# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=970 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 971 --- ## [Song from Lincoln car commercial???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-lincoln-car-commercial/160246)
**Author:** [@Hepcat421](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hepcat421)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-lincoln-car-commercial/160246 "2015-10-21T01:28:01Z")
What is the song from the Lincoln auto ads? It is a jazzy/acid jazz song. Currently it is in the Lincoln Navigator ad. A previous commercial had a guy sitting in the vehicle who was playing with all of the power features… --- ## [Writing question?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-question/735245)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-question/735245 "2015-10-21T00:25:23Z")
I started a book several years ago with no real intention of ever doing something with it beyond enjoying the process of writing a book. As I get closer to the finish I find myself falling in love with my own work and fe… --- ## [OIKOS Triple Zero Yogurt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oikos-triple-zero-yogurt/735251)
**Author:** [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oikos-triple-zero-yogurt/735251 "2015-10-20T23:44:18Z")
This stuff is good, well, I’ve only had the vanilla, but it claims 0 fat, 0 added sugar, 0 artificial sweeteners and a whopping 15 grams of protein - am I missing something? Can something this yum (well, for a yogurt) be… --- ## [Who is the Worst Contemporary Fiction Writer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-worst-contemporary-fiction-writer/734849)
**Author:** [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-worst-contemporary-fiction-writer/734849 "2015-10-20T23:38:06Z")
I’ve just finished reading Morrissey’s novel “List of the Lost”. It’s the worst book I’ve ever read by an absolute mile, and it’s been mercilessly (and deservedly) slated in the British press. In fact, it’s so bad, it’… --- ## [The Flash S02E02: Flash of Two Worlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-s02e02-flash-of-two-worlds/734618)
**Author:** [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-s02e02-flash-of-two-worlds/734618 "2015-10-20T23:14:36Z")
For the comics-naïve, the title of the episode is a reference to this classic comic book, the cover of which was recreated towards the end of the episode itself. Instead of angsty Barry, this week we’ve got distrustful … --- ## [Movies you saw as a kid but cant remember the name.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-saw-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-the-name/734766)
**Author:** [@geeknchic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geeknchic)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-saw-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-the-name/734766 "2015-10-20T22:55:56Z")
I saw a movie that had a man in the jungle looking for revenge. The man might have been a soldier or something. They killed his girlfriend and when he found one of the men responsible, he grabbed some of the man’s hair … --- ## [Milk/Egg alternative for batter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-egg-alternative-for-batter/735094)
**Author:** [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-egg-alternative-for-batter/735094 "2015-10-20T22:29:07Z")
I was making fried chicken today, and my sister happened to stop by, and was lamenting that she can’t eat the chicken anymore because of the batter. She is gluten intolerant and lactose intolerant, and allergic to some … --- ## [The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis \[edited title\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-many-loves-of-dobie-gillis-edited-title/735028)
**Author:** [@Daniel\_Boone\_Fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Boone_Fanatic)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-many-loves-of-dobie-gillis-edited-title/735028 "2015-10-20T22:24:06Z")
I love this show! I was watching The Sandwich episode earlier. It was hilarious! Definitely one of the most finest tv series ever made! --- ## [Star Wars Release Dates Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-release-dates-question/735277)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-release-dates-question/735277 "2015-10-20T21:35:18Z")
According to IMDB, the new Star Wars movie is being release in the US on 12/14, the UK on 12/15 and much of the rest of the world on 12/16, 12/17 and 12/18, with the China release on 12/29. I assumed this staggered relea… --- ## [Best Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles: 1985](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1985/735025)
**Author:** [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1985/735025 "2015-10-20T21:25:31Z")
1985 saw 32 songs reach the top, many of the songs are mutual number 1 singles that also show up on the American Billboard charts. However a couple only reached #1 in Canada. Corey Hart, Northern Lights and Platinum Blo… --- ## [Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (New TV series)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-ex-girlfriend-new-tv-series/735264)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-ex-girlfriend-new-tv-series/735264 "2015-10-20T21:02:52Z")
A show that’s far, far better than its title implies, I’ve been watching the first episodes and liking what I see. It’s about Rebecca Bunch, who gives up a high paying job as a lawyer in New York who hates her life, wit… --- ## [The Aaron Sorkin movie slightly about Steve Jobs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-aaron-sorkin-movie-slightly-about-steve-jobs/734506)
**Author:** [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-aaron-sorkin-movie-slightly-about-steve-jobs/734506 "2015-10-20T20:36:34Z")
I really dug it. As with all Sorkin media, the film primarily consists of people talking in rooms. The structure for this one was interesting: Steve faces various personal crises in the minutes before three important pr… --- ## [How many days do you expect to sell out for Star Wars VII tonight?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193)
**Author:** [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-days-do-you-expect-to-sell-out-for-star-wars-vii-tonight/735193 "2015-10-20T17:45:13Z")
Tickets are going on sale tonight… Do you think opening night will probably sell out long before the actual day? What about the second day? Third? Etc… Don’t look now but it appears to me tickets are already on sale at … --- ## [R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" To Get Big-Screen Treatment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-l-stines-goosebumps-to-get-big-screen-treatment/449523)
**Author:** [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-l-stines-goosebumps-to-get-big-screen-treatment/449523 "2015-10-20T15:49:15Z")
As part of Hollywood’s continuing plan to film everything ever written, it was announced today that Sony Pictures (Columbia) has obtained the rights from Scholastic to make a film- or possibly films- based on the Goosebu… --- ## [Surprising X-Men/Star Trek trivia...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprising-x-men-star-trek-trivia/734997)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprising-x-men-star-trek-trivia/734997 "2015-10-20T15:35:16Z")
The gap of time between X-Men and X-Men: Apocalypse will be longer than the gap between the episode “Space Seed” and The Wrath of Khan… Not sure why that makes me feel old since “Space Seed” was before I was born but it… --- ## [Fried rice . . . yum!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-rice-yum/735231)
**Author:** [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-rice-yum/735231 "2015-10-20T14:48:38Z")
Yesterday I thought I’d attempt to make homemade fried rice. Recipe was: Went home at lunch, diced a few pork chops, and mixed the pieces with sriracha, hoisin, and a splash of soy and a pinch of salt. Put that in the… --- ## [Sunday Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-breakfast/735031)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-breakfast/735031 "2015-10-20T14:02:39Z")
A lazy Sunday around Casa Silenus, which means BREAKFAST! Today was a semi-proper fry-up: eggs fried properly hard grilled tomatoes and mushrooms breakfast sausage potato casserole Heinz Beans toast and marmalade … --- ## [I just binged The West Wing (all 7 seasons).](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-binged-the-west-wing-all-7-seasons/734586)
**Author:** [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-binged-the-west-wing-all-7-seasons/734586 "2015-10-20T09:44:53Z")
Back in the day I could only cope with 1 and a half episodes - it just felt the most dreadfully episodic, sentimental liberal wank. Left it until now. No idea why I suddenly decided to go back to it but it’s taken 24 day… --- ## [Star Wars Episode VII ANTI-anticipation thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-episode-vii-anti-anticipation-thread/730762)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-episode-vii-anti-anticipation-thread/730762 "2015-10-20T03:01:24Z")
Bits and pieces of this movie are coming to us in the form of trailers, posters, toys, and more. Yeah, I was in Costco today, and already… MERCHANDISE!!! And that droid toy at Brookstone. Cool toy! That’s about as nice a… --- ## [Best song outros?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-outros/221290)
**Author:** [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-outros/221290 "2015-10-20T02:45:17Z")
Some songs end on a nice, quiet note. And that can be good. But other songs have huge, powerful finales that leave you gasping for air, and that’s what this thread is about. Name your favorite songs that fit the latter c… --- ## [Recipes please: rolled breast of lamb and bell peppers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipes-please-rolled-breast-of-lamb-and-bell-peppers/734940)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipes-please-rolled-breast-of-lamb-and-bell-peppers/734940 "2015-10-19T23:23:32Z")
I need to use both of these up tomorrow. I’ll braise the lamb in the oven in a covered pot, but what can I do with the bell peppers? I expect I’ll be serving with boiled potatoes, and also have leeks, onions, shallots, m… --- ## [What Is That Industrial area In LA Where All The Car Commercials Are Shot?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064 "2015-10-19T19:25:27Z")
It has concrete overpasses and very few buildings. I’ve seen it in many car commercials, it was also used in “Fast and Furious”, “American Graffitti”, and “Repo Man”-to name a few. --- ## [Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D S03E03: A Wanted (Inhu)man](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-s03e03-a-wanted-inhu-man/734584)
**Author:** [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-s03e03-a-wanted-inhu-man/734584 "2015-10-19T18:38:38Z")
“A Wanted (Inhu)man” Directed by Garry A. Brown Written by Monica Owusu-Breen So, who is the (inhu)man mentioned in the title of the show? Will it be Skye, Lincoln (The doctor who helped Skye in her transition to inhu… --- ## [Almost 10 extra minutes of "Night of the Living Dead" Footage Found](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-10-extra-minutes-of-night-of-the-living-dead-footage-found/735086)
**Author:** [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-10-extra-minutes-of-night-of-the-living-dead-footage-found/735086 "2015-10-19T17:20:37Z")
Story here. So Romero intended this footage to be in the movie, but the distributor cut it. I wonder if it can somehow be saved from public domain, so Romero can get some well-deserved money from one of the greatest mov… --- ## ['Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution' by Rachel Moran - Some question her veracity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-for-my-journey-through-prostitution-by-rachel-moran-some-question-her-veracity/735107)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paid-for-my-journey-through-prostitution-by-rachel-moran-some-question-her-veracity/735107 "2015-10-19T17:13:37Z")
I suppose the question is how can you prove you were a prostitute? I saw a Salon article about this bookand intrigued I looked it up on Amazon. On Amazonthere were a few one star reviews which was odd to me because who … --- ## [Is there anything a george foreman grill can't do that an outdoor grill can](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-a-george-foreman-grill-cant-do-that-an-outdoor-grill-can/734864)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-a-george-foreman-grill-cant-do-that-an-outdoor-grill-can/734864 "2015-10-19T16:59:08Z")
Other than quantity (putting more things on at once) is there anything a george foreman grill cannot do that an outdoor grill can? --- ## [Has the availability of HBO NOW caused you to consider cutting the cord?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-availability-of-hbo-now-caused-you-to-consider-cutting-the-cord/735026)
**Author:** [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-availability-of-hbo-now-caused-you-to-consider-cutting-the-cord/735026 "2015-10-19T13:32:07Z")
It was all I had been waiting for. I rarely watched live TV, but was reluctant to give up the couple of shows I watch on HBO. Game of Thrones is great, but I did feel guilty paying a hundred bucks a month to watch it. … --- ## [Minority Report series](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minority-report-series/734702)
**Author:** [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minority-report-series/734702 "2015-10-19T03:33:10Z")
Anyone take a look at this? I thought I might give it a chance, because Dick. Naturally, I was disappointed. Dreadfully lacking any real Dickiness, it seemed like a fairly boilerplate crime drama. Is there a chance that… --- ## [Moon Knight Reportedly Being Developed For Netflix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-knight-reportedly-being-developed-for-netflix/734642)
**Author:** [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moon-knight-reportedly-being-developed-for-netflix/734642 "2015-10-19T02:29:49Z")
Moon Knight Reportedly Being Developed For Netflix\]Moon Knight Reportedly Being Developed For Netflix The Punisher and Elektra may not be the only anti-heroes being added to the Netflix corner of the Marvel Cinematic Un… --- ## [Turkey Chili](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-chili/735034)
**Author:** [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-chili/735034 "2015-10-19T00:54:17Z")
Turkey in October you say? Well, last Monday was Thanksgiving in Canada. Thankfully it only lasts one day and there’s no shopping involved. So, I just chopped up all my leftover turkey and am making a chili with it. … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=969) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=971)