# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=835 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 836 --- ## [Fear the Walking Dead: 2.09 "Los Muertos" (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-09-los-muertos-open-spoilers/764357)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-the-walking-dead-2-09-los-muertos-open-spoilers/764357 "2016-08-31T16:32:34Z")
\[QUOTE=AMC\] Madison, Strand and others move forward after the compound falls; Nick gets picked for a dangerous assignment. \[/QUOTE\] Well at least it looks like we’ll get to see what’s up with the rest of the group ton… --- ## [American Horror Story -favorite season so far?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-horror-story-favorite-season-so-far/763680)
**Author:** [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-horror-story-favorite-season-so-far/763680 "2016-08-31T16:23:07Z")
I has watched the first season as it aired on TV, but stopped watching because I stopped getting cable. I just started getting the DVDs of S2 Asylum and WOW… only three episodes in and I’m thinking, “how are they going t… --- ## [Nashville music scene questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nashville-music-scene-questions/764549)
**Author:** [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nashville-music-scene-questions/764549 "2016-08-31T15:58:58Z")
Was in Music City last week, spending a bulk of my time on Broadway, which for those who never visited is about a three block row of open air bar after open air bar with one, some bars with up to three, bands playing at … --- ## [Top actresses/actors who people act are hot but you think are meh](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-actresses-actors-who-people-act-are-hot-but-you-think-are-meh/764427)
**Author:** [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-actresses-actors-who-people-act-are-hot-but-you-think-are-meh/764427 "2016-08-31T14:57:17Z")
Three actresses who I’ve never found particularly attractive yet are constantly treated as if they are the hottest things ever; Jessica Biel, Julia Stiles, and Drew Barrymore. All of them just have something about their … --- ## [Life science/biology professional input on a sci-fi short story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-science-biology-professional-input-on-a-sci-fi-short-story/764200)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-science-biology-professional-input-on-a-sci-fi-short-story/764200 "2016-08-31T14:32:43Z")
I got permission from the mods (Colibri, to be specific – he was my first choice but he’s busy traveling) to start this thread. If it’s in the wrong forum, then mods feel free to move it. I recently finished writing a … --- ## [Did I Catch an Error in "Adam Ruins Everything"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-catch-an-error-in-adam-ruins-everything/764566)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-catch-an-error-in-adam-ruins-everything/764566 "2016-08-31T14:24:32Z")
I saw the Adam Ruins Everything episode about Hollywood where it talks about the Hays Code for movies. In it, Adam says that the Hays Code prohibited the movies from depicting white slavery, but depicting black slavery … --- ## [ID this odd, old, live action magic snowman movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-odd-old-live-action-magic-snowman-movie/262672)
**Author:** [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-odd-old-live-action-magic-snowman-movie/262672 "2004-09-02T15:35:34Z")
I last saw this movie on the Disney channel when I was a kid… It took place in a snowy, seaside little town. (It might have been in Canada. I’m not sure. The dialog I heard was in English) A kid either finds or manages … --- ## [Aardman model-makers explain their work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aardman-model-makers-explain-their-work/764391)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aardman-model-makers-explain-their-work/764391 "2016-08-30T22:48:02Z")
And Adam Savage is on Cloud Nine: Adam Savage Meets Aardman Animations' Puppets! - YouTube --- ## [No to ketchup, what about cheese?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-to-ketchup-what-about-cheese/763933)
**Author:** [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-to-ketchup-what-about-cheese/763933 "2016-08-30T21:40:14Z")
Normally when I have a hot dog in Chicago, I have it plain or with melted cheese on top. Am I violating any hot dog conduct rules doing so? --- ## [What is the entire world pulling your leg about?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850)
**Author:** [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Replies:** 221\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850 "2016-08-30T18:29:01Z")
You know the story about the Emperor’s new clothes? Where people can see that the emperor is naked, but no one speaks up, because of peer pressure? Or, maybe this is more what I’m getting at: There’s a prank, where some… --- ## [Is this a good name for a restaurant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-good-name-for-a-restaurant/763608)
**Author:** [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-good-name-for-a-restaurant/763608 "2016-08-30T18:01:24Z")
I ran across this place and the name seemed odd for a restaurant: Logan’s Run “Family Fare, Friends and Fun” Considering the source of the name, state-sponsored murder is not what I associate with friends and fun. Or… --- ## [Broadest Discrepancy in Quality between Vol 1 Greatest Hits/Best of and Vol 2 Greatest Hits/Best of?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadest-discrepancy-in-quality-between-vol-1-greatest-hits-best-of-and-vol-2-greatest-hits-best-of/764476)
**Author:** [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadest-discrepancy-in-quality-between-vol-1-greatest-hits-best-of-and-vol-2-greatest-hits-best-of/764476 "2016-08-30T17:00:15Z")
Many artists end up having various career spanning compilation albums. For the purposes of this Thread I’m only looking at cases when a Greatest Hits or Best Of compilation is followed up with a second volume. ie Not a n… --- ## [xkcd #979](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-979/603330)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-979/603330 "2016-08-30T15:13:46Z")
Well, I’ll let you read it, but it felt like something the SDMB might appreciate. Perhaps less than people on technical help message boards. Read the title-text. --- ## [Guitarists, can you explain this move to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarists-can-you-explain-this-move-to-me/764251)
**Author:** [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarists-can-you-explain-this-move-to-me/764251 "2016-08-30T11:47:15Z")
I see this performed quite a bit during live appearances and videos and such, but I can’t figure out if there’s a reason why it’s done, or just to look cool. Let’s use the classic version of “Black Betty” by Ram Jam. At… --- ## [Vote for your favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-your-favorite-lynyrd-skynyrd-song/764205 "2016-08-30T09:58:38Z")
I’ll apologize now. I know the poll could have 14 choices and I’d still end up omitting someone’s personal favorite. :cool: Lynyrd Skynyrd is such an incredible Southern Rock band. I can’t imagine a Saturday night wit… --- ## [It was 50 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-50-years-ago-today-sgt-pepper-taught-the-band-to-play/764408)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-50-years-ago-today-sgt-pepper-taught-the-band-to-play/764408 "2016-08-30T06:39:11Z")
… at Candlestick Park. The Beatles’ last public concert was 50 years ago today. Hard to believe it’s been fifty years - okay, I was in kindergarten in Upstate New York, so I clearly wasn’t there. Were you there? What me… --- ## [Any movies, books, short stories with the plot of Satan is more powerful than God?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-books-short-stories-with-the-plot-of-satan-is-more-powerful-than-god/764330)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-movies-books-short-stories-with-the-plot-of-satan-is-more-powerful-than-god/764330 "2016-08-30T03:42:34Z")
Basically explaining why the world is how it is, and God takes the fall. Edit: NOT a story where Earth IS Hell. --- ## [Glass in the Matrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-in-the-matrix/155307)
**Author:** [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-in-the-matrix/155307 "2016-08-30T02:44:07Z")
When Trinity’s helicopter crashes into the building, it makes a ripple like water on the building. Is this from the impact on fluid glass, or a strange “bounce effect” of hitting the Matrix? --- ## [Curry Questions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curry-questions/764396)
**Author:** [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curry-questions/764396 "2016-08-30T01:18:18Z")
When eating Japanese Curry, when the rice is placed separately beside the curry, does one take alternate bits of each? Or is the rice mixed in at the time of serving? Ditto the question, re: Indian curry. Thanks! --- ## [Fruit at last, Fruit at last, Thank God Almighty, We have Fruit at last!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-at-last-fruit-at-last-thank-god-almighty-we-have-fruit-at-last/756863)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-at-last-fruit-at-last-thank-god-almighty-we-have-fruit-at-last/756863 "2016-08-30T00:01:37Z")
For the first time in over 15 years since I planted all my fruit trees, I have a tree full of bright, beautiful, luscious red Bing cherries! And they are delicious! I harvested a whopping 11.9 oz.! At current prices, th… --- ## [Corn Nuts: perfectly balanced diet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corn-nuts-perfectly-balanced-diet/764421)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corn-nuts-perfectly-balanced-diet/764421 "2016-08-29T21:40:17Z")
As I was crunching a bag of this delectable snack, and reading the label as I always do, I spotted something interesting. A bag contains 6% of the RDA for fat, 6% of the carbohydrate, and 5% of the protein. That means t… --- ## [Mulholland Drive tops critics' polls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mulholland-drive-tops-critics-polls/764137)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mulholland-drive-tops-critics-polls/764137 "2016-08-29T21:19:22Z")
From IndieWire I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically agree with the choice. It’s a movie I keep returning to, there’s almost a hypnotic quality to it. Naomi Watts is absolutely incredible, her performance cried out for… --- ## [No thread on this year's Lay's potato chip flavors?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-thread-on-this-years-lays-potato-chip-flavors/763715)
**Author:** [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-thread-on-this-years-lays-potato-chip-flavors/763715 "2016-08-29T16:29:15Z")
I’m trying to lay off (sic) the chips but I did have the opportunity to try the tikka masala and tzaziki chips and they were both pretty good. Discuss. --- ## [Is Anyone Reading The Horus Heresy Series By Games Workshop?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-reading-the-horus-heresy-series-by-games-workshop/764385)
**Author:** [@Muhr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muhr)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-reading-the-horus-heresy-series-by-games-workshop/764385 "2016-08-29T12:08:48Z")
I’m posting this question with the expectation that very few, if anyone, will answer this. This book series is a science fiction classic in the making. The setting is the far future, 29,000 in the future. I won’t go into… --- ## [Volvo commercial - WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volvo-commercial-wtf/757743)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volvo-commercial-wtf/757743 "2016-08-29T06:53:46Z")
There’s a new Volvo commercial on that is very effective. It’s getting me to think about it more than I want to. The set-up: Woman driving a Volvo down a road on a spit of land. Behind her is her father? The passenger se… --- ## [Agree or disagree: Writers are bad at being original because they grew up watching TV](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agree-or-disagree-writers-are-bad-at-being-original-because-they-grew-up-watching-tv/763570)
**Author:** [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agree-or-disagree-writers-are-bad-at-being-original-because-they-grew-up-watching-tv/763570 "2016-08-29T04:41:18Z")
Title says it all. It’s something my mother, who grew up during ww2 and was a writer would always say was that writers today are not as original as writers of the past because they grow up watching TV. Do you agree or di… --- ## [30 Day Song Challenge, number 25: a song that makes you laugh](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-25-a-song-that-makes-you-laugh/761178)
**Author:** [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-25-a-song-that-makes-you-laugh/761178 "2016-08-29T02:41:41Z")
Hard to pick one funny song of the many out there, but I’ll post The Prettiots - Boys (I Dated in High School). It breaks some rules about how lyrics should rhyme, but it just makes it funnier to me. --- ## [What's happened to John McLaughlin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-happened-to-john-mclaughlin/762660)
**Author:** [@Nefario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefario)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-happened-to-john-mclaughlin/762660 "2016-08-29T01:54:43Z")
On last night’s show Pat Buchanan led off with something like…“For the first time in …this chair is not occupied by John McLaughlin”. Later, some topics were introduced by recordings of John’s voice, sounding like he’d … --- ## [Juan Gabriel has passed away](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/juan-gabriel-has-passed-away/764338)
**Author:** [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/juan-gabriel-has-passed-away/764338 "2016-08-29T01:37:15Z")
To the non-Latino community this is pretty much a “who?—so what?” type of event. But trust me—to the Latino music world this would be on a par with somebody Like Springsteen or Elton John dying. Even more so in a way, be… --- ## [House of the Rising Son - Original Version](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-of-the-rising-son-original-version/763909)
**Author:** [@ZoeRPM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZoeRPM)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-of-the-rising-son-original-version/763909 "2016-08-29T01:34:52Z")
The song, House of the Rising Son, was written in 1860 to a French tune known in the 18th century in Liverpool. Does anyone know what the words were to the original version? Presumably they had nothing to do with New Orl… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=834) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=836)