# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=85 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 86 --- ## [Miami Vice--believe it or not](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-vice-believe-it-or-not/1015620)
**Author:** [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-vice-believe-it-or-not/1015620 "2025-03-18T18:57:30Z")
After reading the posts in recent column ( Poll: Best Bond (non-Connery edition), I thought about my favorite series, Miami Vice. I loved it for the camera work, decor/sets, clothes and music, but there were some element… --- ## [Ted Lasso on Apple TV {Returns March 15, 2023}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-lasso-on-apple-tv-returns-march-15-2023/918299)
**Author:** [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Replies:** 883\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ted-lasso-on-apple-tv-returns-march-15-2023/918299 "2025-03-18T00:33:02Z")
A few years ago, NBC started broadcasting premier league games. As promotion, they ran a series of ads about an American football coach named Ted Lasso who had for some reason been hired to manage Tottenham. Pretty funny… --- ## [Kate Bush and Rupert Holmes wrote the same song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-and-rupert-holmes-wrote-the-same-song/1015591)
**Author:** [@LUNAROXAS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LUNAROXAS)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-and-rupert-holmes-wrote-the-same-song/1015591 "2025-03-17T22:18:33Z")
“Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes is about a guy who is so bored with his current partner that he seeks out a woman who advertised in the personals about liking, among other things, piña coladas. They meet… --- ## [Minimalist Composers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minimalist-composers/1015607)
**Author:** [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minimalist-composers/1015607 "2025-03-17T20:40:03Z")
I recently attended a concert where a string quartet played a Philip Glass composition. I hadn’t listened to any Glass for quite a while, and I really enjoyed it. I’d like to explore more minimalist music, but Steve Rei… --- ## [Poll: Is “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” about LSD / drugs / psychedelia, or not?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds-about-lsd-drugs-psychedelia-or-not/1015334)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds-about-lsd-drugs-psychedelia-or-not/1015334 "2025-03-17T15:58:52Z")
poll Continuing the discussion from Myths that form about songs and bands / band members: Within that thread sprang up a bit of a debate over the true origin and meaning of the song Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds, with s… --- ## [Why wasn't The Hulk Nude The First Time He Transformed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-hulk-nude-the-first-time-he-transformed/1015548)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-hulk-nude-the-first-time-he-transformed/1015548 "2025-03-17T12:07:05Z")
I can suspend disbelief enough to assume Bruce Banner figured out how to create some pants that wouldn’t completely come apart at the seams later, but the first time there’s no way Banner’s pants would have survived the … --- ## [Why did the Jedi take a side in the Clone Wars?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-jedi-take-a-side-in-the-clone-wars/1015660)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 16, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-jedi-take-a-side-in-the-clone-wars/1015660 "2025-03-16T23:11:54Z")
I am reading a Star Wars novel set in the first days of the Galactic Empire (it starts literally days after Palpatine makes his speech to the Senate). There is a character who had fought for the Separatists and they wer… --- ## [Battlestar Galactica 2004 Rewatch - Spoilers don't need to be blurred](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2004-rewatch-spoilers-dont-need-to-be-blurred/1007606)
**Author:** [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-2004-rewatch-spoilers-dont-need-to-be-blurred/1007606 "2025-03-15T20:30:35Z")
I rewatched the mini series and the first episode and want to talk about it. I haven’t watched it since it first aired. I have the DVDs but it’s all streaming of course. That’s another topic. Frak has long been a par… --- ## [Arnold Schoenberg and Jazz](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-schoenberg-and-jazz/1015477)
**Author:** [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arnold-schoenberg-and-jazz/1015477 "2025-03-15T09:11:38Z")
If you type “Arnold Schoenberg” into Wikipedia, the introductory paragraph reads Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writ… --- ## [Airplane! movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 259\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-movie/916362 "2025-03-15T02:46:11Z")
what do you know on a Saturday night at 11 pm when there is nothing else to do? You watch Airplane! again. Running commentary - “Listen Betty, don’t start with your white zone shit again.” I will not keep this up, but … --- ## [Are chicken eggs shells getting thinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-chicken-eggs-shells-getting-thinner/1015539)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-chicken-eggs-shells-getting-thinner/1015539 "2025-03-15T02:19:02Z")
I eat a lot of eggs and I swear, it’s hard to break them into a pan without there being bits of shell that fall in too. Maybe my technique is getting rusty but I suspect egg shells are getting either thinner or more bri… --- ## [What on earth is Joseph singing about? (Technicolor Dreamcoat question)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-joseph-singing-about-technicolor-dreamcoat-question/342502)
**Author:** [@Fortean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fortean)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-on-earth-is-joseph-singing-about-technicolor-dreamcoat-question/342502 "2025-03-15T02:05:13Z")
I was watching the Joseph & The Technicolor Dreamcoat DVD yesterday (a supreme guilty pleasure) when it occurred to me I’d never been able to understand what the ‘Any Dream Will Do’ song actually MEANS. Is there some sto… --- ## [Music exchange thread - give one, get one](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-exchange-thread-give-one-get-one/1015358)
**Author:** [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-exchange-thread-give-one-get-one/1015358 "2025-03-14T22:47:19Z")
I am trying to expand my tastes in music and find new selections to enjoy across the entire range of Western musical genres - from classical to rap to pop (anything except death metal). I want folks to share their person… --- ## [Leon the Lobster, RIP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-lobster-rip/1014927)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-lobster-rip/1014927 "2025-03-14T22:06:22Z")
I am very sad about this news I started watching Leon’s videos very early on. I think there were only two posted when I discovered them. This is unexpected. I am as sad about this as I was when I found out that Billi… --- ## [Favorite Little Debbie snack cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-debbie-snack-cake/987318)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-debbie-snack-cake/987318 "2025-03-14T15:15:57Z")
I’ve loved the Little Debbie selection of snack cakes since I was a wee lad. My love of these snack cakes runs deep. How deep? Well, my favorite episode of Good Mythical Morning is, hands-down, the one where they taste a… --- ## [Program for playing music](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/program-for-playing-music/1014085)
**Author:** [@mglambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mglambo)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/program-for-playing-music/1014085 "2025-03-14T01:15:45Z")
I play guitar and sing in a three person band. I currently use Ultimate Guitar Pro on an Ipad for help with lyrics and chords onstage. It has a lot of glitches though. What other programs do folks use for this? I’m looki… --- ## [Help me remember a Scandinavian Crime drama](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-scandinavian-crime-drama/1015527)
**Author:** [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-scandinavian-crime-drama/1015527 "2025-03-13T21:46:08Z")
I saw it a few years ago on a well known streaming service though I cannot be confident which. It was a limited series adapted from a novel. It was about an older awkward English man with some amateur crime solving exp… --- ## [An actor/actress on Sisters who is “ difficult to work with”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actor-actress-on-sisters-who-is-difficult-to-work-with/1015140 "2025-03-13T16:45:25Z")
I was listening to a podcast where the guest was the director of a few episodes of Sisters. The guest said she and the show mutually parted ways because she couldn’t get along with a particular actor/actress (she was del… --- ## [Who wrote "My name is Sarah" poem?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-my-name-is-sarah-poem/970749)
**Author:** [@Mislav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mislav)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-my-name-is-sarah-poem/970749 "2025-03-13T00:27:46Z")
So, this poem has been online for years. Interesting enough, it is most commonly found copy-pasted on author’s profiles on Fanfiction.net. The poem (with slight variations) reads as it follows: My name is Sarah, I am bu… --- ## [Soul Man — Missing or Misremembered Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soul-man-missing-or-misremembered-scene/1015410 "2025-03-12T19:08:57Z")
Watched Soul Man on DVD, first time seeing it in decades. allthegood had never seen it, just the SNL skits. I saw scenes I remembered from before — especially the one where they perform behind chicken wire and rednecks… --- ## [Help me select or invent a Cranberry-Walnut Pie recipe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-select-or-invent-a-cranberry-walnut-pie-recipe/993251)
**Author:** [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-select-or-invent-a-cranberry-walnut-pie-recipe/993251 "2023-11-20T00:19:24Z")
I’m inspired by someone on these boards mentioning Nantucket Pie, but that’s kind of an upside-down cake version despite its name. I want a proper pie made with cranberries and walnuts, and I want it to look approximatel… --- ## [Flow (Latvian animated movie) - anyone seen this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flow-latvian-animated-movie-anyone-seen-this/1012899)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flow-latvian-animated-movie-anyone-seen-this/1012899 "2025-03-12T05:26:37Z")
I hadn’t heard of it until a few days ago, and it sounds really wonderful. Has anyone here seen it, and what did you think? --- ## [What is it like to be on a film set when the star doesn't show up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-like-to-be-on-a-film-set-when-the-star-doesnt-show-up/1015385)
**Author:** [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-like-to-be-on-a-film-set-when-the-star-doesnt-show-up/1015385 "2025-03-12T02:12:26Z")
E.g. Dwayne Johnson was allegedly sometimes up to 8 hours late for filming Big Red One. There’s also stories about everybody from Marilyn Monroe to Johnny Depp staying in their trailers for hours. I was wondering what a… --- ## [Getting one's "armadillo" through a metal detector](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ones-armadillo-through-a-metal-detector/1015447)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-ones-armadillo-through-a-metal-detector/1015447 "2025-03-12T00:43:58Z")
So, was Derek Smalls’ “armadillo” a foil wrapped cucumber or zucchini? --- ## [What do you call a dish that is a grain, a meat, and a veg all mixed together?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-dish-that-is-a-grain-a-meat-and-a-veg-all-mixed-together/979146)
**Author:** [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-dish-that-is-a-grain-a-meat-and-a-veg-all-mixed-together/979146 "2025-03-11T17:16:19Z")
What do you call a dish that is a grain, a meat, and then one or more vegetables mixed together? I am aware there are many specific dishes that meet this description (jambalaya, arroz con pollo, paella), but I am hoping… --- ## [How to drink ginger beer without sneezing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-drink-ginger-beer-without-sneezing/1015347)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-drink-ginger-beer-without-sneezing/1015347 "2025-03-11T03:08:46Z")
I love ginger ale and beer but sometimes when I go to take a gulp from the bottle it just explodes in my mouth. I can’t control it and I spew all over. I have determined that it is the concentrated carbon dioxide in the … --- ## [Julia Child, olive pits, cherry pits, redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child-olive-pits-cherry-pits-redux/1014962)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julia-child-olive-pits-cherry-pits-redux/1014962 "2025-03-10T21:50:02Z")
Back in 2004 I mentioned this skit in response to another post, but I think it merits its own post. In particular: to determine where the hell I saw it. I watched a lot of late night weekend comedy in the late 1970s and… --- ## [Favorite meal prep lunches to bring to work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-meal-prep-lunches-to-bring-to-work/1015254)
**Author:** [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-meal-prep-lunches-to-bring-to-work/1015254 "2025-03-10T19:36:34Z")
I started a new job this week, and am in the office every day. It’s pretty inconvenient to leave, so most of the time I need to bring lunch with me. This weekend I cooked a few chicken breasts and made a pasta salad wit… --- ## [Help! I'm suddenly in my first comic book sale... tomorrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252)
**Author:** [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252 "2025-03-10T03:56:27Z")
I’ve been decluttering, and 90% of my earthly possessions are comics. So I sold a stack of Spider-Mans to a local guy (I was stunned when he offered me over $50 each). Well, that was easy (as opposed to grading, pricin… --- ## [Martha Raye's comment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martha-rayes-comment/1015308)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martha-rayes-comment/1015308 "2025-03-09T23:52:58Z")
Reference in a Wapo article says that Martha Raye made an “unprintable” comment upon first seeing a Ford Edsel. I can’t find any reference to it but I’m curious. Anybody know? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=86)