# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1600 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1601 --- ## [Weird things you believed as a kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-believed-as-a-kid/928583)
**Author:** [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Replies:** 119\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-believed-as-a-kid/928583 "2020-12-29T13:26:51Z")
It’s been years since we had a thread about this. As a kid, I thought that the tonsils were boney hooks on the back of the throat (as in, the side of the esophagus on your posterior as opposed to anterior side), and the… --- ## [Chess discussion/analysis - all welcome](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-discussion-analysis-all-welcome/928488)
**Author:** [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-discussion-analysis-all-welcome/928488 "2020-12-29T10:21:51Z")
In the most recent chess thread (Help. I suck at chess), poster @Pasta kindly offered to analyse someone else’s games - I’m hoping they might be willing to do this here, along with anyone else who is interested (e.g., bu… --- ## [Stick Blender Whisk Attachments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-blender-whisk-attachments/929132)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-blender-whisk-attachments/929132 "2020-12-29T08:14:15Z")
So my trusty old stick blender finally died after something like 15-20 years. I was looking at the new ones, and it seems that variable attachment sticks are the new thing these days. The half-ass food-processor bowl th… --- ## [The Return of the Christmas Blood Sausage!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-christmas-blood-sausage/929036)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-return-of-the-christmas-blood-sausage/929036 "2020-12-29T06:25:56Z")
When I was growing up, after the Christmas morning present-a-plooza :gift: :gift: :gift:, my mom always made us Christmas brunch: bacon and eggs, toast, orange juice, and blood sausage (or black pudding, for the squeami… --- ## [Why can't people clap in time at concerts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-people-clap-in-time-at-concerts/928922)
**Author:** [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-people-clap-in-time-at-concerts/928922 "2020-12-29T05:56:39Z")
Whenever performers exhort the crowd to clap along with the music, the crowd can only keep the beat for maybe 30 seconds at best. The audience quickly loses the beat and the clapping rhythm falls apart. Assuming all the… --- ## [Can an NFL game end on a safety?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-nfl-game-end-on-a-safety/928810)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-nfl-game-end-on-a-safety/928810 "2020-12-29T05:40:22Z")
Not finding anything on Google. In the NFL if a team scores a touchdown just as regulation time runs out they are still able to attempt the point after or 2 point conversion as neither affect the game clock. But what a… --- ## [Are jigsaw puzzles harder to come by during the lockdown?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-jigsaw-puzzles-harder-to-come-by-during-the-lockdown/855540)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-jigsaw-puzzles-harder-to-come-by-during-the-lockdown/855540 "2020-06-15T15:58:26Z")
I had lunch with a friend the other day, who was telling me that his wife has been doing a lot of jigsaw puzzles during the COVID lockdown, and has gone through her entire collection. He said when she tried to get more, … --- ## [Flies in my furnace room!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flies-in-my-furnace-room/929068)
**Author:** [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flies-in-my-furnace-room/929068 "2020-12-29T03:43:13Z")
For those who enjoyed the Tiny moths in my office, Arg! thread, the next mystery. My office is downstairs in my house, which is not ground floor because this is a hillside house: the ground floor is upstairs where the l… --- ## [New apprentice (Journeymen) mods](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-apprentice-journeymen-mods/925456)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-apprentice-journeymen-mods/925456 "2020-12-29T03:42:37Z")
Hey fellow SDMBers. Please give these new guys a break. Sure, they may not do things exactly as their predecessors, but that is a Good Thing. I checked, and they are not really all clones. Stop saying every time they … --- ## [Pfizer et al Sharing Manufacturing Technique?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pfizer-et-al-sharing-manufacturing-technique/928073)
**Author:** [@DtypeJag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DtypeJag)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pfizer-et-al-sharing-manufacturing-technique/928073 "2020-12-29T03:31:57Z")
Tax payers have paid for development of Pfizers and other pharm companies vaccines plus guarenteed purchase of the product even if it doesn’t work, so why can’t they be required to share successful production method of a… --- ## [Please recommend an adhesive](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-adhesive/929100)
**Author:** [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-adhesive/929100 "2020-12-29T03:19:22Z")
Some of the clear ‘weather stripping’ around my shower door is coming loose. One small piece has already fallen off. What would be the best adhesive to glue the stripping back to the glass? Thanks. --- ## [What makes a movie a Christmas movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-movie-a-christmas-movie/928824)
**Author:** [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-movie-a-christmas-movie/928824 "2020-12-29T02:42:00Z")
I will repeat the question so the OP is not empty. What makes a movie a Christmas movie? --- ## [Nashville Area](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nashville-area/929037)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nashville-area/929037 "2020-12-29T02:19:55Z")
Well. THAT was interesting! And now we have a Blast Zone, instead of a Tourist District. AT&T restored the Net for me, just minutes ago. --- ## [Kids and grandparents and toys](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-and-grandparents-and-toys/928969)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-and-grandparents-and-toys/928969 "2020-12-29T01:57:58Z")
I wasn’t sure how to make the topic more descriptive, but here’s what I want to discuss. If you have kids, do they have toys that stay in different places - some for home, some at Grandma’s, some with a babysitter? Or d… --- ## [How can a plastic cooktop knob cost over $75?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-plastic-cooktop-knob-cost-over-75/928425)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-plastic-cooktop-knob-cost-over-75/928425 "2020-12-29T01:52:46Z")
This is an economics question, not a shopping question. I have a GE Profile gas cooktop made in 1995. The plastic knobs need to be replaced. I have found several parts suppliers that have OEM replacements. The prices ra… --- ## [What's your mantra?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mantra/928436)
**Author:** [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mantra/928436 "2020-12-29T00:44:07Z")
…or mantras, perhaps? Sometimes we get through the BS of life by having at least one mantra which, when everything goes to hell, serves to help get us through. My bro has an interesting one. “I was looking for a job w… --- ## [Florida Hoops player Keyontae Johnson collapses during game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-hoops-player-keyontae-johnson-collapses-during-game/927913)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-hoops-player-keyontae-johnson-collapses-during-game/927913 "2020-12-29T00:01:36Z")
Story here Florida Gators star Keyontae Johnson in critical but stable condition after collapsing on court I was watching the FSU/UF game this morning (11 am ET start) and saw part of this. Horrible to see, he’s in crit… --- ## [Recommend to me a good Nail Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-a-good-nail-gun/929123)
**Author:** [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-to-me-a-good-nail-gun/929123 "2020-12-28T23:41:29Z")
I want to put up crown molding in my house. After putting up some in the bathroom, I have decided that I will get better results in less time using a nail gun. I doubt I will ever do any kind of heavy carpentry so I don… --- ## [The Jupiter Saturn conjunction!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jupiter-saturn-conjunction/928581)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jupiter-saturn-conjunction/928581 "2020-12-28T23:37:13Z")
If you are in the Eastern time zone you had better hurry out, and find a clear SW horizon. Amazing. Easily got both very close in my 5" Celestron. The coolest thing was having Titan to the lower right lined up perfect… --- ## [Fava beans and a nice chianti](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fava-beans-and-a-nice-chianti/928999)
**Author:** [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fava-beans-and-a-nice-chianti/928999 "2020-12-28T22:26:07Z")
This is not about the well-known Hannibal Lecter line from Silence of the Lambs or the revelation that its a medical in-joke. The discovery of a new very well-preserved thermopolium at Pompeii has received considerable … --- ## [The next pandemic in the U.S. must be met by brutal force](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-pandemic-in-the-u-s-must-be-met-by-brutal-force/928765)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-pandemic-in-the-u-s-must-be-met-by-brutal-force/928765 "2020-12-28T20:24:09Z")
If there’s any lesson to be had from this Covid disaster in America, it’s that many millions of Americans will rebel against simple measures like mask-wearing, distancing and quarantining even in the face of horrific num… --- ## [You-tube videos for all assembly instructions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-tube-videos-for-all-assembly-instructions/928491)
**Author:** [@chasole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chasole)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-tube-videos-for-all-assembly-instructions/928491 "2020-12-28T20:21:50Z")
I just wanted to mention that, when you purchase anything that requires assembly, there is probably a Youtube video from someone showing how to assemble. I find them much more helpful that reading the cryptic Chinese w… --- ## [Botticelli - Dec 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225)
**Author:** [@Ana\_Byrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana_Byrd)\ **Replies:** 462\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225 "2020-12-28T19:51:26Z")
Time for a new one. My letter is L. --- ## [Comet Erasmus, discovered in September](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-erasmus-discovered-in-september/927053)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-erasmus-discovered-in-september/927053 "2020-12-28T19:39:46Z")
There’s some chatter that it may be bright enough to be visible in the daytime. Since we’re still waiting for Betelgeuse to go supernova, and be able to see it, this will have to do for now. --- ## [Need advice on correcting cat behavior](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-advice-on-correcting-cat-behavior/928996)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-advice-on-correcting-cat-behavior/928996 "2020-12-28T19:30:07Z")
Obligatory pic of Oscar blissed out on nip So, I need help figuring out how to keep the little rascal from a) jumping on the counters and b, c and d) using loaves of bread, rolls of … --- ## [Tony Rice, Guitar Player and Singer Extraordinaire, is Gone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rice-guitar-player-and-singer-extraordinaire-is-gone/929109)
**Author:** [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-rice-guitar-player-and-singer-extraordinaire-is-gone/929109 "2020-12-28T19:04:38Z")
The great guitarist and singer died on Christmas Day. People talk about the influence of Clarence White as a bluegrass flatpicker. But no one did more then Tony to popularize the importance of a lead guitar in bluegrass … --- ## [Need help with a puzzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-puzzle/929031)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-puzzle/929031 "2020-12-28T17:54:05Z")
I’m trying to set up a geo-location puzzle. I need to compose some directions that say, basically, start here, go somewhere else and end up where you started. But… I want it to seem like the directions are leading somewh… --- ## [My cousin dont beleive in evolution](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-dont-beleive-in-evolution/927895)
**Author:** [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-dont-beleive-in-evolution/927895 "2020-12-28T16:52:54Z")
Are there any 100% sure thing that could convince him, He is very sure that intelligent design is the answer and he doesnt quite beleive my comments Loggins --- ## [Does a pardon also clear fines and recompense paid?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pardon-also-clear-fines-and-recompense-paid/928764)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pardon-also-clear-fines-and-recompense-paid/928764 "2020-12-28T16:05:57Z")
Recently president Trump pardoned Philip Esformes who was convicted of what is believed to be the largest Medicare fraud in history (estimated around $1 billion). (This is GQ so this is only to setup the question, pleas… --- ## [When You Achieve An Important Chess Rating (Expert, Master, etc.), Do You Get Recognition? A Certificate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-achieve-an-important-chess-rating-expert-master-etc-do-you-get-recognition-a-certificate/929025)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-achieve-an-important-chess-rating-expert-master-etc-do-you-get-recognition-a-certificate/929025 "2020-12-28T15:34:19Z")
When Joe Chess Player finally gets his rating above 2300, does he apply to FIDE and then, later, get like a certificate or something? Or does he just say to himself, “I’m over 2300, I guess I can start calling myself a ‘… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1599) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1601)