# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=99 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 100 --- ## [Are bagels popular in England?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-bagels-popular-in-england/1010162)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-bagels-popular-in-england/1010162 "2024-12-12T19:21:49Z")
Given the discussions about what we call cookies, biscuits and English muffins I’m not sure what they are called in England. --- ## [How Kreskin at al find hidden paychecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-kreskin-at-al-find-hidden-paychecks/1011561)
**Author:** [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-kreskin-at-al-find-hidden-paychecks/1011561 "2024-12-12T16:19:41Z")
Continuing the discussion from The Amazing Kreskin dead at 89: This shouldn’t fill up Kreskin’s obituary thread. --- ## [James Patterson gives holiday gifts to Massachusetts booksellers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-patterson-gives-holiday-gifts-to-massachusetts-booksellers/1011525)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2024, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-patterson-gives-holiday-gifts-to-massachusetts-booksellers/1011525 "2024-12-12T00:40:03Z")
It’s very kind, and I wish that more famous people used their power in this sort of beneficent manner. --- ## [Info about a 1973 film "Ground Zero"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-a-1973-film-ground-zero/1011412)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-about-a-1973-film-ground-zero/1011412 "2024-12-10T15:56:13Z")
I was watching a little potboiler called “Ground Zero” (1973) on Roku this morning. The final scenes had a bad guy with an atomic bomb at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge (pretty crappy movie, but damn good location sh… --- ## [Any filk singers/listeners among us?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-filk-singers-listeners-among-us/1011414)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-filk-singers-listeners-among-us/1011414 "2024-12-10T14:27:59Z")
Weird how it happens, ain’t it? Someone in another thread brings up King Christian of Denmark, I remember that Peter S. Beagle once sang a song titled “Ballad of King Christian X, King of Denmark, 1912-1945” and that it… --- ## [The Pantone color for 2025 looks like... um... shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pantone-color-for-2025-looks-like-um-shit/1011211)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [December 10, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pantone-color-for-2025-looks-like-um-shit/1011211 "2024-12-10T11:21:35Z")
They’re euphemistically calling it “Mocha Mousse,” but well, draw your own conclusions. Highly appropriate, I’d say. :roll\_eyes: --- ## [Making the best use of an immersion blender](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-best-use-of-an-immersion-blender/1011367)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-the-best-use-of-an-immersion-blender/1011367 "2024-12-09T23:46:21Z")
I never - well, almost never - met a kitchen gadget I didn’t like, so recently got an immersion blender. I’ve used it twice and it seems handy, I suppose, in that you don’t have to use and clean a regular blender. Also, … --- ## [Golden Globes - nominations and a question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-globes-nominations-and-a-question/1011404)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-globes-nominations-and-a-question/1011404 "2024-12-09T19:12:38Z")
Squid Game was nominated for best drama this year. Does this mean they saw the new season that drops Dec. 26 or they just nominated it on a whim? Nominations are here. Does not, for the most part, reflect my opinion on … --- ## [Saw my first hybrid concert/movie tonight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-my-first-hybrid-concert-movie-tonight/1011339)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-my-first-hybrid-concert-movie-tonight/1011339 "2024-12-09T16:41:58Z")
At the very last minute I scored a couple of tickets to see “Love Actually” at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall here in Portland. While the movie played on a big screen, all the music was played by a live orchestra righ… --- ## [How do classical musicians do it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-classical-musicians-do-it/1010052)
**Author:** [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-classical-musicians-do-it/1010052 "2024-12-09T03:49:01Z")
How is it that they (seemingly) never play a wrong note? We just got home from a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth, which was amazing. We’re talking about maybe 70 musicians and 70 more in the chorus. I’ve been playing … --- ## [Who likes the "tortured bush" effect?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-the-tortured-bush-effect/1011110)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-likes-the-tortured-bush-effect/1011110 "2024-12-09T02:48:23Z")
The house directly across the street from us had very pleasant (to our eyes) front yard plantings - including a somewhat columnar evergreen near the front door and 3 mop cypress nearer the driveway. They had a fall clea… --- ## [Your nomination for the worst adaptation of another work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-worst-adaptation-of-another-work/1009415)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 270\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nomination-for-the-worst-adaptation-of-another-work/1009415 "2024-12-08T05:03:57Z")
I decided to start this thread after watching the 2021 BBC/PBS miniseries of Around the World in 80 Days with David Tennant. Note: spoilers for the book and series are blurred in the OP, but not after. Let me say that … --- ## [Luke I am your whatever](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luke-i-am-your-whatever/1011240)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luke-i-am-your-whatever/1011240 "2024-12-08T03:21:21Z")
Star Wars. When it was first shown, was anyone so into the plot and drama that they actually gasped at that “I am your father” line? I guess it was supposed to be some dramatic reveal, but did anybody really care? --- ## [Anybody listen to Joe Bonamassa?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565)
**Author:** [@drumfun101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drumfun101)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-listen-to-joe-bonamassa/546565 "2024-12-07T23:56:31Z")
He’s a blues rocker discovered by BB King… good stuff… --- ## [What's this on Gidget's butt?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-on-gidgets-butt/1011285)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-on-gidgets-butt/1011285 "2024-12-07T12:22:22Z")
Watching Gidget 1x03, The Great Kahuna. Noticed the big white square on the back of her bikini. Looks like a pocket. Did they used to make bikinis with pockets? --- ## [Are you a fan of horror movies/](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-fan-of-horror-movies/1004477)
**Author:** [@f.coli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/f.coli)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-fan-of-horror-movies/1004477 "2024-12-06T22:49:29Z")
YouTube has been flooded (seemingly) with videos discussing the recent release of “Longlegs”, and I am wondering, if you enjoy horror movies, do you have regrets when the movie is over? Does every innocuous sound, that … --- ## [Any good comedies lately?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-comedies-lately/1009955 "2024-12-06T18:49:19Z")
After recent events I’ve decided I need to inject some comedy into my system. I’m not a big comedy movie fan. So I’d appreciate some suggestions. --- ## [Movie lines you inadvertently blurt out in public](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 217\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-lines-you-inadvertently-blurt-out-in-public/995748 "2024-12-06T03:32:24Z")
I was at the grocery store yesterday, and the piped in music was playing “Gimme Some Lovin’”. But it wasn’t the Spencer Davis Group version, it was the one from The Blues Brothers. And without even thinking about it, I h… --- ## [Recommend books about Empathic Justice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-books-about-empathic-justice/1006387)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-books-about-empathic-justice/1006387 "2024-12-06T01:23:03Z")
I’ve mentioned in the past that the school I work for has a theme for each year, and that our summer reading books are chosen to reflect that theme. Well, I’m now on the committee that picks those books, and I’d like to… --- ## [A TV series called Earth Abides](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tv-series-called-earth-abides/1011184)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tv-series-called-earth-abides/1011184 "2024-12-06T01:00:29Z")
I was looking for something on the Internet Movie Data Base and saw an ad for a new series. It’s based on the book Earth Abides I read it growing up. My dad once mentioned, when he saw me with a copy, that there had b… --- ## [How do you prepare your Turkey? - 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-prepare-your-turkey-2022/975381)
**Author:** [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-prepare-your-turkey-2022/975381 "2024-12-05T19:20:40Z")
Just looking for favorite tips and tricks. I have a method I use to cook that I plan to stick with, but I was thinking about the prep stage. . . I still have some time to do a dry brine. . . what do you guys do? Marinade… --- ## [Why does PBS change its programming for pledge drives?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-pbs-change-its-programming-for-pledge-drives/1010988)
**Author:** [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-pbs-change-its-programming-for-pledge-drives/1010988 "2024-12-05T18:26:22Z")
My local PBS affiliate shows what I think is standard public television fare most of the time - children, cooking and travel shiws during the day and documentaries in the evening, plus some British drama. Except every s… --- ## [Thanos and the Rapture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanos-and-the-rapture/1011144)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanos-and-the-rapture/1011144 "2024-12-05T13:36:48Z")
It occurs to me that when Thanos snapped his fingers and half of all living things disappeared, there must have been a lot of Evangelical Christians who would have seen this as the Rapture. Being as it was actually a ra… --- ## [Could-have-beens movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-have-beens-movies/1010992)
**Author:** [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-have-beens-movies/1010992 "2024-12-05T00:07:22Z")
I beleive Tom Cruise could do a great Western movie. Jack Nicholson as Dracula. In other words, an actor/actress that would be cast as something completely different successfully. Not Helen Mirren as Frankenstein, no, ra… --- ## [1940s movie ID: Reflection of headlights in mirror causes car to fall off cliff](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-movie-id-reflection-of-headlights-in-mirror-causes-car-to-fall-off-cliff/1011137)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1940s-movie-id-reflection-of-headlights-in-mirror-causes-car-to-fall-off-cliff/1011137 "2024-12-04T23:33:44Z")
Someone on the Turner Classic Movies Fan Site (FB) asked: Many years ago, I saw a movie that featured multiple accidents on a deserted road, that occurred as a result of headlights from oncoming trucks. The authorities… --- ## [First TV show to openly mention/discuss menstruation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-openly-mention-discuss-menstruation/1011084)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-openly-mention-discuss-menstruation/1011084 "2024-12-04T15:55:46Z")
We’re all familiar with the old canard that Leave it to Beaver was (kind of) the first TV show to portray a toilet (and in those repressed and uptight days, even just showing the tank, as they did, caused much pearl-clut… --- ## ['The Streets Of Laredo' Celtic song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-streets-of-laredo-celtic-song/1010965)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-streets-of-laredo-celtic-song/1010965 "2024-12-03T21:46:56Z")
The Streets Of Laredo contains the lyrics ‘Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly/Play the dead march as you carry me along’. Was there a Celtic-sounding song with these lyrics? Possibly about WWI? Or am I confl… --- ## [Jackson Browne is even better live](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackson-browne-is-even-better-live/1009417)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jackson-browne-is-even-better-live/1009417 "2024-12-03T20:58:48Z")
I’ve always loved Jackson’s albums from the 70’s and his 1993 I am Alive albums. But geez his performances Live takes it to another level. Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol 1 is incredible. The live arrangements are sim… --- ## [Superman and Lois Season 3](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-and-lois-season-3/981271)
**Author:** [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-and-lois-season-3/981271 "2024-12-03T17:42:33Z")
Season 3 of Superman and Lois is upon us. With the massacre of DC-TV (and the larger DCU), this may be the last season of the show, though no announcement one way or another has been made yet. Jordan Elsass, who played … --- ## [Leftovers Recipe Ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftovers-recipe-ideas/1010983)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftovers-recipe-ideas/1010983 "2024-12-03T17:10:58Z")
It’s that time again. What to do with all these leftovers? Today I took stock and I have-- a whole tray of mushrooms that did not get used, the greater part of a 13 pound turkey, stuffing and collard greens. How about so… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=98) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=100)