# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=72 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 73 --- ## [Actors in "old" makeup versus when they really were old](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-in-old-makeup-versus-when-they-really-were-old/1019552)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-in-old-makeup-versus-when-they-really-were-old/1019552 "2025-06-18T18:53:53Z")
Such as Star Trek: TOS “The Deadly Years”. Or Tom Baker in “The Leisure Hive”. --- ## [Documentary on the Go-Go's](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documentary-on-the-go-gos/1019736)
**Author:** [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documentary-on-the-go-gos/1019736 "2025-06-18T03:22:05Z")
I just watched a 2020 documentary "The Go-Go’s (directed and produced by Alison Ellwood). I remember when they were really popular in the early 1980s. They had started out as aspiring punk rockers, but a producer observe… --- ## [Paw Patrol questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paw-patrol-questions/1019714)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paw-patrol-questions/1019714 "2025-06-17T04:58:57Z")
I’m visiting family this week and one result of this is I’m watching a lot more Paw Patrol than I normally would be. And I have questions. What’s the deal with Mayor Humdinger? He’s called a mayor but I’ve seen that he … --- ## [How to Train Your Dragon. \[Live Action Remake\] 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-train-your-dragon-live-action-remake-2025/1019632 "2025-06-16T19:46:03Z")
There is a new live action remake of the animated 2010 How to Train Your Dragon which came to theaters June 13. Trailer: High Rotten Tomatoes ratings: 98% from the general public, 77% from reviewers. \[I won’t watc… --- ## [Sugar-free cheesecake](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-free-cheesecake/1019404 "2025-06-16T19:12:16Z")
Hi, y’all! I’m going down to visit my family this weekend, and I want to make a cheesecake for them. I love the Cordon Rose cheesecake recipe: but usually make it with a graham-cracker crust and a fruit topping, like c… --- ## [Only Albums](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-albums/1019638)
**Author:** [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-albums/1019638 "2025-06-16T18:12:56Z")
Stephen Stills’ first solo album is the only one with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix playing new music on it. They did separate songs, though. Hendrix on “Old Times Good Times” and Clapton on “Go Back Home”. Rosie Vela’s… --- ## [Open AI's latest wonder: text to video with Sora](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-ais-latest-wonder-text-to-video-with-sora/997648)
**Author:** [@Lantern2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern2)\ **Replies:** 131\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-ais-latest-wonder-text-to-video-with-sora/997648 "2025-06-16T18:11:42Z")
The latest sensation sweeping the Intertubes. Some thoughts: I don’t follow this space closely but I am stunned at the quality of the videos, the level of detail and the ability to modify on the fly. I would have gue… --- ## [Looking for a particular zero sugar soda](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-particular-zero-sugar-soda/1018674)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-particular-zero-sugar-soda/1018674 "2025-06-16T00:12:17Z")
I am trtying to find a new Shasta cola-Shasta Zero Sugar Cho•Co•lat De•lite. I went to the Shasta site, looked up that particular soda, and they had a button to find all the locations…which just lead to a long list of p… --- ## [Brian Wilson has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-wilson-has-died/1019483)
**Author:** [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-wilson-has-died/1019483 "2025-06-15T20:59:09Z")
It’s been a bad week for music. --- ## [Doc Martin Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martin-question/1019557)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doc-martin-question/1019557 "2025-06-14T16:31:23Z")
Season 1, Episode 5 Receptionist Elaine is coming on to Computer Tech Al: Been looking for you. Yeah? How come you never asked me out? You was with Greg; so… Yeah. Also; you were a bit of a non. Yeah; I suppose I was. … --- ## [Mr. Blue Sky (song)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497 "2025-06-13T21:45:32Z")
TIL that (supposedly) that the heavily vocoded message at the end of the song Mr. Blue Sky doesn’t say “Mr. Blue Sky-y” but instead, “Please turn me over”. Being instructions at the end of side 3 to flip the disc over t… --- ## [Salmon on the barbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salmon-on-the-barbie/1019441)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/salmon-on-the-barbie/1019441 "2025-06-13T18:58:03Z")
When we eat fish, it’s usually wild-caught salmon (preferably with the skin on). Salmon doesn’t need a lot of help. Some kosher salt is fine. Or maybe kosher salt, fresh rosemary sprigs, and lemon slices. Or kosher s… --- ## [Actors you’ll always watch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-ll-always-watch/1019254)
**Author:** [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-ll-always-watch/1019254 "2025-06-13T06:45:11Z")
Continuing the discussion from Movies you've seen recently (Part 2): Do you have an actor who is so compelling to you that you’ll always watch a movie they’re in, simply because of that actor? For me, it’s Jackie Chan.… --- ## [Star Trek: Do "star dates" have any structure or are they just a number the writers picked out of a hat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-do-star-dates-have-any-structure-or-are-they-just-a-number-the-writers-picked-out-of-a-hat/1019327)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-do-star-dates-have-any-structure-or-are-they-just-a-number-the-writers-picked-out-of-a-hat/1019327 "2025-06-12T20:27:50Z")
Title says it all. Often in a Star Trek episode we hear something like, “Star date 40100.3…” (I made that up) Were star dates ever figured out as a rational system or was the star date only whatever the writers that da… --- ## [RIP Sly Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sly-stone/1019389)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-sly-stone/1019389 "2025-06-12T12:34:17Z")
Obit from the NY Times. I’ve been watching the clip of him at Woodstock, leading the crowd in a “sing-along” (“say ‘Higher’ and throw the peace sign up, it’ll do ya no harm..”) periodically since 1970…it never gets old… --- ## [Looking for a good read](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-good-read/1019351)
**Author:** [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2025, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-good-read/1019351 "2025-06-12T06:00:11Z")
Not sure what I’m in the mood for, but I tend to read mostly nonfiction. However, recently, I have been reading some horror and sci-fi stories. I’m looking for something different. I have been watching some western movie… --- ## [The Eternaut (Netflix Series)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternaut-netflix-series/1018554)
**Author:** [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eternaut-netflix-series/1018554 "2025-06-11T15:52:38Z")
Continuing the discussion from Series you've recently watched, are now watching or have given up on: So, spinoffing (?) from that thread, this is for The Eternaut a Netflix series made in Argentina based on an 1957 Arge… --- ## [Explain the Hyundai commercial with the passing motorcycles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-hyundai-commercial-with-the-passing-motorcycles/1017966)
**Author:** [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-hyundai-commercial-with-the-passing-motorcycles/1017966 "2025-06-11T03:50:26Z")
In a current Hyundai Tucson commercial, a woman is driving in the middle lane on a highway with her husband and daughter asleep in the car. A group of motorcycles are behind her. She signals left, and the motorcycles p… --- ## [Best commercial imitations of McDonalds chicken McNuggets sauces](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-commercial-imitations-of-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnuggets-sauces/684482)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-commercial-imitations-of-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnuggets-sauces/684482 "2025-06-11T02:24:51Z")
I like sweet n sour, hot mustard & honey mustard the best. However I know there are several more varieties (BBQ, etc). So I was under the impression you can’t buy the exact same product commercially. Is that true? If so… --- ## [The Expanse Season 6 episode discussion (spoilers as they air)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expanse-season-6-episode-discussion-spoilers-as-they-air/955841)
**Author:** [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Replies:** 141\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-expanse-season-6-episode-discussion-spoilers-as-they-air/955841 "2025-06-10T22:40:08Z")
The final season of The Expanse starts today, with a new episode each Friday. Open spoilers as each episode airs. Comparison to the books is also fine, but please no book spoilers for anything that hasn’t happened in the… --- ## [Can you identify this story about a silver hoard?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-story-about-a-silver-hoard/1019401)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-story-about-a-silver-hoard/1019401 "2025-06-10T16:11:51Z")
It was about a farmer who finds a huge hoard of silver and pulls it out piece by piece. Kinda spooky. It was in a collection with a story about a man who learned how to see through things (which I think was made into a m… --- ## [Thrifting Magazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thrifting-magazine/1018931)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thrifting-magazine/1018931 "2025-06-09T22:50:01Z")
Was browsing at the bookstore when I saw Thrifting Magazine attractively priced at $18. That gets you “America’s Best Cities To Thrift!”, a list of thrift chain stores, “Items Never To Buy At Thrift Stores” (underwear! … --- ## [Batman vs. segregation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-vs-segregation/1019316)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-vs-segregation/1019316 "2025-06-09T20:30:17Z")
Beginning in the 1950s comic books were thoroughly neutered by the Comics Code Authority, which de facto censored adult or controversial topics. In the comics sex simply didn’t exist, let alone prostitution, rape, or mol… --- ## [Krugman interviews history professor and SF author Ada Palmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/krugman-interviews-history-professor-and-sf-author-ada-palmer/1019353)
**Author:** [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/krugman-interviews-history-professor-and-sf-author-ada-palmer/1019353 "2025-06-09T16:03:41Z")
Palmer has a new book out Inventing the Renaissance, about how the Renaissance is not a well-defined era so much as a PR effort by various historians and powers that want to associate themselves with awesome art, sculptu… --- ## [No longer a rumor. ‘Twin Peaks’ Returns As Showtime Limited Series \[merged threads, edited title\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-longer-a-rumor-twin-peaks-returns-as-showtime-limited-series-merged-threads-edited-title/700342 "2025-06-09T13:59:52Z")
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/10/david-lynch-and-mark-frost-tease-twin-peaks-return-on-twittter/ Laura did tell Cooper ”I’ll see you again in 25 years”. Knowing how his fans hang on every word of every rumor of a possib… --- ## [Convection toaster oven recommendations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convection-toaster-oven-recommendations/1018633)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convection-toaster-oven-recommendations/1018633 "2025-06-09T02:11:48Z")
I bought a Euro-Pro 6-slice convection toaster oven a decade or so ago. It’s grungy and one of the door pins is broken or missing, but it still works great. What I like about it is that it has mechanical controls. The… --- ## [Guitar Players: I need a little help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-i-need-a-little-help/1019015)
**Author:** [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-i-need-a-little-help/1019015 "2025-06-08T03:28:15Z")
I’m trying to play this song. At the 1:49 mark, he plays a normal D chort, but then raises his pinky to the 2nd string of the 4th fret. I can’t make that stretch quite yet, so wondering if there’s a good easier alterna… --- ## [You're Marty McFly, ready to play 3 songs from the future at a 1955 prom. What do you play?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-marty-mcfly-ready-to-play-3-songs-from-the-future-at-a-1955-prom-what-do-you-play/603256 "2025-06-07T18:31:12Z")
Title says it all. Assume, since this is a fantasy and all, that your backing band (and you too!) has the chops to play whatever it is from 1956-now that you select. What do you play? How would the crowd react? Hell, ho… --- ## [Do you have mood boards? Well, I want to see them!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-mood-boards-well-i-want-to-see-them/1019302)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-mood-boards-well-i-want-to-see-them/1019302 "2025-06-07T18:23:22Z")
And I want to show you mine. The board could be about anything. Clothes, art, design, vacations, kidnapping plans. . . whatever. Mine are all mostly about three different rooms in my future house and they are all Pinter… --- ## [Weirdest Potato Chip Flavour](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-potato-chip-flavour/977799)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [June 7, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-potato-chip-flavour/977799 "2025-06-07T12:55:43Z")
I don’t miss them. But growing up, one could purchase hot dog with mustard flavoured potato chips. What are/were the weirdest widely available flavours you can recall?. Were they edible? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=71) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=73)