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**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curvature-of-a-harp/969050 "2022-08-03T20:31:29Z")
Here’s a harp: Wikipedia is hosting that pic, so if someone changes it, here’s a Google-Images search for “harp” that’ll show you lots of similar examples. My question concerns the … --- ## [Should Speaker Pelosi visit Taiwan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-speaker-pelosi-visit-taiwan/968605)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-speaker-pelosi-visit-taiwan/968605 "2022-08-03T19:07:51Z")
There are currently rumors spreading around that Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is considering a trip to Taiwan. AFAICT, the purpose of the trip is to “show support” for the Taiwanese government and people. The Wh… --- ## [Major oopsies due to publishing/authorial choices?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-oopsies-due-to-publishing-authorial-choices/969022)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-oopsies-due-to-publishing-authorial-choices/969022 "2022-08-03T18:01:20Z")
I’ve started reading “Troubled Blood”, one of the Cormorant Strike detective thrillers. It’s copyright 2020, was I believe released in 2020, and is explicitly set in 2020. I forget when the earliest scene may have happ… --- ## [When talking about current American politics, does Godwin's Law apply?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-talking-about-current-american-politics-does-godwins-law-apply/969026)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-talking-about-current-american-politics-does-godwins-law-apply/969026 "2022-08-03T17:52:26Z")
Godwin’s Law- as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches certainty. I think that, considering what is happening currently in … --- ## [Boris steps down - who will be the next British Prime Minister?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-steps-down-who-will-be-the-next-british-prime-minister/967538)
**Author:** [@filmstar-en](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmstar-en)\ **Replies:** 189\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boris-steps-down-who-will-be-the-next-british-prime-minister/967538 "2022-08-03T17:14:32Z")
The Conservative now have to decide on an new Prime Minister. The field is very wide and there is no obvious front runner. On whom would you place your bet? --- ## [Opinions on When to Get a Second Covid Booster?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-when-to-get-a-second-covid-booster/961999)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-when-to-get-a-second-covid-booster/961999 "2022-08-03T17:23:43Z")
The problem being is that the effectiveness of the shot starts decaying–so one might be better off waiting until there is a big upswing in cases. --- ## [Examples of when trading a star for prospects / draft picks worked out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-when-trading-a-star-for-prospects-draft-picks-worked-out/968995)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-when-trading-a-star-for-prospects-draft-picks-worked-out/968995 "2022-08-03T17:06:24Z")
Today was the trading deadline in MLB, and various trades were made. This included one for Juan Soto from the Washington Nationals to the San Diego Padres. Whenever a trade like this is made, I can’t help but think t… --- ## [Kill off one flavor in Rainbow Sherbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-off-one-flavor-in-rainbow-sherbert/968650)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-off-one-flavor-in-rainbow-sherbert/968650 "2022-08-03T16:23:09Z")
This is companion thread to eliminate a flavor from Neapolitan ice cream. I buy a lot of Sherbert in the summer. Usually Rainbow Sherbert or Orange. It’s non-dairy and easier on my digestion. Rainbow is a mix of Lime, … --- ## [Recommendation for Best Tea Source](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-best-tea-source/967263)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-best-tea-source/967263 "2022-08-03T15:56:17Z")
Does anyone have a good source for buying tea online? I’d like to get better quality than the supermarket. Thank you. --- ## [Favorite currently-running comic strips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/968511)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob1)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/968511 "2022-08-03T15:55:26Z")
Mine are Baby Blues, Zits, Crabgrass, and I’ve recently gone back to reading Wallace the Brave. --- ## [With DNA testing, are unidentified Jane/John doe bodies still a thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-dna-testing-are-unidentified-jane-john-doe-bodies-still-a-thing/925608)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-dna-testing-are-unidentified-jane-john-doe-bodies-still-a-thing/925608 "2022-08-03T15:54:43Z")
I know some bodies can decay to the point where you can’t get DNA, but now that anyone’s DNA can be run though a public site are unidentified dead bodies still a thing for people whose DNA can be collected? is finding an… --- ## [A looming chocolate shortage? Noooooooo!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-looming-chocolate-shortage-noooooooo/968810)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-looming-chocolate-shortage-noooooooo/968810 "2022-08-03T15:47:00Z")
A neighbor just told me that Hershey has announced they might not be able to get enough chocolate to get us through Halloween and Christmas!!! Okay, this is too awful to contemplate. I’ve coped with Covid, I’ve weather… --- ## [Watermelon: slice as needed or cube the entire melon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watermelon-slice-as-needed-or-cube-the-entire-melon/967345)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watermelon-slice-as-needed-or-cube-the-entire-melon/967345 "2022-08-03T15:39:55Z")
We had a melon discussion yesterday. My MIL was over along with her youngest, visiting from Vermont. I served watermelon for dessert. Earlier I’d purchased a seedless melon and cubed the entire melon, giving the rinds… --- ## [Do you (unwittingly) code-switch when speaking?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unwittingly-code-switch-when-speaking/968703)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-unwittingly-code-switch-when-speaking/968703 "2022-08-03T15:15:59Z")
Code-switching is the practice of mixing different languages, or different varieties of the same language, within a single conversation or situation. My grandparents were Hungarian immigrants to North America. They wou… --- ## [Bacon in the oven](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-in-the-oven/968752)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-in-the-oven/968752 "2022-08-03T15:05:28Z")
Of course I know how to cook my bacon in the oven. It has the advantage for me that I don’t have to try flipping it over with a fork with my trembling hands. But the cleanup of a cookie sheet (or jelly roll sheet) is a P… --- ## [Red Bull heir arrested in deadly Thai hit-and-run](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-bull-heir-arrested-in-deadly-thai-hit-and-run/633570)
**Author:** [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-bull-heir-arrested-in-deadly-thai-hit-and-run/633570 "2022-08-03T14:34:13Z")
BANGKOK – A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving a Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body down a Bangkok street in an early-morning hit-and-run, poli… --- ## ["Coffee Milk" in South Texas? WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-milk-in-south-texas-wtf/968390)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-milk-in-south-texas-wtf/968390 "2022-08-03T14:33:36Z")
I thought Coffee Milk was strictly a New England-- or at least an East Coast-- phenomenon. But today I saw this in my local H-E-B (Texas grocery giant H.E.Butt Grocery Company). The … --- ## [Old hamburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-hamburger/968224)
**Author:** [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-hamburger/968224 "2022-08-03T14:30:29Z")
My girlfriend finally agreed to remove all of her cold bags from the kitchen freezer, and it freed up a lot of space. (Thanks, hon!) Mixed in with all that stuff were two one-pound tubes of hamburger meat. The expiratio… --- ## [Help me with premier league fantasy!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-premier-league-fantasy/969024)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-premier-league-fantasy/969024 "2022-08-03T13:40:52Z")
I’m going to be playing two leagues this year with friends from work, it’s strictly for fun as fantasy sports for money is absolutely forbidden at my job. One league is a traditional league, so I assume it’s like playin… --- ## [MAY we have a new Mini-Rants thread now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-we-have-a-new-mini-rants-thread-now/963800)
**Author:** [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Replies:** 267\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-we-have-a-new-mini-rants-thread-now/963800 "2022-08-03T13:35:38Z")
I know life isn’t going all perfectly smoothly for all of us. It is 2022, after all. My grumble of the moment: noisy cats waking me up way earlier than I needed to be awake. --- ## [Just what is a "regular" roll of toilet paper?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-is-a-regular-roll-of-toilet-paper/968932)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-what-is-a-regular-roll-of-toilet-paper/968932 "2022-08-03T13:34:20Z")
Usually, I buy the cheap single-ply, 1000-sheets-per-roll stuff. But the last time I was at the store, they were out of that, and so I had to buy a 12-pack of double-ply. The packaging prominently states “12 mega-rolls… --- ## [Do you use the word froufrou?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-word-froufrou/968417)
**Author:** [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-word-froufrou/968417 "2022-08-03T11:51:35Z")
Hubby’s from the east coast and I’m from the west coast. I use the word froufrou / frou-frou / frou frou quite often, but he still finds it weird. I don’t think this is a east coast / west coast thing, but I could be wr… --- ## [No more promethazine and codeine cough syrup?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-promethazine-and-codeine-cough-syrup/968990)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-promethazine-and-codeine-cough-syrup/968990 "2022-08-03T11:19:44Z")
I just saw a sign at our local Rite Aid saying they would no longer carry promethazine plus codeine. This is a cough syrup formula I’ve used for decades (by scrip) for chronic bronchitis. This is for all Rite Aid stores,… --- ## [How close are we to everyone having antibodies, and what will that mean for the death rate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-are-we-to-everyone-having-antibodies-and-what-will-that-mean-for-the-death-rate/968981)
**Author:** [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-are-we-to-everyone-having-antibodies-and-what-will-that-mean-for-the-death-rate/968981 "2022-08-03T10:06:25Z")
According to this article from April, at least 58% of Americans have been infected with COVID (surely a lot more by now?), while 66% are fully vaccinated and 77% have received at least one dose (again, probably more by n… --- ## [How many founding families/individuals are now said to have established the American continent's pre-Columbian native American tribes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-founding-families-individuals-are-now-said-to-have-established-the-american-continents-pre-columbian-native-american-tribes/968950)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-founding-families-individuals-are-now-said-to-have-established-the-american-continents-pre-columbian-native-american-tribes/968950 "2022-08-03T09:14:15Z")
I heard Neill de Grasse Tyson mention that America’s native tribes trace back to 8 founding families. I haven’t been able to find any confirmation of that. The science keeps changing on the issue. What is the consensus t… --- ## [Anybody ever move cross-country?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-move-cross-country/33324)
**Author:** [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-move-cross-country/33324 "2000-09-25T15:09:52Z")
I’m trying to decide how to go about my move from Philadelphia to San Diego. I have no furniture - it’s just clothes, books, CD’s, a computer, a stereo, and lots of junk. \[ul\]\[li\]Drive cross-country? Not my first choice… --- ## [Roughly how many people post here in a given day?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-how-many-people-post-here-in-a-given-day/968891)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-how-many-people-post-here-in-a-given-day/968891 "2022-08-03T05:16:10Z")
We’re colloquially called the “teeming millions”, but my feeling is that only about 6-10 people are actually posting here in a typical day. Of course, I’m well aware of confirmation bias, and I’m not asserting any factu… --- ## [Whats the strongest bug spray you can legally buy for home use?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strongest-bug-spray-you-can-legally-buy-for-home-use/968964)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strongest-bug-spray-you-can-legally-buy-for-home-use/968964 "2022-08-03T04:55:56Z")
Ok heres my problem … I live in the desert and yeah we have bugs …Our normal bugs are easy to take care of and don’t need much more than a few sprays of ortho home defense around the house every spring/summer However… --- ## [Talk to me about vacationing in Vancouver](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-vacationing-in-vancouver/963982)
**Author:** [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-vacationing-in-vancouver/963982 "2022-08-03T04:03:03Z")
I recently discovered that JetBlue is adding a non-stop flight from Boston to Vancouver, and I’ve always heard good things about it, so I’m thinking about sneaking in a week vacation this summer, probably late July. I’ve… --- ## [When did we all agree that "DELIVERED" means "LEFT SITTING ON THE GROUND NEAR YOUR HOUSE?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-we-all-agree-that-delivered-means-left-sitting-on-the-ground-near-your-house/928272)
**Author:** [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Replies:** 143\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-we-all-agree-that-delivered-means-left-sitting-on-the-ground-near-your-house/928272 "2022-08-03T03:37:41Z")
This was triggered by a heart-string-tugging Christmas-themed USPS commercial with a postal worker carefully places a box on a patio table outside someone’s home before walking away. It struck me that they are PORTRAYIN… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1035) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1037)