a very unusual twist. While the first couple of episodes are atmospheric and well made, the acting is so low key as … --- ## [my deathbed song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-deathbed-song/849124)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-deathbed-song/849124 "2020-03-10T21:06:36Z")
I am 57 and hope to be around for another 20 years of more. I think back on the life I have lived so far and I have regrets but the one thing that has been the greatest pleasure in my life has been music. A few beers and… --- ## [Great episodes of terrible shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-episodes-of-terrible-shows/849151)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-episodes-of-terrible-shows/849151 "2020-03-10T20:56:33Z")
Since we’ve done the reverse, which terrible show had a great episode. #1 on my list is Just Shoot Me’s Slow Donnie. LOL hysterical. --- ## [Audiobook chapter lengths](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobook-chapter-lengths/789605)
**Author:** [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobook-chapter-lengths/789605 "2020-03-10T16:03:28Z")
I’ve been listening to audiobooks from my local library via OverDrive and OneClick, tried Scribd, and today found that TuneIn now has audiobooks. More often than not, it seems the chapter lengths are 3 - 6 minutes in le… --- ## [Need some new history books to read](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-new-history-books-to-read/848871)
**Author:** [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-new-history-books-to-read/848871 "2020-03-10T14:57:10Z")
I’m looking for some recommendations on history books. I’d prefer them to be on a narrow topic–in other words, not “World War II”, but some specific event or aspect I may not have read about before, not a general history… --- ## [Pete Buttigieg to Guest Host 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' 3/12/2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-buttigieg-to-guest-host-jimmy-kimmel-live-3-12-2020/849194)
**Author:** [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pete-buttigieg-to-guest-host-jimmy-kimmel-live-3-12-2020/849194 "2020-03-10T11:21:50Z")
Pete Buttigieg to Guest Host ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ I guess he’s currently unemployed and needs a new career. --- ## [Lots of Joe E Brown on TCM](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-joe-e-brown-on-tcm/849154)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lots-of-joe-e-brown-on-tcm/849154 "2020-03-10T00:57:08Z")
I know he was incredibly popular in his day, but he seems like more of a curiosity nowadays. Does he have any fans here who actually laugh at his material? --- ## [Doctor Who 2020 New Year Special (and current season)(Spoilers!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2020-new-year-special-and-current-season-spoilers/845763)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 200\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2020-new-year-special-and-current-season-spoilers/845763 "2020-03-09T21:26:13Z")
Well, that was fun! Stephen Fry makes amusing head of MI6 (should have used the Melchett voice), and after a moment, I recognized Lenny Henry (a man who has played the Doctor in non-canonical sketches) too. The new act… --- ## [Dolly Parton, Emmyllou Harris and Linda Rondstadt.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolly-parton-emmyllou-harris-and-linda-rondstadt/849129)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolly-parton-emmyllou-harris-and-linda-rondstadt/849129 "2020-03-09T19:55:57Z")
Emmylou started out as a folk singer, didn’t like country music until she met Graham Parsons. She and Linda didn’t know each other until they met on a Neil Young tour, so many other things I did not know. … --- ## [On storing leftover Jerk Shrimp kebabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-storing-leftover-jerk-shrimp-kebabs/849155)
**Author:** [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-storing-leftover-jerk-shrimp-kebabs/849155 "2020-03-09T17:07:16Z")
If there are pineapple chunks on the skewers, don’t store the shrimp and pineapple together. That is all. (My leftovers-for-lunch shrimp are mushy. I forgot that pineapple will cook the already cooked shrimp. :() --- ## [Favorite Phil Collins/Genesis song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-phil-collins-genesis-song/846322)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-phil-collins-genesis-song/846322 "2020-03-09T15:39:57Z")
So… I just started rediscovering Phil Collins. I use to think he was kind of a dick because of how he was depicted in South Park, (how Matt and Trey were talking about him at the Oscars on Conan - seemingly disapproving … --- ## [Do you think Baseball vs Football is still funny?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-baseball-vs-football-is-still-funny/849113)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-baseball-vs-football-is-still-funny/849113 "2020-03-09T14:15:56Z")
Yes! I think George Carlin is a genius and while I’ve heard baseball vs football at least 1000 times, I still find it amusing. Every now and then NBC shows the first episode of SNL and George delivers it on that show. A… --- ## [Nonbinary character on "Deputy"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonbinary-character-on-deputy/849039)
**Author:** [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonbinary-character-on-deputy/849039 "2020-03-09T02:19:46Z")
There’s a pretty good show, “Deputy”, currently airing. One of the characters came out last week as nonbinary, when previously they identified as a lesbian woman. They had a girlfriend in the show and everything seemed… --- ## [Your top-3 needle drops in movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-3-needle-drops-in-movies/848703)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-3-needle-drops-in-movies/848703 "2020-03-09T01:40:42Z")
An idea taken from “The Big Picture” podcast… what are the best uses of a song in movies? Rules: No list bots! In your initial post, please limit yourself to three entries. The needle drop has to be to a song (or piec… --- ## [Least pathetic fanbase](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-pathetic-fanbase/848346)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-pathetic-fanbase/848346 "2020-03-08T22:14:14Z")
Not sure if this thread belongs here or in IMHO, but I was talking with a colleague about fandom this week, and we seemed to come to the conclusion that (context of fictional works in books, film, TV) every fanbase we ca… --- ## [SXSW cancelled](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-cancelled/849034)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sxsw-cancelled/849034 "2020-03-08T20:51:51Z")
Austin declared a disaster so they pretty much had to cancel it. SXSW is canceled over coronavirus concerns | CNN Business --- ## [Bobbie Batista from CNN died at 67](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobbie-batista-from-cnn-died-at-67/848878)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobbie-batista-from-cnn-died-at-67/848878 "2020-03-08T18:33:15Z")
She started out as a news anchor here in Raleigh and was one of the first CNN headline news anchors in early 80s. For some reason she got to be real popular in Poland when on CNN International. She lived around … --- ## [Hardboiled egg shells are ruining my life](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardboiled-egg-shells-are-ruining-my-life/848757)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardboiled-egg-shells-are-ruining-my-life/848757 "2020-03-08T18:13:45Z")
I’ve been eating a lot of hard boiled eggs lately. Largely for extreme budgetary reasons. in the last 3 months, I’ve probably gone through a dozen dozens of them. In all that–and probably more–I have not a single one tha… --- ## [What's the funniest single panel cartoon you've ever seen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 304\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-funniest-single-panel-cartoon-youve-ever-seen/768531 "2020-03-08T16:21:24Z")
Here’s mine: An enormous favor It cracks me up every single time. \[sub\]which may say more about me than it says about humor, I admit\[/sub\] --- ## [BTVS question about Angel's re-ensoulment and Willow's turn to evil (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/btvs-question-about-angels-re-ensoulment-and-willows-turn-to-evil-open-spoilers/849080)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/btvs-question-about-angels-re-ensoulment-and-willows-turn-to-evil-open-spoilers/849080 "2020-03-08T13:13:38Z")
First some spoiler space. After all, every episode is somebody’s first… . . . . . . . .  I have been re-listening to season two of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” recently. As you might recall, Buffy’s vampire-with… --- ## [Chicken Sandwich Wars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-sandwich-wars/839136)
**Author:** [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-sandwich-wars/839136 "2020-03-08T06:27:44Z")
I’m surprised there isn’t already been a post on this. Popeye’s has started serving a chicken sandwich. There has been some back and forth between them, Chick-fil-a, and Wendy’s as to who has the best sandwich. We trie… --- ## [In search of video comparing castrato/male soprano/countertenor/boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-video-comparing-castrato-male-soprano-countertenor-boy/849014)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-video-comparing-castrato-male-soprano-countertenor-boy/849014 "2020-03-08T01:44:55Z")
Some years back, someone posted a video of 4 people standing beside each other, each singing a different passage of the same song, to demonstrate the different varieties of highest men’s voices. It wasn’t a montage, th… --- ## [McDonalds Cookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010)
**Author:** [@Jaclofo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaclofo)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010 "2020-03-08T01:03:08Z")
So I ordered some McDdonalds Chocolate Chip Cookies, which they had to “bake” due to being out of “fresh” cookies. The crew told me that it would take two minutes to make a new batch of cookies. I have been told this on … --- ## [Help identify an alt country male singer by my poor description of his songs!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-an-alt-country-male-singer-by-my-poor-description-of-his-songs/849064)
**Author:** [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-an-alt-country-male-singer-by-my-poor-description-of-his-songs/849064 "2020-03-07T22:57:32Z")
American, sounds southern. Anyone have it yet? Should I go on? I heard this album almost 2 years ago but don’t know how old it was then. The song I’m looking for was an uptempo shuffle heavily featuring a picked teleca… --- ## [Catastrophic culinary cockups](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catastrophic-culinary-cockups/848987)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catastrophic-culinary-cockups/848987 "2020-03-07T22:22:23Z")
I just made myself a drink. Vodka into Squirt–all right all right it’s all I had available. But since soda and juice have become way too concentratey to me since I started diluting everything with soda water, and I was o… --- ## [The Color Out of Space - 2019](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-color-out-of-space-2019/848800)
**Author:** [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-color-out-of-space-2019/848800 "2020-03-07T21:06:06Z")
So I watched the new Lovecraft reimagining this weekend, and I have to say I actually rather enjoyed it! Nic Cage chewing scenery, suitable Lovecraftian weird horror, all updated to modern times, and I think the choices… --- ## [Can Postmodern Architecture ever be timeless?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-postmodern-architecture-ever-be-timeless/848892)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-postmodern-architecture-ever-be-timeless/848892 "2020-03-07T15:21:18Z")
First, to be clear, I’m talking about the specific movement that came about as a reaction to the specific school called Modernism, and not the lay idea that postmodern means whatever is most recent. I watched pomo archi… --- ## [most real-world-influential song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-real-world-influential-song/848995)
**Author:** [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-real-world-influential-song/848995 "2020-03-07T15:02:48Z")
Much Euro-Western music has driven movements and emotions over time. The old DOXOLOGY, Martin Luther’s EIN FESTE BERG (A Mighty Fortress) and Julia Ward Howe’s BATTLE HYMN (of the Republic) as well as the MARSEILLAISE un… --- ## [AIRPLANE! vs. BLAZING SADDLES - Which is the funnier movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-vs-blazing-saddles-which-is-the-funnier-movie/848032)
**Author:** [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Replies:** 160\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-vs-blazing-saddles-which-is-the-funnier-movie/848032 "2020-03-07T03:10:39Z")
Sorry Mods - I needed a poll so I placed if here instead of CS. Pretty much what the thread title asks. Between these two movies, and only these two, which is the funnier movie? Yes, I know,other funny movies exist. You… --- ## [Anyone still getting Netflix DVDs/Blu Rays?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-getting-netflix-dvds-blu-rays/849013)
**Author:** [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-getting-netflix-dvds-blu-rays/849013 "2020-03-07T02:23:15Z")
Any Netflix subscribers still getting DVDs/Blu Rays in the mail? Due to the greater availability of titles I’ve gotten back to doing mail-order DVDs/Blu Rays. Do you think there’s any future in this service or is it fa… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=434) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=436)