# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1026&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1027 --- ## [Why can't newscasters pronounce (and use) words properly?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-newscasters-pronounce-and-use-words-properly/970988)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-newscasters-pronounce-and-use-words-properly/970988 "2022-09-05T15:19:37Z")
I don’t want to get into what constitutes “properly” just now (there are those who believe that every pronunciation and usage that a native speaker employs is by definition a correct one) but there are newscasters whose … --- ## [Books talking about the interactions between Haig and his subordinates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-talking-about-the-interactions-between-haig-and-his-subordinates/970995)
**Author:** [@cannonkuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cannonkuo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-talking-about-the-interactions-between-haig-and-his-subordinates/970995 "2022-09-05T14:37:26Z")
Hi there, Does anyone know any books or records talking about the interactions between State Secretary Haig and his subordinates as well as Defense Secretary Weinberger and his subordinates during the Reagan administrat… --- ## [I have super commitment-phobia and it's destroying my relationships, and I want to overcome it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-super-commitment-phobia-and-its-destroying-my-relationships-and-i-want-to-overcome-it/970775)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-super-commitment-phobia-and-its-destroying-my-relationships-and-i-want-to-overcome-it/970775 "2022-09-05T13:46:29Z")
I’m 34, soon to be 35. I’ve been in a lot of relationships since 2016 and almost every single one of them was ruined by my fear or failure to take things to the marriage level. Some of them were women who were unsuitable… --- ## [How Hot Do You Have To Cook Beef To Kill 'Mad Cow'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-have-to-cook-beef-to-kill-mad-cow/220853)
**Author:** [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-do-you-have-to-cook-beef-to-kill-mad-cow/220853 "2022-09-05T12:29:14Z")
When cooking beef, what temperature do you need to achieve in order to kill Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy prions? Thanks. --- ## [An exercise in the trivial -- International post package tracking numbers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-exercise-in-the-trivial-international-post-package-tracking-numbers/970913)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-exercise-in-the-trivial-international-post-package-tracking-numbers/970913 "2022-09-05T08:38:40Z")
When sending packages through the mail/post to another country, they seem to use a standard format: 2 letter characters, 9 numerical characters, and another two letter characters that represent the country of origin. To… --- ## [Non-expiring prepaid cellphones?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-expiring-prepaid-cellphones/970861)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-expiring-prepaid-cellphones/970861 "2022-09-05T07:35:01Z")
I have an iPhone 6S that I replaced with an iPhone SE when its battery died. (It wasn’t that much more for the SE, than it would have been to replace the battery.) I thought I’d get a new battery for the 6S so I could … --- ## [S.H.A.D.O. Mobile base vehicle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-h-a-d-o-mobile-base-vehicle/970967)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-h-a-d-o-mobile-base-vehicle/970967 "2022-09-05T06:15:05Z")
We all know that the Chariot (a real vehicle) in Lost In Space was a modified Morton-Thiokol Snow Cat. Was the S.H.A.D.O. Mobile model in U.F.O. based on a real vehicle? --- ## [Curious modding in MPSIMS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-modding-in-mpsims/970683)
**Author:** [@3AxisCtrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3AxisCtrl)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-modding-in-mpsims/970683 "2022-09-05T04:47:41Z")
In the thread titled “General car talk”, in response to posts from Sam Stone pertaining to the future of electric car manufacture, we find this from puzzlegal: You might want to start a new thread to discuss the future… --- ## [Amusing 'Is Lower Decks canon' thought](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-is-lower-decks-canon-thought/970960)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-is-lower-decks-canon-thought/970960 "2022-09-05T04:51:28Z")
So I was wondering about this, and thought…“They arrrree…but some aspects are exagerrated. Made sillier or funnier.” Then I thought, Lets take the opposite approach. Its all true, every bit of it. After all, if you look… --- ## [Killer klowns from outer space the game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-klowns-from-outer-space-the-game/970864)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killer-klowns-from-outer-space-the-game/970864 "2022-09-05T03:51:27Z")
Ok, there’s very few horror movies I like (mostly sci-fi-based ones) the original Halloween and the ones with Jamie lee in them) cthe of child play ) but killer klowns was one of them and now they made a game out of it… … --- ## [Lawyer drops client in civil suit--meaning?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyer-drops-client-in-civil-suit-meaning/968606)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyer-drops-client-in-civil-suit-meaning/968606 "2022-07-27T15:03:18Z")
An acquaintance is the executor of their father’s estate. Father explicitly and with the aid of an attorney wrote the colleague’s sibling out of the will, charging elder abuse, with police reports etc. to confirm. The si… --- ## [Lawyers (and IANALs): invent some voir dire questions to suss out Trumpsters on a hypothetical jury](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-and-ianals-invent-some-voir-dire-questions-to-suss-out-trumpsters-on-a-hypothetical-jury/969660)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-and-ianals-invent-some-voir-dire-questions-to-suss-out-trumpsters-on-a-hypothetical-jury/969660 "2022-09-05T03:47:14Z")
If Trump were to go on trial (for any of a number of viable charges), the jury would need to be vetted for hard-core Trump supporters who would screw up a unanimous “Guilty” verdict no matter what the evidence showed, so… --- ## [Mortality of Antarctic babies due to gut microflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mortality-of-antarctic-babies-due-to-gut-microflora/740125)
**Author:** [@Artfog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artfog)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mortality-of-antarctic-babies-due-to-gut-microflora/740125 "2022-09-05T03:34:30Z")
In the late 70’s Agentina tried to enhance its claims to an Antarctic territory by sending pregnant women there to give birth. From what I can glean, there may have been eight births. At some point, they all returned to … --- ## [Pull my finger for August (monthly mini rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940)
**Author:** [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Replies:** 294\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940 "2022-09-05T03:16:29Z")
This is my last day of mandatory quarantine as I get over Covid. Feeling better but I have a nagging cough and sore throat that has made it impossible to sleep for long. Also, though my congestion is gone for some reas… --- ## [How difficult is it to “accidentally” fire a nuclear missile?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-accidentally-fire-a-nuclear-missile/960900)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-accidentally-fire-a-nuclear-missile/960900 "2022-09-05T02:34:32Z")
Since India is saying they did that 2 days ago. It was observed by Pakistan throughout and fortunately the PAF concluded it was a mistake and not an actual launch. The Indians didn’t bother revealing it until 23 ho… --- ## [Actors/actresses you think are the same person](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519)
**Author:** [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Replies:** 192\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519 "2022-09-05T01:46:33Z")
Until I looked them up on IMDB, I had no idea that John Corbett and Paul Rudd were different people. I thought that the guy in Clueless was the guy on Sex and the City was the guy on Friends was the guy in My Big Fat Gre… --- ## [How to pick a good watermelon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pick-a-good-watermelon/969963)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-pick-a-good-watermelon/969963 "2022-09-04T23:22:04Z")
Link to some common folk wisdom Has anyone ever actually put these tests to the test to see whether there’s anything to it? --- ## [It was the third of September](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-third-of-september/970879 "2022-09-04T23:15:24Z")
A day I’ll always remember --- ## [Discoveries and inventions the Chinese made long before Europeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discoveries-and-inventions-the-chinese-made-long-before-europeans/970785)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discoveries-and-inventions-the-chinese-made-long-before-europeans/970785 "2022-09-04T23:05:22Z")
Having grown up in the US I really feel I only learned US and to a lesser degree european history. Its interesting to learn that some discoveries and inventions that were hailed as groundbreaking in europe had been disco… --- ## [Hugo awards streaming tonight (Sept 04, 2022)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugo-awards-streaming-tonight-sept-04-2022/970956)
**Author:** [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugo-awards-streaming-tonight-sept-04-2022/970956 "2022-09-04T22:39:35Z")
If anybody else is interested in watching: --- ## [Empty "Top Secret" folders in Trump's cache](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/empty-top-secret-folders-in-trumps-cache/970837)
**Author:** [@Yosh99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosh99)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/empty-top-secret-folders-in-trumps-cache/970837 "2022-09-04T22:10:00Z")
I’ve read that many of the Top Secret folders discovered at Mar-a-Lago were empty. What are the ramifications of this? Where are the documents now? Did Trump hide them? Sell them? Give them away? I’m finding this m… --- ## [Roles/characters actors should have taken but it didnt happen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-characters-actors-should-have-taken-but-it-didnt-happen/970829)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-characters-actors-should-have-taken-but-it-didnt-happen/970829 "2022-09-04T21:29:25Z")
Continuing the discussion from Long-running characters closely associated with a non-originating actor:0 I made this remark when discussing dr strange : I always thought vincent price would have been unspeakably great… --- ## [Brisket prime v choice and price. Weird](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brisket-prime-v-choice-and-price-weird/970857)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brisket-prime-v-choice-and-price-weird/970857 "2022-09-04T20:26:19Z")
Went to Costco today. Whole packet brisket prime was $4.29 a pound. Choice flat only was, not sure on exact, but something like $5.85. Yes the packer has a bunch of fat to trim and the flat not, but still not getting wh… --- ## [Why Trump felt he could mishandle Top Secret files](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-trump-felt-he-could-mishandle-top-secret-files/970839)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-trump-felt-he-could-mishandle-top-secret-files/970839 "2022-09-04T18:07:32Z")
The unifying theory of why he’s in the position he’s now in is that his plan from the start was “I’m going to be President for the rest of my life. I’ll claim I won the 2020 election, whatever the results show, and if I … --- ## [Pacific Coast Highway Roadtrip Recommendations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-coast-highway-roadtrip-recommendations/958890)
**Author:** [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-coast-highway-roadtrip-recommendations/958890 "2022-09-04T17:42:09Z")
So after having cancelled trips to San Diego, New York, Florida, and Buffalo over the course of the pandemic I have booked a family trip at the end of August to drive the PCH from San Francisco to LA. So far my itinerary… --- ## [Home Discount Warehouses - legit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-discount-warehouses-legit/970883)
**Author:** [@joemama24\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemama24_98)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-discount-warehouses-legit/970883 "2022-09-04T17:26:27Z")
I live in Clearwater FL - pretty suburban, not too industrial. We’ve had three “home discount warehouses” open in the last year nearvy. All of them call a variety of household items (fans, sinks, appliances, and many, … --- ## [Covid vaccines will be the new influenza vaccines - take them annually](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-vaccines-will-be-the-new-influenza-vaccines-take-them-annually/970733)
**Author:** [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-vaccines-will-be-the-new-influenza-vaccines-take-them-annually/970733 "2022-09-04T17:19:57Z")
I’ve read several articles about the new vaccines that are more protective against the (now) common variants. Some articles state that this is the beginning of a time when we will just take an annual Covid vaccine, like… --- ## [Is anti-Catholic bigotry hate speech?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anti-catholic-bigotry-hate-speech/966877)
**Author:** [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Replies:** 175\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anti-catholic-bigotry-hate-speech/966877 "2022-09-04T17:01:03Z")
From the Rules: Hate Speech – Do not post hate speech directed against any race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or gender in any forum. (Bolding mine.) In the thread about the recent Supreme Court decision, we got … --- ## [Is the circumstantial evidence that the Nazis started the Reichstag fire strong enough to state it as fact?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-circumstantial-evidence-that-the-nazis-started-the-reichstag-fire-strong-enough-to-state-it-as-fact/970916)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-circumstantial-evidence-that-the-nazis-started-the-reichstag-fire-strong-enough-to-state-it-as-fact/970916 "2022-09-04T16:47:51Z")
Is the circumstantial evidence that the Nazis started the Reichstag fire strong enough to state it as fact? --- ## [So what is this, "Anti-innovation" bill I keep seeing commercials for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-anti-innovation-bill-i-keep-seeing-commercials-for/969779)
**Author:** [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-this-anti-innovation-bill-i-keep-seeing-commercials-for/969779 "2022-09-04T15:15:28Z")
The commercial claims it’s going to hit working families the hardest. In one version the voice over calls it “anti-innovation”, but the on screen text calls it “Anti-trust.” I don’t think those two things are really the … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1025&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1027&state=tracking)