# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=81 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 82 --- ## [Looking for a particular movie sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-particular-movie-sword/1017039)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-particular-movie-sword/1017039 "2025-04-15T00:41:40Z")
I am looking for a replica of the tri-blade from the movie “The Sword And The Sorcerer”, and Google isn’t helping at all. It doesn’t have to actually shoot out the two smaller blades, of course. :grin: --- ## ["I Love Tacos..."?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-tacos/56047)
**Author:** [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 14, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-tacos/56047 "2025-04-14T12:30:22Z")
I was listening to the Sohpie B. Hawkins song, “As I Lay Me,” and for years I’ve always wondered what the small chorus is singing in the background of the main chorus. I always thought it sounded like, “I love Tacos.” I’… --- ## [Best e-Reader Kindle v Kobo v Nook](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-e-reader-kindle-v-kobo-v-nook/804576)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-e-reader-kindle-v-kobo-v-nook/804576 "2025-04-13T23:41:24Z")
I’m recovering from surgery and have a lot of time on my hands. I’m wondering whether it might be time to make the leap away from Kindle for e-readers, or at least expand my universe. I realized that I’m firmly tied up i… --- ## [Do you own any albums on which you only like 1 song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-albums-on-which-you-only-like-1-song/1016799)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-own-any-albums-on-which-you-only-like-1-song/1016799 "2025-04-13T13:50:00Z")
Apologies to all you streamers, but this is aimed at folk (dinosaurs?) who own LPs and CDs. We still have maybe 3-4’ of albums. We keep them downstairs under our old stereo and listen to them rarely. Recently I’ve dec… --- ## [I want to hear James Spader recite "The Hunting of the Snark"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-hear-james-spader-recite-the-hunting-of-the-snark/1016949)
**Author:** [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-hear-james-spader-recite-the-hunting-of-the-snark/1016949 "2025-04-13T01:58:04Z")
Just putting it out there. --- ## [How many Dopers are Vegan or Vegetarian?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-vegan-or-vegetarian/991773)
**Author:** [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dopers-are-vegan-or-vegetarian/991773 "2025-04-12T23:42:26Z")
Prompted by the recent poll question about ‘If you were restricted to only one animal protein, what would it be?’ It got me wondering how many Vegans or Vegetarians we have here. I made it a multiple-choice poll, becau… --- ## [Why do lasers go "pew pew", anyway?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-lasers-go-pew-pew-anyway/1016712)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-lasers-go-pew-pew-anyway/1016712 "2025-04-12T17:48:49Z")
Where did the trend of lasers sounding like “pew! pew!” come from, originally? By the time Star Wars came around, was that already a common meme? In the Trek Original Series, the phasers were more like sustained pulses… --- ## [Song Titles that are wrong according to the lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-are-wrong-according-to-the-lyrics/996352)
**Author:** [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-are-wrong-according-to-the-lyrics/996352 "2025-04-12T15:37:52Z")
This is for songs where the author may have a clever or catchy title, but it clearly does not match the lyrics. In my mind is Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”. --- ## [Thoughts on Smart TV](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-smart-tv/1016954)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-smart-tv/1016954 "2025-04-12T12:05:20Z")
I’m seeing a lot of commercials for medications. Maybe because I’m working my way through Grey’s Anatomy. I find myself wondering who the heck makes up the names for these drugs. Three syllables, three letters in each s… --- ## [Ask your musical questions here!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-your-musical-questions-here/385808)
**Author:** [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-your-musical-questions-here/385808 "2025-04-12T07:30:02Z")
Every once in a while, non-musician Dopers ask questions about how music works: what’s the difference between E# and F, what do chord notations mean, what does 4/4 time mean, and so on. These threads usually devolve in… --- ## [Myths that form about songs and bands / band members](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myths-that-form-about-songs-and-bands-band-members/1014173)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 270\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myths-that-form-about-songs-and-bands-band-members/1014173 "2025-04-12T07:24:30Z")
So since this came up in the Songs about planes and flying thread: …I thought it might be fun to do a thread about myths and ‘urban legend’ style stories that have sprung up about songs, bands and musicians. I didn’t … --- ## [Youtube humorous cartoon on time travel killing Hitler](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802)
**Author:** [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802 "2025-04-12T05:47:13Z")
I recall watching a Youtube video a few years ago (maybe I even got the link from here), but can’t find it anymore. So I hope you guys (or whatever is the term for women and men) may help me. It was a humorous cartoon/an… --- ## [What's the most boring film you could show a child?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-boring-film-you-could-show-a-child/1016655)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-boring-film-you-could-show-a-child/1016655 "2025-04-12T05:37:25Z")
A friend and I were watching The Great Escape recently, and their 10 year-old daughter joined us. I thought she wouldn’t enjoy the movie - she hasn’t yet learned about WWII, it has no female characters and lasts nearly t… --- ## [Bob Hope quote, real or made up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-quote-real-or-made-up/1016916)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-quote-real-or-made-up/1016916 "2025-04-11T21:59:30Z")
In “The Ghost Breakers” (1940), did Bob Hope really compare Democrats to zombies, or is that a dub that’s making the rounds? --- ## [Question about Medium](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-medium/492849)
**Author:** [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-medium/492849 "2009-04-12T19:37:41Z")
Thanks to Hulu, I’ve been able to keep up with the show, Medium. It got me to thinking. Has it ever been explained why Joe Dubois has a British accent? In the most recent episode, Allison was communicating with the gh… --- ## [New OK Go video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ok-go-video/1016928)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ok-go-video/1016928 "2025-04-11T21:32:28Z")
OK Go has posted their video for the song “Love”. It has robots and mirrors. So many mirrors. --- ## [Bad Ends (Spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ends-spoilers/1016860)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ends-spoilers/1016860 "2025-04-11T18:24:30Z")
Reading the Irene Adler thread, with its continuations of characters created by Doyle, made me think of all those movies and plays with Happy Endings, in which characters get to survive and go on with their lives, but wh… --- ## [The Righteous Gemstones on HBO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-righteous-gemstones-on-hbo/838955)
**Author:** [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-righteous-gemstones-on-hbo/838955 "2025-04-11T18:00:31Z")
Is anyone watching? What do people think? Come on, there can’t be just me who watched the first episode? I love John Goodman as Eli, and Adam Devine as the youngest son but the other characters are not grabbing me… yet… --- ## [Geography and the DC universe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-and-the-dc-universe/1016775)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-and-the-dc-universe/1016775 "2025-04-11T17:35:29Z")
Metropolis has Superman, Gotham has Batman, Fawcett City has Captain Marvel and family, Keystone City has the Flash, Coast City has Green Lantern - they’re all pretty well covered. But you’ve got Star City which has Gre… --- ## [What TV show had a doorknob in the center of the front door?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-had-a-doorknob-in-the-center-of-the-front-door/341021)
**Author:** [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-had-a-doorknob-in-the-center-of-the-front-door/341021 "2025-04-11T15:24:06Z")
When my parents were planning details of the house they had built in 1957 or '58, I was 9 or 10 years old. I suggested they get a front door with a doorknob in the middle, like they had on that one show. I was sorta kidd… --- ## [YouTuber "Simply Sara" has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtuber-simply-sara-has-died/1016816)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtuber-simply-sara-has-died/1016816 "2025-04-11T13:03:33Z")
Because she was a YouTuber, who mostly did cooking shows, I put the thread here. I didn’t watch her regularly, but I was aware of her online presence and did check her out occasionally. She died from complications of d… --- ## [Question about a rhyme in a song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-rhyme-in-a-song/1016874)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-rhyme-in-a-song/1016874 "2025-04-10T23:43:39Z")
I write songs (more, as my grad school advisor quipped, for my own amazement than for anything else) and I hit upon a rhyme that is too good NOT to have been used before: “between us” and “penis.” If it has been used, o… --- ## [Stingray - What's he saying?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-whats-he-saying/202205)
**Author:** [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stingray-whats-he-saying/202205 "2025-04-10T22:52:11Z")
I just got the DVD set of Gerry Anderson’s Stingray. I loved the show as a kid, and now I’m doing the “I remember that” bit. One odd thing I remember is not being able to quite understand one of Commander Shore’s lines … --- ## [What's the difference between a "rock opera" and a "concept album"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-a-rock-opera-and-a-concept-album/1016740)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-a-rock-opera-and-a-concept-album/1016740 "2025-04-10T18:30:22Z")
To me a “concept album” is an album that has a unifying theme or story. But it seems like the same could be said for a “rock opera”. So what’s the difference? I suppose by definition a concept album needs to encompass a… --- ## [I tried Simply Sara's Pasta Salad......AND LIVED!!!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tried-simply-saras-pasta-salad-and-lived/646215)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tried-simply-saras-pasta-salad-and-lived/646215 "2025-04-10T16:24:34Z")
So, in another thread about the worst of American cooking, the recipe featured on this YouTube video was almost unanimously reviled. The worst of the worst, it was decided. I posted that an evil voice in my head was ur… --- ## [Peel-and-eat shrimp: What's the point?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peel-and-eat-shrimp-whats-the-point/1016439)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peel-and-eat-shrimp-whats-the-point/1016439 "2025-04-10T15:54:20Z")
I don’t get it. I love shrimp. But what is the deal with peel-and-eat shrimp? They are hot so hard to peel when served so you have to just sit there and look at them while everyone else eats. The sauce/spices are on … --- ## [ID this vampire movie please: Big cross-shadow from church wakes vamp in ground](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-vampire-movie-please-big-cross-shadow-from-church-wakes-vamp-in-ground/157010)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-vampire-movie-please-big-cross-shadow-from-church-wakes-vamp-in-ground/157010 "2025-04-08T23:26:36Z")
I think I might have seen it on TV in the early 80’s, but it might have been the 70’s. I suppose it could have been made in the 60’s. Yeah, doesn’t narrow it down much. It takes places in modern times. The scene I re… --- ## [The Mission Impossible Franchise](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mission-impossible-franchise/1016763)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mission-impossible-franchise/1016763 "2025-04-08T22:08:50Z")
Here is the trailer: Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning hits theaters on May 23, 2025. It’s one of the most expensive films ever made, with an estimated budget of about $400 million, so Paramount needs a big b… --- ## [RIP Clem Burke, drummer from Blondie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-clem-burke-drummer-from-blondie/1016746)
**Author:** [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-clem-burke-drummer-from-blondie/1016746 "2025-04-08T21:16:07Z")
Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie, Iggy Pop, and (for a couple shows) the Ramones died after a long battle with cancer. Loved his work, from what I have heard he was a great guy. He (or the person who handles his social m… --- ## [Please help identify the poem I read in college. Involves Kilimanjaro....I think](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-the-poem-i-read-in-college-involves-kilimanjaro-i-think/1016793)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-the-poem-i-read-in-college-involves-kilimanjaro-i-think/1016793 "2025-04-08T16:04:58Z")
I was in college 1996-2002, but this was likely 1999-2002 time range. A.I. showed me three poems about Kilimanjaro and having read them, they don’t appear to be it. “On Top of Africa” by B. Tejani “Kilimanjaro” by Han… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=82)