# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=927 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 928 --- ## [Rank the Pixar films from your favorite to least favorite.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rank-the-pixar-films-from-your-favorite-to-least-favorite/740035 "2016-01-21T01:05:15Z")
This has been done before, but none for at least five years and, also, more movies are out now. So here are all of the Pixar films in chronological order: Toy Story A Bug’s Life Toy Story 2 Monsters, Inc. Findin… --- ## [Tell us about your favorite failed TV shows.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-favorite-failed-tv-shows/741743)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 282\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-favorite-failed-tv-shows/741743 "2016-01-21T00:48:24Z")
When I say “failed TV show,” I mean shows that were ratings/financial failures, not artistic ones (not that I expect anyone to name a show they considered an artistic failure as one of their most liked series). That mean… --- ## [SF/Fantasy writer Jack Vance's novel "The Gray Prince" is kind of off putting - SPOILERS!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-fantasy-writer-jack-vances-novel-the-gray-prince-is-kind-of-off-putting-spoilers/743478)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-fantasy-writer-jack-vances-novel-the-gray-prince-is-kind-of-off-putting-spoilers/743478 "2016-01-20T23:04:14Z")
I’ve been getting into Jack Vance lately and after “The Cadwal Chronicles”, read “Tales of the Dying Earth” which I quite enjoyed and then took up “The Gray Prince”. Vance always seems to be making some kind of tangenti… --- ## [And now Mic Gillette is dead! When will it end?!?!?!?!?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-mic-gillette-is-dead-when-will-it-end/743699)
**Author:** [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-mic-gillette-is-dead-when-will-it-end/743699 "2016-01-20T22:51:40Z")
Mic Gillette, a famous horn player who worked with Tower of Power and toured with Heart and Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones croaked recently, too! The end is nigh! --- ## [Most recently formed band with no surviving original members](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-recently-formed-band-with-no-surviving-original-members/743616)
**Author:** [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-recently-formed-band-with-no-surviving-original-members/743616 "2016-01-20T21:58:48Z")
This is not my original idea, I freely admit to reading another poster pose the question in a thread a few years back. But all the recently deceased musicians made me recall the question, so I made it it’s own thread. … --- ## [What style of music is this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-style-of-music-is-this/743251)
**Author:** [@Karen\_X2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_X2)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-style-of-music-is-this/743251 "2016-01-20T21:40:00Z")
When I was very little (in the late 60’s), my parents listened to the radio a lot. It was always “orchestra” type of music, like you would hear on the Jackie Gleason show, Red Skelton show (David Rose Orchestra) Both my … --- ## [RIP Glenn Frey](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-glenn-frey/743530)
**Author:** [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-glenn-frey/743530 "2016-01-20T20:26:45Z")
Just received a text from my son that Glenn Frey died. I am in complete shock !! --- ## [Movies with a cop living at the beach or marina (80's heavy)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503)
**Author:** [@Salad\_Smell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salad_Smell)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503 "2016-01-20T16:20:20Z")
I’ve noticed an odd trope lately - in many movies set in the 1980’s, a cop protagonist lives at the beach or at a marina. I’m not sure why this is so prevalent - I’m sure we could Baudrillard/Zizek it to death and tie it… --- ## [Digital Photographers: On Resolution...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-photographers-on-resolution/743260)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-photographers-on-resolution/743260 "2016-01-20T15:38:25Z")
I took some photos with my iPhone 4 (yes, a dinosaur). I wish to enter them in a contest. The instructions say they must be no smaller than 400x400 px and no larger than 600x600 px. I have no clue! How can I tell? An… --- ## [Need help identifying Masterpiece Theater character/series](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-masterpiece-theater-character-series/743626)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-masterpiece-theater-character-series/743626 "2016-01-20T04:04:51Z")
OK, this is probably hopeless because I can’t find the promo I am referencing online - but if anyone can do this it’s you folks, so here goes. The Masterpiece Theater promo I’m referencing is set to the song “Mad About … --- ## [ID the person in this painting, please?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-person-in-this-painting-please/743508)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-the-person-in-this-painting-please/743508 "2016-01-20T03:11:59Z")
We are just back from vacationing in St Martin. A Moroccan restaurant, Le Marrakech, in Marigot had paintings on the walls of iconic individuals each wearing a fez. It was fun naming the people. There was Obama, Bob Mar… --- ## [was The Evil Dead rated X?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-evil-dead-rated-x/743399)
**Author:** [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-evil-dead-rated-x/743399 "2016-01-20T02:58:44Z")
The wikipedia page X rating X rating - Wikipedia lists The Evil Dead as one of main stream films that received an X rating but the wikipedia page for The Evil Dead doesn’t state it was X-rated. I saw The Evil Dead in t… --- ## [Upscaling Mcdonald's](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upscaling-mcdonalds/743196)
**Author:** [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upscaling-mcdonalds/743196 "2016-01-20T00:43:40Z")
So the cloistered minions at McD’s are always trying to come up with some new food variation to inflict on us, but it seems that this time they’re really thinking different – maybe. Who knows how far this will go. Bu… --- ## [Blowfly died too!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowfly-died-too/743613)
**Author:** [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowfly-died-too/743613 "2016-01-19T21:59:48Z")
God hates musicians apparently, because he recently took back Blowfly, a famous comedy singer who actually sang s ton of painfully unfunny songs. --- ## [Can You take a "Gommorah" Tour of Naples (Italy)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-take-a-gommorah-tour-of-naples-italy/743621)
**Author:** [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-take-a-gommorah-tour-of-naples-italy/743621 "2016-01-19T21:43:07Z")
Famous movies often spawn tours of the cities they were set in. Thus, we have “Cheers” tours (Boston), “The Third Man” tours (Vienna). So, did the Italian quasi-documentary excite interest in the city portrayed? If so, w… --- ## [Anyone else seen every Best Picture winner?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-seen-every-best-picture-winner/743403)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-seen-every-best-picture-winner/743403 "2016-01-19T20:42:36Z")
I recently watched the 1945 winner The Lost Weekend, thereby completing my personal challenge to see all 87 Best Picture winners. Maybe I’ll see how many of the nominees I can see next, although many of the earlier film… --- ## [Chili recipe thread?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chili-recipe-thread/743466)
**Author:** [@jerry\_smissingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerry_smissingfinger)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chili-recipe-thread/743466 "2016-01-19T20:35:40Z")
Gonna be cold around these parts so I plan on making some chili. I am thinking a white chicken chili but before I start I want to get some ideas. Pretty sure there have been several chili threads so links will help as w… --- ## [Super-8 filmmaking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-filmmaking/743283)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-8-filmmaking/743283 "2016-01-19T20:00:54Z")
Kodak unveiled their new super-8 camera at CES 2016. That’s right. The company that hasn’t made a super-8 camera in – what? 30 years? – the company who took our Kodachrome away (Kodachrome being the super-8 film stock… --- ## [New Prestige TV Series: Showtime's Billions with Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-prestige-tv-series-showtimes-billions-with-paul-giamatti-and-damian-lewis/743605)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-prestige-tv-series-showtimes-billions-with-paul-giamatti-and-damian-lewis/743605 "2016-01-19T18:55:51Z")
Both are big personas and this is set up for maximum scenery-chewing, hopefully in a good way. The fact that the NYTimes reporter and author of Too Big Too Fail, Aaron Ross Sorkin, is a co-creator is interesting. Did … --- ## [Folded over potato chips](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folded-over-potato-chips/743537)
**Author:** [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folded-over-potato-chips/743537 "2016-01-19T18:55:39Z")
I love folded over potato chips. I wish they made full bags of them. I’m not sure what it is … I think they have more “body” … but when I get one, I savor it. I’m not the only one who enjoys them: https://www.google.co… --- ## [Songwriting team of Sutton/Turner/Bowsher?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songwriting-team-of-sutton-turner-bowsher/450873)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songwriting-team-of-sutton-turner-bowsher/450873 "2016-01-19T18:28:35Z")
On the Paul McCartney album “Tripping the Live Fantastic,” the track “If I Were Not Upon the Stage,” is credited to Sutton/Turner/Bowsher. It’s about half a minute of that song “If I were not (this profession), an (anoth… --- ## [House Hunters International, who ARE these people?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-hunters-international-who-are-these-people/619098)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-hunters-international-who-are-these-people/619098 "2016-01-19T17:50:14Z")
My wife loves the real estate channel all the time and the people that appear on this show puzzle the shit out of me. The only thing I can imagine is they are hiding the truth, but then why go on TV? Or they just want to… --- ## [So was there a 1138 reference in The Force Awakens?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-was-there-a-1138-reference-in-the-force-awakens/743565)
**Author:** [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-was-there-a-1138-reference-in-the-force-awakens/743565 "2016-01-19T16:47:28Z")
I noticed that they kept the Wilhelm Scream tradition going, but I didn’t think to look for 1138. Did anybody notice one? --- ## [What Would You Do For Me, Dear? Anything?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-me-dear-anything/743496)
**Author:** [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-me-dear-anything/743496 "2016-01-19T14:32:58Z")
I was wondering if the stage musical and/or film Oliver! is still a useful cultural reference. Seems it’s less reliable as such than it used to be. Certainly the 1968 film version was very popular at the time and remai… --- ## [Mold in the jam!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mold-in-the-jam/743554)
**Author:** [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mold-in-the-jam/743554 "2016-01-19T09:32:40Z")
This morning I encountered a first: I found a spot of green mold 3 cm across growing in the jar of raspberry jam\* I planned on using on my toast. I’d never thought mold was possible in jam due to the sugar content being… --- ## [Dan Haggerty, dead at 74](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dan-haggerty-dead-at-74/743241)
**Author:** [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dan-haggerty-dead-at-74/743241 "2016-01-19T08:33:43Z")
Today’s sad stat - Dan Haggerty, aka Grizzly Adams dead at 74 --- ## [American Sit-coms that never took place in America.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-that-never-took-place-in-america/743342)
**Author:** [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-sit-coms-that-never-took-place-in-america/743342 "2016-01-19T07:14:05Z")
I was watching a rerun on METV (well of course it was a rerun, that’s all METV airs! :smack: ) of Hogan’s Heroes and I don’t know why I thought this, but every episode of Hogan’s Heroes, a sit-com made in America, takes … --- ## [Nathan for you is an incredible show](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nathan-for-you-is-an-incredible-show/742385)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nathan-for-you-is-an-incredible-show/742385 "2016-01-19T05:13:46Z")
I think I"ve seen every episode in the last few weeks. This show is really great and one of the best tv comedies I’ve seen. --- ## [The Big Bang Theory 1/14/16 The Empathy Optimization.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-1-14-16-the-empathy-optimization/743183)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-1-14-16-the-empathy-optimization/743183 "2016-01-19T00:55:21Z")
I didn’t see a thread. I really enjoyed this episode. And now we know how Sheldon gets away with all his shi. . . stuff. He’s a jerk but you feel sorry for him. ETA: Why has Amy been cast off in Skype land? --- ## [Has a a celebrity's heterosexuality surprised you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-a-celebritys-heterosexuality-surprised-you/554206 "2016-01-18T23:22:05Z")
Turning the other thread on its head, has a celebrity being straight made you go,“What he’s/she’s straight?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=926) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=928)