# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=497 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 498 --- ## [Art Neville has died at 81](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-neville-has-died-at-81/837481)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-neville-has-died-at-81/837481 "2019-07-23T21:50:56Z")
Art Neville was the creator of the Neville Brothers group and was a fixture in the New Orleans music scene for a long time. Article. --- ## [Sweet 70s Soul/R&B/Blues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-70s-soul-r-b-blues/837420)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-70s-soul-r-b-blues/837420 "2019-07-23T21:33:40Z")
I’m putting together a playlist. I need 70s soulful crooners with a romantic spin. It’s a LARP thing with a 1975 or so club vibe. Low, slow and not raucous. What do you got, my fellow babies? --- ## [continutiy error or plot hole in Goodfellas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continutiy-error-or-plot-hole-in-goodfellas/837418)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continutiy-error-or-plot-hole-in-goodfellas/837418 "2019-07-23T21:20:42Z")
I don’t think this quite qualifies for either category, but remember the scene where they go to the restuarant and Morrie is going to get whacked, and Jimmy calls it off and Henry in the narration says, “He never realize… --- ## [Tvtropes: 'reinvented' tactics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvtropes-reinvented-tactics/837371)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvtropes-reinvented-tactics/837371 "2019-07-23T15:14:17Z")
I can’t find if tvtropes has a page for this one. I’d be really surprised if they don’t. Hero is a Fish out of Temporal Water but with an addition. He gets involved in a future war, and ‘invents’ tactics of a war that’s… --- ## [If a book/movie character lived to great age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-book-movie-character-lived-to-great-age/837390)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-book-movie-character-lived-to-great-age/837390 "2019-07-23T12:56:13Z")
When we read a book, and come to the end, or watch a period piece movie, and see the end credits roll, the characters we have experienced tend to stay there in our minds, in the past. But if they are young enough, and l… --- ## [What are some horror books set mainly in one building?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-horror-books-set-mainly-in-one-building/837417)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-horror-books-set-mainly-in-one-building/837417 "2019-07-23T11:55:39Z")
What are some examples of some horror books set in a single building? I’m interested in things like a mall, theater, skyscraper, or maybe a large mansion, but not an ordinary house. I’m also not interested in any books… --- ## [This generation's cartoon.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-generations-cartoon/837012)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-generations-cartoon/837012 "2019-07-23T11:30:34Z")
Every generation has their own cartoon. Boomers: Looney Tunes. Gen Xers: Simpsons. Millennials: Spongebob. What is the cartoon for Zoomers? Maybe Adventure Time? --- ## [Utterly insane take on comic strip characters: Weapon Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-insane-take-on-comic-strip-characters-weapon-brown/837404)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-insane-take-on-comic-strip-characters-weapon-brown/837404 "2019-07-23T03:03:03Z")
So let’s say that you have your typical post-apocalyptic story: a ruined America, a hard-as-flint mercenary anti-hero, evil corporations and their doom troops, a underground of good guys, a MacGuffin that can save (or de… --- ## [Spider-Man Homecoming - Seen It (spoilers allowed)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-man-homecoming-seen-it-spoilers-allowed/790587)
**Author:** [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Replies:** 138\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-man-homecoming-seen-it-spoilers-allowed/790587 "2019-07-23T00:57:43Z")
I guess I should leave some spoiler space so the first paragraph will not reveal anything plot specific. There have been rather too many Spider-Man movies in the last 15 years. I really enjoyed the Tobey Maguire, Sam Ra… --- ## [Recommend more music like the Faces?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-more-music-like-the-faces/798391)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-more-music-like-the-faces/798391 "2019-07-22T23:50:54Z")
I’ve been listening to the Faces’ box set Five Guys Walk Into a Bar. I love their loose tinny combination of acoustic and electric guitars, piano, and organ. It feels very warm and cozy and like guys in a comfortable cof… --- ## [The Perfection, thriller on Netflix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfection-thriller-on-netflix/834672)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-perfection-thriller-on-netflix/834672 "2019-07-22T22:56:21Z")
No spoilers as this has only been released for 4 days on Netflix. Essentially a bizarre movie about a young cello prodigy, played by Allison Williams (known for HBO’s Girls, and Jordan Peele’s Get Out) whose career was … --- ## [Can Avengers: Endgame get to $300 million domestic this weekend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-avengers-endgame-get-to-300-million-domestic-this-weekend/833000)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Replies:** 141\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-avengers-endgame-get-to-300-million-domestic-this-weekend/833000 "2019-07-22T19:05:09Z")
It’s never been done before. According to BoxOfficeMojo it’s opening on 4400 locations this weekend. That would be $68,181.82 per location. But there’s locations and there’s locations. So places have it playing 100 t… --- ## [Where’s this joke from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-s-this-joke-from/837462)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-s-this-joke-from/837462 "2019-07-22T17:33:24Z")
I’ve been watching the latest season of Comedians in Cars getting Coffee. In one episode Ricky Gervais tell a joke, but he can’t remember the source: A holocaust survivor dies and goes to heaven. When he arrives, he t… --- ## [Paul Krassner, Father of Underground Press (1932-2019)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-krassner-father-of-underground-press-1932-2019/837444)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-krassner-father-of-underground-press-1932-2019/837444 "2019-07-22T16:41:13Z")
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/paul-krassner-investigative-satirist-writer-and-radio-host-dies I used to talk to him off and on for years… We’d always talk Mort Sahl. The crazy, crazy thing, is someone o… --- ## [Did The Avengers rip off The Avengers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-avengers-rip-off-the-avengers/662401)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-avengers-rip-off-the-avengers/662401 "2019-07-22T14:43:52Z")
Somebody mentioned in passing in another thread that The Avengers (the American superhero group) ripped off the name of The Avengers (the British television series). Is this true? Or, if not provably true, is it a long-s… --- ## [Songs that use city names as a rhyme (and is there one for every state?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-use-city-names-as-a-rhyme-and-is-there-one-for-every-state/723629)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 216\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-use-city-names-as-a-rhyme-and-is-there-one-for-every-state/723629 "2019-07-22T13:18:22Z")
This came up in a discussion about the terrorist trial in Boston, leading to a discussion of songs about Boston, further leading to the song Sweet Baby James: Now the first of December was covered with snow and so was … --- ## [Old songs that you know](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-songs-that-you-know/837308)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-songs-that-you-know/837308 "2019-07-22T02:39:45Z")
My \[del\]be-loved\[/del\] be-tolerated flip phone finally died and my kids were \[del\]unwilling\[/del\] unable to find the two spares I have, though I told them exactly where they are, so I was forced to enter the Teens with… --- ## [Here's Why I Don't Own A Sodastream](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-why-i-dont-own-a-sodastream/836734)
**Author:** [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-why-i-dont-own-a-sodastream/836734 "2019-07-22T02:05:48Z")
For inquiring minds, a Sodastreamis a way of carbonating things like water and juice to avoid all the sugar. However. My friends have one and despite the copious warnings in the manual carbonating vodka works… It was a… --- ## [Covers you would have liked to hear from artists who have left us](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covers-you-would-have-liked-to-hear-from-artists-who-have-left-us/837119)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covers-you-would-have-liked-to-hear-from-artists-who-have-left-us/837119 "2019-07-21T22:57:04Z")
I’ve been listening to a lot of songs from The Carpenters lately, and it occurred to me that their production style, and particularly Karen’s voice, would have been well-suited to cover “A Whole New World” from Aladdin. … --- ## [Things I learned Over the Weekend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-over-the-weekend/837122)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-over-the-weekend/837122 "2019-07-21T17:57:23Z")
I picked up a couple of books at ReaderCon over the weekend. Although I learned quite a few things at the Con itself, I stumbled across a couple of interesting things I was unaware of in the books: 1.) The first person … --- ## [007 will be played by a Black actress](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/007-will-be-played-by-a-black-actress/837078)
**Author:** [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Replies:** 189\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/007-will-be-played-by-a-black-actress/837078 "2019-07-21T16:51:39Z")
Bond will be played by actress Lashana Lynch and there will be a passing of the baton to the actress in Bond 25. Phoebe Waller Bridge was hired to write the script for James Bond and was tasked with revamping Bond to ma… --- ## [Tom Jones; surprising.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-jones-surprising/837038)
**Author:** [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-jones-surprising/837038 "2019-07-21T09:38:25Z")
I’m not at a Tom Jones concert right now, but my housing complex has the quirky acoustics which channel to me the PA of the nearby cricket ground where he’s performing, right now. And he’s as dark and bluesie as anythin… --- ## [Star Ship theme songs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310)
**Author:** [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-ship-theme-songs/837310 "2019-07-21T04:49:53Z")
Star ship theme songs: USS Enterprise Star Trek: The Motion Picture • Main Theme • Jerry Goldsmith - YouTube Death Star Does the TARDIS count as a spaceship? Others? --- ## [Picard's dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picards-dog/836971)
**Author:** [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picards-dog/836971 "2019-07-21T03:42:57Z")
The first poster for the new CBS All-Access series Star Trek: Picard has been released. It shows Jean-Luc Picard standing in his vineyard with a Staffordshire terrier at his side. According to reports, the dog’s name … --- ## [ID This Comedian, Please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedian-please/836754)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedian-please/836754 "2019-07-20T23:15:59Z")
We’ve been watching Johnny Carson reruns. I think this one aired in the 1980s. There was a stand-up comedian pitching his routine on Carson one night, but they never said his name as best we recall. But, maybe someone kn… --- ## [Rounding 1st base and headed for 2nd.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rounding-1st-base-and-headed-for-2nd/837271)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rounding-1st-base-and-headed-for-2nd/837271 "2019-07-20T22:20:03Z")
Everyone who’s been on a date knows about the “bases”. Well, I’m a fan of some comic strips that refer to dating activity and am trying to connect them to the “bases”. In Calvin and Hobbes, Hobbes spoke fondly of “Smooc… --- ## [Have any Fanfiction users had issues with alerts/notifications lately?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-fanfiction-users-had-issues-with-alerts-notifications-lately/837367)
**Author:** [@Mislav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mislav)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-fanfiction-users-had-issues-with-alerts-notifications-lately/837367 "2019-07-20T21:08:00Z")
I can see new pms and reviews on Fanfiction.net, but I haven’t received any alerts to my gmail account. I first noticed that a few hours ago. Both gmail and fanfiction work fine otherwise. Anyone else having similar issu… --- ## [New Jay and Silent Bob movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-jay-and-silent-bob-movie/837327)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-jay-and-silent-bob-movie/837327 "2019-07-20T20:03:46Z")
The trailer for Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is up online (it’s a red band trailer so NSFW). I’m a big Kevin Smith fan but I have mixed feelings. Smith has already retired the characters twice. Bringing them back a third … --- ## [I'm watching Cats for the first time and....wow, this is strange.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-watching-cats-for-the-first-time-and-wow-this-is-strange/820726)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-watching-cats-for-the-first-time-and-wow-this-is-strange/820726 "2019-07-20T19:20:09Z")
No, I mean it is stranger than you expect if you haven’t seen it. I picked up the DVD of this show forever ago(like…15 years ago). I never put it in. However, I love the following musicals: Phantom of the Opera Les M… --- ## [That Old Song And Dance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-old-song-and-dance/835018 "2019-07-20T17:47:55Z")
The topic is songs about dancers, and I will not lead off That Song By Elton John, but rather with ABBA’s Nina, Pretty Ballerina(1973). Next? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=496) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=498)