# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=678 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 679 --- ## [Super-powerful villains who can be defeated (or greatly hindered) by the lowest of heroes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-powerful-villains-who-can-be-defeated-or-greatly-hindered-by-the-lowest-of-heroes/801501)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-powerful-villains-who-can-be-defeated-or-greatly-hindered-by-the-lowest-of-heroes/801501 "2017-11-15T14:42:14Z")
Juggernaut…Shadow Lass. (I know she’s not Marvel) Dudes gotta see right? Yeah he can rampage away but with a bubble of darkness on his head, he’s greatly hindered. He can’t fly either. Speaking of which: Doomsday…Gnort.… --- ## [The decline in quality of magazines – More evidence this world is going to hell in a handbasket.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-decline-in-quality-of-magazines-more-evidence-this-world-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket/800829)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-decline-in-quality-of-magazines-more-evidence-this-world-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket/800829 "2017-11-15T09:23:29Z")
Time was I subscribed to 10-15 magazines, always looking forward to receiving each issue. Heck, as a kid I regularly bought several every month; I even kept them organized and stacked neatly on a bookshelf like I was run… --- ## [Recommend a subway sauce \[for steak and cheese sub...\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-subway-sauce-for-steak-and-cheese-sub/509772)
**Author:** [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-subway-sauce-for-steak-and-cheese-sub/509772 "2017-11-15T05:00:47Z")
Apologies if CS is not the right place. I’m asking for opinions, but this is about food so I thought CS might be, on balance, the right place. And to explain the title. I am acknowledging that sauce recommendations mi… --- ## [Infant Actors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infant-actors/801613)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infant-actors/801613 "2017-11-15T03:54:59Z")
I watch an Australian series on Netflix called “Offspring”. The main character is an obstetrician so there are a lot of births shown with newborns taking center stage. In the episode I watched last night, the other are… --- ## [WARNING to parents whose young children watch Amazon Prime TV shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-to-parents-whose-young-children-watch-amazon-prime-tv-shows/801587)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-to-parents-whose-young-children-watch-amazon-prime-tv-shows/801587 "2017-11-15T02:19:27Z")
Class action lawsuit, anyone? There’s a horrendously violent/scary piece of garbage called Let’s Play With FGTeeV that not only is not blocked by Amazon’s parental controls, but Amazon suggests it to kids, right next to… --- ## [Fiction: Possible mecahnism for a lay person to make direct contact with powerful billionaire.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-possible-mecahnism-for-a-lay-person-to-make-direct-contact-with-powerful-billionaire/801078)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiction-possible-mecahnism-for-a-lay-person-to-make-direct-contact-with-powerful-billionaire/801078 "2017-11-15T01:34:53Z")
I am trying to come up with scenarios where a middle class lay person with no connections is able to make contact with a powerful person such as Zuckerberg or Gates. I thought about plane crashes and ship wrecks but they… --- ## [Children's songs your mom didn't let you sing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-songs-your-mom-didnt-let-you-sing/800470)
**Author:** [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childrens-songs-your-mom-didnt-let-you-sing/800470 "2017-11-14T17:42:45Z")
I’m not sure this is even a thing any more but in my childhood and years before that, there were songs–usually original lyrics set to the tune of a popular song or a commercial jingle–that kids sang gleefully and often, … --- ## [Hollywood Scandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-scandal/800597)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-scandal/800597 "2017-11-14T14:44:45Z")
Every day we’re hearing of new allegations of some kind of sexual abuse by directors and actors. I listen to a radio talk show every day and the host posed this question: Can you name an actor that it would genuinely s… --- ## [Movies where someone fights back against a bully or bullies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-someone-fights-back-against-a-bully-or-bullies/799792)
**Author:** [@interestingtwist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interestingtwist)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-someone-fights-back-against-a-bully-or-bullies/799792 "2017-11-14T12:23:23Z")
I’m trying to think of movies where bullying is a significant part of the movie, and one of the main characters stands up to the bullies. This could be kids or adults fighting bullies. The person fighting the bullies doe… --- ## [Do you know who Al Jean is? Do you know who Leonard Stern is?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-al-jean-is-do-you-know-who-leonard-stern-is/801395)
**Author:** [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-who-al-jean-is-do-you-know-who-leonard-stern-is/801395 "2017-11-14T10:23:16Z")
These are not trick questions. :slight\_smile: I’m deciding which person to include in a book I’m writing, and I need to gauge how well known each of their names is. Should I post this as a poll? --- ## [Fried green tomatoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-tomatoes/801495)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-tomatoes/801495 "2017-11-14T06:42:33Z")
The boss brought in some green tomatoes from her garden. I’ve never had fried green tomatoes, so I thought I’d give them a try. (Turns out, even though Mrs. L.A. lived in the South, she’d never had them either.) I use… --- ## [ID short story (possibly sci-fi but possibly not?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-short-story-possibly-sci-fi-but-possibly-not/801479)
**Author:** [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2017, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-short-story-possibly-sci-fi-but-possibly-not/801479 "2017-11-14T04:54:24Z")
Hi Dopers, there’s this story I’ve had the ending to in my brain but I can’t remember the actual story at all! I’m hoping one of you can help me out, though I have only a vague recollection of it, unfortunately. In the … --- ## [Gimme yer dough](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-yer-dough/801496)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-yer-dough/801496 "2017-11-14T03:34:00Z")
Or: calling all bakers. I like to bake, but it’s not always my forte. Today I decided to revisit an old recipe that my mother used to make. She got it from a Russian lady she knew in Juneau back in the old days. It’s cal… --- ## [Frank Underwood died on the way to his home planet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419)
**Author:** [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-underwood-died-on-the-way-to-his-home-planet/801419 "2017-11-13T21:58:51Z")
So the writers of House of Cards are trying to rewrite the last season without Kevin Spacey. Makes me think what would be the best (funniest) way to do that. Maybe just do a ‘soap opera.’ Just have a voice over announ… --- ## [Recommend me some horror writing (not King or Lovecraft)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-horror-writing-not-king-or-lovecraft/801322)
**Author:** [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-horror-writing-not-king-or-lovecraft/801322 "2017-11-13T21:58:03Z")
Every now and again I realize that there are whole genres of literature that I have fully skipped over. The horror genre is one of these for me. As a kid and even a young teen I was very easily frightened so I always avo… --- ## [DIY Smoked Salmon Recipes, please!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diy-smoked-salmon-recipes-please/801438)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diy-smoked-salmon-recipes-please/801438 "2017-11-13T21:52:04Z")
My husband and mother both love smoked salmon, and I’m trying to find a good recipe for the brine as well as any other steps in the smoking process. The two I’ve tried so far came from Google searches. The first called… --- ## [The Orville - anyone else watching?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-anyone-else-watching/801510)
**Author:** [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-orville-anyone-else-watching/801510 "2017-11-13T20:55:03Z")
It’s great, but being advertised badly. It’s not the broad sitcom that I expected but more like Star Trek if it was treated like MASH. It’s pretty awesome. --- ## [Unsolved mysteries of your kitchen.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsolved-mysteries-of-your-kitchen/801012)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unsolved-mysteries-of-your-kitchen/801012 "2017-11-13T19:51:11Z")
As the weather changes I have been taking stock of the pantry to see things forgotten over the summer months, to see if there is anything I should try to plan to use in the near future. Among my canned good I have 6 ca… --- ## [Jodie Whittaker's Doctor Who outfit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodie-whittakers-doctor-who-outfit/801247)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodie-whittakers-doctor-who-outfit/801247 "2017-11-13T18:34:30Z")
The Doctor has often dressed – unusually. I am not sure I like the “Steve Urkel” look. I like the top, the boots, the socks\*, the coat, and even the braces. I’m not sure I like the trousers. Also noteworthy is the ea… --- ## [Howard The Duck movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howard-the-duck-movie/800350)
**Author:** [@escaped](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/escaped)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/howard-the-duck-movie/800350 "2017-11-13T18:30:56Z")
Whats your opinion of the 1986 Howard duck movie? --- ## [Barney Miller and Chano and Inspector Luger](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-miller-and-chano-and-inspector-luger/634221)
**Author:** [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-miller-and-chano-and-inspector-luger/634221 "2017-11-13T15:33:38Z")
Since I saw a great discussion in my earlier thread about “Hogan’s Heroes” inconsistencies, I have to throw another similar one out regarding “Barney Miller.” When Jack Soo died, he was written out of the show. However… --- ## [Cornbread are square!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornbread-are-square/801398)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cornbread-are-square/801398 "2017-11-13T15:30:03Z")
If you’re not familiar… ‘Pi-R-squared.’ ‘Pie are not square! Pie are round! Cornbread are square!’ Now, I’ve had cornbread cooked in a baking dish. But I always (like tonight) make my cornbread in a cast-iron fryin… --- ## [Cast Iron Cooking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-iron-cooking/800911)
**Author:** [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-iron-cooking/800911 "2017-11-13T12:36:46Z")
I have recently bought some cast iron skillets and am completely new to using them. I have learned from the internet to never use soap on them and that the more I use them, the better they get. I’ve been using them as of… --- ## [Which of these Pixar releases are you particularly fond of?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-pixar-releases-are-you-particularly-fond-of/800621)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-pixar-releases-are-you-particularly-fond-of/800621 "2017-11-13T07:47:43Z")
Which of these Pixar releases are you particularly fond of? (Disney animated feature releases poll here) --- ## [Identify opening location in Better Watch Out (2016)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-opening-location-in-better-watch-out-2016/801391)
**Author:** [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-opening-location-in-better-watch-out-2016/801391 "2017-11-13T04:33:05Z")
98% of this movie is filmed inside on a stage/studio in Australia. They built the house inside a building and have fake snow for the backyard. The opening scene seems to be filmed in Illinois/Wisconsin with the look of… --- ## [What the hell is a diamond in the back?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-a-diamond-in-the-back/793709)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-a-diamond-in-the-back/793709 "2017-11-13T04:30:05Z")
Recent news events put the title of Shirley Company’s Shame, Shame, Shame in my head. Listening to it again after a few decades reminded me of Curtis Mayfield’s Diamond In The Back. Was this a thing in the 70s that I do… --- ## ["Arrowverse" producer suspended amid sexual misconduct allegations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrowverse-producer-suspended-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations/801373)
**Author:** [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrowverse-producer-suspended-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations/801373 "2017-11-13T03:16:51Z")
Andrew Kreisberg, a showrunner for the CW’s stable of DC superhero shows, has been suspended by Warner Bros. over allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate physical contact over a period of years. --- ## [This Label Is Seen On A Bottle On TV. Name The Series.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-label-is-seen-on-a-bottle-on-tv-name-the-series/801351)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-label-is-seen-on-a-bottle-on-tv-name-the-series/801351 "2017-11-13T03:15:20Z")
Goose Laxative. --- ## ["Tropic Thunder" final credits](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropic-thunder-final-credits/490355)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tropic-thunder-final-credits/490355 "2017-11-12T19:07:25Z")
So we see the Hollywood agent played by Matthew McConnaguaheeeyyamalamadingdongjeyhey on his Gulfstream G-5 jet, kicking back with a martini and a smile as he flies back from Vietnam. Did he betray the Les Grossman (Tom… --- ## [Wow, why had I never heard Joan Armatrading before?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-why-had-i-never-heard-joan-armatrading-before/801357)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-why-had-i-never-heard-joan-armatrading-before/801357 "2017-11-12T19:05:15Z")
I used the Music-Map website — http://www.music-map.com — find suggestions for artists like Van Morrison, and one of the names that showed up was Joan Armatrading. The name sounded vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=677) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=679)