# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=528 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 529 --- ## [Bands with self-titled tracks.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-self-titled-tracks/831459)
**Author:** [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-self-titled-tracks/831459 "2019-04-02T12:11:52Z")
Black Sabbath had the song “Black Sabbath” (from the album Black Sabbath.) Who else had a track that was simply the band’s name? --- ## [What is that object on the wall of Leonard's apartment in the Big Bang Theory?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-object-on-the-wall-of-leonards-apartment-in-the-big-bang-theory/831817)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-object-on-the-wall-of-leonards-apartment-in-the-big-bang-theory/831817 "2019-04-02T11:48:37Z")
I’m sure it’s something nerdy, but after watching the show for more than a decade I’m still stumped. I am referring to the vertical object on the wall, seen in this photo on the far right just above Penny’s left shoulde… --- ## [whats the worst "classic " book/author you read or tried to read](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-classic-book-author-you-read-or-tried-to-read/831440)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 255\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-classic-book-author-you-read-or-tried-to-read/831440 "2019-04-01T20:33:48Z")
in this thread, someone finished a Dickens book after a few attempts and it went off topic to how bad the classics are https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=872850 whats yours? mine that i read was g… --- ## [Best baked potatoes (need answers kinda soon)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-baked-potatoes-need-answers-kinda-soon/829855)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-baked-potatoes-need-answers-kinda-soon/829855 "2019-04-01T18:51:57Z")
I’m grilling steaks tonight on our Wever charcoal grill (yeah, it 26F out what’s your point?!) and need to determine what’s the best way to cook baked potatoes. Normally I just put three big baking potatoes in the microw… --- ## [Law & Order SVU; Longest-running drama on TV](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-svu-longest-running-drama-on-tv/831758)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-order-svu-longest-running-drama-on-tv/831758 "2019-04-01T18:23:45Z")
The show has just been renewed for season twenty-one. I have never seen thirty seconds of it. --- ## [Freezing Pork Loin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freezing-pork-loin/831004)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freezing-pork-loin/831004 "2019-04-01T17:38:57Z")
Our local Giant Eagle had an ad for pork loin at a really great price. I stopped to buy one and saw that they were huge, like three and a half feet long pork loins, but the price was just too good to pass up. I’m planni… --- ## ["This is Us" dialog question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-dialog-question/831741)
**Author:** [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-dialog-question/831741 "2019-04-01T13:54:35Z")
This week was a good episode of “This Is Us”. And there was a quote that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s when Randall was asking Beth to marry him - “And I don’t want to do life without you.” Is there any possible w… --- ## [Urban Biography Book Recommendations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-biography-book-recommendations/831731)
**Author:** [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-biography-book-recommendations/831731 "2019-04-01T13:47:57Z")
I THINK that is the genre I am looking for…let me explain: I have found three books recently which are about their respective cities during a particular time: Detroit circa 1962-3 in “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Sto… --- ## [Question about rock's "Three B's" (Bob, Bruce & Billy)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-rocks-three-bs-bob-bruce-billy/831608)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-rocks-three-bs-bob-bruce-billy/831608 "2019-04-01T12:56:12Z")
Just to clarify, that’s Dylan, Springsteen & Joel Which one do you think… is the best songwriter? is the best singer? is the best musician? --- ## [Netflix better cartoons than CN, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-better-cartoons-than-cn-nickelodeon-and-disney-channel/831834)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-better-cartoons-than-cn-nickelodeon-and-disney-channel/831834 "2019-04-01T04:48:18Z")
This is just IMO, but Netflix has been putting out better cartoons than CN, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel these days. Dragon Prince and Hilda are better than most of the content the big 3 have been churning out lately. … --- ## [What are the instruments in this song? \[Siren, theme to Home Fires\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-instruments-in-this-song-siren-theme-to-home-fires/831833)
**Author:** [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-instruments-in-this-song-siren-theme-to-home-fires/831833 "2019-04-01T02:27:53Z")
I’ve been listening to this song almost obsessively, trying to figure out all the instruments used in it\[sup\]1\[/sup\]. The song is performed by Synergy Vocals and multi-tracked so that each of the four women sing all four… --- ## [Happy!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy/831737)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy/831737 "2019-03-31T23:45:05Z")
The first episode of season 2 of Happy! aired a couple of days ago. Anyone else watching/watched season 1? (I tried to look for CS posts with “happy” in the subject line, but search is broken.) --- ## [Khadaji's Whatcha Reading Thread--March 2019 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-reading-thread-march-2019-edition/830465)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-reading-thread-march-2019-edition/830465 "2019-03-31T22:47:06Z")
March…can we just have spring already? For those of us up in the Northern Hemisphere this winter has been damn cold… and I’m not even in the path of the Polar Vortex. On the upside my daffodills are coming up… to snow.… --- ## [What is this thing on the Enterprise D bridge?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-thing-on-the-enterprise-d-bridge/831795)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-thing-on-the-enterprise-d-bridge/831795 "2019-03-31T20:32:33Z")
It’s on the walls, there’s one each side. It’s a rectangular grid of smaller rectangles. Each of the smaller rectangles has a light on it that is sometimes on, sometimes off and somet… --- ## [Naive Nicolas Cage Conned into Marriage; Seeks Annulment after Four Days](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naive-nicolas-cage-conned-into-marriage-seeks-annulment-after-four-days/831752)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naive-nicolas-cage-conned-into-marriage-seeks-annulment-after-four-days/831752 "2019-03-31T20:16:03Z")
This vaguely reminds me of movies I’ve seen before (nothing current–probably 1940s to 1960s). Anything come to mind? --- ## [Was Rembrandt left or right handed? (better in GQ?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-rembrandt-left-or-right-handed-better-in-gq/831819)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-rembrandt-left-or-right-handed-better-in-gq/831819 "2019-03-31T20:11:15Z")
Do we know for sure if he painted with his right or left hand? A self-portrait I saw yesterday makes me wonder. --- ## [Tell me about the missing black keys on a piano.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-missing-black-keys-on-a-piano/482464)
**Author:** [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-missing-black-keys-on-a-piano/482464 "2019-03-31T14:48:01Z")
I don’t know jack about music (as you might have already guessed from the title). In a piano, there are black keys in between the whites. Why aren’t there black keys in between all the whites? How are those tones not de… --- ## [Trivial, yet controversial views (What are yours)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 210\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196 "2019-03-31T01:05:32Z")
“Try acting dear boy.”. Laurence without that accent, you’re Tyrone Power or somebody. Not too shabby, but a lot of people are still going to say ‘who’? Meanwhile Dustin has reeled off a hell of a career. Try not dying… --- ## [Literary Geography](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-geography/831533)
**Author:** [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-geography/831533 "2019-03-30T19:56:21Z")
Having previously avoided all the Rebus novels and TV adaptations, I’ve just finished Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close. Which I liked both for its general style and plotting, but also for what I’d always realised: the Edin… --- ## [Park and Rec and the govt. forbidding inter-office romances](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/park-and-rec-and-the-govt-forbidding-inter-office-romances/831581)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/park-and-rec-and-the-govt-forbidding-inter-office-romances/831581 "2019-03-30T19:55:59Z")
Man…the notion of enacting a policy of no dating sure seems anti-ethical. Lets not get into the reasons why its there. I’m well-versed. Every link I looked at to determine whether or not its strictly legal had tons of in… --- ## [Penn & Teller: Fool Us (season 5)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penn-teller-fool-us-season-5/816662)
**Author:** [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Replies:** 247\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penn-teller-fool-us-season-5/816662 "2019-03-30T16:01:15Z")
The fifth U.S. season of Penn & Teller: Fool Us debuts at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on Monday June 25, 2018 on The CW network. Alyson Hannigan resumes hosting duties. This year a number of previously successful “foolers” will be… --- ## [Agnès Varda, Influential French New Wave Filmmaker, Dies at 90](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnes-varda-influential-french-new-wave-filmmaker-dies-at-90/831773)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agnes-varda-influential-french-new-wave-filmmaker-dies-at-90/831773 "2019-03-30T15:37:57Z")
Agnès Varda, Influential French New Wave Filmmaker, Dies at 90 I know Agnès Varda from Vagabond, which I saw on the big screen when it came out. I had the movie poster in my apartment. --- ## [How important are actors to you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-are-actors-to-you/831568)
**Author:** [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-are-actors-to-you/831568 "2019-03-30T14:39:21Z")
When I decide about a movie, I look at the genre first, then director, then reviews, then trailer, and if I am at exactly 50/50 will consider whether I like the lead actor or actress. Obviously some of the big stars act … --- ## [Songs about a specific year.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-a-specific-year/831496)
**Author:** [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-a-specific-year/831496 "2019-03-30T13:31:03Z")
Back in 2013 there was a thread called, “Name a song that mentions a specific year in its lyrics.” I would like a list of something a bit narrower: songs where the entire subject matter is about a specific year. (I would… --- ## [Looking for a Muslim-friendly printing of Gibran's The Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-muslim-friendly-printing-of-gibrans-the-prophet/831746)
**Author:** [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-muslim-friendly-printing-of-gibrans-the-prophet/831746 "2019-03-30T09:39:11Z")
It’s for my young Yemeni-American friend, and his wife who was raised in Yemen. Ideally I would like to find a copy in both English and Arabic. (so they can both read it.) I even bought a copy in English for him BUT-----… --- ## [Why are back issues of Harper's Magazine unavailable for purchase on Amazon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-back-issues-of-harpers-magazine-unavailable-for-purchase-on-amazon/831751)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-back-issues-of-harpers-magazine-unavailable-for-purchase-on-amazon/831751 "2019-03-30T06:05:31Z")
You can buy a subscription, but not back issues. I have an Amazon resale account and have listed (and sold!) some REALLY.WEIRD.STUFF, but these aren’t even available for listing from my end, or purchase from the custome… --- ## [Writers' "sneaking through" of dubious items](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-sneaking-through-of-dubious-items/831708)
**Author:** [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-sneaking-through-of-dubious-items/831708 "2019-03-29T23:54:33Z")
Prompted by the “Pussy Galore” thread in Cafe Society (and in preference to derailing that one): wondering what other examples come to mind, of things in “art in words” generally, to which severe exception might have bee… --- ## [so porridge=oatmeal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-porridge-oatmeal/831706)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-porridge-oatmeal/831706 "2019-03-29T23:04:42Z")
I was watching sesame street and they had a fairy tale day … and cookie monster and a new character was asked to make porridge and they didn’t know what porridge was and everyone said it was oatmeal Now unless I misrem… --- ## [Saint Patrick's day joke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saint-patricks-day-joke/831239)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saint-patricks-day-joke/831239 "2019-03-29T21:47:38Z")
Since there is Irish blood in my family here goes the stereotypical joke: Two Irishman are drinking in a bar. One gets a little melancholy and one says to the other, “I want you to make me a promise. When I die, I want … --- ## [I can't stop with LOTR questions, sorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-stop-with-lotr-questions-sorry/831400)
**Author:** [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-stop-with-lotr-questions-sorry/831400 "2019-03-29T18:35:25Z")
What, exactly, did everyone expect the Ring of Power to do? Denethor and Borimir seem to think it would be a powerful weapon against Sauron, but all we ever see is that it seems to “phase” the wearer into the Shadow Real… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=527) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=529)