# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1703 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1704 --- ## [Shows you really miss](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270)
**Author:** [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-really-miss/921270 "2020-09-28T01:14:51Z")
Add video, trailers, etc. if you wish. Herman’s Head. Northern Exposure. --- ## [Do NPR donations go directly to the radio station?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-npr-donations-go-directly-to-the-radio-station/921157)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-npr-donations-go-directly-to-the-radio-station/921157 "2020-09-28T00:27:45Z")
During quarantine, I’ve found a few NPR classical music stations that aren’t near me but have amazing programming that I stream. If I donate to them, does the money go directly to them or does it dumped into a giant NPR … --- ## [Teens played by teens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-played-by-teens/921316)
**Author:** [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-played-by-teens/921316 "2020-09-28T00:21:39Z")
Most TV shows with characters in high school have adult actors play the kids. I’m wondering what examples are out there of shows where an actual teenager was given the role. I can think of a couple examples from my own… --- ## [Is there a way to see who posted in a thread without scrolling through?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-posted-in-a-thread-without-scrolling-through/921625)
**Author:** [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-posted-in-a-thread-without-scrolling-through/921625 "2020-09-28T00:05:24Z")
In a previous version of the SDMB, I could click on the number of posts to get a box listing every poster. It was useful, because I can’t always remember if I already posted in an interesting topic. I just scrolled throu… --- ## [What is a 'box suit'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-box-suit/919350)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-box-suit/919350 "2020-09-27T23:48:50Z")
The question is in the title. --- ## [Question about The Last Supper](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-last-supper/921643)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-last-supper/921643 "2020-09-27T23:07:59Z")
It was a Passover Seder, right? So which disciple found the Afikoman? Who asked the 4 Questions? --- ## [Rural support for Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rural-support-for-trump/921346)
**Author:** [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rural-support-for-trump/921346 "2020-09-27T23:04:33Z")
I just returned from an eight state road trip through Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Mostly interstate travel, but also several afternoons were spent on back roads i… --- ## [How Trump can lose and stay on. Opinions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-trump-can-lose-and-stay-on-opinions/834091)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 315\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-trump-can-lose-and-stay-on-opinions/834091 "2020-09-27T20:51:38Z")
I’m not sure what forum this belongs in. Today’s votemaster column gives a way that Trump could lose the election and still win. PA, FL, MI, and WI have Republican legislatures. The constitution gives the state legisl… --- ## [Baldur's Gate 3](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldurs-gate-3/921688)
**Author:** [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldurs-gate-3/921688 "2020-09-27T19:42:10Z")
Why you making me wait? Take my goddam money you fishfuckerxs! https://www.gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-early-access-release-date-delayed-by-a-week/1100-6482512/#:~:text=Baldur’s%20Gate%20III%20has%20gotten,and… --- ## [Today's APOD is pretty cool: the moon, and Andromeda galaxy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-apod-is-pretty-cool-the-moon-and-andromeda-galaxy/921522)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-apod-is-pretty-cool-the-moon-and-andromeda-galaxy/921522 "2020-09-27T19:36:35Z")
APOD = astronomy picture of the day. Here is the image: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2009/m31abtpmoon.jpg Pretty cool. In this composite picture they’ve kept the same angular scale for both objects, but Andromeda ha… --- ## [What is the FULL title of your cat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-full-title-of-your-cat/920815)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-full-title-of-your-cat/920815 "2020-09-27T19:24:39Z")
My three cats are named Zoey, Phineas (usually just Finn) and Dmitri. There are reasons behind those choices, but that’s not what this thread is about. My cats needed names immediately upon adoption, and thus they were l… --- ## [What does it mean to be a “liberal/conservative” judge?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-liberal-conservative-judge/921249)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-liberal-conservative-judge/921249 "2020-09-27T19:13:51Z")
And is there any tendency to use those terms more broadly than is warranted IRL? Because to take the current example, a lot of folks seem to think that a new “conservative justice” and a “conservative-leaning court” wil… --- ## [Movies where the actor playing the male lead is too young while the female lead is the right age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-actor-playing-the-male-lead-is-too-young-while-the-female-lead-is-the-right-age/921560)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-the-actor-playing-the-male-lead-is-too-young-while-the-female-lead-is-the-right-age/921560 "2020-09-27T18:35:04Z")
The opposite is too common to be notable. The only example I can recall is Top Gun. Tom Cruise had not quite turned 23 when filming began, too young to be a naval aviator with several years experience. Kelly McGillis wa… --- ## [Under what circumstances should Biden concede?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-what-circumstances-should-biden-concede/921611)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-what-circumstances-should-biden-concede/921611 "2020-09-27T17:30:54Z")
With Trump, it’s pretty clear what he ought to do - he should concede once it’s shown that Biden has hit 270 and the mail in ballots are only going to expand that lead. (Trump won’t actually do that, of course, but it’s … --- ## [What Are the Greek Orthodox Church's Views?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-greek-orthodox-churchs-views/921552)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-greek-orthodox-churchs-views/921552 "2020-09-27T17:17:22Z")
Interesting story, the Roman Catholic Church, in relatively recent years. They very much have a social conscience. And it has been this way since at least the late 19th century. In fact, Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) even wr… --- ## [Does the United States even need to be a military power any more?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-united-states-even-need-to-be-a-military-power-any-more/921474)
**Author:** [@razordance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/razordance)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-united-states-even-need-to-be-a-military-power-any-more/921474 "2020-09-27T15:41:04Z")
It seems to me that we have long since passed the point where no foreign country really needs American military protection any more – not even SK or Taiwan, let alone any country in Europe. They can, now, take care of t… --- ## [The Official 2020 NCAA FBS Football Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-2020-ncaa-fbs-football-thread/921674)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-2020-ncaa-fbs-football-thread/921674 "2020-09-27T14:56:42Z")
Here it is, folks. The Big 5 conferences are gonna all play, and a few key match-ups already took place. A few thoughts from this weekend: First of all, regarding LSU - Miss St, how about that AIR RAAAIIIID!!! I had won… --- ## [The Post Office surrenders---why so easily?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-surrenders-why-so-easily/918480)
**Author:** [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Replies:** 149\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-surrenders-why-so-easily/918480 "2020-09-27T14:05:09Z")
The post office just announced that they will not be carrying out the changes which they had declared just last week to be of utmost importance. Why did they surrender so easily? Trump appointed the Dejoy as director … --- ## [Spam calls from my area code](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-calls-from-my-area-code/921616)
**Author:** [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-calls-from-my-area-code/921616 "2020-09-27T13:01:28Z")
I don’t know what list I got on, nor any idea how many times it’s been sold to other “businesses”, but along with annoyance I have questions. I get automated calls that come up with my area code (I know they do it as ba… --- ## [Trump press conferences and lies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-press-conferences-and-lies/921359)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-press-conferences-and-lies/921359 "2020-09-27T12:55:50Z")
I was watching part of one of Trump’s WH press conferences today and he was talking about how mail-in ballots are a “catastrophe”. As we know he is constantly lying and BS’ing. I’m no expert on how these things are supp… --- ## ["Cuties" on Netflix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608)
**Author:** [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cuties-on-netflix/918608 "2020-09-27T11:47:37Z")
Really Netflix? Movie about 11 year-olds twerking, hypersexualising them? No, no, and no. There’s no excuse for that. At best, soft-pedophilia, at worst, child abuse. --- ## [Recommend a senior cat food](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-senior-cat-food/921660)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-senior-cat-food/921660 "2020-09-27T11:38:26Z")
Our cat just hit age 12. She been on a 7+ cat food, and she is doing great. She doesn’t have the “old cat” look yet, and she’s very agile. She can jump from the ground to the windowsill, which is about a 4.5’ jump, and c… --- ## [The New World Order: This is it, actually](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-world-order-this-is-it-actually/921468)
**Author:** [@razordance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/razordance)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-world-order-this-is-it-actually/921468 "2020-09-27T09:56:18Z")
All GHWB meant by the phrase was, the international order to emerge after the Cold War. And emerge it has. What we have now is an enlarged system of Westphalian Sovereignty – Westphalian sovereignty - Wikipedia. When … --- ## [ID song heard on WXRT in mid-80s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-song-heard-on-wxrt-in-mid-80s/920415)
**Author:** [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-song-heard-on-wxrt-in-mid-80s/920415 "2020-09-27T04:38:22Z")
Hi Dopers. I’m trying to identify a song that I used to hear a lot in the early-to-mid 1980s on Chicago’s WXRT radio station. Details are vague, but maybe they’ll be enough for someone to remember. It’s an uptempo rocke… --- ## [Are you a maskhole or are you a maskhole?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-maskhole-or-are-you-a-maskhole/921597)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-maskhole-or-are-you-a-maskhole/921597 "2020-09-27T04:32:14Z")
Did this not originate as a disparagement directed towards people who refuse to wear masks, or disbelieve their value during our current pandemic? I ask because more and more I’m starting to hear its use directed to peop… --- ## [How do fresh-water fish populate different basins?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-fresh-water-fish-populate-different-basins/852117)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-fresh-water-fish-populate-different-basins/852117 "2020-09-27T04:15:19Z")
I wonder if anyone knows how fresh-water fish species populate separated river basins. They cannot take the sea route and they cannot jump the mountains in between, do they? How do they manage? I guess some were introduc… --- ## [Recommend a phone for me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060 "2020-09-27T03:03:41Z")
Some of you may know that I have recently determined that my current phone (some sort of Moto G) just doesn’t have enough storage space, and there’s no way to fix that. As some of you suspected, it also doesn’t support … --- ## [Trying to identify an old Dennis the Menace comic book issue (not a strip or collection of strips)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-an-old-dennis-the-menace-comic-book-issue-not-a-strip-or-collection-of-strips/921622)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-an-old-dennis-the-menace-comic-book-issue-not-a-strip-or-collection-of-strips/921622 "2020-09-27T01:54:02Z")
I can’t recall whether I’ve posted about this before, and since the changeover, it’s hard to find old threads. I’m trying to identify a Dennis the Menace comic book issue I had as a child in the early-mid 1970s. It was… --- ## [What's the benefit of a jump shot if not being defended?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-a-jump-shot-if-not-being-defended/921214)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-benefit-of-a-jump-shot-if-not-being-defended/921214 "2020-09-27T01:13:43Z")
I have never been able to do jump-shotting, the act of jumping makes my shot weak. I’ve always done standing shots, where the legs are what provides the force for the shot (actually, that’s specifically how my basketball… --- ## [Your favorite 80's movie trope?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521 "2020-09-27T00:05:22Z")
I don’t really know why, but I’ve been on an 80s kick lately. Maybe it’s the lamest mid-life crisis ever. The 80s do remind me of a time when life was full of promise, and I had much more to look forward to than graduall… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1702) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1704)