# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=933 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 934 --- ## [Christmas songs no one plays anymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822 "2016-01-09T02:55:58Z")
Real ones, I mean. Exhibit A: Christmas at Kmart by Root Boy Slim. --- ## [Easter Eggs In Music--don't know what else to call them!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-eggs-in-music-dont-know-what-else-to-call-them/740833)
**Author:** [@pianodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pianodave)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-eggs-in-music-dont-know-what-else-to-call-them/740833 "2016-01-09T02:28:58Z")
Hi SD, I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, trying to come up with examples. Ok. Has anyone else thought about what I call easter eggs in music? I don’t know what else to call them. They are those vocal mo… --- ## [Why No Westerns?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-westerns/741799)
**Author:** [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-westerns/741799 "2016-01-09T01:42:01Z")
Since Fargo’s season finale, there isn’t a single prime-time TV series I watch. But I love the Encore Western channel, showing stuff like Cheyenne and Maverick from the 50’s. Why aren’t they making westerns today? In … --- ## [Repetition in literary works](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repetition-in-literary-works/742527)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repetition-in-literary-works/742527 "2016-01-08T22:54:05Z")
I recently completed my third re-reading (over an 11 year period) of the Aubrey-Maturin series. Patrick O’brian is without a doubt one of my favorite authors. Offhand I can’t think of any contemporary writers that exhibi… --- ## [Worst movie of 2015?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2015/741580)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-of-2015/741580 "2016-01-08T21:27:06Z")
Yeah, I avoid most movies that are truly bad, so all my choices are movies I hoped would be great, but were massive disappointments. Absolute horrible movies tend to never be seen by me, but here is what I saw that I tho… --- ## [Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," starts Season 7 Dec 30](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelds-comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee-starts-season-7-dec-30/741667)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelds-comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee-starts-season-7-dec-30/741667 "2016-01-08T21:04:23Z")
I love this show and have seen most of the episodes several times. Its become a major web series hit. He’s booked the President for the premiere of this season. :eek: No joke, watch the season preview. I’m even more im… --- ## [Audiophile Question: Total Harmonic Distortion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiophile-question-total-harmonic-distortion/742424)
**Author:** [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiophile-question-total-harmonic-distortion/742424 "2016-01-08T19:09:53Z")
Back in the days of component stereo, people were crazy to get gear with lower THD-audiophiles were willing to pay big $$ to get ).1% lower THD. My question: today, most people seem happy with compressed audio. When you… --- ## [NY Public Library just placed 180,000 images online.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-public-library-just-placed-180-000-images-online/742504)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-public-library-just-placed-180-000-images-online/742504 "2016-01-08T19:01:44Z")
Warning: Huge time sink! --- ## [Sinatra: Great singer, tiny man](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinatra-great-singer-tiny-man/741887)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sinatra-great-singer-tiny-man/741887 "2016-01-08T18:02:47Z")
I just listened to “This American Life”'s hour-long tribute commemorating what would have been Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, and a few other pieces that seem to have been engineered as a campaign by his estate. The fi… --- ## [Cooking question: Coconut milk vs. coconut cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-question-coconut-milk-vs-coconut-cream/742181)
**Author:** [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-question-coconut-milk-vs-coconut-cream/742181 "2016-01-08T16:32:10Z")
I’m planning on making an attempt at this recipe: I’ve already figured out a few things I’m tweaking. But I have a question about cooking with coconut cream vs. coconut milk. At first I thought it was a term for the… --- ## [Why isn't Robert Ingersoll read/quoted more often?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-robert-ingersoll-read-quoted-more-often/742080)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-robert-ingersoll-read-quoted-more-often/742080 "2016-01-08T16:24:28Z")
I’m working my way through several books I have long had on my shelves but never read, and am just about through a slim volume titled The Best of Robert Ingersoll. As a long time UU and Humanist, I’ve long been aware of… --- ## [Robert Irvine of Restaurant Impossible](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-irvine-of-restaurant-impossible/626532)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-irvine-of-restaurant-impossible/626532 "2016-01-08T15:52:32Z")
Where exactly is his accent from? --- ## [Star Trek USPS stamps coming out this year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349)
**Author:** [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-usps-stamps-coming-out-this-year/742349 "2016-01-08T15:23:27Z")
Unlike the STAR WARS or HARRY POTTER stamps, no specific actors or characters will be depicted. --- ## [Y'all, can we talk about Moby Dick?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-can-we-talk-about-moby-dick/741840)
**Author:** [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-can-we-talk-about-moby-dick/741840 "2016-01-08T15:08:04Z")
The book. I’d never read it and picked it up a few weeks ago, just finished it today. (Kept texting my husband “70 pages to go and still no whale!” “40 pages and still no whale!” “NO WHALE AND 30 LEFT!” Whale shows u… --- ## [Will there ever be any new Christmas music?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262 "2016-01-08T14:09:20Z")
Every year we hear the exact same Christmas music. Will there ever be any new Christmas music or is it a complete set? I am not asking about people doing the old songs in different styles , but creating original ones. … --- ## [Captain Beefheart: What if He Had Done Straight Up Blues?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-beefheart-what-if-he-had-done-straight-up-blues/742467)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-beefheart-what-if-he-had-done-straight-up-blues/742467 "2016-01-08T14:06:39Z")
Given the timing of his career, would he have been huge? At times the Captain and the Magic Band sounded like the Stones if they’d had Howling Wolf on vocals. --- ## [Books you TRIED to read in 2015](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-tried-to-read-in-2015/742296)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-tried-to-read-in-2015/742296 "2016-01-08T10:19:35Z")
The best example for me was “The Boys In The Boat”. I tried to read the original book, and gave up about 1/3 of the way through when I realized that I knew how the story ended, and the story of the boat’s design and con… --- ## [Della and the Dealer. Drugs, Murder, Anthropomorphic Animals?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/della-and-the-dealer-drugs-murder-anthropomorphic-animals/495014)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/della-and-the-dealer-drugs-murder-anthropomorphic-animals/495014 "2016-01-08T06:11:05Z")
I love the song “Della and the Dealer”. It opens up with “It was Della and the Dealer and a dog named Jake and a cat named Kalamazoo”. My question is, are Jake and Kalamazoo really supposed to be a dog and a cat? I me… --- ## [What happened to all the Ultimate Guitar tabs?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-ultimate-guitar-tabs/742204)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-all-the-ultimate-guitar-tabs/742204 "2016-01-08T05:38:55Z")
Whenever I would google a tab for a song, something from Ultimate Guitar would pop up toward the top 9/10 times. Now, nothing comes up in Google except a link to Ultimate Guitar search, not to the tabs themselves. This … --- ## [Wheel Of Fortune bonus round let down](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-fortune-bonus-round-let-down/742301)
**Author:** [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheel-of-fortune-bonus-round-let-down/742301 "2016-01-08T04:03:52Z")
Why do people always jump up and down with excitement when Sajak opens the card and reveals the 33k “jackpot”? I mean, 33k is the least you can win, so by winning it, you lose. I can understand being excited that you got… --- ## ["Standard" Milk. (Non-Homogenized, whole milk)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standard-milk-non-homogenized-whole-milk/742187)
**Author:** [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/standard-milk-non-homogenized-whole-milk/742187 "2016-01-08T03:54:25Z")
I apologize if this is a reboot, but I am having trouble searching for this. In my long slow quest to eat mainly whole foods and “don’t eat things that your great- grandmother wouldn’t recognize”\* discovered “standard m… --- ## [Bohemian Rhapsody: Bismallah?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-bismallah/742428)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bohemian-rhapsody-bismallah/742428 "2016-01-08T03:38:49Z")
What, in the name of God, possessed Queen to use this as an exclamation? Is there context that is not readily apparent in the song? --- ## [Watching the Rose Parade and I'm wondering...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-rose-parade-and-im-wondering/741931)
**Author:** [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-rose-parade-and-im-wondering/741931 "2016-01-08T02:23:14Z")
Why does the Salvation Army have a band? --- ## [Cartoonists honor Charlie Hebdo on anniversary of terrorist attack](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonists-honor-charlie-hebdo-on-anniversary-of-terrorist-attack/742461)
**Author:** [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonists-honor-charlie-hebdo-on-anniversary-of-terrorist-attack/742461 "2016-01-08T01:06:30Z")
I know I did on my site. Today I did a piece, “My Cartoon of Allah and Muhammad - Religious Freedom and Its Limits,” specifically for the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack. At the end of it (in a Show/hide button)… --- ## [The Big Bang Theory, Season 9, Episode 12 -- "The Sales Call Sublimation"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-12-the-sales-call-sublimation/742451)
**Author:** [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-12-the-sales-call-sublimation/742451 "2016-01-08T00:06:39Z")
I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode. --- ## [Sugar content (by percentage) of tomatoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-content-by-percentage-of-tomatoes/742359)
**Author:** [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugar-content-by-percentage-of-tomatoes/742359 "2016-01-07T23:22:22Z")
I tried to get this from ask.com , which was no help at all. Any help here? (The USDA says that lemons (!), at 8.9%, have more sugar than any other fruit.) --- ## [What are the great Australian novels?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-great-australian-novels/742333)
**Author:** [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-great-australian-novels/742333 "2016-01-07T22:34:54Z")
In my Moby Dick thread an Australian posted said they’d read it in school, which got me thinking about the books I’ve read from the big English speaking/writing countries of the world. It’s kind of surprising but I don’… --- ## [What does Mannheim Steamroller and Trans-Siberian Orchestra do the rest of the year?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-mannheim-steamroller-and-trans-siberian-orchestra-do-the-rest-of-the-year/520223)
**Author:** [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-mannheim-steamroller-and-trans-siberian-orchestra-do-the-rest-of-the-year/520223 "2016-01-07T21:26:07Z")
If you’re in the United States at anyplace larger than a wide spot in the road, you’re probably seeing television commercials for Christmas concerts by Mannheim Steamroller and/or Trans-Siberian Orchestra in your town. A… --- ## [El Paso in February?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/el-paso-in-february/742443)
**Author:** [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/el-paso-in-february/742443 "2016-01-07T21:15:06Z")
I will be in El Paso for training in February. Tell me the best places to go eat. I will be staying near Sunland Park mall. I wish I could go to Juarez to look around but from what I hear its a bad idea. If there some o… --- ## [Speculation on the Next 10 Legends of Hollywood Stamps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-on-the-next-10-legends-of-hollywood-stamps/738937)
**Author:** [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-on-the-next-10-legends-of-hollywood-stamps/738937 "2016-01-07T20:50:15Z")
I did a similar thread 10 years ago (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=298460&highlight=stamp). Buoyed by the general indifference it received, I’m giving it another go. The main difference, is inste… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=932) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=934)