# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=988 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 989 --- ## [Help Track Down 1950s Sci Fi Story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-track-down-1950s-sci-fi-story/730676)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-track-down-1950s-sci-fi-story/730676 "2015-09-12T13:43:30Z")
I cannot remember anything about the story, but it was most likely from an anthology. Google has been of no help-anyway, I think it concerned a group of astronauts who land on Mars…and find an ancient abandoned city (the… --- ## [Big Brother 17 -- Winners and Losers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-17-winners-and-losers/723717)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-brother-17-winners-and-losers/723717 "2015-09-12T05:19:14Z")
Check out Big Brother Cast for Season 24 for refresher’s sake. This thread could be a week-to-week thing if desired, but for the moment, before the first eviction(s), who’s your best hope for Ultimate Winner and who’s t… --- ## [Tenor (or baritone) Ukelele or Guitar?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenor-or-baritone-ukelele-or-guitar/728406)
**Author:** [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenor-or-baritone-ukelele-or-guitar/728406 "2015-09-12T01:49:20Z")
First off, I really have no real musical experience. I had 5 years of piano lessons in grade school, but they were all from teachers that just taught songs, no theory whatsoever. After that I took a year of clarinet, b… --- ## [Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles: 1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1966/730566)
**Author:** [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1966/730566 "2015-09-11T22:43:22Z")
Okay these are songs that were number one in Canada in 1966. Which ones do you like? Previous Polls you may have missed: 1964: Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles:1964 - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board 1965: Cana… --- ## [West Side Story Fans: Was There A...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-side-story-fans-was-there-a/730552 "2015-09-11T22:03:17Z")
I recently saw West Side Story at a dinner theatre. I am sure it was true to the original, but did the Jets have a sidekick, tomboy girl always hanging around and trying to join the Jets? If so, what was the name of th… --- ## [When did Sons of Anarchy jump the shark?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-sons-of-anarchy-jump-the-shark/636805)
**Author:** [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-sons-of-anarchy-jump-the-shark/636805 "2015-09-11T21:38:03Z")
Spoilers… When the subplot with Gemma’s Dad’s caregiver happened I felt the “Oh, brother” feeling. Or was it the trip to Ireland? Maybe just having Henry Rollins as a guest. --- ## [Explain the Punisher logo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-punisher-logo/730685)
**Author:** [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-punisher-logo/730685 "2015-09-11T21:04:02Z")
You know, the one that looks like a skull with some tentacle thingies hanging down. Looks more like a Cthulu thing to me. What’s the deal? --- ## [Musicians: Do You Agree With This?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-do-you-agree-with-this/730559)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-do-you-agree-with-this/730559 "2015-09-11T19:05:41Z")
I cannot believe Billy Joel once told a crowd (recorded on live video) at University of Pennsylvania to STOP clapping along with the music because it throws him off. I can’t believe a professional rock musician would sa… --- ## [Star Wars and nerf herders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-and-nerf-herders/730680)
**Author:** [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-and-nerf-herders/730680 "2015-09-11T18:55:07Z")
Aside from Princess Leia’s famous put-down in TESB – has any Star Wars film, or associated spinoff, featured a herd of nerfs? --- ## [Who here has heard of the film "Network"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-heard-of-the-film-network/730080)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-heard-of-the-film-network/730080 "2015-09-11T18:00:18Z")
A couple months ago I watched Network for the first time, and it immediately became one of my favourite films. For those who aren’t familiar with it, this is a 1976 drama/satire about Howard Beale, the evening news anch… --- ## [What are your favorite Paul Simon deep cuts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-paul-simon-deep-cuts/730173)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-paul-simon-deep-cuts/730173 "2015-09-11T17:03:25Z")
I recently did a thread asking for your favorite Elton John deep cuts. I think Paul Simon would be another interesting catalog to discuss. For the purposes of this thread, let’s define a deep cut as a song that the casu… --- ## [Searching for a Old Spy Movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-a-old-spy-movie/730429)
**Author:** [@Love\_the\_Old\_Stuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_the_Old_Stuff)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-for-a-old-spy-movie/730429 "2015-09-11T15:51:02Z")
Hey All Wonder if any of you could assist. I’m searching for the title an old black and white spy movie. Think it was called 21000leagues … The movie starts with a spy being attacked in Britain. Before she dies, she p… --- ## [audiophiles, is an amp/dac a good investment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiophiles-is-an-amp-dac-a-good-investment/730489)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiophiles-is-an-amp-dac-a-good-investment/730489 "2015-09-11T01:53:49Z")
If you have headphones with medium-low impedance like 50 ohms and you are using a laptop with audio integrated into the motherboard, is an amp/dac a good investment? What brands are decent for $150 or less (preferably l… --- ## [Movies you absolutely adore that you think fell through the cracks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 256\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-absolutely-adore-that-you-think-fell-through-the-cracks/728028 "2015-09-11T00:45:09Z")
“Cousins” Ted Danson at his most charming, Isabella Rosellini is adorable. Sean Young. Man…poor Sean Young. She does a great job in this film, and she was great in Bladerunner. Lloyd Bridges is great. Fantastic Angelo … --- ## [Why jazz \*mostly\* doesn't work for me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jazz-mostly-doesnt-work-for-me/730203)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-jazz-mostly-doesnt-work-for-me/730203 "2015-09-10T22:37:16Z")
In a coffee shop now, working, and “smooth jazz” with LOTS of tenor sax is playing away, song after song. (I had been meaning to write this post for awhile, and the sax has finally pushed me over the edge.) The problem … --- ## [Bloodied Beer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloodied-beer/721363)
**Author:** [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloodied-beer/721363 "2015-09-10T22:19:24Z")
In the past several months, I’ve been to 2 local pubs that whose menu says that any beer can be “bloodied” for an additional $1.50. Yesterday I was curious enough to ask what that meant, was told that the beer will have… --- ## [HISHE: Eagles help drop One Ring into Mount Doom? Ramifications?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hishe-eagles-help-drop-one-ring-into-mount-doom-ramifications/729862)
**Author:** [@Vahktang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vahktang)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hishe-eagles-help-drop-one-ring-into-mount-doom-ramifications/729862 "2015-09-10T18:54:03Z")
So, I’m watching How It Should Have Ended Lord of the Rings: And they have Eagles help drop the One Ring into Mount Doom in a very short amount of time. I've heard others mentions this, too. Would Sauron go down that e… --- ## [Long shot: Two Reader's Digest articles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-two-readers-digest-articles/730433)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-two-readers-digest-articles/730433 "2015-09-10T17:24:03Z")
Article 1: Late 1980s to early 1990s. This was about a Soviet soldier who was taken to the place where the Romanovs were executed. As my memory tries to recollect, his supervisor tells him to look and remember, the i… --- ## [Help Me Find This Old Somerset Maugm Story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-old-somerset-maugm-story/730516)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-old-somerset-maugm-story/730516 "2015-09-10T15:15:55Z")
I recall, it was about a British guy in in Singapore-he offended some local witch doctor who puts a curse on him-supposedly, if he sails west of Aden, he will die. On the ship, he starts feeling ill-so he contacts a guy … --- ## [Best and Worst Episodes From Your Favorite TV Show(s)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-episodes-from-your-favorite-tv-show-s/632220 "2015-09-10T14:30:12Z")
Just a fun little thread inspired by this one. The challenge is simple; for a TV show you enjoy, list your single favorite episode and your single least favorite episode, and provide a one-sentence summary of what episod… --- ## [RIP Judy Carne](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-judy-carne/730235)
**Author:** [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-judy-carne/730235 "2015-09-10T03:04:33Z")
Judy Carne’s death has been reported by her hometown newspaper. In a life marked by big up-and-down swings in both her career and personal life, she will always be remembered as “Laugh-In”'s beloved “sock it to me” girl… --- ## [RIP Martin Milner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-martin-milner/730267)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-martin-milner/730267 "2015-09-10T01:56:43Z")
“1-Adam-12, see the man about an entertaining actor who passed away.” :-(. --- ## [Was Shakespeare anti-Semitic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-shakespeare-anti-semitic/729762)
**Author:** [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-shakespeare-anti-semitic/729762 "2015-09-10T01:25:46Z")
Hi, There doesn’t seem to any consensus on Shakespeare’s opinion of Jews. Many scholars seems to be divided on the issue. The Merchant of Venice is often cited as either proof of Shakespeare’s anti-Semitism or viewed as… --- ## [Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles:1965](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1965/730402)
**Author:** [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1965/730402 "2015-09-10T01:12:14Z")
My last poll did not get much interest, seems Dopers have lost their taste in singles polls. If interest is low, than I will discontinue. So this is my last attempt. The year is 1965, and these are songs that reached th… --- ## [Identify this hauntingly sad island story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-hauntingly-sad-island-story/730414)
**Author:** [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-hauntingly-sad-island-story/730414 "2015-09-10T01:11:03Z")
A while back I heard a story, supposedly true, about a remote island with a lighthouse on it. The lighthouse keeper, his wife, and their toddler son lived there all alone. Their only contact with the outside world was a … --- ## [Sunday gravy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-gravy/730395)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-gravy/730395 "2015-09-09T23:50:00Z")
(Or: Part something-or-other in Smapti’s irregular series of begging the Teeming Millions for their recipes.) Despite the fact that my late father was a proud Italian-American who grew up in New England back in the days… --- ## [Firefly: What did the Alliance want?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-what-did-the-alliance-want/729435)
**Author:** [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Replies:** 139\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-what-did-the-alliance-want/729435 "2015-09-09T19:57:08Z")
So, I’m kind of wondering why the Alliance fought the Independents. They don’t seem to want to rule or colonize the outer planets, since most of them seem to be self-ruled fiefdoms. These are the only potential explana… --- ## [Origin of a Movie and TV Cliche](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-a-movie-and-tv-cliche/730391)
**Author:** [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-a-movie-and-tv-cliche/730391 "2015-09-09T19:15:24Z")
In a great many films and TV shows for the last twenty–thirty shows there has been a scene where a character suddenly has a terrible revelation: they realize, say, that they just let the bad guy escape, or that they’ve … --- ## [Why "Valar" Hiatus?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-valar-hiatus/730150)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-valar-hiatus/730150 "2015-09-09T17:02:50Z")
I’m questioning the coherence of the thread title here in CS. For reasons that I won’t go into unless asked, I don’t consider Game of Thrones threads suitable for me to bother with. Still, I’ve been confused about the… --- ## [Bear Grylls, Running Wild](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bear-grylls-running-wild/729623)
**Author:** [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bear-grylls-running-wild/729623 "2015-09-09T15:57:05Z")
So I thought I started a thread on this back in season 1, but I can’t find it. Anyway, the premise: Bear Grylls takes a celebrity out for a 2 day hike through wilderness areas for survival camping and lots of rock climb… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=987) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=989)