# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=744 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 745 --- ## [Dance song with a brass section](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-song-with-a-brass-section/783795)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-song-with-a-brass-section/783795 "2017-05-01T15:29:29Z")
I heard this song yesterday, at the gym, and don’t know what it is. It was a dance track, modem, with all the remixing shenanigans and whatnot going on, but it was based around what sounded like big band music blaring so… --- ## [The Dead South](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dead-south/785444)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dead-south/785444 "2017-05-01T14:34:09Z")
Here’s a quick blurb on this alt.bluegrass band: The Dead South is a four-piece acoustic ensemble based in Regina, Saskatchewan. With gritty vocals, soaring harmonies, blazing banjo licks, and prominent cello melodies, … --- ## [I started cooking burgers in butter...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-cooking-burgers-in-butter/785571)
**Author:** [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-started-cooking-burgers-in-butter/785571 "2017-05-01T12:59:29Z")
I’m going to be 47 this July, I think I am a decent cook, and am always looking to learn new things and improve/perfect the dishes I do know how to cook. My wife loves the big, thick hamburgers, but despite numerous adju… --- ## [What lead to the Beatles ballad period?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lead-to-the-beatles-ballad-period/785234)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lead-to-the-beatles-ballad-period/785234 "2017-05-01T04:15:46Z")
I’ve never understood how the group that wrote I Am The Walrus and other… Uh, oddities Created some of the greatest piano ballads of all time. Let It Be, Hey Jude, Yesterday, and rock ballads like Long and Winding Road… --- ## [The Big Bang Theory, Season 10, Episode 22 (April 27, 2017) -- "The Cognition Regeneration"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369)
**Author:** [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-10-episode-22-april-27-2017-the-cognition-regeneration/785369 "2017-05-01T01:10:54Z")
I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode. --- ## [Old movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595)
**Author:** [@Mowgli666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mowgli666)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie/785595 "2017-04-30T22:21:00Z")
I’m trying to remember a name of a movie about a robot that I watched in the mid 70’s. Here’s what I remember: space movie, man controls robot with chip behind his neck, robot gets control of chip, robot kills people try… --- ## [Thelonious Monk's Raise Four: Perfectly Absurd](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelonious-monks-raise-four-perfectly-absurd/785562)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thelonious-monks-raise-four-perfectly-absurd/785562 "2017-04-30T21:22:22Z")
Man I love this little piano jam Monk included on Underground: Thelonious Monk - Raise Four - YouTube It’s so silly - kind of a Blues Chopsticks, plinking a couple of keys, following a blues pattern. Then he stretches… --- ## [Is anyone else having trouble finding fresh cauliflower?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-finding-fresh-cauliflower/785187)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-finding-fresh-cauliflower/785187 "2017-04-30T21:01:19Z")
For the past several weeks, I have not seen it at my local grocery stores; I don’t really have a regular store and simply stop in at whatever store I happen to be driving by while running errands. I finally did find som… --- ## [Obscure Cultural Reference In Popeye?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-cultural-reference-in-popeye/785281)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-cultural-reference-in-popeye/785281 "2017-04-30T18:20:39Z")
I have to admit, it has been a while since I saw a Popeye cartoon. I was just a child. I don’t even know if they show it on TV anymore. Anyways, the cartoons long out-date me. Many of them are even in black and white. T… --- ## [Canned green jackfruit at Trader Joe's: an oustanding meat substitute](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-jackfruit-at-trader-joes-an-oustanding-meat-substitute/785420)
**Author:** [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-jackfruit-at-trader-joes-an-oustanding-meat-substitute/785420 "2017-04-30T03:13:44Z")
Now, I’ll start off by saying that I generally like meat substitutes, even if they don’t taste much like meat. I’m not vegetarian (though close to it: flexitarian, you might say) so I like meat, too, and I am familiar wi… --- ## [Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' thread -- April 2017 Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-april-2017-edition/783418)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-april-2017-edition/783418 "2017-04-29T23:31:33Z")
April is nigh upon us… for some it’s flowers and for others we’re looking at turning another year older…Yeah me and Iron Man are 52 this year. :smiley: So what are y’all reading, writing and piling up in your room, bec… --- ## [Valuable Beanie babies (not!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuable-beanie-babies-not/785510)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuable-beanie-babies-not/785510 "2017-04-29T20:54:16Z")
The thread on how some comics were thought to be valuable and weren’t inspires this: I have collected a bunch of different things over the years and am an author in the field. So I have seen many examples of people gett… --- ## [Ella Fitzgerald's 100th birthday today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ella-fitzgeralds-100th-birthday-today/785252)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ella-fitzgeralds-100th-birthday-today/785252 "2017-04-29T19:37:58Z")
I love a lot of her work, although I’m not particularly interested in her scat singing. I especially loved the Verve songbook albums she did in the 50’s and 60’s, and her duets with Louis Armstrong. Her voice could be co… --- ## [Anyone able to name the insturments in this song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-able-to-name-the-insturments-in-this-song/785207)
**Author:** [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-able-to-name-the-insturments-in-this-song/785207 "2017-04-29T14:16:19Z")
I’m looking for the name of a piece of music. Since it’s production music rather than one by a mainstream artist, it will be nearly impossible to find however I could search for it through the specific instruments used. … --- ## [Can Someone Explain to Me How Checking Out Books Via an Amazon Fire Works?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-to-me-how-checking-out-books-via-an-amazon-fire-works/784755)
**Author:** [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-to-me-how-checking-out-books-via-an-amazon-fire-works/784755 "2017-04-29T14:07:44Z")
Long story short, I’m thinking of getting a Fire because I’m tearing through books quicker than I have in the past, and joining a library can’t really happen for various reasons. I’m reading that you can check out books… --- ## [Lovecraftian Quote--Approximately.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-quote-approximately/785385)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-quote-approximately/785385 "2017-04-29T13:41:16Z")
I’m certain this quote isn’t quite right. I’m not certain if it was Lovecraft, Howard, August Derelith, or somebody else who wrote it. Input? Source? Pie? --- ## [I see an Ice Cream Cone and I Want to Paint it Black...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-see-an-ice-cream-cone-and-i-want-to-paint-it-black/785394)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-see-an-ice-cream-cone-and-i-want-to-paint-it-black/785394 "2017-04-29T10:55:00Z")
For those of you feeling too bright and chipper today, we can turn down your optimism with the ultimate in dreary sweet confections http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/this-goth-ice-cream-is-here-t… --- ## [Fantasy equivalents of modern terms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-equivalents-of-modern-terms/778231)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-equivalents-of-modern-terms/778231 "2017-04-29T10:51:35Z")
There are some words that you just can’t use in fantasy fiction (unless it’s urban fantasy) because they sound too modern. Too jarringly out of place. Even if your made-up society has equivalent concepts. So what would … --- ## [Valuable comic books](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuable-comic-books/785447)
**Author:** [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valuable-comic-books/785447 "2017-04-29T06:07:45Z")
I’ve never been one who read comic books but I remember reading a book as a child, I don’t remember the name of the book but it would have been late 80s early 90s, where the characters were discussing valuable comic book… --- ## [Erin Moran has died at 56](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erin-moran-has-died-at-56/785038)
**Author:** [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erin-moran-has-died-at-56/785038 "2017-04-29T04:55:13Z")
Hard to believe. I guess she had a hard lifestyle. RIP. --- ## [LaLa Land](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lala-land/785469)
**Author:** [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lala-land/785469 "2017-04-29T02:17:10Z")
We;re watching it right now. What a piece of dreck. Bad acting, bad music, bad singing, bad everything. I can’t believe this POS won Oscars. --- ## [the worst movies a to z ....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-movies-a-to-z/785340 "2017-04-28T21:28:38Z")
this article picks out the worst movies for every letter of the alphabet MSN How many have you seen ? ive seen most of these … --- ## [Question about a James Lee Burke novel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-james-lee-burke-novel/785399)
**Author:** [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-james-lee-burke-novel/785399 "2017-04-28T20:26:40Z")
In one of his Dave Robicheaux novels, Dave’s daughter Alafair is high school/college age, and is defiantly dating a ‘bad guy’, much to Dave’s dismay. Can anyone tell me the name of that novel? --- ## [The Walking Dead; 7.16 "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-16-the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life-open-spoilers/783622)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-7-16-the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life-open-spoilers/783622 "2017-04-28T18:30:25Z")
\[QUOTE=AMC\] The stakes continue to grow higher as paths cross; the group enacts an intricate plan. \[/QUOTE\] Season finale tonight; Norman Reedus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Scott M. Gimple are on Talking Dead. --- ## [50's Cartoon about Earth Run by Cars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-cartoon-about-earth-run-by-cars/785443)
**Author:** [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-cartoon-about-earth-run-by-cars/785443 "2017-04-28T16:02:24Z")
Does anyone remember a short animated cartoon cough about alien cough anthropologists who discover Earth, a planet whose main species is Automobiles (with human parasites)? --- ## [The Flash S03E19: The Once and Future Flash](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-s03e19-the-once-and-future-flash/785210)
**Author:** [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-s03e19-the-once-and-future-flash/785210 "2017-04-28T14:44:31Z")
The Scarlet Speedster returns from spring hiatus tonight. Barry has another harebrained scheme to time travel again, this time into the future, to find out what exactly is going to happen to Iris and who Savitar really … --- ## [What 1980s movie had a 'Panic Pete' toy in it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-movie-had-a-panic-pete-toy-in-it/785339)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-movie-had-a-panic-pete-toy-in-it/785339 "2017-04-28T14:11:44Z")
Panic Pete I remember a couple of guys talking, and one is absent-mindedly holding/rolling a ‘Panic Pete’ in his hand. At the end of the conversation or argument, the guy squeezes the toy. I thought it was hilarious,… --- ## [New Music Fridays](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-music-fridays/785436)
**Author:** [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-music-fridays/785436 "2017-04-28T13:59:14Z")
Music is a constantly evolving and updating art form. The way we can access it has changed so much from when I would go to a record store and buy tapes at 12:01am on a Tuesday. Now, we can listen to whole albums on phone… --- ## [Starting a book series later than the first book](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-book-series-later-than-the-first-book/785020)
**Author:** [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-book-series-later-than-the-first-book/785020 "2017-04-28T13:59:02Z")
Have you ever done this, and then gone on to read the rest of the series? I have. When I was a kid, I read The Grey King in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series first, because my school library didn’t have any of t… --- ## [pies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pies/785279)
**Author:** [@bladerunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bladerunner)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pies/785279 "2017-04-28T12:41:31Z")
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