# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=906 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 907 --- ## [Wreck of the Old 97 lyrics question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-of-the-old-97-lyrics-question/747934)
**Author:** [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-of-the-old-97-lyrics-question/747934 "2016-03-04T18:19:27Z")
I recently rediscovered the song “Wreck of the Old '97,” and subsequently learned about the actual wreck. It’s an interesting historical event and a great song. The lyrics (Johnny Cash version) begin: Well they gave hi… --- ## [Return of the son of 'Identify this book thread', now in 3D!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-son-of-identify-this-book-thread-now-in-3d/747923)
**Author:** [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-son-of-identify-this-book-thread-now-in-3d/747923 "2016-03-04T16:41:33Z")
Not an especially challenging one this time. I didn’t read it that long ago, but I am having a total brain failure trying to remember the title. It’s a fairly recent sci-fi techno-thriller. A fairly standard genius pr… --- ## [The Big Bang Theory, Season 9, Episode 17 (February 25, 2016) -- "The Celebration Experimentation"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191)
**Author:** [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-17-february-25-2016-the-celebration-experimentation/747191 "2016-03-04T15:50:41Z")
I took a cursory glance through the “Cafe Society” messages, and did not see a thread for this episode. So, here we go – what did everyone think of last night’s episode? --- ## [Who is the Ed Wood of contemporary films?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-ed-wood-of-contemporary-films/747681)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-ed-wood-of-contemporary-films/747681 "2016-03-04T12:41:15Z")
I have 3 nominees. All 3 have some technical skills and sufficient budgets that they don’t look as bad as Ed’s movies. First is M Night Shamaylon. I don’t think he’s hit his bottom yet, but not for lack of trying. Si… --- ## [Ham cake!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-cake/747705)
**Author:** [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-cake/747705 "2016-03-03T23:34:47Z")
This is actually a cooking question, I promise. First a little backstory. I got a great deal on one of those spiral cut bone-in hams in Feb. I guess the store was trying to get rid of them for the new Easter hams o… --- ## [Goodreads' Best Science Fiction of 2015](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodreads-best-science-fiction-of-2015/747777)
**Author:** [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodreads-best-science-fiction-of-2015/747777 "2016-03-03T21:42:44Z")
I’ve read three of the twenty (The Fold, Seveneves and Aurora) on this list and enjoyed them. So I’m thinking the next SF I read might be on this list. Thoughts? --- ## [Fatal flaw in DS9](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-flaw-in-ds9/747713)
**Author:** [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-flaw-in-ds9/747713 "2016-03-03T21:14:27Z")
Deep space nine has one major flaw that has always bugged me. They make it very clear that the jem hadar and the vorta, with one exception, consider odo to be a god and would instantly obey any order he gives up to and i… --- ## [Casting the movie Let's Get This Over With](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-the-movie-lets-get-this-over-with/747598)
**Author:** [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-the-movie-lets-get-this-over-with/747598 "2016-03-03T20:59:59Z")
Now that Leo “finally” has his Oscar, let’s create the movie that’s designed to finally get everyone their long overdue Academy Award, which I have tentatively titled “Let’s Get This Over With”. Hopefully this will sweep… --- ## [Batman meets Van Gough's Starry Starry Night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-meets-van-goughs-starry-starry-night/747772)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-meets-van-goughs-starry-starry-night/747772 "2016-03-03T20:37:47Z")
I so have to get me this T-shirt. Starry Starry Night Let’s turn the Bat signal Gotham’s worst still maim and kill Batman must be called to protect and save. He’s always strong and always brave. He’ll come out of t… --- ## [Is there a name for this type of poem?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-poem/747770)
**Author:** [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-type-of-poem/747770 "2016-03-03T20:35:43Z")
When a poem praises a loved one piece-by-piece, it’s called a blazon. Is there a name for a poem/song that extols one’s \*own \*virtues and accomplishments, though? There must be, because there are a lot of popular songs … --- ## [A Few Good Men...a question about perjury.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-good-men-a-question-about-perjury/746805)
**Author:** [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-good-men-a-question-about-perjury/746805 "2016-03-03T20:07:45Z")
A Few Good Men is probably one of those movies we’ve all seen several times. I enjoyed it, yet it always leaves me wanting to rewrite the ending and get that lying sack of crap Lieutenant Kendrick arrested for perjuring… --- ## [The Martian film - seen it thread. Unboxed spoilers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-martian-film-seen-it-thread-unboxed-spoilers/733095)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Replies:** 548\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-martian-film-seen-it-thread-unboxed-spoilers/733095 "2016-03-03T19:50:55Z")
I’ve just seen the film. I thought it was utterly brilliant. 10 out of 10, 5 stars. It’s a gripping film that didn’t drag for a single second. open spoilers in this post, I’ll just leave a little space in case of accide… --- ## [You're enjoying food wrong.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 175\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260 "2016-03-03T17:33:12Z")
What foods do you enjoy “wrong”? (Inspiration for this thread here. Filet minion well done. Me: I like my red wine chilled. Ketchup on my hashbrowns. --- ## [What is this story? (Sci-Fi)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-story-sci-fi/747738)
**Author:** [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-story-sci-fi/747738 "2016-03-03T16:12:10Z")
When the first alien visits the Earth, it lands in a cow pasture, not Washington DC. It doesn’t ask, “Take me to your leader,” but rather, “Would you accept this pound of gold (whatever!) for that cowpat over there?” O… --- ## [How do you like your tea?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-tea/747161)
**Author:** [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-tea/747161 "2016-03-03T15:23:22Z")
Do you take it with milk or sugar? Or do you like different types? --- ## [Neil Young Fans- One Night Only](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-fans-one-night-only/746870)
**Author:** [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-young-fans-one-night-only/746870 "2016-03-03T14:11:26Z")
It looks like Neil is putting on a double feature movie showing, and a q&a session of some kind. The movies are Rust Never Sleeps, the concert film, and Human Highway, an off the wall trip featuring Devo w/Booji boy, Den… --- ## [Pop Song - DNCE, Cake by the Ocean](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-dnce-cake-by-the-ocean/747821)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-dnce-cake-by-the-ocean/747821 "2016-03-03T13:07:33Z")
Have you heard this? DNCE - Cake By The Ocean - YouTube Band with one of the old Disney Jonas Brothers as the vocalist, a solid rhythm section and a girl Korean guitarist who plays solid Nile Rodgers dance-funk chanky … --- ## [This American Life 2/26/16 Anatomy of Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-american-life-2-26-16-anatomy-of-doubt/747655)
**Author:** [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-american-life-2-26-16-anatomy-of-doubt/747655 "2016-03-03T06:03:16Z")
Did anyone else listen to this? This American Life frequently opens my mind and gives me new perspective, but I don’t remember being so viscerally hit by a story before Story of rape not believed: Arrrrrghhhhhhh. I’… --- ## [santana song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santana-song/747677)
**Author:** [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santana-song/747677 "2016-03-03T06:02:21Z")
can somebody PLEASE tell me the name of the Santana instrumental that has “oh va va” “oh va va” in it? Thank You in advance --- ## [I'm already hyped about Pixar's 'Inside Out'!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-already-hyped-about-pixars-inside-out/700299)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 194\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-already-hyped-about-pixars-inside-out/700299 "2016-03-03T05:04:30Z")
Teaser: IMDB: I don’t know much about Bill Hader, (Fear) or Kaitlyn Dias, (Reilly)… but this is an amazing cast. Especially Psyched to hear that Phyllis Smith is playing “Sadness”. She deserves the part as I think… --- ## [Better Call Saul 2.02 "Cobbler" 2/22/16](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-2-02-cobbler-2-22-16/746804)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-2-02-cobbler-2-22-16/746804 "2016-03-03T00:05:35Z")
2.01 Switch Open discussion for content about of the episode after it airs. I would prefer if discussion based on the “next week on Better Call Saul” previews were spoiler boxed. I, and a lot of others, try to avoid the… --- ## [Directv over the internet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directv-over-the-internet/747753)
**Author:** [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directv-over-the-internet/747753 "2016-03-02T22:39:02Z")
AT&T (the owners of DirecTV) have stated that they plan on offering DirecTV online with “no annual contracts, dishes, or set top boxes”. I think if they pull it off it’ll be a major game changer although with my internet… --- ## [So the new Batman vs. Superman trailer has a huge spoiler \[spoilers!\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-batman-vs-superman-trailer-has-a-huge-spoiler-spoilers/739335)
**Author:** [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-new-batman-vs-superman-trailer-has-a-huge-spoiler-spoilers/739335 "2016-03-02T21:38:19Z")
Here’s the official one, but if you don’t want spoilers, scroll down: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Some reddit user edited the official one to remove the big spoiler, though you still sorta can … --- ## [Have the old national coffee brands (e.g. Folgers, Yuban, etc.) been declining in quality?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-old-national-coffee-brands-e-g-folgers-yuban-etc-been-declining-in-quality/747608)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-old-national-coffee-brands-e-g-folgers-yuban-etc-been-declining-in-quality/747608 "2016-03-02T21:18:00Z")
(Now here’s an appropriate topic for this forum.) I started drinking coffee in the mid to late 1970s, at a time when coffeehouses and higher quality coffee was something you rarely came across unless you lived in an are… --- ## [Trying a slow-cooker machaca recipe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-a-slow-cooker-machaca-recipe/744754)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-a-slow-cooker-machaca-recipe/744754 "2016-03-02T20:37:45Z")
I’m trying a new machaca recipe, as shown in this YouTube video. (Click on ‘show more’ for the text recipe.) I got it on at eight o’clock (about 45 minutes ago), so it should be ready by four or five and we can eat it … --- ## [Redux: more slang terms' equivalent in Spanish](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/redux-more-slang-terms-equivalent-in-spanish/747513 "2016-03-02T20:21:20Z")
In today’s Baldo comic strip, three of the five panels show Baldo jumping. In the last panel he tells his girlfriend Estella, “Leap Day,” and she answers “Doofus Day.” So I’m curious: How would one say “doofus,” as Este… --- ## [Jeyuk (Korean dish)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeyuk-korean-dish/747732)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeyuk-korean-dish/747732 "2016-03-02T19:36:00Z")
I am absolutely nuts about Jeyuk (stir-fried pork in a spicy sauce). It’s the best new (to me) dish I’ve had in the last 5 or 10 years. Before moving to the DC area (in '08), I had never had much Korean food, but there… --- ## [What does Papa Bear read?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-papa-bear-read/747690)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-papa-bear-read/747690 "2016-03-02T18:56:51Z")
Earlier today, I was looking at a “Three Bears” book that was published in the early 1950s. On the first page, Papa Bear is sitting in an easy chair by the fire, reading :cool: I thought that was a nice little slice … --- ## [Fuller House](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house/747206)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house/747206 "2016-03-02T18:47:30Z")
So has anybody checked it out yet? I went ahead with the first three. The first was a huge nostalgia-fest, the second made me worry that’s all it would be and thus would get old, but the third one seemed pretty good, so … --- ## [Old Fashioned Country Bands](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-country-bands/747698)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-country-bands/747698 "2016-03-02T15:18:16Z")
My grandma occasionally complains that modern country music, “just ain’t right!” She says that a country band isn’t just a guitar, drums, and a guy singing. There should be a fiddle and mandolin at least, and maybe even … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=905) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=907)