# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=789 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 790 --- ## [Don't people eat grapefruit for breakfast any more?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-people-eat-grapefruit-for-breakfast-any-more/776039)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-people-eat-grapefruit-for-breakfast-any-more/776039 "2017-01-05T08:28:59Z")
I was over at IMDB reading some of the comments on that wonderful movie Footlight Parade, 1933, with James Cagney. In one scene he’s at breakfast with his wife and there’s one half of a sliced grapefruit on the table bef… --- ## [At what age, and in what order, should one introduce kids to "Star Wars"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-and-in-what-order-should-one-introduce-kids-to-star-wars/775967)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-age-and-in-what-order-should-one-introduce-kids-to-star-wars/775967 "2017-01-05T06:10:07Z")
I was sorely tempted to post at the end of this “zombie” thread (after all, we can certainly update it with new information since 2012) but some people always seem to get their noses bent out of joint when I do that and … --- ## [Welp, guess I won't be seeing "Passengers" then](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-guess-i-wont-be-seeing-passengers-then/775069)
**Author:** [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welp-guess-i-wont-be-seeing-passengers-then/775069 "2017-01-05T03:56:09Z")
All right. Saw some trailers, and really liked the look of things. Pushes most of my buttons. Scifi? Yup. Cool design and style? Yup. Mystery? Ticked that box. So the reason why I’m not going to see it is a spoiler, and… --- ## [Darin McGavin detective shows, reel to reel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darin-mcgavin-detective-shows-reel-to-reel/776362)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darin-mcgavin-detective-shows-reel-to-reel/776362 "2017-01-05T02:35:33Z")
Which McGavin detective TV show gave him a reel to reel tape recorder for phone messages? I thought it was Mike Hammer, but I’ve watched almost all of it, and have not seen the recorder, despite his giving his cannon to … --- ## [Injecting mah meat!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/injecting-mah-meat/776360)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/injecting-mah-meat/776360 "2017-01-05T01:53:55Z")
For Christmas, Mrs. L.A. gave me a Calphalon roasting set. I already have a Chicago Metallic roasting pan and rack, plus the big forks. :stuck\_out\_tongue: What I didn’t have was a baster, and the Calphalon set came wi… --- ## [Pick the Next 10 'Legends of Hollywood' Stamps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-next-10-legends-of-hollywood-stamps/286263)
**Author:** [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-next-10-legends-of-hollywood-stamps/286263 "2017-01-04T23:42:50Z")
Inspired by Eve’s thread Born in 1905 And Deserve Stamps, Dammit!(http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=298158), I was wondering what Eve and any similarly inclined Teeming Millions think the USPS should c… --- ## [Finding an old Superman story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-an-old-superman-story/775984)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-an-old-superman-story/775984 "2017-01-04T22:53:27Z")
Back in the mid-1970s, I ran across an older relative’s collection of Superman comics (probably from the late 50s or early 60s), and read a few of them. The plot involved a flashback to Clark Kent’s college (or high sch… --- ## [How to watch Man in the High Castle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-watch-man-in-the-high-castle/776314)
**Author:** [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-watch-man-in-the-high-castle/776314 "2017-01-04T21:43:43Z")
I really want to see this series, but I don’t have Amazon. I already have plenty of channels on Directv and Netflix. That’s all I need is another service that I rarely watch. So am I SOL or is there a work around to s… --- ## [Best book on the War of 1812?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-book-on-the-war-of-1812/776313)
**Author:** [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-book-on-the-war-of-1812/776313 "2017-01-04T20:35:08Z")
I’m more or less a history buff, and and I’m trying to read and understand as much as I can before I die (whenever that is). Just yesterday, I purchased a copy of Battle Cry of Freedom (I’ve borrowed it from the library… --- ## [John Wayne would have kicked Chuck Norris's ass](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-wayne-would-have-kicked-chuck-norriss-ass/563808)
**Author:** [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Replies:** 202\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-wayne-would-have-kicked-chuck-norriss-ass/563808 "2017-01-04T17:13:22Z")
There’s too much politics in GD, so this is something everybody can weigh in on. Mods, kick it over to CS if you have to. --- ## [Pronounce Que Sera Sera](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-que-sera-sera/586007)
**Author:** [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounce-que-sera-sera/586007 "2017-01-04T15:44:43Z")
The thread on Tijuana got me thinking about this: Pronounce: Que Sera Sera. Of course it’s Doris Day’s signature song and she says: Kay-Sa-Rah, Sa-Rah OK flash forward to the mid 80s and you have another #1 song Lost… --- ## [Who are the five worst singers of pop music in the second half of the 20th century?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-five-worst-singers-of-pop-music-in-the-second-half-of-the-20th-century/776037)
**Author:** [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-five-worst-singers-of-pop-music-in-the-second-half-of-the-20th-century/776037 "2017-01-04T09:09:16Z")
I was listening t a little Leon Russell. Great writer and musician producer. But the voice is truly painful. This is not to pile on anyone. Everyone has his own special gift. To me Neil Young and Bob Dylan are two of … --- ## [I drew a picture to offer it as a gift](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-drew-a-picture-to-offer-it-as-a-gift/721319)
**Author:** [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2017, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-drew-a-picture-to-offer-it-as-a-gift/721319 "2017-01-04T07:25:26Z")
I usually draw pictures for people who do me favors, in addition to returning their favors when necessary, of course. I love tryptics. I’m going to give this one to the engineer who is having my car serviced before I go… --- ## [About the French accent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-accent/776239)
**Author:** [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-french-accent/776239 "2017-01-03T23:25:47Z")
I was watching French Kiss with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan. In the movie, Kline plays a Frenchman and in some scenes instead of pronouncing oui as “wee” he seems to be saying “uh-wae.” Is that a regional pronunciation f… --- ## [Kim Burrell: any bets that DeGeneres will cancel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-burrell-any-bets-that-degeneres-will-cancel/776001)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-burrell-any-bets-that-degeneres-will-cancel/776001 "2017-01-03T22:44:50Z")
So Kim Burrell is set to appear on the Ellen DeGeneres show on January 5th to sing I See A Victory. The victory however may prove Pyrrhic. Last night she posted this charming little sermon on her Facebook page. (The link… --- ## [Goodbye, Carnegie Deli](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-carnegie-deli/775909)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-carnegie-deli/775909 "2017-01-03T22:42:33Z")
Today, the Carnegie Deli serves it’s last pastrami sandwich. I had that sandwich, followed by a humongous slice of cheesecake, when I visited NY a few years back and no sandwich since has surpassed it. I remember the cr… --- ## [Ha! Finally! A Pixar like movie for us Adults: Sausage Party! (NSFWL)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-finally-a-pixar-like-movie-for-us-adults-sausage-party-nsfwl/755160)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-finally-a-pixar-like-movie-for-us-adults-sausage-party-nsfwl/755160 "2017-01-03T15:53:39Z")
“SAUSAGE PARTY - Official Restricted Trailer - In Cinemas August 11 - YouTube”\]Sausage Party. (NSFWL) Yes. I WILL be going to see this movie. No kiddos allowed! --- ## [Anyone know any particularly OLD songs about masturbation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-any-particularly-old-songs-about-masturbation/775774)
**Author:** [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-any-particularly-old-songs-about-masturbation/775774 "2017-01-03T13:08:27Z")
I’m going to guest on a podcast and the episode’s topic will be songs about masturbation. This is not a Thread looking for general suggestions for the topic, I’ve got a pretty good list together already (and there are p… --- ## [What is the oddest song/piece of music you've ever heard?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524)
**Author:** [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-oddest-song-piece-of-music-youve-ever-heard/775524 "2017-01-03T09:49:40Z")
Whether it be by popular musical artists, royalty free artists, on TV shows, themes, adverts etc. It doesn’t have to be an actual song but an instrumental. For me it has to be an alternative media TV show called ‘On The… --- ## [2016 celebrity deaths that hit hardest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-celebrity-deaths-that-hit-hardest/776205)
**Author:** [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-celebrity-deaths-that-hit-hardest/776205 "2017-01-03T03:58:48Z")
So that the year of famous deaths is finally over, which ones hit you the hardest and why? For me it was Merle Haggard and Patty Duke. For Haggard, it was a combination of growing up in a household where country music’… --- ## [New Artist you discovered in 2016](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-artist-you-discovered-in-2016/776204)
**Author:** [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-artist-you-discovered-in-2016/776204 "2017-01-03T03:57:11Z")
Who is your favorite new artist (singer or band) that you first discovered in 2016? For me it was Aster Aweke. She’s been around for decades, living and performing in the USA and her repertoire is on Pandora, but I did… --- ## [The REAL Banality of Evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-banality-of-evil/775968)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-banality-of-evil/775968 "2017-01-03T01:21:42Z")
I don’t mean it in Hannah Arendt’s sense\*. I mean the depiction in popular media of criminals as people utterly lacking in taste and discerning insight. It’s The Tackiness of Evil The most striking example is in the or… --- ## [Please explain this Steely Dan lyric for me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-steely-dan-lyric-for-me/776165)
**Author:** [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-steely-dan-lyric-for-me/776165 "2017-01-03T01:02:14Z")
It’s from “Do It Again.” Please note that it’s the second two lines I don’t understand; I list the first two only for context. I know there’s a literal meaning, but I’m looking for the metaphorical or implied one: (Now … --- ## [This Nostalgia Era is annoying me highly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-nostalgia-era-is-annoying-me-highly/776173)
**Author:** [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-nostalgia-era-is-annoying-me-highly/776173 "2017-01-03T00:14:33Z")
South Park touched upon this with their 'member berries skit, but from a personal experience, I watched Rogue One, and all the way through I was continuously thinking ‘Why can’t we do something new’ or better yet, why ca… --- ## [Tom Cruise: Lots Of Years, Lots Of Starring Roles, Double Your Money Back](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-lots-of-years-lots-of-starring-roles-double-your-money-back/693811)
**Author:** [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-cruise-lots-of-years-lots-of-starring-roles-double-your-money-back/693811 "2017-01-02T21:12:35Z")
Tom Cruise’s latest flick, Edge of Tomorrow, recently grossed more than double its budget, having just passed Top Gun on the all-time list. If he’d had no other starring roles from 1986 to 2014, that’d be kind of intere… --- ## [When watching TV, do you usually have closed captioning on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-watching-tv-do-you-usually-have-closed-captioning-on/775133)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-watching-tv-do-you-usually-have-closed-captioning-on/775133 "2017-01-02T20:02:56Z")
I do, even though there’s nothing wrong with my hearing (yet). I don’t know why, I just enjoy the stuff better with it being on. Just so I know exactly what’s being said at all times. : p Not to mention, sometimes some … --- ## [Jason Isbell: "You can't aim art." New or a quote?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-isbell-you-cant-aim-art-new-or-a-quote/776040)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-isbell-you-cant-aim-art-new-or-a-quote/776040 "2017-01-02T18:51:44Z")
On The New Yorker Radio Hour, songwriter and performer Jason Isbell shared a story - he’s a charming and witty man - about how when he’s singing a line in a song of his about giving up booze, the audience typically chime… --- ## [Songs that Cheer You Up when You Are Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cheer-you-up-when-you-are-down/776033)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cheer-you-up-when-you-are-down/776033 "2017-01-02T17:10:22Z")
In a bit of a funk recently, so I turned to Youtube and songs that always make me feel better. Three favourites: Neil Sedaka, “Laughter in the Rain.” Katrina and the Waves, “Walking on Sunshine.” The Beatles, “Here C… --- ## [Nearly as heinous crime as an alibi for murder?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-as-heinous-crime-as-an-alibi-for-murder/776032)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nearly-as-heinous-crime-as-an-alibi-for-murder/776032 "2017-01-02T16:35:18Z")
There have to be some stories out there where a person claims that they didn’t commit a murder and they can prove it…because at the time of the death they were committing another, nearly as heinous crime which can be sub… --- ## [Why has there never been a Dirty Duck book?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-has-there-never-been-a-dirty-duck-book/620841)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-has-there-never-been-a-dirty-duck-book/620841 "2017-01-02T15:43:33Z")
Dirty Duck is a comic strip character created by Bobby London in 1970. The character has been appearing regularly for over forty years now. But there has never been a book collection printed. Anyone know why? London own… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=788) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=790)