# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=96 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 97 --- ## [List your Top 3 Christmas albums for 2024?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-3-christmas-albums-for-2024/1012066)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-3-christmas-albums-for-2024/1012066 "2024-12-29T20:43:52Z")
This year for 2024, my Top Three Christmas Albums are… Alan Jackson - Let it Be Christmas Gwen Stefani - You Make It Feel Like Christmas Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas Please List your Top 3… --- ## [Captain's Wafers vs Ritz Crackers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captains-wafers-vs-ritz-crackers/699458)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captains-wafers-vs-ritz-crackers/699458 "2024-12-29T17:22:59Z")
How would compare these two crackers? Same Taste, Prefer Captain’s, or Prefer Ritz? I always think of the Andy Griffith commercials for Ritz. Nabisco started makingRitz Crackers in 1939. Captain’s Wafers are made by … --- ## [What's your favorite 'Law & Order' version?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-law-order-version/981599)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-law-order-version/981599 "2024-12-29T13:39:50Z")
I like to have a long-running drama I can binge with one eye while doing chores, grunt work or exercising. It has to be just compelling enough to keep my interest, yet not so complicated that I have to devote my full, un… --- ## [Sitcom wedding or birth without wackiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-wedding-or-birth-without-wackiness/1012195)
**Author:** [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-wedding-or-birth-without-wackiness/1012195 "2024-12-29T04:02:57Z")
Yesterday, I rewatched the episode of Modern Family where Mitch and Cam get married. I started wondering if there’s ever been a sitcom wedding or birth without sitcom wackiness. I assume they exist, I just can’t think… --- ## [The Day The Clown Cried - 27 Minutes of assembled footage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-the-clown-cried-27-minutes-of-assembled-footage/1012285)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-the-clown-cried-27-minutes-of-assembled-footage/1012285 "2024-12-29T00:39:05Z")
I’ve seen many clips before, but someone has edited together all(?) of the footage from this vaulted movie and it comes to 27 minutes. Some decent stuff. I really does not look like a bad movie from the clips we see her… --- ## [Doctor Who 2024 (Starting May 11 on Disney+ and BBC One)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 136\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191 "2024-12-28T23:29:16Z")
I looked around for a free trial offer for Disney+ but there doesn’t seem to be one. --- ## [Eggs, pizza, and chips-- oh my! So many food recalls recently](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggs-pizza-and-chips-oh-my-so-many-food-recalls-recently/1012230)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggs-pizza-and-chips-oh-my-so-many-food-recalls-recently/1012230 "2024-12-28T19:28:45Z")
The mounting list of FDA food recalls https://www.axios.com/2024/12/26/costco-eggs-pizza-recall-fda The linked article has a lot of food recalls that I completely missed! I did wind up having a bag of Whole Foods brand… --- ## [The worst sandwich you can think of that someone might actually eat.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-sandwich-you-can-think-of-that-someone-might-actually-eat/607045)
**Author:** [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-sandwich-you-can-think-of-that-someone-might-actually-eat/607045 "2024-12-28T17:10:26Z")
I’m thinking vegamite and spam. That would be pretty salty but if the spam was grilled… mods, technically this is about “cuisine” so I put it here but feel free to move it to IMHO if you see fit. --- ## [Little Women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-women/1012152)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-women/1012152 "2024-12-28T16:03:28Z")
Every time this flick comes on, I wonder if the sisters hastened the youngest one’s death by assuming she was going to die. Didn’t anybody ever recover from whatever fever she had? A little positive thinking might have g… --- ## [How/what to cook with this ham bone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-what-to-cook-with-this-ham-bone/1012232)
**Author:** [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-what-to-cook-with-this-ham-bone/1012232 "2024-12-28T15:52:29Z")
So I asked for the ham bone from Christmas, and had planned on making some beans or lentils with it. My family doesn’t eat much ham - I’ve never cooked with one before and was looking forward to trying something new. Ho… --- ## [Perry Bible Fellowship--I don't get this one](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perry-bible-fellowship-i-dont-get-this-one/1012234 "2024-12-28T08:25:58Z")
For the life of me, I am drawing a blank on this. What’s the joke? What? LINK --- ## [Popular TV shows that aren't anymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-tv-shows-that-arent-anymore/1012017)
**Author:** [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Replies:** 156\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-tv-shows-that-arent-anymore/1012017 "2024-12-27T22:38:26Z")
Not sure if this should be a reply or its own thread but I’m starting a new one. I read this recently: Wildly popular shows that are gone and I found it really interesting. Some of these show defined pop culture of th… --- ## [Road Diary - Bruce and E Street](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-diary-bruce-and-e-street/1012225)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-diary-bruce-and-e-street/1012225 "2024-12-27T22:18:36Z")
We stumbled upon Howard Stern’s interview with Springsteen and the E Street Bad (pretty good, if you can ignore some of Stern). That led us to watching the documentary, Road Diary, that it was promoting, which was quite… --- ## [Help finding a web comic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-web-comic/1012233)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-web-comic/1012233 "2024-12-27T18:41:12Z")
I would like help finding a web comic. It is simply drawn (as I remember). Each several panel strip usually has a twist or unexpected ending. And it’s usually gruesome or horrific. Sorry, that’s about all I remember… b… --- ## [Identify This Western For Me Based on a Single Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-western-for-me-based-on-a-single-scene/1012217)
**Author:** [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-western-for-me-based-on-a-single-scene/1012217 "2024-12-27T16:36:41Z")
I remember watching it as a kid in the 1980s, but I’m pretty sure the movie is from the 70s. I remember almost nothing about it except the good guy and the villain have a boxing match at the end of it. Both participant… --- ## [Will The Marvels flop? \[Open spoilers after post 112-ish\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-marvels-flop-open-spoilers-after-post-112-ish/992837)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 203\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-marvels-flop-open-spoilers-after-post-112-ish/992837 "2024-12-27T02:46:46Z")
I am not rooting for it to fail by any means, in fact I just bought tickets to see it, but I couldn’t help but notice that nearly every showing on its opening Saturday was empty or nearly empty at my local theater. Is t… --- ## [For All Mankind TV program Physics. Spoilers requested](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-tv-program-physics-spoilers-requested/1012126)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-tv-program-physics-spoilers-requested/1012126 "2024-12-26T23:26:35Z")
I began streaming “For All Mankind”. I’m in season two, and wondering about a few things. The most obvious is that there is no transmission lag between Earth and Moon, but I am willing to accept that for dramatic reason… --- ## ["Life is Beautiful" (1997) \[Unboxed spoilers\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-beautiful-1997-unboxed-spoilers/1012190)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-beautiful-1997-unboxed-spoilers/1012190 "2024-12-26T20:46:41Z")
Had never seen it until TCM aired in back to back with the documentary on “The Day the Clown Cried.” Some random thoughts, and I’m inviting anyone with more insight into the movie (or the doc). It took a while for it t… --- ## [Hardest recognizable song to hum?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardest-recognizable-song-to-hum/197795)
**Author:** [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hardest-recognizable-song-to-hum/197795 "2024-12-26T16:50:50Z")
For these purposes, “human beat box” sounds are equivalent to humming. So, what’s the hardest song to hum/beatbox to someone and have them know it, but yet, one would recognize it in a heartbeat on the radio? My candid… --- ## [Sitcom actors who became famous for dramatic movie roles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-actors-who-became-famous-for-dramatic-movie-roles/1011533)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitcom-actors-who-became-famous-for-dramatic-movie-roles/1011533 "2024-12-26T04:43:31Z")
Many actors who first became famous in television sitcoms have gone on to become famous movie-star comedians. Much less common, I think, are sitcom stars who later become even more famous for dramatic roles on the silve… --- ## [Help me ID this song, circa 2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song-circa-2000/1009611)
**Author:** [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song-circa-2000/1009611 "2024-12-26T03:46:06Z")
This has been driving me crazy for years. There was a song I heard during the peak of Napster and Limewire’s popularity. The song was from a female singer/songwriter - low production value, voice and instrument only, m… --- ## [Movie, Conclave (2024; fiction, papal conclave)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-conclave-2024-fiction-papal-conclave/1009864)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-conclave-2024-fiction-papal-conclave/1009864 "2024-12-25T16:26:38Z")
The missus and I had the in-laws over for dinner last night, to commiserate about, you know, Tuesday. And we also talked about this movie and it looks pretty good. Has anyone seen it? What’d you think? We’re thinking of… --- ## [Silver Palate mashed potatoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-palate-mashed-potatoes/641585)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-palate-mashed-potatoes/641585 "2024-12-25T04:58:31Z")
Not health food by any means, but sheer awesomely rich starchy goodness: These mashed potatoes can be made ahead and reheated. Feel free to substitute lower-fat dairy products. Makes 6-8 servings. 9 large baking potato… --- ## [Weird Question about a 20th century playwriting pair](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-question-about-a-20th-century-playwriting-pair/1011939)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-question-about-a-20th-century-playwriting-pair/1011939 "2024-12-25T02:31:59Z")
While looking up information about something in the 20th century entertainment biz, I stumbled across a usage I was unfamiliar with and now it’s bugging me. Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman were fixtures of the Broadway … --- ## [How well do your video Streaming Apps perform?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-your-video-streaming-apps-perform/1012044)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-your-video-streaming-apps-perform/1012044 "2024-12-25T01:12:23Z")
Q1 Are you using the smart tv App or Casting from your phone or PC? Q2 Which smart tv Apps do you use? YouTube, Prime, Peacock, Paramount+, MAX, Pluto or something else? Q3 How well do they perform? Any time outs, loc… --- ## [Foods you gave up when you got married (better explained in OP)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-gave-up-when-you-got-married-better-explained-in-op/1011727)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-gave-up-when-you-got-married-better-explained-in-op/1011727 "2024-12-24T21:28:21Z")
What are some foods that you’ve given up since you got married? How could a marriage compel one to give up a favorite food, you ask? Well, in my case, I’ve been off meatloaf for 25 years\* since Mrs. Homie hates it. I cou… --- ## [Looking for medieval webcomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-medieval-webcomic/1012004)
**Author:** [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-medieval-webcomic/1012004 "2024-12-24T15:09:10Z")
Wow it’s been a minute since I’ve been on the sdmb. Several years ago I learned of a web comic here, but now I can’t find it. I’d classify it as medieval/fantasy genre. I feel like it had a form of the work ogre in the t… --- ## [Looking for medieval COMIC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-medieval-comic/1012079)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 23, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-medieval-comic/1012079 "2024-12-23T23:52:45Z")
I stumbled past the Looking for medieval webcomic thread and it reminded me of and old series I used to have (I used to be into comics in a big way). I could have sworn it was a Medieval run of Gen-13 by Choi/Campbell? I… --- ## [Dune Prophecy (Spoilers after each episode airs)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-prophecy-spoilers-after-each-episode-airs/1010405)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [December 23, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dune-prophecy-spoilers-after-each-episode-airs/1010405 "2024-12-23T18:21:37Z")
I enjoyed this first episode. It seems like it is setting up a rivalry between the Ix (which is my guess who that guy that murdered the kid represents) and Bene Gesserit. I liked the look of it but the again I liked the … --- ## ["Transformation" acts from British talent show](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transformation-acts-from-british-talent-show/1012035)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 23, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transformation-acts-from-british-talent-show/1012035 "2024-12-23T17:43:20Z")
For a few days I’ve been seeing short clips, apparently from the British version of “X Got Talent” where a woman is transformed into something else, like a bird-woman or a tiger-woman or whatever. It looks to me impossi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=95) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=97)