# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1339 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1340 --- ## [Anyone Else Have a 'Supermom'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-supermom/950817)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-supermom/950817 "2021-09-17T18:10:03Z")
As I’ve said many times before on these boards, I had an exceptional mother. I know my father eventually confided in me, he thought he did too. (My paternal grandmother died when I was five. And she was already dying of … --- ## [Cognitive Bias Chart](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cognitive-bias-chart/950043)
**Author:** [@Bill07073](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill07073)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cognitive-bias-chart/950043 "2021-09-17T18:00:32Z")
Every Single Cognitive Bias in One Infographic https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-single-cognitive-bias/ Seems to be several threads related to this. Any thoughts comments on this? --- ## [Were any of the large prehistoric marine reptiles venomous?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-any-of-the-large-prehistoric-marine-reptiles-venomous/950479)
**Author:** [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-any-of-the-large-prehistoric-marine-reptiles-venomous/950479 "2021-09-17T17:24:53Z")
I was reading about the mosasaurs, and there seems to be some debate on whether they were most closely related to Komodo dragons or to snakes. So I started wondering whether the mosasaurs could have had some sort of toxi… --- ## [I get a much bigger buzz on fountain soft drinks than canned. Why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-a-much-bigger-buzz-on-fountain-soft-drinks-than-canned-why/950777)
**Author:** [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-a-much-bigger-buzz-on-fountain-soft-drinks-than-canned-why/950777 "2021-09-17T16:19:57Z")
I drink diet Coke and I’ve found that I get a lot more buzz from a fountain drink than I do from an equivalent amount of canned diet Coke. Does anyone else notice this? Do they purposely crank up the strength in the fo… --- ## [Term for the flint wheel sparkers in toys](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-for-the-flint-wheel-sparkers-in-toys/950760)
**Author:** [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-for-the-flint-wheel-sparkers-in-toys/950760 "2021-09-17T15:39:51Z")
When I was a kid it was not unusual for toys to have a whole mechanical way of creating flashing effects, basically a flint wheel, like on a lighter, behind some colored plastic, and some sort of lever/button to activate… --- ## [Do We Know the Names of the FBI Agents in the Nassar Case?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-know-the-names-of-the-fbi-agents-in-the-nassar-case/950811)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-know-the-names-of-the-fbi-agents-in-the-nassar-case/950811 "2021-09-17T15:14:02Z")
It seems a senior FBI agent was monkeying with statements, preventing the Nassar case from going anywhere. At the same time, he was negotiating with USA Gymnastics for a post-retirement job. It looks for all the world li… --- ## [Fire Tablet HD 10 - little tidbits](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-tablet-hd-10-little-tidbits/950730)
**Author:** [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-tablet-hd-10-little-tidbits/950730 "2021-09-17T14:45:11Z")
I’ve had my Fire device for maybe a little over a year now. On the whole it’s…well, a much better deal than either IPad, so I guess I have to stick with it. Since there are, of course, no user manuals for any of these de… --- ## [Your most interesting scam?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-interesting-scam/950595)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-interesting-scam/950595 "2021-09-17T14:26:15Z")
I once received an e-mail from “Sarah Silverman,” a comedian I like but have never done anything to associate myself with (follow on Twitter, go to one of her shows, etc.) , telling me that she appreciates my support, th… --- ## [Did Bob Dylan ever record Louie Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-bob-dylan-ever-record-louie-louie/950740)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-bob-dylan-ever-record-louie-louie/950740 "2021-09-17T14:15:33Z")
He performed it at Farm Aide in ‘86 but that’s not what I’m talking about. Many, many years ago a local station had a Louie Louie marathon. All day long, just cover versions of the song. I taped a few hours it. And I sw… --- ## [Antiques = Old crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/antiques-old-crap/946640)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/antiques-old-crap/946640 "2021-09-17T13:44:23Z")
I entered adulthood at the height (late 70s) of something of a craze (in parts of the USA, at least) for restoring and living in old houses. Old House Journal was a useful monthly newspaper instead of a glossy House & Ga… --- ## [A Question About Etymology](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-etymology/950789)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-etymology/950789 "2021-09-17T13:22:14Z")
I know that some words are “conserved” to varying degrees as they pass down through the various languages that come out of a protolanguage. For instance, aqua is considered a conserved word, its sound and meaning have r… --- ## [Duck Boats. Would you ride on one?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-boats-would-you-ride-on-one/818289)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duck-boats-would-you-ride-on-one/818289 "2021-09-17T13:00:59Z")
I would never step a foot on one. How 'bout you? --- ## [MacOS, Brave Browser -- multiple copies same tab open, hovering seems to open links](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macos-brave-browser-multiple-copies-same-tab-open-hovering-seems-to-open-links/950697)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macos-brave-browser-multiple-copies-same-tab-open-hovering-seems-to-open-links/950697 "2021-09-17T11:12:36Z")
I seem to be experiencing a new behavior in my web browser lately ( ~ 2 months perhaps less). I’m in the habit of opening links with a right-click and selecting open in a new tab, especially if I’m initially working fro… --- ## [Do bees eat meat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-bees-eat-meat/950522)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-bees-eat-meat/950522 "2021-09-17T10:07:58Z")
I dropped a piece of chicken in the garden while eating and a bee kept landing on it. I looked down a few moments later and there were two bees! Now it’s totally gone. --- ## [TurboJet and TurboProp: which came first?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turbojet-and-turboprop-which-came-first/950798)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turbojet-and-turboprop-which-came-first/950798 "2021-09-17T09:47:39Z")
Steam Turbines had a long history, and rockets had a long history, so both turbine aircraft and jet aircraft would have been considered. Propeller aircraft and pulse-jets already existed. Were people trying to build tur… --- ## [Brake job on car: was my wife ripped off?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brake-job-on-car-was-my-wife-ripped-off/496124)
**Author:** [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brake-job-on-car-was-my-wife-ripped-off/496124 "2009-05-14T13:57:14Z")
For Gary T, Rick, and anyone else: My wife took her 2002 Saturn to the local NTB/Tire Kingdom for a routine oil change. The car has 75,000 miles on it. After they changed the oil they told her, “One of the rear brakes i… --- ## [Do Democrats vet Supreme Court appointees better (ideologically) than Republicans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-democrats-vet-supreme-court-appointees-better-ideologically-than-republicans/950673)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-democrats-vet-supreme-court-appointees-better-ideologically-than-republicans/950673 "2021-09-17T04:44:17Z")
By “vet” I don’t mean personal character, although I don’t recall any recent Democratic SCOTUS nominee encountering the trouble in confirmation that Thomas or Kavanaugh did. Rather, it looks that Democrats are much bette… --- ## ["Children of Time" (DS9): How long to turn a colony of 47 people into one of 8,000?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-time-ds9-how-long-to-turn-a-colony-of-47-people-into-one-of-8-000/950672)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-of-time-ds9-how-long-to-turn-a-colony-of-47-people-into-one-of-8-000/950672 "2021-09-17T02:57:23Z")
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Children of Time”, the U.S.S. Defiant and its crew of 49 people goes through an energy field orbiting a planet, and finds a colony inhabited by 8,000 people, mostly humans with … --- ## [Spider ID help?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-id-help/946871)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spider-id-help/946871 "2021-09-17T02:48:00Z")
Found this guy in my bedroom tonight (in upper South Carolina). Around 2 1/2 inches wide from toe to toe. I assume some type of wolf spider or huntsman, but I can’t find any photos online to match it. (Nothing with a gra… --- ## [Info that police can collect without a warrant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-that-police-can-collect-without-a-warrant/950331)
**Author:** [@Turki-lurki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turki-lurki)\ **Replies:** 142\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2021, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-that-police-can-collect-without-a-warrant/950331 "2021-09-17T00:52:39Z")
In this article: Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop The writer describes an LAPD practice if demanding that citizens disclose their social media accounts and their so… --- ## [The Cowsills](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cowsills/950701)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cowsills/950701 "2021-09-16T23:52:11Z")
Has anyone watched the 2011 documentary Family Band: The Cowsills Story? I happened to come across it on Amazon Prime last week. I remember the Cowsills from when I was a kid and still like some of their songs - The Rain… --- ## [Yom Kippur is tomorrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yom-kippur-is-tomorrow/950705)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yom-kippur-is-tomorrow/950705 "2021-09-16T21:23:08Z")
In the spirit on the season, I need to say this: to anyone I have offended or hurt in the past year I am sorry, and sincerely apologize. If further discussion is necessary, please take it private. And to all members of … --- ## [What do anti-Covid-protocol people think the "true" motive of maskers, vaxxers, distancers is?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-anti-covid-protocol-people-think-the-true-motive-of-maskers-vaxxers-distancers-is/949925)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-anti-covid-protocol-people-think-the-true-motive-of-maskers-vaxxers-distancers-is/949925 "2021-09-16T21:05:44Z")
More of a GD thread than Quarantine, so I’m putting it here, but mods can move if they want: Throughout this pandemic, we’ve seen anti-restriction people (wish there were a simple term for them; I don’t want “Covidiots”… --- ## [Are BMWs fairly reliable these days?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-bmws-fairly-reliable-these-days/841215)
**Author:** [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-bmws-fairly-reliable-these-days/841215 "2021-09-16T20:09:54Z")
My beloved Nissan 370Z will turn 10 years old in February, and even though she only has 67,000 miles she’s starting to show her age in the form of some costly repairs (and the #$%^& “service engine soon” light came on ye… --- ## [Can a medical office just substitute a NP for the expected doctor at an appointment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-medical-office-just-substitute-a-np-for-the-expected-doctor-at-an-appointment/950563)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-medical-office-just-substitute-a-np-for-the-expected-doctor-at-an-appointment/950563 "2021-09-16T18:48:10Z")
Yesterday my sister went in for her annual checkup. The normal routine at the office is that a nurse(?) or some such takes care of showing her to a room, handing over one of those embarrassing gowns, weighs her, takes … --- ## [Play by Post on other web sites](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-by-post-on-other-web-sites/950718)
**Author:** [@ahduval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ahduval)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-by-post-on-other-web-sites/950718 "2021-09-16T17:11:23Z")
Planning to run a play-by-post campaign on another site, I wanted to make sure I could advertise here. I believe it is ok to do this based on posting of fantasy sports on another site, and announcements of video games a… --- ## [Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349)
**Author:** [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Replies:** 4937\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349 "2021-09-16T16:26:19Z")
Previous trolling thread over the 10k post limit, and I didn’t see another (yet). I respectfully submit this shitshow of a post… …with pool in fine figure. --- ## [Texas Governor Abbott has the secret to stopping all rape and has decided to let it continue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-governor-abbott-has-the-secret-to-stopping-all-rape-and-has-decided-to-let-it-continue/950309)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-governor-abbott-has-the-secret-to-stopping-all-rape-and-has-decided-to-let-it-continue/950309 "2021-09-16T16:21:37Z")
In defending the Texas abortion law against the charge that it makes no exception for rape or incest (which is probably also rape, because no one is thinking about consenting adults when they mention the incest exception… --- ## [NFL Week One good turn deserves another](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-good-turn-deserves-another/950058)
**Author:** [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Replies:** 136\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-good-turn-deserves-another/950058 "2021-09-16T16:09:57Z")
We’re less than a week before real NFL football starts, so I figured I’d start the weekly NFL thread today. All the preseason hype (apparently Elijah Moore will surpass Justin Jefferson’s rookie year as well as walking o… --- ## [Are any settlements in Europe named after settlements in North America?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-settlements-in-europe-named-after-settlements-in-north-america/933621)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-settlements-in-europe-named-after-settlements-in-north-america/933621 "2021-09-16T15:55:14Z")
North America has plenty of towns and cities named after towns and cities in Europe (New York, NY after the English York; Paris, TX after the French Paris; and so on). Conversely, are there any towns or cities in Europe… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1338) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1340)