# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=982 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 983 --- ## [Hi, Drox!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-drox/732406)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-drox/732406 "2015-09-25T11:44:56Z")
One Man’s Mission To Bring Back Hydrox Cookies I’ve had Hydrox cookies. Must have been 30 or 40 years ago, though. I recall not liking them as much as Oreos. I’ve heard this. I guess I was an ‘Oreo guy’. I liked t… --- ## [Monster/Horror/Sci-Fi movies: When has a Tank been been able to do any good?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286)
**Author:** [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286 "2015-09-25T02:43:20Z")
I’ve been a fan of giant monster movies from a young age, almost my entire life. And they’ve taught me two things…1) The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force unswirvingly sends tanks out to confront Godzilla and his ilk wh… --- ## [Best Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles: 1973](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1973/732441)
**Author:** [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1973/732441 "2015-09-25T01:52:02Z")
Which of these songs would you vote for? YOU MAY VOTE FOR MORE THAN ONE SONG OLDER POLLS ALWAYS OPEN: 1964:http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18667052 1965:Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles:1965 - Cafe … --- ## [How rich is Richard Castle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-rich-is-richard-castle/732205)
**Author:** [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-rich-is-richard-castle/732205 "2015-09-25T00:23:29Z")
The man has two highly successful book series (Derek Storm and Nikki heat) with about two dozen novels that have been at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. He’s had at least one book turned into a major motio… --- ## [Favorite comedy duos?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-duos/732175)
**Author:** [@Daniel\_Boone\_Fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Boone_Fanatic)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-duos/732175 "2015-09-24T22:05:58Z")
Favorites: The Three Stooges & The Marx Brothers Least: Abbott & Costello --- ## [Ever Encounter a Celebrity and Realize That They Weren't all That?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-encounter-a-celebrity-and-realize-that-they-werent-all-that/732185)
**Author:** [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-encounter-a-celebrity-and-realize-that-they-werent-all-that/732185 "2015-09-24T22:02:10Z")
I worked for a software company eight or ten years ago and had a trip to a small island nation. Rather than leave on a Friday, I decided to take the weekend for some R & R. I checked into a beach resort on Friday after… --- ## [Which movie mocking channel on YouTube is your favorite?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-mocking-channel-on-youtube-is-your-favorite/732433)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-mocking-channel-on-youtube-is-your-favorite/732433 "2015-09-24T21:38:30Z")
Which movie mocking channel on YouTube is your favorite? CinemaSins “Everything Wrong With…” How It Should Have Ended Screen Junkies “Honest Trailers” --- ## [what does this joke mean??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-joke-mean/732060)
**Author:** [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-joke-mean/732060 "2015-09-24T21:26:42Z")
“Donald Trump is running for president — to the delight of uncles everywhere.” I honestly don’t get it. --- ## [Hank Williams' unfinished lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hank-williams-unfinished-lyrics/732362)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hank-williams-unfinished-lyrics/732362 "2015-09-24T21:07:39Z")
On NYE 1953, Hank Williams Sr. died in the backseat of a car near the VA/WV border. With him was a notebook of unfinished lyrics. Flash-forward to 2006 and a custodian at Sony finds the notebook in a dumpster. Why did… --- ## [Stonewall: The Whitewashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonewall-the-whitewashing/732355)
**Author:** [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonewall-the-whitewashing/732355 "2015-09-24T16:22:29Z")
I just read this blog piece: Stonewall Is Terribly Offensive, and Offensively Terrible Essentially, the criticism against the new movie Stonewall is that it does not accurately the folks behind this pivotal moment in c… --- ## [Do you like Hamburger Helper?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hamburger-helper/732223 "2015-09-24T14:49:44Z")
So I recently made a status on Facebook about it and I was surprised to see that not many people do. In fact, more people seem to dislike it than like it. Me, I love the stuff. I grew up with it (although we didn’t eat … --- ## [Ah, now I get the "Borat" joke.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-now-i-get-the-borat-joke/732322)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-now-i-get-the-borat-joke/732322 "2015-09-24T14:39:37Z")
I got tired of wall-to-wall Pope on TV this morning, so I turned on Comedy Central. Borat was on for the last 15 minutes of so. I’ve seen it before, and wasn’t really paying to much attention. I remember, however, the se… --- ## ["To Kill a Mockingbird" (book) minor question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-minor-question/732337)
**Author:** [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-minor-question/732337 "2015-09-24T11:20:00Z")
A bit of a random thing, fetched up by myself and my brother’s recently re-reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and reading its sequel / prequel / whatever, Go Set a Watchman. Concerns a passage late in TKAM, and … --- ## [Memorial Slideshow Song Selection Help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorial-slideshow-song-selection-help/732318)
**Author:** [@RememberMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RememberMe)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorial-slideshow-song-selection-help/732318 "2015-09-24T00:34:27Z")
Hi All, I am putting together a memorial slideshow of pictures of my father with friends and family for his memorial service this weekend, he passed away a few days ago. I am splitting the slideshow up into themes (his… --- ## [2015 Emmy Winners](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-emmy-winners/731230)
**Author:** [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-emmy-winners/731230 "2015-09-23T23:23:55Z")
The major categories are this coming Sunday, but the Creative Emmys (all the various crafts & technical branches) were awarded over the weekend. Game of Thrones took 8: Makeup, Production Design, Editing, Sound Editing,… --- ## [Doper cooks and bakers, you help me make bread for breakfast?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-cooks-and-bakers-you-help-me-make-bread-for-breakfast/732248)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-cooks-and-bakers-you-help-me-make-bread-for-breakfast/732248 "2015-09-23T23:04:01Z")
It is finally cool enough for me to bake bread and my family can’t wait to get some. Also, we have received our first, trail Try The World Paris box with a short and sweet Paris Breakfast blurb. Seems the French are not … --- ## ["Sense of Wonder" moments in sf/fantasy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sense-of-wonder-moments-in-sf-fantasy/732297)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sense-of-wonder-moments-in-sf-fantasy/732297 "2015-09-23T21:12:59Z")
Several things I’ve read speak of “Sense of Wonder” moments in science fiction (or, occasionally, fantasy). It’s a moment where the world you are presented with changes incredibly, and generally for the better, in a dram… --- ## [The music during credits for the first to seasons of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-during-credits-for-the-first-to-seasons-of-miss-fishers-murder-mysteries/732154)
**Author:** [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-during-credits-for-the-first-to-seasons-of-miss-fishers-murder-mysteries/732154 "2015-09-23T20:52:38Z")
Is the music during credits for the first and seasons of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries called ‘‘Charleston’’? --- ## [RIP Willie Mae Seaton](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-willie-mae-seaton/732311)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-willie-mae-seaton/732311 "2015-09-23T20:34:41Z")
Willie Mae Seaton of Willie Mae’s Scotch House dies at 99 I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been to New Orleans. I’ve always wanted to go to Willie Mae’s for some of her famous fried chicken. --- ## [What shows made it to (at least) six seasons and a movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061)
**Author:** [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061 "2015-09-23T16:39:23Z")
I was just thinking about the famous quote from Community in which Abed predicted/hoped that a favorite TV show would make it to “six seasons and a movie”. He was referring to The Cape, which in reality only lasted ten … --- ## [John Wick; Keanu Reeves is back in his asskicking shoes \[spoilers\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-wick-keanu-reeves-is-back-in-his-asskicking-shoes-spoilers/702917)
**Author:** [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-wick-keanu-reeves-is-back-in-his-asskicking-shoes-spoilers/702917 "2015-09-23T16:14:24Z")
So, Keanu Reeves is once again in a kickass action movie. Spoiler space. More spoiler space. Is that enough spoiler space? I don’t usually start threads like this. And after all that, I think these only qualify as m… --- ## [Songs that sound like a decade](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-sound-like-a-decade/731719)
**Author:** [@Lubricious\_Integument](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lubricious_Integument)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-sound-like-a-decade/731719 "2015-09-23T13:30:34Z")
Inspired by this thread. Sometimes you hear a song and it makes you instantly think of a decade. Not an arbitrary 10-year period, but the 30s, 40s, etc. The song sounds like the decade in your memory. 1970s: Sundown, G… --- ## [Playboy's Secret Confessions & Fantasies Tv Series - Do You Remember ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playboys-secret-confessions-fantasies-tv-series-do-you-remember/732268)
**Author:** [@sztar1987](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sztar1987)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playboys-secret-confessions-fantasies-tv-series-do-you-remember/732268 "2015-09-23T03:37:55Z")
Playboy’s Secret Confessions & Fantasies was a hosted TV series in 1993-1994 by Joy Davisdon. directed by Edward Holzman. One episode have 2 segments with 6-7 minutes erotic fantasy story Do you remember what segments h… --- ## [Best canadian rpm number 1 singles: 1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1972/732238)
**Author:** [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1972/732238 "2015-09-23T03:36:50Z")
Which of these tunes from 72’ would you vote for? YOU MAY VOTE FOR MORE THAN ONE SONG OLDER POLLS: 1964:http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18667052 1965:Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles:1965 - Cafe Soc… --- ## [American's Test Kitchen-Trustworthy or Not?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-test-kitchen-trustworthy-or-not/594686)
**Author:** [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-test-kitchen-trustworthy-or-not/594686 "2015-09-23T02:27:48Z")
A friend loaned me her DVDs of the first like 5 or 6 seasons and I’m pretty :dubious: about them. The thin, smarmy, wimpy guy (I hate how smarmy he is towards the chefs who actually do all the work) who’s the host is s… --- ## [Do you like Seinfeld or hate it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-seinfeld-or-hate-it/731953)
**Author:** [@Daniel\_Boone\_Fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Boone_Fanatic)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-seinfeld-or-hate-it/731953 "2015-09-23T02:20:18Z")
I Love it. The humor comes from them getting into. everyday situations,with a twist added to it. My favorite character was Jerry Seinfeld --- ## [Who is the next Disney or Henson?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-next-disney-or-henson/731520)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-next-disney-or-henson/731520 "2015-09-23T01:47:14Z")
Are they out there? Will the world produce another like these 2? Has it already? --- ## [Asgard in the Marvel Universe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asgard-in-the-marvel-universe/731959)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asgard-in-the-marvel-universe/731959 "2015-09-23T01:26:08Z")
All I know about Asgard is what I saw in the Thor movie. And, except for the flyovers, almost everything was inside the palace (Valhalla?). Odin id king, and Loki wants to usurp him, and be the ruler of…who exactly? Do t… --- ## ["Our House" - "two cats in the yard?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-house-two-cats-in-the-yard/495476)
**Author:** [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-house-two-cats-in-the-yard/495476 "2015-09-23T01:21:42Z")
I’ve always liked the song Our House by Crosby Stills Nash and Young, who are one of my favorite bands. (I saw them all together a few years ago - they were truly amazing, and Neil Young’s voice in particular sounds exac… --- ## [Do you know what passionfruit tastes like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-passionfruit-tastes-like/731984)
**Author:** [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-passionfruit-tastes-like/731984 "2015-09-23T01:10:00Z")
Yesterday, I spotted passionfruit at my local grocery store, making it the 3rd time I’ve ever seen it in the US since I moved here 9 years ago. I don’t know why passionfruit is almost entirely unknown in the US, it’s a g… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=981) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=983)