# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=67 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 68 --- ## [RIP Chuck Mangione](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-chuck-mangione/1021297)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-chuck-mangione/1021297 "2025-07-25T00:31:57Z")
Gift link Another one leaves us. His song “Feels So Good” was the soundtrack of an ill-fated romance in 1978-ish that felt so good at the time. It’s been long enough that I can look back with nostalgia. Thanks for t… --- ## [Food Network celebrity chef Anne Burrell dead at 55](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-celebrity-chef-anne-burrell-dead-at-55/1019781)
**Author:** [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-celebrity-chef-anne-burrell-dead-at-55/1019781 "2025-07-24T22:10:04Z")
I watched her for years. She was great hosting Worst Cooks in America. It’s shocking to me that she’s suddenly gone. I guess her cause of death is unknown at this point. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … EMS pe… --- ## [RIP Malcolm-Jamal Warner (July 21, 2025)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-malcolm-jamal-warner-july-21-2025/1021156)
**Author:** [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-malcolm-jamal-warner-july-21-2025/1021156 "2025-07-23T15:41:24Z")
Malcom-Jamal Warner has died in an accidental drowing: I’ve always liked him, and had really enjoyed him on The Resident. --- ## [Sunset Boulevard 75th anniversary](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunset-boulevard-75th-anniversary/1021189)
**Author:** [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunset-boulevard-75th-anniversary/1021189 "2025-07-23T12:57:52Z")
Max! This movie turns 75 this year and is being shown in theaters August 3 and 4. I got my ticket and look forward to seeing this masterpiece on the big screen. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, and Erich von Stroheim. … --- ## [Can someone explain Nathan Fielder's "The Rehearsal" to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-nathan-fielders-the-rehearsal-to-me/1019983)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-nathan-fielders-the-rehearsal-to-me/1019983 "2025-07-23T04:10:18Z")
A friend mentioned this show to me because the second season ended with Fielder apparently flying a 737. I knew nothing about the show before watching that episode and… I just didn’t get it. I see it’s supposed to be a … --- ## [Do adult women wear capelets (AI warning)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-adult-women-wear-capelets-ai-warning/1021162)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-adult-women-wear-capelets-ai-warning/1021162 "2025-07-22T23:00:33Z")
I’ve oft seen younger girls (viz, pre-adolescent) wear garments like this. \[Album\] imgur.com … --- ## [You’re on Jeopardy: what’s your interview anecdote?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150 "2025-07-22T19:41:05Z")
Put another way, what line should Ken Jennings (or Alex Trebeck, if the world was fair) feed you to elicit a short, interesting blurb during the brief interview portion of Jeopardy, held during the first round once the s… --- ## [The end of an era. Ozzy Osbourne retires](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-ozzy-osbourne-retires/979235)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-ozzy-osbourne-retires/979235 "2025-07-22T18:43:44Z")
Not much to add to that. I’ve always been a fan, but was never able to see him in concert. --- ## [Chocolate, Cinnamon and Marzipan Dreams (How Do We Like It?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cinnamon-and-marzipan-dreams-how-do-we-like-it/1021094)
**Author:** [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-cinnamon-and-marzipan-dreams-how-do-we-like-it/1021094 "2025-07-22T17:07:01Z")
Continuing the discussion from Trolls R Us Resurrections: Ok, kidz, let’s move. :slight\_smile: --- ## [How do you cook fennel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cook-fennel/1021164)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cook-fennel/1021164 "2025-07-22T16:49:12Z")
A friend gave me some raw fennel. Not the frilly top part you use as garnish, it’s the actual fennel plant including some of the root. I like the flavor of fennel, because I like anise and licorice, although I read that … --- ## [Time or date in movies or songs where your perception of that time/date has changed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607 "2025-07-22T16:30:30Z")
I had a hard time thinking of a good way to state my OP, but yesterday I heard Tom T Hall’s ‘Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine’. The first few evocative lines are: “How old do you think I am?” he said I said, “Wel… --- ## [AI Art Project: I re-imagined all 30 MLB teams as if they were 100-year-old British football clubs, with shields generated by AI (redux)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-project-i-re-imagined-all-30-mlb-teams-as-if-they-were-100-year-old-british-football-clubs-with-shields-generated-by-ai-redux/1020996)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-project-i-re-imagined-all-30-mlb-teams-as-if-they-were-100-year-old-british-football-clubs-with-shields-generated-by-ai-redux/1020996 "2025-07-22T10:16:00Z")
\[This is my second attempt at this thread. Due to image-embedding-related fuckups and missing the edit window, I decided to ask a mod to close the first thread, and I’m starting this one.\] OK, you know how British/Europ… --- ## [Connie Francis has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/connie-francis-has-died/1020972)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/connie-francis-has-died/1020972 "2025-07-21T20:47:17Z")
Another powerful voice of the ballad genre has died at 87. We’re all sorry now. --- ## [The Alamo acquires Pee-Wee's bike for its new museum](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alamo-acquires-pee-wees-bike-for-its-new-museum/1021101)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-alamo-acquires-pee-wees-bike-for-its-new-museum/1021101 "2025-07-21T20:11:45Z")
The Alamo announced today that they have acquired the original stunt bike used in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure for their new visitor center and museum opening in 2027, where it will go on permanent display. Obviously, give… --- ## [Do Boston restaurants feature baked beans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-boston-restaurants-feature-baked-beans/1021065)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-boston-restaurants-feature-baked-beans/1021065 "2025-07-21T18:46:03Z")
Here in NE Ohio it is mostly barbeque places that have baked beans. If you go to a nice steak house in Boston do they each have their own celebrated baked beans? --- ## [Anyone remember this cat video?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-cat-video/1021078)
**Author:** [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-cat-video/1021078 "2025-07-21T14:03:36Z")
It must have been in the early-mid 2000’s. A beautiful really big longhaired cat in an expensive looking house was afraid or annoyed at something and made the oddest sounds. Possibly from Russia. ‘OWWwowowowowowow…’ … --- ## [Help me identify a Jeff Bridges movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111)
**Author:** [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111 "2025-07-21T13:00:33Z")
This is driving me crazy. I’m trying to remember a film that contains a line we use in my family to describe someone who isn’t all the way awake: “He/she’s still circling the airport.” Here’s what I know: It was a Jeff… --- ## ["Pacific Rim" question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-rim-question/1021098)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-rim-question/1021098 "2025-07-21T02:18:26Z")
I was curious about the movie being about a renaissance of the Jaegers when the Kaiju threat was renewed after a period of years. Why not just play it straight and show the original Kaiju-Jaeger war? --- ## [Welcome to Wrexham](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-wrexham/970646)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-wrexham/970646 "2025-07-20T18:49:08Z")
This is a Hulu series/documentary covering the purchase of the Welsh football club Wrexham FC by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney Some background, Wrexham is a Welsh football club in the fourth tier of English football,… --- ## [Movie ID: A car pulls two gliders, as people escape the Germans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-a-car-pulls-two-gliders-as-people-escape-the-germans/1021093)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-a-car-pulls-two-gliders-as-people-escape-the-germans/1021093 "2025-07-20T14:58:04Z")
I just saw a Facebook reel depicting six people escaping from German soldiers in WWII. They are in two red gliders that are being pulled by a car. The driver of the car jams the accelerator and runs back to get into on… --- ## [Lyrics to "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me"--underlying message, cultural context](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-to-do-nothing-till-you-hear-from-me-underlying-message-cultural-context/1021041)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-to-do-nothing-till-you-hear-from-me-underlying-message-cultural-context/1021041 "2025-07-19T20:34:38Z")
The subject song was a Duke Ellington tune written in the 1940s by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Bob Russell. It’s been recorded by many, ranging from Ella Fitzgerald to Boz Scaggs to Phil Collins. I don’t think quoting… --- ## [I'm determined to make good bread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-determined-to-make-good-bread/1021038)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-determined-to-make-good-bread/1021038 "2025-07-19T17:58:20Z")
My bread making is wildly inconsistent. It ranges between perfect to throw it out. It just can’t be that difficult so I threw out the recipes and approached it scientifically. Yeast. A packet of Fleischmann’s active … --- ## [Dept. Q - a British crime thriller television series \[Open Spoilers\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dept-q-a-british-crime-thriller-television-series-open-spoilers/1019458)
**Author:** [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dept-q-a-british-crime-thriller-television-series-open-spoilers/1019458 "2025-07-18T22:15:28Z")
“Department Q” is the crime thriller series I’m currently watching. It’s received high ratings—but that’s not why I’m watching it. Maybe it’s just me, but very few shows these days offer any real sense of escapism. Most… --- ## [Refuted memes that won't stay dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuted-memes-that-wont-stay-dead/1020488)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 216\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuted-memes-that-wont-stay-dead/1020488 "2025-07-18T20:25:35Z")
I am somewhat irked that the Star Wars meme of “Stormtroopers can’t hit the broad side of a barn” was refuted in the movie and by countless commentators ever since, and yet it simply will not die. Okay, so I could see pe… --- ## [The Late Night Show to end in 2026. They will seek no replacement for Colbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-show-to-end-in-2026-they-will-seek-no-replacement-for-colbert/1021003)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-show-to-end-in-2026-they-will-seek-no-replacement-for-colbert/1021003 "2025-07-18T00:19:57Z")
Wow, not even going to continue the show without Colbert. Bring back Colbert Report! --- ## [AI Art Project: I re-imagined all 30 MLB teams as if they were 100-year-old British football clubs, with shields generated by AI](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-project-i-re-imagined-all-30-mlb-teams-as-if-they-were-100-year-old-british-football-clubs-with-shields-generated-by-ai/1020993)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-art-project-i-re-imagined-all-30-mlb-teams-as-if-they-were-100-year-old-british-football-clubs-with-shields-generated-by-ai/1020993 "2025-07-17T22:23:09Z")
OK, you know how British/European soccer teams started out as clubs, and they began organizing professionally c. 1880? And how they’re oft named for the neighborhood in which they originated (Chelsea, Aston Villa) or for… --- ## [Covers of songs that elevate the original by changing tempo, genre, time signature, etc](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covers-of-songs-that-elevate-the-original-by-changing-tempo-genre-time-signature-etc/1016349)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 193\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covers-of-songs-that-elevate-the-original-by-changing-tempo-genre-time-signature-etc/1016349 "2025-07-17T19:11:40Z")
What are some covers of songs that change the fundamentals of the original - tempo, time signature, even genre - and pull it off or even improve the original? (NOTE: The last time this topic came up appears to have been … --- ## [Jim Carroll's "People Who Died"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154)
**Author:** [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-carrolls-people-who-died/248154 "2025-07-17T17:50:45Z")
I have never heard this many people die in one song. We got: -1 Accident (drug related) -4 suicides -1 leukemia -2 hepatitis (presumably from sharing needles) -1 in Vietnam -1 Overdose (on drano?! on his wedding ni… --- ## [Classic rock DJ's (or algorithms): play this, not that](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-djs-or-algorithms-play-this-not-that/1020938)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-djs-or-algorithms-play-this-not-that/1020938 "2025-07-17T16:28:20Z")
If you listen to classic rock (personally, my musical tastes got frozen somewhere in the mid-80s) on Spotify, or SiriusXM, or FM radio…you may have noticed that some songs get done to death while others have been forgott… --- ## [RIP Martin Cruz Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-martin-cruz-smith/1020914)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-martin-cruz-smith/1020914 "2025-07-17T15:03:14Z")
He passed away on July 11, but I have just now learned about it. I first encountered him through his novel Gorky Park (1981), which hit the bestseller list and was promptly turned into a film starring William Hurt and Br… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=66) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=68)