# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1704 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1705 --- ## [Let the "Lake Trump" jokes begin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-the-lake-trump-jokes-begin/921514 "2020-09-26T23:38:47Z")
Don’t take a boat out on Lake Trump-- it will sink for sure. --- ## [Spinoza quote "Stop praying and punching yourself in the chest!" - accurate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinoza-quote-stop-praying-and-punching-yourself-in-the-chest-accurate/921591)
**Author:** [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinoza-quote-stop-praying-and-punching-yourself-in-the-chest-accurate/921591 "2020-09-26T23:36:55Z")
There’s a long quite going around attributed to Baruch Spinoza that, at least to me doesn’t sound like Spinoza - here’s a longer snippet… God would have said: Stop praying and punching yourself in the chest! What I wa… --- ## [2016 Ram Hemi starting issue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-ram-hemi-starting-issue/921085)
**Author:** [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2016-ram-hemi-starting-issue/921085 "2020-09-26T23:29:34Z")
Not sure if I should post here or in GQs… Mostly trouble free truck, but when I went to start it this morning, it started at and maintained about 4,000 RPMs. I shut it down, started again and exactly the same thing. I t… --- ## [Should we stop doing exit polls?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-stop-doing-exit-polls/921242)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-stop-doing-exit-polls/921242 "2020-09-26T22:56:08Z")
Traditionally, big media outlets (AP, CNN) conduct exit polling on election day – they ask who did you vote for, and why, and get demographic info on the voter. As I understand it, they also combine exit polls results w… --- ## [Any recommendations for what to watch on the Peacock streaming service?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recommendations-for-what-to-watch-on-the-peacock-streaming-service/919029)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recommendations-for-what-to-watch-on-the-peacock-streaming-service/919029 "2020-09-26T22:16:39Z")
I’m getting it free (with ads) because I’m already on Xfinity. I watched the series “AP Bio” with Glenn Howerton and Patton Oswalt, it was pretty good. --- ## [Recycled condoms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycled-condoms/921609)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycled-condoms/921609 "2020-09-26T21:06:52Z")
You heard right. Please don’t ask me to say anything more! --- ## [Question about Zillow.com/Trulia.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-zillow-com-trulia-com/921615)
**Author:** [@deutschebag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deutschebag)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-zillow-com-trulia-com/921615 "2020-09-26T21:04:20Z")
I bought a house a few years back from a person who had another house (his primary house) several towns away. After the transaction concluded back in 2017, the house was listed as “recently sold” on Zillow: Real Estate,… --- ## [What do they do with chicken skin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-do-with-chicken-skin/920645 "2020-09-26T20:53:20Z")
You always see skinless pieces of chicken meat in stores. Is there a market for all of that skin that they removed? --- ## [The sweet corn has been remarkably good around here this year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sweet-corn-has-been-remarkably-good-around-here-this-year/921537)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sweet-corn-has-been-remarkably-good-around-here-this-year/921537 "2020-09-26T20:49:27Z")
Despite covid isolation, despite abnormally high summer temps, despite local and general flooding due to excess rain, at least we got one of the most delicious sweet corn seasons in recent memory. Not cloyingly sweet, l… --- ## [Hark! the horror! hallmark announed its new xmas movie list for 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hark-the-horror-hallmark-announed-its-new-xmas-movie-list-for-2020/921459)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hark-the-horror-hallmark-announed-its-new-xmas-movie-list-for-2020/921459 "2020-09-26T19:52:08Z")
I guess neither riots nor plague can keep them down … for your viewing nightmares" https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/hallmark-reveals-complete-christmas-movie-slate-for-2020-first-look/ar-BB19lDTx?ocid=SK2DDHP that’s j… --- ## [POLL: What would you do if a civil war breaks out?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-would-you-do-if-a-civil-war-breaks-out/921336)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-would-you-do-if-a-civil-war-breaks-out/921336 "2020-09-26T19:48:16Z")
Come Nov 5 – hopefully a hypothetical – suppose the general discontent and riots give way to regional armed skirmishes, then state battlegrounds, then eventually a full-blown civil war. Violence ravages the United States… --- ## [Rough bars and bar fights](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rough-bars-and-bar-fights/920604)
**Author:** [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rough-bars-and-bar-fights/920604 "2020-09-26T18:44:14Z")
Perhaps I’m sheltered but I’ve never been in a bar where a fight took place. The worst was when the group of students I was in had an awkward few seconds when another group wanted to use the pool table. Are bar fights c… --- ## [Lunar eclipses on Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lunar-eclipses-on-mars/921462)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lunar-eclipses-on-mars/921462 "2020-09-26T18:13:17Z")
Mars’ moons are so small, it never occurred to me that they could create eclipses, but apparently Phobos is close enough to do that. They’re always annular, and the Lunar Rover indicates that they do significantly reduc… --- ## [What creepy crawlies squick you out most?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creepy-crawlies-squick-you-out-most/919656 "2020-09-26T14:14:34Z")
Bugs, arachnids, insects, crustaceans of any kind, soft bodied critters such as some kind of worm? For me it’s earwigs. Really, what the ever-lovin eff are these things good for? I suppose if I had chickens, they migh… --- ## [Intervals of a Function](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intervals-of-a-function/921325)
**Author:** [@Ptolomy57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ptolomy57)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intervals-of-a-function/921325 "2020-09-26T14:06:55Z")
Simple question, but my son has a good argument: How do you answer his question? Suppose you had the line y=x and you are asked to express the interval in which x is positive. I would merely say without a doubt that 0 \> … --- ## [Who have been the greatest losses to the arts (not deceased)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-been-the-greatest-losses-to-the-arts-not-deceased/921262)
**Author:** [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-been-the-greatest-losses-to-the-arts-not-deceased/921262 "2020-09-26T14:00:32Z")
As the title really – great artists who we have lost, but who are not dead. They just, for whatever reason, stopped. The example I’m going to kick off with is from the performing arts, but I don’t mean to restrict the th… --- ## [Technological unemployment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technological-unemployment/921556)
**Author:** [@razordance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/razordance)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technological-unemployment/921556 "2020-09-26T12:16:49Z")
This is The Big One, the most important economic problem the world will face this century. Apparently we have passed the point where technological progress creates more jobs than it destroys. Every year the machines ge… --- ## [Li-ion energy storage: 4 hour limit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/li-ion-energy-storage-4-hour-limit/921580)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/li-ion-energy-storage-4-hour-limit/921580 "2020-09-26T11:50:59Z")
I read a fair amount (OK, actually a lot) of stuff about renewable energy and related topics. One thing that I frequently encounter is that grid-scale Li-ion batteries have a limit of 4 hours of use. Or charge or somethi… --- ## ["This Coupon is worth 1/20 of 1 cent." Does anyone actually redeem coupons for cash?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-coupon-is-worth-1-20-of-1-cent-does-anyone-actually-redeem-coupons-for-cash/473817)
**Author:** [@shallora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shallora)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-coupon-is-worth-1-20-of-1-cent-does-anyone-actually-redeem-coupons-for-cash/473817 "2008-11-22T03:02:10Z")
I got a coupon in the mail from retailer X the other day. “Special 20% off all purchases of $200 or more by Dec. 31” See reverse side for details. So I actually read the details on back. And at the end it said: “This … --- ## [How to talk to a new amputee?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-talk-to-a-new-amputee/921491)
**Author:** [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-talk-to-a-new-amputee/921491 "2020-09-26T10:07:31Z")
My first neighbour is a nice person. We’re not close, but we will always engage in a little bit of small talk about things, weather, our families even. He’s an elderly man who appears to be in good shape. I’m 43, he’s ab… --- ## [Amazon scam I'm not familiar with](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-scam-im-not-familiar-with/921062)
**Author:** [@Polarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polarity)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-scam-im-not-familiar-with/921062 "2020-09-26T09:08:38Z")
Can anyone provide clarification on this? Any experience? A week ago my wife got an email saying her amazon order had shipped. It was about 50 dollars worth of hair clips. She never placed this order. When she checked “… --- ## [Climate Change and Canadian Politics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-and-canadian-politics/921438)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-and-canadian-politics/921438 "2020-09-26T05:51:20Z")
So some provinces have come up with climate plans. The federal government thinks their plan is better and more effective. But they have to accept the provincial ones for now. Climate is not mentioned in the Constituti… --- ## [Does anyone shower before using a public pool?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-shower-before-using-a-public-pool/920113)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-shower-before-using-a-public-pool/920113 "2020-09-26T04:58:49Z")
They all have signs about showering, I guess due to state laws. --- ## [Open hunting on police now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-hunting-on-police-now/920618)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-hunting-on-police-now/920618 "2020-09-26T03:48:10Z")
I am saddened and heartbroken on the open hunting of the police. Re: the cold blooded shootings of the two transport deputies in Compton. The celebrations of the shootings by BLM , recording themselves laughing, blockin… --- ## [Glaucoma and exercise](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glaucoma-and-exercise/921478)
**Author:** [@The\_Mighty\_Boosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mighty_Boosh)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glaucoma-and-exercise/921478 "2020-09-26T03:04:56Z")
Dammit, I have Glaucoma. (Sidenote; I turn 50 next year. My body appears to have decided that now is the time to lose control of every-frigging-thing. Or maybe it’s just the curse of 2020 playing out at personal level.) … --- ## [What ate our basil plant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ate-our-basil-plant/919149)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ate-our-basil-plant/919149 "2020-09-26T02:53:56Z")
My mother-in-law recently gave us a big, bushy beautiful basil plant in a pot, which was very welcome because my wife and I love fresh basil. We kept it on our front porch. I got to harvest it only twice, once to add som… --- ## [Bus-sized asteroid strikes earth -- effects?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bus-sized-asteroid-strikes-earth-effects/921440)
**Author:** [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bus-sized-asteroid-strikes-earth-effects/921440 "2020-09-26T02:43:56Z")
If an asteroid was roughly the size of a bus at the time it impacted the earth’s surface, what would be the effect? Let’s say it struck a good-sized city. What would that be like? --- ## [Expand the court](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expand-the-court/921020)
**Author:** [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Replies:** 229\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expand-the-court/921020 "2020-09-26T02:00:42Z")
Expand the court to 27 justices. Give the republicans 9 nominations and give the democrats 9 nominations. With 27 justices no single nomination hereafter will be such a big deal. It would also allow for more diversity… --- ## [TubaDiva Memorial Fund (for her family) is finally up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709)
**Author:** [@basslinemz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/basslinemz)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-memorial-fund-for-her-family-is-finally-up/918709 "2020-09-26T01:29:39Z")
It’s taken me FAR too long to get this going, but I had to stop waiting for info and get it started at some point. This is separate from the campaign Ed Zotti set up to buy instruments in her honor - this one directly… --- ## [I think I just discovered Bob Dylan's inspiration for writing "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-discovered-bob-dylans-inspiration-for-writing-lily-rosemary-and-the-jack-of-hearts/921523)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-discovered-bob-dylans-inspiration-for-writing-lily-rosemary-and-the-jack-of-hearts/921523 "2020-09-25T23:00:35Z")
Watching “Bonanza” on MeTV right now. The episode is called “The Saga of Whizzer McGee”. The episode description: Whizzer McGee’s love for a gold-digging saloon girl leads him to take money from a crook who wants to us… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1703) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1705)