# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=537 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 538 --- ## [Film Noir ID](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-noir-id/830318)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-noir-id/830318 "2019-02-28T02:25:20Z")
There’s a film noir from the '50s, I think, that features detectives matching a lot (hundreds?) of photographs of women with a photograph of a skull. I have an idea that Ricardo Montalban was a detective. Was it Myster… --- ## [David Horowitz has stopped fighting back](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-horowitz-has-stopped-fighting-back/829845)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-horowitz-has-stopped-fighting-back/829845 "2019-02-27T20:25:19Z")
Consumer journalist David Horowitz has died at 81. If you were in Southern California in the '80s and watched NBC, you’ll remember Fight Back! With David Horowitz, where he brought media attention to consumer complaints… --- ## [Is there anywhere to get podcast subscriber numbers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anywhere-to-get-podcast-subscriber-numbers/830202)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anywhere-to-get-podcast-subscriber-numbers/830202 "2019-02-27T16:36:12Z")
There doesn’t seem to be a good source for podcast listener counts. The best I could find was the podtrack industry ratings which only tells you the top 20. It doesn’t seem to even sell the data for the rest either, just… --- ## [corn syrup in beer does it matter ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corn-syrup-in-beer-does-it-matter/830207)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corn-syrup-in-beer-does-it-matter/830207 "2019-02-27T16:32:40Z")
is it a big deal ? Apparently buds super bowl comercials are scuttling a big multicorp campaign because they called out beer makers that use corn syrup https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/buds-super-bowl-ad-thre… --- ## [Help me find or ID this comedy skit please!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-or-id-this-comedy-skit-please/830216)
**Author:** [@Orr\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orr_G)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-or-id-this-comedy-skit-please/830216 "2019-02-27T15:37:43Z")
I’m trying to remember a skit I saw on cable some time back. It was at least ten years ago, I’m pretty sure, and almost certainly no more than 17 years ago. I thought it was a Whitest Kids U Know skit (perhaps on their p… --- ## [Help preparing shrimp and cocktail sauce](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-preparing-shrimp-and-cocktail-sauce/829959)
**Author:** [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-preparing-shrimp-and-cocktail-sauce/829959 "2019-02-27T13:24:24Z")
I have been tasked with preparing shrimp cocktail for main course. I have two pounds of frozen, shell on, XL raw shrimp. Would appreciate advice on cooking the shrimp and preparing a cocktail sauce. Thanks everyone. --- ## [Novels where the Solution to the Mystery or the Last Twist are given on Literally the Last Page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-where-the-solution-to-the-mystery-or-the-last-twist-are-given-on-literally-the-last-page/829911)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-where-the-solution-to-the-mystery-or-the-last-twist-are-given-on-literally-the-last-page/829911 "2019-02-27T00:30:42Z")
Novelists generally like to wind things down and give some last thoughts, but in some cases, the last, unexpected twist is given on the very last page. Or the mystery is solved on the last page (especially if you thought… --- ## [Sci-Fi/Futuristic infantry battles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-futuristic-infantry-battles/829935)
**Author:** [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-futuristic-infantry-battles/829935 "2019-02-26T23:33:51Z")
I don’t watch that many sci-fi/futuristic movies so I may be wrong, but, in most of those movies infantry/cavalry fight (and even win) using tactics that are somewhere between Napoleon and WWI trench warfare. Massed inf… --- ## [I need some art advice (Drawing/Sketching/Painting)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-art-advice-drawing-sketching-painting/796073)
**Author:** [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-art-advice-drawing-sketching-painting/796073 "2019-02-26T23:12:51Z")
Backstory: I’ve never really been good at art. I remember taking a class in college. The first day we had to draw still life of fruit in a bowl. It was bad. Horrible. No good. Judging by the others in class, I was alread… --- ## [Foods (seemingly) everyone likes but you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320)
**Author:** [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Replies:** 157\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320 "2019-02-26T22:02:17Z")
Inspired by the thread discussing what smells good but can’t be eaten. Many people responded that one such food was coffee. Me, too. I find it interesting considering that coffee is one of the most abundant products av… --- ## [What happened to merchant ivory style films?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-merchant-ivory-style-films/830174)
**Author:** [@Cindycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cindycat)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-merchant-ivory-style-films/830174 "2019-02-26T18:43:23Z")
I miss the high quality movies of the late 80s and early 90s such as Howard’s End, The Age of Innocence, and Sense and Sensibility. I know movies like this do exist still, and yet they don’t have the same soul. Maybe I’m… --- ## [Why was early television so terrible for so long?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-early-television-so-terrible-for-so-long/830047)
**Author:** [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-early-television-so-terrible-for-so-long/830047 "2019-02-26T17:14:45Z")
I am a great fan of old time radio. While not all old time radio is great, from the mid-to-late 30s on, it was a very self-aware medium loaded with self-referential comedy and pop-cultural references. The dramas weren’… --- ## ['Bohemian Rhapsody' Film Production Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-film-production-question/824805)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-film-production-question/824805 "2019-02-26T16:38:21Z")
I enjoyed the Queen movie a lot, but I can’t figure out how they shot the final scene. Without giving too much away it involves Queen playing a large concert in London in front of 72,000 people. According to Wikipedia “… --- ## [Which movie would get your vote for Best Picture?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-would-get-your-vote-for-best-picture/830132)
**Author:** [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-would-get-your-vote-for-best-picture/830132 "2019-02-26T14:48:23Z")
The Oscars are today and while the Best Picture is unlike the other categories because the winner is determined by a preferential ballot, not just a plurality, we’re going to keep this survey simple. So of the 8 Best Pi… --- ## [Any Suggestions For A Week In Thessaloniki?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-suggestions-for-a-week-in-thessaloniki/830120)
**Author:** [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-suggestions-for-a-week-in-thessaloniki/830120 "2019-02-26T11:49:37Z")
Going to fly down to Thessaloniki in early April for a honeymoon, which considering I am the advanced 48 and my lovely wife-to-be is now 44, and as this will be both of our’s first and only marriage, I of course want to… --- ## [Parmesan: too lazy to grate, too snobbish to buy pre-grated](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parmesan-too-lazy-to-grate-too-snobbish-to-buy-pre-grated/830002)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parmesan-too-lazy-to-grate-too-snobbish-to-buy-pre-grated/830002 "2019-02-26T08:54:32Z")
I don’t eat pasta for dinner often, but my cupboard has become increasingly bare and I haven’t shopped in a while (I’m about 12 miles from the nearest grocery so don’t generally run to the store on a whim), so I made a r… --- ## [Fictional performers whose t-shirt you would like to own](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-performers-whose-t-shirt-you-would-like-to-own/829405)
**Author:** [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-performers-whose-t-shirt-you-would-like-to-own/829405 "2019-02-26T07:50:57Z")
Mine: Aldous Snow and Infinite Sorrow (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) The Honey Bees (Gilligan’s Island) The Standell’s (The Munsters) Serena (Bewitched) There’s probably more but that’s all I can think of at the moment… --- ## [Help me identify this jazz tune](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-jazz-tune/830211)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-jazz-tune/830211 "2019-02-26T05:35:06Z")
It was a radio hit some three decades back. I remember hearing it a lot, but never found out who did it. The lead instrument on the theme was an alto sax. When I reconstructed it from memory on guitar, I played it in E,… --- ## [Was Spike Lee muted at the Oscars?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-spike-lee-muted-at-the-oscars/830164)
**Author:** [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-spike-lee-muted-at-the-oscars/830164 "2019-02-26T03:27:31Z")
We’re having dangerously high winds where I am, and my cable was disrupted several times during the Oscars. When Mike Myers and Dana Carvey were onstage, for instance, it went black just long enough that I didn’t get to … --- ## [The 2018 Road to the Oscars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2018-road-to-the-oscars/826007)
**Author:** [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2018-road-to-the-oscars/826007 "2019-02-26T02:16:03Z")
Well, the 91st Academy Awards approach and some major predictors are on the table now: nominations for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the Golden Globes (GG), and the Critics Choice awards (CC—commonly seen as the most ac… --- ## [Help identifying song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-song/829651)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identifying-song/829651 "2019-02-26T00:54:59Z")
I heard this on the radio yesterday, but I have no idea if it’s new or old. The song is a slow, maybe blues-country, piece about a man who doesn’t believe in love or affection, just selfishness. Not in a necessarily bad… --- ## [Game of Thrones TV show speculation thread. Spoilers, of course.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-tv-show-speculation-thread-spoilers-of-course/789858)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-tv-show-speculation-thread-spoilers-of-course/789858 "2019-02-26T00:33:00Z")
Spoilers are for past events as no one except the film crew knows for sure what is going to happen next. Anyway, these trailers are doing their job on me and wetting my appetite and I have some ideas of what may happen t… --- ## [Morgan Woodward - after 250 movies, dies at 93](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morgan-woodward-after-250-movies-dies-at-93/830173)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morgan-woodward-after-250-movies-dies-at-93/830173 "2019-02-25T20:28:40Z")
Many people may not know the name but they’ll never forget the Man With No Eyes, in Cool Hand Luke. Few character actors made such an impression with just a menacing look. He’s taking aim at Luke in this one. https://go… --- ## [Marty McFly in the real 2015](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marty-mcfly-in-the-real-2015/830073)
**Author:** [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marty-mcfly-in-the-real-2015/830073 "2019-02-25T18:03:39Z")
I came across this while browsing YouTube. Marty travels from 1985 to 2015, but it’s the 2015 as it actually existed in our universe. The actor playing Marty doesn’t much resemble Michael J. Fox, but he has the voice dow… --- ## [Any vocal coaches out there? Can you explain what Dominique Persi is doing here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-vocal-coaches-out-there-can-you-explain-what-dominique-persi-is-doing-here/830030)
**Author:** [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-vocal-coaches-out-there-can-you-explain-what-dominique-persi-is-doing-here/830030 "2019-02-25T16:23:06Z")
I know she’s doing clean singing and probably Fry screaming, but what is this odd oscillation that she does, and how does she transition between like 4 or 5 different techniques in the same verse? Insane. --- ## [Even MORE LOTR questions!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-more-lotr-questions/829214)
**Author:** [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-more-lotr-questions/829214 "2019-02-25T16:11:50Z")
First, thank you to everyone who had responded to my earlier posts. I am impressed by the thoroughness of the answers and feel I learned much of Tolkien’s lore. So, as before, I come from a position of relative ignoranc… --- ## [The Big Bang Theory, Season 12, Episode 16 (February 21, 2019) -- "The D & D Vortex"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-12-episode-16-february-21-2019-the-d-d-vortex/829965)
**Author:** [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-12-episode-16-february-21-2019-the-d-d-vortex/829965 "2019-02-25T15:57:13Z")
I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode. --- ## [When did eggs become the breakfast staple (in the US)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-eggs-become-the-breakfast-staple-in-the-us/829932)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-eggs-become-the-breakfast-staple-in-the-us/829932 "2019-02-25T12:22:41Z")
It’s hard to imagine a breakfast menu in the US not centered around eggs. Does this go back very far? Did individual farms 100 years ago have big eggs and meat breakfasts or did it take until chicken farming got to be a … --- ## [Movie scenes that remind you of scenes in other movies \[spoilers\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-remind-you-of-scenes-in-other-movies-spoilers/830147)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-remind-you-of-scenes-in-other-movies-spoilers/830147 "2019-02-25T02:58:26Z")
I was just watching Life of Pi, and during the scene where Pi and the animals are escaping the shipwreck, I started thinking “I think I’ve seen this movie before.” But then I remembered having seen The Black Stallion, ab… --- ## [most annoying educational pre k-hs kids show](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-educational-pre-k-hs-kids-show/830068)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-educational-pre-k-hs-kids-show/830068 "2019-02-25T00:46:41Z")
I mean anything you can see on PBS kids nickelodeon Disney or Disney junior discovery kids ect A lot of people mention cailiou which dosent count anymore ive recently found one that’s just as bad “Daniel tigers neigh… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=536) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=538)