# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=73 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 74 --- ## [Storytellers and creators, how do you see your stories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storytellers-and-creators-how-do-you-see-your-stories/1019227)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storytellers-and-creators-how-do-you-see-your-stories/1019227 "2025-06-06T05:24:51Z")
This can be for anyone who writes or creates fictional stories, whether for the page, screen, or some other media. How do you see your stories? To explain what I mean, I’m tell you how I see mine: In the infinite multi… --- ## [Comfort Foods](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-foods/1019087)
**Author:** [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Replies:** 111\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-foods/1019087 "2025-06-06T05:11:56Z")
Are there any comfort foods that just don’t do it for you? I’d have to say one of mine is mac and cheese. I like it, but I just don’t get the love for it. My homemade version is always a hit with others. It doesn’t matte… --- ## [Have any popular, cool media franchises / works of fiction inspired real-life societal progress?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-popular-cool-media-franchises-works-of-fiction-inspired-real-life-societal-progress/1019245)
**Author:** [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-popular-cool-media-franchises-works-of-fiction-inspired-real-life-societal-progress/1019245 "2025-06-06T04:45:59Z")
I’m wondering if any bestseller novels, cult TV shows, blockbuster movies, or other fictional media in recent decades inspired actual societal movements or progress on certain social issues due to some element in their f… --- ## [Can you identify this novel set in WWII?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-novel-set-in-wwii/1019242)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-novel-set-in-wwii/1019242 "2025-06-05T23:29:26Z")
I must have read this back in the '80s when I was working my way through a number of such works. A least one of the protagonists is a U-boat captain who turns against the Nazis. The one scene I remember vividly is wher… --- ## [What smoker should we get?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smoker-should-we-get/1019151)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smoker-should-we-get/1019151 "2025-06-05T23:06:27Z")
We’ve been toying with the idea of getting a smoker for a while, now that we’re retired and have time for these things. Also, we are buying cow fractions from a neighbor who raises beef cattle; last time we purchased, sh… --- ## [Recent examples of new foods spreading and getting popular?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 298\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957 "2025-06-05T20:52:01Z")
As a kid, I used to wonder where all the major popular food recipes came from — not “grandma’s lasagna”, but “lasagna” itself. Having grown up in a different country, even things like mac and cheese were novel, and I was… --- ## [Any symbol out there matching this description?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-symbol-out-there-matching-this-description/1019173)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-symbol-out-there-matching-this-description/1019173 "2025-06-05T17:27:34Z")
Like a “V” with a rounded bottom, or equivalently a “U” that the arms widen at the top. --- ## [RIP Valerie Mahaffey](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-valerie-mahaffey/1019067)
**Author:** [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-valerie-mahaffey/1019067 "2025-06-05T17:05:05Z")
Not a household name, but had memorable guest roles on TV for decades; Cheers, Wings, Seinfeld, Northern Exposure. If you had a role that needed the perfect balance of adorable and crazy, she was the one you called. --- ## [Elton John welcomed John Lennon to Madison Square Garden in Nov, 1974. I've got a question or two](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elton-john-welcomed-john-lennon-to-madison-square-garden-in-nov-1974-ive-got-a-question-or-two/1016215)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elton-john-welcomed-john-lennon-to-madison-square-garden-in-nov-1974-ive-got-a-question-or-two/1016215 "2025-06-05T00:14:04Z")
Stumbled across a few of the videos. The resolution is understandably poor. Seems there is a woman on stage playing bass. Does anyone know who this is? And, for that matter, does anyone have a list of the entire band f… --- ## [Goodfellas question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodfellas-question/616178)
**Author:** [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodfellas-question/616178 "2025-06-04T22:45:43Z")
Just watched \*Goodfellas \*last night for the first time in its entirety and unedited (for television) since right after it came out. Great great film that more than holds up. It definitely deserves it’s mentions among th… --- ## [Classical music question: My Brother’s Band (film)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-question-my-brother-s-band-film/1019191)
**Author:** [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-question-my-brother-s-band-film/1019191 "2025-06-04T21:08:17Z")
Saw this recently at a French Film Festival and enjoyed it very much. I’d like to know the titles of all the classical pieces played in the film, especially the opening piece in the official trailer: https://youtu.be/dv… --- ## [I shot the sheriff](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shot-the-sheriff/1019031)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shot-the-sheriff/1019031 "2025-06-04T20:03:20Z")
I first heard this song from Eric Clapton’s cover. I don’t know if anyone besides perhaps Paul Simon had contemporary songs that were essentially Reggae. So quite cool Clapton covered the song. Slight maybe important ly… --- ## [The Doctor will no longer be in](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doctor-will-no-longer-be-in/1019108 "2025-06-04T14:39:57Z")
Barret Eugene Hansen, radio’s “Dr. Demento”, is retiring. On his weekly show he announced he’s 84 now and he’s decided he’s going to stop doing the show in the future. He’s going to do retrospective and flashback shows … --- ## [Sgt Peppers as it was intended](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sgt-peppers-as-it-was-intended/685043)
**Author:** [@Melchior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melchior)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sgt-peppers-as-it-was-intended/685043 "2025-06-04T14:07:15Z")
The Beatles recorded Penny Lane and \*Strawberry Fields Forever \*as part of the recording sessions for Sgt. Peppers, but it was decided to release them as singles instead and not to put them on the album. Where do you thi… --- ## [RIP Johnny Hardwick ('Dale Gribble' on King Of The Hill)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-johnny-hardwick-dale-gribble-on-king-of-the-hill/988411)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-johnny-hardwick-dale-gribble-on-king-of-the-hill/988411 "2025-06-04T13:05:53Z")
The Government finally got ‘Rusty Shackleford’. JOHNNY HARDWICK, THE Texan soul of the long-running animated sitcom King of the Hill — for which he voiced the eccentric, paranoid, chain-smoking neighbor Dale Gribble … --- ## [Jon Benjamin! I forgot all about him!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-benjamin-i-forgot-all-about-him/1019077)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-benjamin-i-forgot-all-about-him/1019077 "2025-06-04T05:54:41Z")
Remember him, and his …has a van show? His downbeat, often hapless style always resonated with me. IMDB seems to show him to still be relatively busy, I suppose. Wish he’d find a vehicle to make him more prominent these … --- ## ["Songs Of A Lost World", The Cure's first album in 16 years is out, and it's great](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-lost-world-the-cures-first-album-in-16-years-is-out-and-its-great/1009542)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-lost-world-the-cures-first-album-in-16-years-is-out-and-its-great/1009542 "2025-06-03T23:49:55Z")
I’ve been a loyal Cure fan since I was a teenager in the early 80s, so I eagerly awaited this release, and I’m not disappointed. It’s the perfect autumn album (like many Cure albums) and follows their style on groundbrea… --- ## [Monthly Photo Competition #30 – May, 2025 – “Nature macros/close-ups” {Poll Added}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-30-may-2025-nature-macros-close-ups-poll-added/1017751)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-30-may-2025-nature-macros-close-ups-poll-added/1017751 "2025-06-03T14:10:40Z")
This is the monthly thread for May, 2025. The topic this month is “Nature macros/close-ups”, chosen by MacDoc. Please post only your photo and, if you want, a title in this thread. Any other text belongs in the rolling … --- ## [MUSHA RINGUM DURAM DA? What do it mean??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musha-ringum-duram-da-what-do-it-mean/364330)
**Author:** [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musha-ringum-duram-da-what-do-it-mean/364330 "2025-06-03T13:49:09Z")
I’m sure it’s been asked here before but of course a search yields nothing. What is the translation of “MUSHA RINGUM DURAM DA” as it is sung in the traditional Irish/appalachian tune “Whiskey in the Jar?” I guess this … --- ## [Seeking assistance constructing a trivia quiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-assistance-constructing-a-trivia-quiz/1018921)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-assistance-constructing-a-trivia-quiz/1018921 "2025-06-03T02:24:25Z")
I am in the process of constructing a trivia quiz and I thought it would be a brilliant idea to seek Doper input. I need suggestions for the questions I ask, but I want it to consist of a specific type of question. Each… --- ## [The 1969 film Burn!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1969-film-burn/1019116)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-1969-film-burn/1019116 "2025-06-02T23:13:34Z")
Pontecorvo is best known for The Battle of Algiers, but his film Burn! with Marlon Brando is a powerful look at slavery and colonialism. The DVD is poor quality and the remastering was for some reason entirely dubbed int… --- ## [Something that Bugs Me about Opie the Birdman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-bugs-me-about-opie-the-birdman/1019119)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-bugs-me-about-opie-the-birdman/1019119 "2025-06-02T22:38:14Z")
They showed this Andy Griffith Show, Opie the Birdman episode recently on MeTV. Or maybe TVLand., I can never remember between the two. It’s the one where Opie hand raises the three chicks of a bird that he killed with… --- ## [Alcohol that nobody has made?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcohol-that-nobody-has-made/1011023)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcohol-that-nobody-has-made/1011023 "2025-06-02T21:52:24Z")
I don’t drink at all, ever, so all of the various mentions of various types of alcohol and their taste is entirely vague theory to me. But I was just thinking of all the different things used as bases for famous types of… --- ## [Survivor 48](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-48/1014872)
**Author:** [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Replies:** 236\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-48/1014872 "2025-06-02T18:07:55Z")
Survivor 48 has begun! What will this season bring. So far we’ve had a dislocated shoulder, a father-daughter moment, a Dan Brown-esqe idol hunt, and a shouting match on the very first tribal. But more importantly, fan … --- ## [Beatles vs Meatles vs Leatles: Who Reigns Supreme in the Multiverse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-vs-meatles-vs-leatles-who-reigns-supreme-in-the-multiverse/1018962)
**Author:** [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-vs-meatles-vs-leatles-who-reigns-supreme-in-the-multiverse/1018962 "2025-06-02T17:21:23Z")
Let’s dive into a hypothetical alternate timeline (or two): The Meatles: Paul McCartney never meets John Lennon. Instead, he forms a band with George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Marty—an adequate lead guitarist, okay bac… --- ## [Breaking up... it's easy to do](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401)
**Author:** [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401 "2025-06-02T02:17:10Z")
Continuing this thread hijack in a more appropriate place with this Violent Femmes track --- ## [Sequels you wouldn't know are sequels from the titles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequels-you-wouldnt-know-are-sequels-from-the-titles/1018592 "2025-06-02T01:11:03Z")
A lot of sequels follow the usual pattern of just slapping a “2” onto the title of the first film…or at least referencing it in some clever way (see 22 Jump Street or I Still Know What You Did Last Summer)… …but SOME ha… --- ## [Recommend some horror books with unusual premises](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-horror-books-with-unusual-premises/1017866)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-horror-books-with-unusual-premises/1017866 "2025-06-01T21:36:20Z")
I feel like reading some interesting horror books with unusual premises. I won’t specify specific examples because I want the a broad range of recommendations rather than focusing on one specific area that I might happe… --- ## [Who remembers this female stand up comedian who got started when she was very young (like 12)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-this-female-stand-up-comedian-who-got-started-when-she-was-very-young-like-12/1019058)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-this-female-stand-up-comedian-who-got-started-when-she-was-very-young-like-12/1019058 "2025-06-01T15:05:45Z")
A memory popped into my head of a stand up comedian I saw a decade or so ago on YouTube or somewhere similar. She was young - like 12 or 13. Her young age was part of her comedic shtick, and her humor was a bit … bawdy, … --- ## [Trying to remember an Old Sci-Fi Movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-an-old-sci-fi-movie/1019062)
**Author:** [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-remember-an-old-sci-fi-movie/1019062 "2025-06-01T11:56:24Z")
Friends, I am trying to track down an old sf movie with just a tiny memory. Back in the early 70’s local TV stations would have old movies on Saturday afternoons. I remember a film that had the following scenes. Two men … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=74)