# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=542 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 543 --- ## [Stan and Ollie - movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stan-and-ollie-movie/826740)
**Author:** [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stan-and-ollie-movie/826740 "2019-02-10T04:09:11Z")
So I just saw something about this film, Stan & Ollie, with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly in it. From the trailers and the comments from critics it looks to be well done if possibly a bit schmaltzy. I’m curious if an… --- ## [Sequels with Identical titles to the first movie.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-with-identical-titles-to-the-first-movie/829215)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-with-identical-titles-to-the-first-movie/829215 "2019-02-10T03:41:24Z")
Do you remember that Shaft movie Samuel L. Jackson made back in 2000? I saw it in the theater and have never seen it again. Yeah, so he has made a sequel to it. \*\*First movie title: Shaft Sequel title: Shaft \*\* Iden… --- ## ["Dollars" in Victorian England?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dollars-in-victorian-england/828636)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dollars-in-victorian-england/828636 "2019-02-10T03:38:21Z")
I was re-reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Man with the Twisted Lip, one of his Sherlock Holmes stories. I was struck by this line, in which an English gentleman describes how he discovered that he could make more money b… --- ## [Hulu has Pushing Daisies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-has-pushing-daisies/828910)
**Author:** [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-has-pushing-daisies/828910 "2019-02-10T03:28:45Z")
I am complete. It’s on the CW Seed channel. I can’t wait to dive back into that darling show. Digby and pies and Ellen Greene and Chi McBride and pop-up books and Swoosie Kurtz and pies and bees and honey and Kristen … --- ## [Lamb Chops help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamb-chops-help/829225)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamb-chops-help/829225 "2019-02-10T03:22:21Z")
Every Valentine’s Day, I make these cider-glazed lamb chops for my family. It’s one of my wife’s favorite meals. But I got a problem. Locally I can only find lamb loin chops, not lamb rib chops. And they’re about 1 1/2… --- ## [How do people recall such tremendous detail in their autobiographies?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-people-recall-such-tremendous-detail-in-their-autobiographies/829188)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-people-recall-such-tremendous-detail-in-their-autobiographies/829188 "2019-02-10T03:00:51Z")
You see it all the time - some celebrity writes autobiography/memoirs, and in it, they recall conversations verbatim from 30 years ago, or can tell you what they felt, saw, ate, did in army boot camp, or in NFL training … --- ## [Red Currant ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-currant-ideas/829252)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-currant-ideas/829252 "2019-02-10T02:44:32Z")
So, I saw a box of red currants last weekend, and the novelty was so strong that I bought it. I have grown red currants, and I like them fresh and raw. (And I’ve also made super jelly from them) but these ones were impor… --- ## ["I Don't Wanna Go Home" song in Jaws.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-wanna-go-home-song-in-jaws/829169 "2019-02-10T02:23:41Z")
Real song that people in the audience/the characters at that age would be familiar with, or made up for the movie? Because the movie is the only place that I’ve ever heard it. --- ## [Laurel & Hardy script](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laurel-hardy-script/829237)
**Author:** [@CharlesHugh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharlesHugh)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laurel-hardy-script/829237 "2019-02-10T02:23:31Z")
There are frequent mentions in STAN & OLLIE about a script Stan is writing for a movie on Robin Hood. Does that script still exist, or did he trash it before he died? --- ## [Trying to remember name of home movie posted here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-name-of-home-movie-posted-here/829241)
**Author:** [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-name-of-home-movie-posted-here/829241 "2019-02-09T20:26:06Z")
At least 5 or 6 years someone posted a link here to a home movie made by a man whose wife had given him a reel to reel tape recorder with sound on sound for Christmas. The film shows him opening the present, then going o… --- ## [Term for a Work of Fiction Assembled from Real Events](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-for-a-work-of-fiction-assembled-from-real-events/829202)
**Author:** [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-for-a-work-of-fiction-assembled-from-real-events/829202 "2019-02-09T06:04:12Z")
Is there a term for a story that is assembled almost entirely from real events, even though, because of composite characters, changes in timeline, and so forth, it is not what one would call a “true story”? For example,… --- ## [Question about "The Revenant" (Glass's blink)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-revenant-glasss-blink/756235)
**Author:** [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-revenant-glasss-blink/756235 "2019-02-09T03:30:16Z")
I watched The Revenant in the cinema, and had in mind that Fitzgerald was something on a victim of fate: he’s scared of the Ree, realises that Glass won’t live long but may live long enough to get all 3 of the others kil… --- ## [Starship Trooper (movie) fans: Want a model actually used in the film?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-trooper-movie-fans-want-a-model-actually-used-in-the-film/829191)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-trooper-movie-fans-want-a-model-actually-used-in-the-film/829191 "2019-02-09T03:18:53Z")
A friend of mine is selling this model made for and used in Starship Troopers (1997) on eBay. Here’s what he says about it: Bids start at $6,000. --- ## [Carol Channing, RIP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carol-channing-rip/827798)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carol-channing-rip/827798 "2019-02-08T20:48:55Z")
I’m starting this because I’m surprised no one else has. Carol Channing, she of Broadway’s hello Dolly! and Gentemen Prefer Blondes, has died at the age of 97. She was performing well into her nineties. I’ve only see… --- ## [RIP Albert Finney at 82](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-albert-finney-at-82/829177)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-albert-finney-at-82/829177 "2019-02-08T20:45:24Z")
I liked him in Tom Jones and Murder in the Orient Express. --- ## [Cook-chemists can answer this, I hope](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cook-chemists-can-answer-this-i-hope/829083)
**Author:** [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cook-chemists-can-answer-this-i-hope/829083 "2019-02-08T13:46:15Z")
When I stew beef or lamb cubes in spinach and onions and yogurt and garam masala (ground green cardamom pods, coriander, star anise, black pepper, cinnamon, cumin, dried fenugreek leaves, fennel seeds, black mustard seed… --- ## [need id of 80's movie/tv movie/show](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-id-of-80s-movie-tv-movie-show/829162)
**Author:** [@tonyjellinek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyjellinek)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-id-of-80s-movie-tv-movie-show/829162 "2019-02-08T09:24:47Z")
I remember seeing on tv in the 80’s this movie/tv movie/tv show, don’t know which it was. The scene in question has a boy and a father figure in a boat. The boy sees a tattoo on the man’s arm, asks, “i thought you said w… --- ## [77 Sunset Strip-The Disappearance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip-the-disappearance/829095)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip-the-disappearance/829095 "2019-02-08T06:59:06Z")
Who is the guy they never show well, Eisenhower? --- ## [Twilight Zone-a-thon!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737)
**Author:** [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twilight-zone-a-thon/587737 "2019-02-08T03:22:12Z")
Is anyone else watching? I just love when Sci Fi (no “y” for me, sorry!) does these marathons. I hope they show all the “obvious” favorites but I’d also like to see one of my faves, Spur of the Moment, which a lot of pe… --- ## [Got mushrooms and shallots - need a slow cooker recipe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-mushrooms-and-shallots-need-a-slow-cooker-recipe/829141)
**Author:** [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-mushrooms-and-shallots-need-a-slow-cooker-recipe/829141 "2019-02-07T23:26:52Z")
Had to buy more mushrooms and shallots than I really need for my spaghetti sauce. Can anyone relate or point to a slow cooker recipe? I like chicken, pork, and beef. Thanks in advance! --- ## [Five Years Following The Zombie Apocalypse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-years-following-the-zombie-apocalypse/828394)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-years-following-the-zombie-apocalypse/828394 "2019-02-07T21:02:46Z")
In the series of my earlier threads: The effects of ‘The Snap’ from Infinity War https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=866890 and The effects of the Independence Day fatalities https://boards.straigh… --- ## [Some of the things I've learned watching Seinfeld](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-things-ive-learned-watching-seinfeld/792721)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 194\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-the-things-ive-learned-watching-seinfeld/792721 "2019-02-07T17:07:30Z")
I was a latecomer to the show, but I’m sure I’ve seen more than half of the episodes. In no particular order: JFK liked to play golf. (What, with that bad back? Ouch!) A Titleist can suffocate a whale. You ca… --- ## [A seasoning similar to the Top Ramen packet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seasoning-similar-to-the-top-ramen-packet/828973)
**Author:** [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-seasoning-similar-to-the-top-ramen-packet/828973 "2019-02-07T16:57:49Z")
I dearly love the flavor of Top Ramen, but it has way too many carbs for me. Does anyone know of a seasoning to add to my egg drop & chicken soup that mimics that Top Ramen yummyness? I’ll be eternally grateful! (Bull… --- ## [Hardy Fox, co-founder of The Residents, has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardy-fox-co-founder-of-the-residents-has-died/823772)
**Author:** [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardy-fox-co-founder-of-the-residents-has-died/823772 "2019-02-07T14:58:55Z")
The Residents music has been part of my life for over 35 years. I remember back in college discovering Eskimo and The Commercial Album. And Not Available. And The Mole Trilogy. I saw live the Cube-E show and Demons Dance… --- ## [Maltese Falcon - any good statue sources out there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maltese-falcon-any-good-statue-sources-out-there/622788)
**Author:** [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maltese-falcon-any-good-statue-sources-out-there/622788 "2019-02-07T13:25:33Z")
I’m interested in getting a hold of a replica Maltese falcon statue for a friend who loves the movie. I’ve seen various sources for them, all claiming theirs is the best, and others are crap. Anyone have any experienc… --- ## [Would You Make a Movie If...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-make-a-movie-if/829032)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-make-a-movie-if/829032 "2019-02-07T09:53:24Z")
you were given funds ONLY to make the movie? Small budget, 5 figures. --- ## [It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 10 (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-10-open-spoilers/711625)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-10-open-spoilers/711625 "2019-02-07T04:59:34Z")
They’re back! Already a few episodes in. Pretty good so far. \[mouseover space\] “The Gang Beats Boggs” was a great start. Extreme amounts of drinking, even for them, some signature insanity from everyone, even a came… --- ## [Love sushi and sashimi? Do NOT get started on fresh wasabi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-sushi-and-sashimi-do-not-get-started-on-fresh-wasabi/828878)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-sushi-and-sashimi-do-not-get-started-on-fresh-wasabi/828878 "2019-02-07T04:51:49Z")
That is, unless you have a lot of excess money laying around. Dry wasabi powder isn’t really wasabi. It’s plain old horseradish, dried and ground and tinted green. Fresh wasabi has historically been difficult to find … --- ## [Is there a genre of music of people doing folksy covers of hardcore rap songs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-genre-of-music-of-people-doing-folksy-covers-of-hardcore-rap-songs/829047)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-genre-of-music-of-people-doing-folksy-covers-of-hardcore-rap-songs/829047 "2019-02-07T02:37:30Z")
Ben Folds - bitches ain’t shit, a cover of bitches ain’t shit by Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg Dynamite Hack - Boyz In The Hood, a cover of Boyz in the Hood by NWA. Is there a genre of songs like this, if so what is it called? A… --- ## [Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' thread -- January 2019 Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2019-edition/826964)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2019-edition/826964 "2019-02-06T23:34:23Z")
Well… we made it through 2018. And what a year it was! Seriously was that a 365 day world wide full moon…? On a more sober note, January will be the 5 year passing of Khadaji. I hope the libraries where you areare abs… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=541) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=543)