# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=735 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 736 --- ## [Roger Moore dead at 89 years of age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-moore-dead-at-89-years-of-age/787275)
**Author:** [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-moore-dead-at-89-years-of-age/787275 "2017-05-28T00:56:59Z")
Pretty much what the headline says. EDIT: Tweet from ABC News containing a statement from his children confirming his death. --- ## [The Simpsons -- Donald TRump meets the ghost of Richard Nixon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-donald-trump-meets-the-ghost-of-richard-nixon/787559)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-donald-trump-meets-the-ghost-of-richard-nixon/787559 "2017-05-28T00:29:35Z")
Just released --- ## [Strange Brew and Disturbed Spirits](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-brew-and-disturbed-spirits/787005)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-brew-and-disturbed-spirits/787005 "2017-05-27T16:48:02Z")
The "WTF??"s of beers and distilled goods. I’ve got one entry each, they both come from Rogue, and they tie into each other. Beer: Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon Ale. Vodka: Rogue Vooddoo Doughnut Maple Bacon Vodka… --- ## [Do people watch classic TV series?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-watch-classic-tv-series/787353)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-watch-classic-tv-series/787353 "2017-05-27T14:13:51Z")
Is that a thing? Obviously there are old TV shows that people watch. But it’s usually the stuff that gets syndicated and where you can watch the episodes in any order. What about the series where there are story arcs a… --- ## [What was there before Braveheart?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-there-before-braveheart/786841)
**Author:** [@The\_Piranha\_Brothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Piranha_Brothers)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-there-before-braveheart/786841 "2017-05-27T13:19:58Z")
Was watching the DVD yesterday and the question struck me, what was there before Braveheart if you look for anything similar? Apart from Highlander I can’t really think of anything in the 10 years before 1995. Or even be… --- ## [Acting types: any advice for convincingly playing a woman (if you're a man, obviously)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-types-any-advice-for-convincingly-playing-a-woman-if-youre-a-man-obviously/787510)
**Author:** [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acting-types-any-advice-for-convincingly-playing-a-woman-if-youre-a-man-obviously/787510 "2017-05-27T02:52:22Z")
I have been cast as Edna Turnblad in an upcoming production of HAIRSPRAY. It’s my first female character (and also about the closest I’ve ever come or am ever likely to come to a romantic role, but I digress). I’ve got m… --- ## [Why is On Demand so quiet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-on-demand-so-quiet/787521)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-on-demand-so-quiet/787521 "2017-05-27T02:36:38Z")
So, I’ve been catching up on Twin Peaks: TOS, while also watching The Return. I’ve been watching a combination of Showtime directly, DVR, Netflix, and On Demand. Mostly, when I watch my TV, I have it set on 28 as the vo… --- ## [Why doesn't Steve Harvey ID the "brand new car!" families can win on Family Feud?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-steve-harvey-id-the-brand-new-car-families-can-win-on-family-feud/787399)
**Author:** [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-steve-harvey-id-the-brand-new-car-families-can-win-on-family-feud/787399 "2017-05-27T00:52:14Z")
Seems like a popular enough show that an enterprising car company would donate a car in turn for some sort of a plug. But all Steve Harvey does is announce the prize as a “Brand new car!” Does FF just buy the car and g… --- ## [Lidsville? What the heck...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lidsville-what-the-heck/241845)
**Author:** [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lidsville-what-the-heck/241845 "2017-05-26T19:16:54Z")
My boyfriend and I recently came across this show airing very late at night on TV Land - Lidsville. Now I’m no TV show expert, and most shows probably deserve a second chance but all I have to say is WHAT THE HECK is th… --- ## [Your favoriate James Bond theme song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favoriate-james-bond-theme-song/659133 "2017-05-26T19:10:11Z")
I have a Shirley Bassey CD with her rendition of “Goldfinger” on it, and I like it a lot. It’s been a while since I heard some of the other Bond themes, but even so I’d have to say this one is probably my favorite. A c… --- ## [I made this dish up-- help me name it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-this-dish-up-help-me-name-it/787357)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-this-dish-up-help-me-name-it/787357 "2017-05-26T18:45:31Z")
Or, if it has already been invented, what’s it called? Butter in small frying pan, when melted and foamy add an egg. Add shredded smoked Gouda over top, cover and cook until the yolk is thick and creamy but still runny.… --- ## [You're making it wrong!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-making-it-wrong/787475)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-making-it-wrong/787475 "2017-05-26T18:32:59Z")
Early morning stream-of-consciousness thing going on here, so I’ll explain… In the '80s I worked with a young (then – she was older than I was) transplant from Iowa who didn’t quite have pronunciations down. She said s… --- ## [Loreena Mckennitts The Highwayman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loreena-mckennitts-the-highwayman/787406)
**Author:** [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loreena-mckennitts-the-highwayman/787406 "2017-05-26T15:16:50Z")
The Highwayman Loreena McKennitt The Highwayman - Google Search A very moving song that asks us to sympathize with a highway robber over English overlords. Is this a traditional Irish song and how rooted in reality is i… --- ## [Who exactly was responsible for adding the famous high C to Allegri's Miserere ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-exactly-was-responsible-for-adding-the-famous-high-c-to-allegris-miserere/787468)
**Author:** [@garusic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garusic)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-exactly-was-responsible-for-adding-the-famous-high-c-to-allegris-miserere/787468 "2017-05-26T14:19:37Z")
I know that he was a castrato, but exactly who ? --- ## [Hidden Figures and the Issue(s)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-figures-and-the-issue-s/786112)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-figures-and-the-issue-s/786112 "2017-05-26T13:27:03Z")
I just watched “Hidden Figures” on DVD with the family. I have to ask if anyone else felt the movie played down the race issue for the sex issue. While race was depicted as the issue for most of the film, there were time… --- ## [Hair Metal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-metal/787400)
**Author:** [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hair-metal/787400 "2017-05-26T12:58:55Z")
I’m curious as to what the opinion of SD is on Hair Metal. I’m also curious…How many here were say, 16 and above during the height of Hair Metal (roughly 1984-1992)? I’m curious to hear different generation’s perspective… --- ## [What singer has outlived most of his/her singing partners?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singer-has-outlived-most-of-his-her-singing-partners/787136)
**Author:** [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-singer-has-outlived-most-of-his-her-singing-partners/787136 "2017-05-26T03:55:48Z")
So at work the other night, I heard “Knew You Were Waiting for Me” by Aretha Franklin and George Michael. And it occurred to me that Aretha had outlived George, even despite some of her own medical problems (including ob… --- ## [Fifty Years Since "Blonde on Blonde"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-years-since-blonde-on-blonde/787386)
**Author:** [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-years-since-blonde-on-blonde/787386 "2017-05-26T02:15:35Z")
This is such a cool article! I hope y’all can read it without paying for it: --- ## [Ask the Guy who worked at Skywalker Ranch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-worked-at-skywalker-ranch/639371)
**Author:** [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-worked-at-skywalker-ranch/639371 "2017-05-26T00:12:49Z")
With the recent news of Disney’s purchase of my former employer, it seemed to be a good time to come out of the woodwork as someone who was working for Lucasfilm for most of the time I’ve been a Doper (though it’s been o… --- ## ["U.P." in Miss Fisher Mysteries](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-p-in-miss-fisher-mysteries/787449)
**Author:** [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-p-in-miss-fisher-mysteries/787449 "2017-05-25T23:00:15Z")
I am reading Cocaine Blues, the first of the Phryne Fisher Mystery books, and early in the book she is asked to go to Australia to investigate a problem. She agrees, so long as she does it her own pace. “Don’t follow me … --- ## [How to watch old episodes of "Grand Designs"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-watch-old-episodes-of-grand-designs/787421)
**Author:** [@EdwardLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdwardLost)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-watch-old-episodes-of-grand-designs/787421 "2017-05-25T20:19:33Z")
channel4.com has past episodes of “Grand Designs”, but for some reason I can’t get them to start playing. (I’ve tried multiple systems, multiple browsers.) I’ve been watching the few seasons available on Netflix and wou… --- ## [Need help identifying an old comedy skit involving stunt doubles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-an-old-comedy-skit-involving-stunt-doubles/787422)
**Author:** [@No\_Way\_Jose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Way_Jose)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-an-old-comedy-skit-involving-stunt-doubles/787422 "2017-05-25T18:09:05Z")
I remember seeing a comedy skit in which two men were fighting in what I believe was a locker room. One of them was rather large and the other was small in stature. When one of them would punch the other it would cut th… --- ## [Recommend me a Scotch!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-scotch/786935)
**Author:** [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-scotch/786935 "2017-05-25T17:08:51Z")
I have Speyside, and Arran, and Highland, and Islay (oh my!) in my library of Scotches, BUT! I have no Lowland or Campbeltown whiskeys.\*\*\*\*\* What’s your favorite in those two regions? Why? Also, if you know of a whisky… --- ## [Bagels in Montreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagels-in-montreal/787324)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bagels-in-montreal/787324 "2017-05-25T16:06:57Z")
Heading to Montreal tomorrow. For those of you in the know… Fairmount or St-Viateur? Or do we just change the conjunction? --- ## [Why is cured cooked meat associated with breakfast?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cured-cooked-meat-associated-with-breakfast/787289)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cured-cooked-meat-associated-with-breakfast/787289 "2017-05-25T07:51:45Z")
What is the logic behind the fact that (in the US and UK at least) the meats associated with a cooked breakfast are almost always cured and cooked? (e.g.: bacon, sausage, ham) I assume it is something to do with the pre… --- ## [Summer Salads ... pasta or otherwise.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-salads-pasta-or-otherwise/786313)
**Author:** [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-salads-pasta-or-otherwise/786313 "2017-05-25T02:57:31Z")
I love summer salads. I would love to hear everyone’s favorite pasta salad, mac salad or summer salad of any kind. --- ## ["Mable, Mable if you're able . . " children's trick](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mable-mable-if-youre-able-childrens-trick/787294)
**Author:** [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 25, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mable-mable-if-youre-able-childrens-trick/787294 "2017-05-25T02:39:32Z")
Does anyone remember a children’s game - actually it was more of a magic trick - that went something like “Mable, Mable if you’re able, take the quarter from the table”. I’m not talking about the rhyme meant to teach kid… --- ## [Jungleland on the Vice Channel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jungleland-on-the-vice-channel/787365)
**Author:** [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jungleland-on-the-vice-channel/787365 "2017-05-24T20:44:14Z")
I know not too many people get the Vice Channel, but it’s good, especially the stuff by Spike Jonez and produced by Bill Maher. Anyway, Jungleland is a documentary about a guy who bought some land in the Panamanian jung… --- ## [Twin Peaks - The Return Parts 1 and 2 (open spoilers after it airs)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-peaks-the-return-parts-1-and-2-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/787104)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twin-peaks-the-return-parts-1-and-2-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/787104 "2017-05-24T18:08:08Z")
I can’t believe it, but Twin Peaks comes back tomorrow. I haven’t seen more than a second of new footage and haven’t the slightest idea what they are going to have in store for us, but I can not wait and want a place se… --- ## [Lou Reed’s “Take a walk on The Wild Side”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-reed-s-take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side/44198)
**Author:** [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-reed-s-take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side/44198 "2017-05-24T17:28:22Z")
I can’t be the only one who’s ever wondered about this song, but a quick search of the archives turned up nothing. What the hell is this song about, anyway? Specifically, the lines “… looking for soul food and a place … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=734) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=736)