# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=90 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 91 --- ## [Anybody else seen 'egg surcharges'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-seen-egg-surcharges/1013896 "2025-02-06T14:11:32Z")
My neighbor just told me this. She and hubby had gone to a local diner for breakfast … and they had a 50 cents per egg surcharge on the menu! As in, instead of raising the price for the various offerings, they just ad… --- ## [We need a new emergency food plan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-emergency-food-plan/1013881)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-a-new-emergency-food-plan/1013881 "2025-02-06T06:04:38Z")
With the price of eggs so high, French toast is a luxury few can afford, especially during times of impending weather disasters. Blizzards and hurricanes will require a new preparedness menu. What shall it be? PB&J? Ba… --- ## [Three films an actor basically "owned"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-films-an-actor-basically-owned/1013748)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-films-an-actor-basically-owned/1013748 "2025-02-06T02:34:01Z")
I was reading the wiki on the film “Groundhog Day”, pretty sure for the first time. I was a little surprised there was some contention on the screenplay (Rubin and Ramis) yet also that Ramis and Murray, who had worked t… --- ## [How do tv shows cast extras with military haircuts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-tv-shows-cast-extras-with-military-haircuts/1013895)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-tv-shows-cast-extras-with-military-haircuts/1013895 "2025-02-06T01:23:31Z")
NCIS uses a lot of extras with high and tight hairstyles. The classic Marine jar head. The Navy characters hair is a little longer. The extras are on screen for a few seconds as the NCIS team walks by with an escort. So… --- ## [The Smithee Awards - a Quest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smithee-awards-a-quest/1013938)
**Author:** [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smithee-awards-a-quest/1013938 "2025-02-06T01:11:12Z")
So, I am a fan of an annual schlock awards show called the Smithee Awards, which started back in 1992 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and are now hosted annually at the Origins Game Fair. Smithee nominees aren’t like the Razzies… --- ## ["Death and Destruction to the fascists!" Movie Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-and-destruction-to-the-fascists-movie-marathon/1013894)
**Author:** [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-and-destruction-to-the-fascists-movie-marathon/1013894 "2025-02-05T21:54:44Z")
I’m sick and tired of it all and I can’t take no more! So this Saturday, I’m going to sit on the couch and do NOTHING, I’m all emotionally drained, I’ve set aside some additional emergency supplies (and ammo) and it fee… --- ## [YouTube thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-thread/917377)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-thread/917377 "2025-02-05T21:42:23Z")
I can’t seem to find any recent thread just for YouTube videos so I thought I’d start one. Here’s Brian Henderson’s Bandstand with one hell of a lineup: Herman’s Hermits, Searchers, Stones, and Jones. --- ## [Has anyone excelled in a televised contest so well that others have dropped out?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-excelled-in-a-televised-contest-so-well-that-others-have-dropped-out/1013923)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-excelled-in-a-televised-contest-so-well-that-others-have-dropped-out/1013923 "2025-02-05T16:53:11Z")
Shows about talent. singing, dancing etc. are all over the place, but has anyone on these shows done so exceedingly well that other contestants have just conceded, saying basically “I just can’t top that, sorry.”? --- ## [Commercials with spelling?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-with-spelling/1013873)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-with-spelling/1013873 "2025-02-05T07:41:07Z")
I saw this commercial on Facebook yesterday, hadn’t seen or thought about it in decades but remembered it. Which of course calls back to an older Nestles jingle. And there is this. … --- ## [Did Muddy Waters ever play solo slide guitar in standard tuning?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-muddy-waters-ever-play-solo-slide-guitar-in-standard-tuning/1013900)
**Author:** [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-muddy-waters-ever-play-solo-slide-guitar-in-standard-tuning/1013900 "2025-02-05T02:11:16Z")
Whenever I play slide guitar solo (unaccompanied) I use open tunings. Usually Open A or Open E. But I thought I heard a long time ago that blues legend Muddy Waters (ne’ McKinley Morganfield) recorded some solo slide gu… --- ## ["Callbacks" to older monster movies in more recent films](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/callbacks-to-older-monster-movies-in-more-recent-films/1013867)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/callbacks-to-older-monster-movies-in-more-recent-films/1013867 "2025-02-04T23:43:28Z")
We watched The Substance over the weekend, and I couldn’t help but notice similarities to David Cronenberg’s version of The Fly in the final sequences. Both are “Body Horror” films, of course, but it’s deeper than that … --- ## ["Do You Remember These": Things I don't understand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-these-things-i-dont-understand/764996)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-these-things-i-dont-understand/764996 "2025-02-04T18:33:12Z")
In the Statler Brothers’ novelty hit with this title, they mention a couple of things I couldn’t quite make out, even after finding a website that showed the lyrics. Specifically: Sticks no plugs and aviator caps with f… --- ## [Vincent Price dialect (including vid clip)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-price-dialect-including-vid-clip/1013769)
**Author:** [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-price-dialect-including-vid-clip/1013769 "2025-02-04T12:23:15Z")
Here is an interview on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 1974, just as an example xttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZwTYPv359U What i am wondering about is, he was born in Missouri, but in all hes interviews and mayb… --- ## [Favorite Hollywood Stories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hollywood-stories/1013172)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hollywood-stories/1013172 "2025-02-03T19:02:31Z")
Especially funny and/or audacious ones… I find it hilarious that Coppola faked a seizure in front of Paramount executives when they said “Marlon Brando will never be in this picture”. I think it helped because Coppola a… --- ## [In \*A Knight's Tale,\* why are there two different victory scenes back to back? (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-knights-tale-why-are-there-two-different-victory-scenes-back-to-back-open-spoilers/1013494)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-a-knights-tale-why-are-there-two-different-victory-scenes-back-to-back-open-spoilers/1013494 "2025-02-03T14:47:54Z")
A Knight’s Tale was on TV this evening, so I thought I’d watch it - not so much for the movie as a whole, but because various assorted performances and pieces within it are enjoyable. But I was reminded of a detail that… --- ## [Frasier reboot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frasier-reboot/990213)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 144\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frasier-reboot/990213 "2025-02-02T23:39:50Z")
First full trailer for ‘Frasier’ reboot drops – and it’s new city, same Frasier (msn.com) ‘Frasier’ Revival Trailer: Kelsey Grammer Steps Back into Frasier Crane (people.com) It’s been 20 years since we last saw Dr. Fr… --- ## [Help Me Choose a Photograph for a Challenge On Another Forum…](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-photograph-for-a-challenge-on-another-forum/1013464)
**Author:** [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-photograph-for-a-challenge-on-another-forum/1013464 "2025-02-02T14:50:58Z")
Are we allowed to link to other forums? I know some forums don’t like that, and I am not sure about this one. Anyway, on another forum, specific to Nikon Cameras and those of us who use them, the theme for the curr… --- ## [When would Queen have performed Bohemian Rhapsody on TV in the mid Eighties?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-queen-have-performed-bohemian-rhapsody-on-tv-in-the-mid-eighties/1013711)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-would-queen-have-performed-bohemian-rhapsody-on-tv-in-the-mid-eighties/1013711 "2025-02-02T03:06:12Z")
I am fairly sure Queen performed Bohemian Rhapsody on TV sometime between (I would guess) 1982 and 1987, probably leaning towards earlier? This most likely would have been a national broadcast. My mom didn’t like the gri… --- ## [Best #1 Song of the Year: 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-song-of-the-year-2024/1012001)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-song-of-the-year-2024/1012001 "2025-02-01T21:15:25Z")
It’s time again for that annual tradition, in which I ask the increasingly aging population of the website to rate their favorite song out of those that made #1 on the Hot 100 this year. This year we had 18 songs make #… --- ## [Cast a movie with actors of yesteryear](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-a-movie-with-actors-of-yesteryear/1013457 "2025-02-01T16:23:49Z")
You have been give all of the money and resources to make a big-budget movie. The only limitation is, you must cast it with at least three actors who are no longer with us, and therefore you also have been given a handy … --- ## [Why no great contemporary blues singers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-great-contemporary-blues-singers/773659)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-great-contemporary-blues-singers/773659 "2025-02-01T14:10:00Z")
When I was a teenager in 60s England I was a huge fan of the blues singers, just as the Stones were. Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker (whom I actually met when he came to England), Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed et al… --- ## [Top Gun stars 4 decades later](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-gun-stars-4-decades-later/1013373)
**Author:** [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-gun-stars-4-decades-later/1013373 "2025-02-01T11:20:52Z")
What do people think about the photo comparisons? There are even more to be found on Google, some where Kelly McGillis looks ok for her age, others where she doesn’t. And is Tom Cruise a real life Dorian Gray? https://… --- ## [R.I.P. Marianne Faithfull](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-marianne-faithfull/1013639)
**Author:** [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-marianne-faithfull/1013639 "2025-02-01T00:06:49Z")
The great Marianne Faithfull has passed away, peacefully, at the age of 78. I’m too young to have been familiar with her in her Swinging London heyday, but I felel in love with the Blazing Away live album. And “The Ball… --- ## [Tallest and shortest TV casts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tallest-and-shortest-tv-casts/1013618)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tallest-and-shortest-tv-casts/1013618 "2025-01-31T21:21:00Z")
Which TV shows had, on average, the tallest and shortest adult casts? I believe that, at least at one point, Night Court held the record for the tallest cast. In its 4th to 9th seasons, the principal actors were as fol… --- ## [Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet (Apple TV+ show)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythic-quest-ravens-banquet-apple-tv-show/848400)
**Author:** [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythic-quest-ravens-banquet-apple-tv-show/848400 "2025-01-31T20:51:30Z")
I looked around and I didn’t see a thread for Mythic Quest; if there is one, feel free to merge this. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked the show (about the workers at a World of Warcraft-esque MMORPG). I t… --- ## [Got a Nibble (Publishing a book)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-nibble-publishing-a-book/1013628)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-nibble-publishing-a-book/1013628 "2025-01-31T19:38:04Z")
Current stats on the querying process for Within the Box: total queries to lit agencies: 498 rejections: 401 outstanding: 97 Until a couple days ago I was getting bogged down by the unrelenting turndowns, with nob… --- ## [A Netflix reboot of Little House on the Prairie on the way](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-netflix-reboot-of-little-house-on-the-prairie-on-the-way/1013647)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-netflix-reboot-of-little-house-on-the-prairie-on-the-way/1013647 "2025-01-31T17:58:43Z")
I can’t wait to see this told from a 21st century, streaming service perspective. “You’ve seen Girls Gone Wild, now prepare yourself for girls gone wilder. Laura Ingalls Wilder.” --- ## [What tv series am I thinking of? (Fantasy type show) with](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-am-i-thinking-of-fantasy-type-show-with/1013652)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-am-i-thinking-of-fantasy-type-show-with/1013652 "2025-01-31T02:23:15Z")
It was a series. Kind of like The Hobbit or Lord of the rings. It had a “little person” as the center. He supposedly had wizard like powers. Heroes journey type show. It was a TV series that came out not too long ago. … --- ## [Dick Van Dyke was driving a car? Who let him do that?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-van-dyke-was-driving-a-car-who-let-him-do-that/981513)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-van-dyke-was-driving-a-car-who-let-him-do-that/981513 "2025-01-31T01:57:33Z")
You do not give fragile, precious things the keys to a silver Lexus. Treat him like you’d treat drunk uncle Troy trying to drive home New Years Eve. I mean, he’s 97, he can’t fight you for them! --- ## [Sambuca, anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sambuca-anyone/1013607)
**Author:** [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sambuca-anyone/1013607 "2025-01-31T00:39:29Z")
Does anyone like Sambuca, or know of good-tasting drinks that can be made with it? I like Amaretto and someone gifted me a bottle packaged with a bottle of Sambuca from the same company. For anyone that hasn’t tried is, … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=91)