# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=616 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 617 --- ## [The Big Bang Theory, Season 11, Episode 24 (May 10, 2018) -- "The Bow Tie Asymmetry"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-24-may-10-2018-the-bow-tie-asymmetry/813923)
**Author:** [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-11-episode-24-may-10-2018-the-bow-tie-asymmetry/813923 "2018-05-26T14:29:30Z")
I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode. --- ## [A Complicated Question About Salaries In The TV/Movie Industry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-complicated-question-about-salaries-in-the-tv-movie-industry/805983)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-complicated-question-about-salaries-in-the-tv-movie-industry/805983 "2018-05-26T07:41:58Z")
OK, this question is about a specific actor, but it has broad implications for other actors in The Industry as well. WAY back in 2008, Courtney Henggeler was a bit actor who had work here and there, most visibly as Shel… --- ## [Anybody try the new, fresh McDonald's Quarter pounder?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593)
**Author:** [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2018, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-try-the-new-fresh-mcdonalds-quarter-pounder/814593 "2018-05-26T07:17:02Z")
Apparently – and I’m not sure how I missed this memo – over the last couple months McDonald’s has been advertising a new Quarter Pounder made to order with fresh, not frozen, meat. After some comments from my cousin, who… --- ## [Has anyone here ever met/know They Might Be Giants?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-met-know-they-might-be-giants/814849)
**Author:** [@SpacedOutBanana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpacedOutBanana)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-ever-met-know-they-might-be-giants/814849 "2018-05-26T05:50:45Z")
They’re so cool and have a new album out, too. --- ## [Mauro Ranallo, the Bipolar Rock and Roller \[mental health\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mauro-ranallo-the-bipolar-rock-and-roller-mental-health/814812)
**Author:** [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mauro-ranallo-the-bipolar-rock-and-roller-mental-health/814812 "2018-05-26T03:43:17Z")
He’s got a special tonight on Showtime about his struggles with mental illness. If you or someone you know struggles with bipolar disorder, mania and/or depression, you owe it to yourself to watch it if you can. If you… --- ## [Seeing Yourself in a Song -or- I'm so vain I almost think that song is about me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-yourself-in-a-song-or-im-so-vain-i-almost-think-that-song-is-about-me/814640)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeing-yourself-in-a-song-or-im-so-vain-i-almost-think-that-song-is-about-me/814640 "2018-05-26T03:26:36Z")
When Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” came out every guy, and I’m sure some women, who had ever been in the same room as her claimed it was about him. I never shared the same air as her nor is the jerk in question self-ab… --- ## [Is the Majority Report w/Sam Seder a high IQ channel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-majority-report-w-sam-seder-a-high-iq-channel/814772)
**Author:** [@Major\_Major\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Major_1)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-majority-report-w-sam-seder-a-high-iq-channel/814772 "2018-05-26T00:20:06Z")
Is it higher IQ than Real Time with Bill Maher or about the same? And where does Chapo Trap House rate. --- ## [What happened to Iron Man's suits 48 and 49?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-iron-mans-suits-48-and-49/814249)
**Author:** [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-iron-mans-suits-48-and-49/814249 "2018-05-25T21:29:29Z")
He uses the Mk 50 in Infinity War, and last we saw him in Spiderman: Homecoming he was wearing 47, 46 in Civil War and 45 in Age of Ultron. Up until now we’ve been able to keep track of every suit he has used in the MCU … --- ## [Han Solo prequel planned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 208\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/han-solo-prequel-planned/724607 "2018-05-25T20:09:13Z")
I have a bad feeling about this… --- ## [I need help finding a book I read in childhood.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-finding-a-book-i-read-in-childhood/814819)
**Author:** [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-finding-a-book-i-read-in-childhood/814819 "2018-05-25T19:48:28Z")
I read a book when I was in elementary school, it would have been in the years between 1965 and 1971, and I have never been able to get the story out of my mind. It was an advanced story for my age group and was told fro… --- ## [Do super-hero stories in which the hero creates the Minnis s/she must defeat bug anyone else?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-super-hero-stories-in-which-the-hero-creates-the-minnis-s-she-must-defeat-bug-anyone-else/814685)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-super-hero-stories-in-which-the-hero-creates-the-minnis-s-she-must-defeat-bug-anyone-else/814685 "2018-05-25T09:21:46Z")
The other night I was listening to the second avengers movie. As I’m sure most of y’all know better than me, the world-shattering Minnis this time around was Ultron, A nearly indestructible robot created in the comic … --- ## [Weirdest Books You Own](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654)
**Author:** [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-books-you-own/238654 "2018-05-25T06:24:12Z")
Not the most valuable or the ones you like the most . . . But the ones that make friends perusing your bookshelf go, “What the f . . . ?!” Chastity, or Our Secret Sins, an 1874 anti-masturbation diatribe. Hot Girls of … --- ## [Syfy's Krypton (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2018, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-krypton-open-spoilers/811002 "2018-05-25T06:21:49Z")
Krypton is finally premiering tonight on Syfy. :slight\_smile: This has been years in the making. --- ## [Who are the strongest contenders for the title of "greatest American rock band ever"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-strongest-contenders-for-the-title-of-greatest-american-rock-band-ever/813547)
**Author:** [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Replies:** 320\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-strongest-contenders-for-the-title-of-greatest-american-rock-band-ever/813547 "2018-05-24T23:20:06Z")
I’ve always thought of rock and roll as a uniquely Anglo-American idiom, which sort of evolved in parallel paths in the US and UK and then eventually converged, and it was really in the UK that they converged. To me, the… --- ## [Ike Hare - Comic Book Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ike-hare-comic-book-rabbit/695979)
**Author:** [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ike-hare-comic-book-rabbit/695979 "2018-05-24T20:44:16Z")
I remember a jumbo sized comic book from being a kid, early 70’s, about a rabbit named “Ike Hare”. Ike Hare got so fed up with people being selfish and uncaring that he ran away deep in the woods to get away from everyon… --- ## [Needless Movie/TV Deaths](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needless-movie-tv-deaths/814173)
**Author:** [@golffan1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/golffan1963)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needless-movie-tv-deaths/814173 "2018-05-24T19:26:08Z")
As I posted on another thread, Jack’s death in Titanic seems to me to be needless. The guy had a plan for every situation, and tried to the last to survive, which he should have. Any other deaths in the movies that seem… --- ## [Something I've recently noticed about commercials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-ive-recently-noticed-about-commercials/814633)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-ive-recently-noticed-about-commercials/814633 "2018-05-24T18:57:02Z")
In the 1980s, they started putting black people in commercials. In the Southwest, some big companies like McDonald’s had Spanish-language commercials with all Hispanic actors. In more recent years, they’ve added Asians… --- ## [Colbert's Cum Cupcakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colberts-cum-cupcakes/814692)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colberts-cum-cupcakes/814692 "2018-05-24T14:03:13Z")
This had to be one of his funniest bits yet. --- ## [Poet that knows it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poet-that-knows-it/814319)
**Author:** [@mrka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrka)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poet-that-knows-it/814319 "2018-05-24T12:59:39Z")
Has anybody heard about my deceased cousin Andrzej Sulima Suryn?:roll\_eyes: He is a poet. I remember him before he started writing his verses in Poland behind the Berlin Wall. After he died in Canada his friends an… --- ## [Who Is Mostly Likely To Wind Up Dead on The Americans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-mostly-likely-to-wind-up-dead-on-the-americans/813902)
**Author:** [@golffan1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/golffan1963)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-mostly-likely-to-wind-up-dead-on-the-americans/813902 "2018-05-24T09:15:27Z")
As the show ends its run, which character will ultimately meet their demise? --- ## [Philip Roth died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-roth-died/814657)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-roth-died/814657 "2018-05-24T05:48:34Z")
Congestive heart failure in New York, age 85 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4673992 --- ## [A new low in films: Action Point](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-low-in-films-action-point/814694)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-low-in-films-action-point/814694 "2018-05-24T03:48:56Z")
The preview clip they show at bars is a condensed version of this YouTube video, which actually implies there is a script and a plot of some sort: But what it is, is a movie made by stringing a bunch of, "Hey, watch t… --- ## [Basic Music Recording Setup Recommendations for 2013 MacBook Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basic-music-recording-setup-recommendations-for-2013-macbook-pro/814583)
**Author:** [@Mllz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mllz)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basic-music-recording-setup-recommendations-for-2013-macbook-pro/814583 "2018-05-24T00:16:50Z")
I recently upgraded the MacBook that I use for consulting work, which frees up my old one (2013 MacBook Pro) for personal use–and I’d like to start using it for (among other things) some basic home recording. Problem is,… --- ## [Anyone written a sci-fi story wherein:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-written-a-sci-fi-story-wherein/814654)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-written-a-sci-fi-story-wherein/814654 "2018-05-23T22:05:00Z")
…you know the notion that we are all living in a simulation? Well in this story, such a simulation is created. But from the creators POV, his simulated world has advanced well beyond the creators in terms of physics and… --- ## [Best run-on sentence by a sports writer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-run-on-sentence-by-a-sports-writer/814661)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-run-on-sentence-by-a-sports-writer/814661 "2018-05-23T16:23:27Z")
Is this 301 word beauty and somehow it all makes sense and I want him to keep on writing because I feel the rhythm and, well, here it is from this article in the Smithsonian: “Just after sunrise the seas are running t… --- ## [Why don't Mexican restaurants serve Fideo?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-mexican-restaurants-serve-fideo/814379)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-mexican-restaurants-serve-fideo/814379 "2018-05-23T11:17:14Z")
I’m making Fideo con pollo (with chicken) tonight. Just got to thinking, this is a really good dish that I know most Americans would love. So why is it never on the menu at Mexican restaurants? ETA: Excuse my poorly w… --- ## [Funniest Movie Misunderstandings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-misunderstandings/814497)
**Author:** [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-movie-misunderstandings/814497 "2018-05-23T09:27:05Z")
This is my brother’s favorite: Lois Lane: So, how did you enjoy your first day on the job? Clark Kent: Frankly, the hours were somewhat longer than I expected, but meeting you and Jimmy and Mr. White on the whole, I th… --- ## [Rose Marie RIP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-marie-rip/805491)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rose-marie-rip/805491 "2018-05-23T02:07:55Z")
Rose Marie has died. She was 94, and much loved. RIP. --- ## [Story ID help needed: Zombie wants to save his kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-id-help-needed-zombie-wants-to-save-his-kid/814628)
**Author:** [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-id-help-needed-zombie-wants-to-save-his-kid/814628 "2018-05-23T00:17:15Z")
I have a tantalizing story synopsis stuck in my head. I don’t know whether it’s a book, a comic, or a movie. The protagonist gets infected with zombie virus, and knows he’s going to become a zombie in a short time. He… --- ## [Where did this joke \[about Sears in TV shows\] come from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-joke-about-sears-in-tv-shows-come-from/799919)
**Author:** [@DaneClark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaneClark)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-joke-about-sears-in-tv-shows-come-from/799919 "2018-05-22T20:56:31Z")
Various movies and TV shows from the early 90s seem to have this joke where someone will ask where something came from, to which someone else will reply “Sears”. What’s the deal with this? Is it a reference to a slogan… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=615) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=617)