# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1882 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1883 --- ## [How did the Polynesians find Hawaii?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-polynesians-find-hawaii/852976)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-polynesians-find-hawaii/852976 "2020-05-11T02:55:17Z")
Hawaii, if you’ve never been there or don’t own a map, is isolated. REALLY isolated; it’s a long way from anywhere, and it’s not a big place. Yet the Polynesians found it. It’s not known exactly when, but it was at le… --- ## [Guesses on Y2K "excuses"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guesses-on-y2k-excuses/549)
**Author:** [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guesses-on-y2k-excuses/549 "2020-05-11T00:08:09Z")
It seems as if there are any number of groups predicting the end of the world come January. Back in the 50’s or 60’s there was a book written by a social psychologist (Leon Festinger?) who studied what happened to a grou… --- ## [85 NY kids stricken with mysterious coronavirus-linked disease](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-ny-kids-stricken-with-mysterious-coronavirus-linked-disease/853555)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85-ny-kids-stricken-with-mysterious-coronavirus-linked-disease/853555 "2020-05-10T23:11:08Z")
It’s not just nursing homes and elderly. --- ## [“It is better that we all suffer a little, so that none of us has to suffer a lot.” - Furloughs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-better-that-we-all-suffer-a-little-so-that-none-of-us-has-to-suffer-a-lot-furloughs/853380)
**Author:** [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-better-that-we-all-suffer-a-little-so-that-none-of-us-has-to-suffer-a-lot-furloughs/853380 "2020-05-10T22:44:49Z")
http://outsideincompanies.com/a-truly-human-furlough-an-alternative-to-a-reduction-in-force/ CEO, Bob Chapman, during the 2008 recession, instead of laying off some employees, furloughed all them for a few weeks - sayin… --- ## [Early instances of 'Ruby Begonia?" (pre-1960)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-instances-of-ruby-begonia-pre-1960/786920)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-instances-of-ruby-begonia-pre-1960/786920 "2020-05-10T22:22:40Z")
Flip Wilson in one of his comedy routines would say, sounding like The Kingfish from “Amos ‘n’ Andy” (or possibly Dewey ‘Pigmeat’ Markham), “Do da name ‘Ruby Begonia’ strike a familya note?” Most people assumed that it … --- ## [What Generation Do I Belong To?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-do-i-belong-to/853006)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-do-i-belong-to/853006 "2020-05-10T21:59:25Z")
I’ll give you some background first. My parents were born in the late 1920’s and early 30’s. They are Depression Era children. So oddly that could make me a Baby Boomer. But I was born in 1968. I once heard Generations… --- ## [Another day, another finger given to everyone from Drowsy 2 scoops DonDon...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-finger-given-to-everyone-from-drowsy-2-scoops-dondon/853535)
**Author:** [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-finger-given-to-everyone-from-drowsy-2-scoops-dondon/853535 "2020-05-10T21:25:12Z")
Yeah… quite the irresponsible non-leader. He’s got his, to hell with everyone else. --- ## [Ham-a-lama-ding-dong attempts to make more bank from the rubes...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241)
**Author:** [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ham-a-lama-ding-dong-attempts-to-make-more-bank-from-the-rubes/853241 "2020-05-10T21:03:27Z")
Jumpin’ Jebus onna cracker… :smack: Take it away, Hemet: Why not set up a Silver Solution and MMS kiosks too? Or offer Samaritans Purse ‘insurance’? Oh, riiiight, those assholes would be stealing from poor ol’ Kenmei… --- ## [Are many people not aware that they have a fever?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-many-people-not-aware-that-they-have-a-fever/853062)
**Author:** [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-many-people-not-aware-that-they-have-a-fever/853062 "2020-05-10T20:44:38Z")
Body temperature checks prior to entering a public, closed or risky area seem to be the standard in many parts of the world. I had to make an emergency dentist appointment a couple of weeks ago and they took my temperat… --- ## [can you set an alert for when a video game drops in price](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-set-an-alert-for-when-a-video-game-drops-in-price/853419)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-set-an-alert-for-when-a-video-game-drops-in-price/853419 "2020-05-10T20:37:18Z")
preferably for steam but also for other online gaming platforms. Can you enter the name of game(s) you want then get an email alert when they go on sale? --- ## [Lessening the inequities in how POTUS is elected](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessening-the-inequities-in-how-potus-is-elected/852838)
**Author:** [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessening-the-inequities-in-how-potus-is-elected/852838 "2020-05-10T20:30:09Z")
In several threads here over time it has been suggested that in order to make presidential elections better reflect the wish of the voters the Electoral College needs to be abolished. This of course means amending the C… --- ## [Harry Potter wizardry and the Google Assistant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-wizardry-and-the-google-assistant/853259)
**Author:** [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-wizardry-and-the-google-assistant/853259 "2020-05-10T19:56:41Z")
If you have the Google Assistant installed on your Android phone, just say, “Hey, Google. Lumos,” and it will turn on your phone’s flashlight. Say, “Hey, Google. Nox,” and it will turn the flashlight off. Your friends wi… --- ## [Are you getting fire truck birthday drive-bys in your area?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-fire-truck-birthday-drive-bys-in-your-area/853476)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-fire-truck-birthday-drive-bys-in-your-area/853476 "2020-05-10T18:39:58Z")
Fire trucks driving past the house of kids on their burthdays blasting their sirens and horns. There was one about a half-mile from me a couple of weeks ago, I thought there was some major accident on the highway in that… --- ## [Would you consider this false advertising?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-consider-this-false-advertising/853046)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-consider-this-false-advertising/853046 "2020-05-10T16:39:50Z")
I saw an ad for an online delivery service for food and I have a lot of time on my hands so I checked it out. I won’t mention the website’s name but they basically sell meat for home delivery. Here are the names of some… --- ## [Questions about tea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-tea/853135)
**Author:** [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-tea/853135 "2020-05-10T16:34:40Z")
I’m sort of a beginner regarding this subject, and have several questions. Do you find any difference in taste between various kinds of tea? In other words, do individual baggies of Red Rose tea from Fred Meyer taste… --- ## [who are you most tired of seeing, Shaq or Peyton?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-most-tired-of-seeing-shaq-or-peyton/853410)
**Author:** [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-most-tired-of-seeing-shaq-or-peyton/853410 "2020-05-10T16:31:30Z")
am I the only one who’s tired of seeing both Peyton and Shaq on numerous commercials, and now new solo programs on ESPN? --- ## [Personal vignettes in news stories](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-vignettes-in-news-stories/853130)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-vignettes-in-news-stories/853130 "2020-05-10T16:25:51Z")
I’d appreciate thoughts about something that impresses me as an increasing trend in news reporting. A news story will have a headline, say, “COVID IMPACTING MIDDLE CLASS.” I’m interested in seeing how it defines the mi… --- ## [Great Movies Written By Philosophers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-written-by-philosophers/853464)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-written-by-philosophers/853464 "2020-05-10T15:58:20Z")
Example: “The Stranger” by Albert Camus… The movie was directed by Luchino Visconti (great director) with a fine actor - Marcello Mastroianni. --- ## [Is there a way to search for posts within a specific thread?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-posts-within-a-specific-thread/853487)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-posts-within-a-specific-thread/853487 "2020-05-10T15:58:04Z")
Let’s say I’ve posted a handful of times to one of those fifty page threads, and I’d like to find all the posts I’ve made without having to search through each page of the thread for my name. I know the search function w… --- ## [Why is cheap oil now supposedly bad for the economy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cheap-oil-now-supposedly-bad-for-the-economy/851712)
**Author:** [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cheap-oil-now-supposedly-bad-for-the-economy/851712 "2020-05-10T15:55:34Z")
I grew up in West Virgina in the 1960s, and one of the first economic adages we learned was that cheap coal was bad for WV but good for the rest of the country. Pretty much every step of manufacturing and transporting go… --- ## [Intermittent Fasting- Advice please.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intermittent-fasting-advice-please/853279)
**Author:** [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intermittent-fasting-advice-please/853279 "2020-05-10T15:22:50Z")
Mods, please move this if I’m off base. I’m looking for factual information on intermittent fasting, but I know there’s gonna be opinions involved. Mrs Jumpbass and and I are interested in the benefits or drawbacks of i… --- ## [More on kids and COVID-19: HEROS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-kids-and-covid-19-heros/853536)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-on-kids-and-covid-19-heros/853536 "2020-05-10T14:06:17Z")
There is finally some serious study in progress that may (or may not) confirm the apparent very low infectiousness of children who catch COVID-19 (a key bit of information to get a handle on both for modeling the spread … --- ## [Great movies that need better titles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-that-need-better-titles/852751)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-that-need-better-titles/852751 "2020-05-10T14:04:08Z")
Lots of movies have terrible titles, but this thread is specifically about really good movies which have terrible titles. So, for example, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies i… --- ## [Big rich companies doing wrong by their employees, customers or other stakeholders during COVID-19](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-rich-companies-doing-wrong-by-their-employees-customers-or-other-stakeholders-during-covid-19/850232)
**Author:** [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-rich-companies-doing-wrong-by-their-employees-customers-or-other-stakeholders-during-covid-19/850232 "2020-05-10T13:51:06Z")
I’ll leave it up to “Big rich” as obviously its hard to blame small or struggling businesses but here’s three examples: Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils, both simultaneously owned by 3 billionaires and the Six… --- ## [Rumor--Cartoonist Richard Sala Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-cartoonist-richard-sala-dead/853534)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumor-cartoonist-richard-sala-dead/853534 "2020-05-10T13:42:19Z")
Active rumor that cartoonist Richard Sala, creator of "Hypnotic Tales, & other fun/spooky fare, & best heir to Charles Addams that I’ve read, may be dead. --- ## [Was the 2005 UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights ever ratified in the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-2005-unesco-universal-declaration-on-bioethics-and-human-rights-ever-ratified-in-the-us/853508)
**Author:** [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-2005-unesco-universal-declaration-on-bioethics-and-human-rights-ever-ratified-in-the-us/853508 "2020-05-10T13:37:40Z")
Was the 2005 UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights ever ratified in the US? --- ## [Thread help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-help/853532)
**Author:** [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-help/853532 "2020-05-10T13:32:49Z")
Not sure if it me or the board being wonky, I am trying to lure someone to the board using Sampiro’s thread " Woman behold thy daughter, daughter thy mother, & BOTH OF YOU LOSE MY NUMBER!" but when I search I get just th… --- ## [Celebrity Watch Party - A New Low](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-watch-party-a-new-low/853412)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-watch-party-a-new-low/853412 "2020-05-10T13:20:18Z")
Did anyone tune in to this last night? I watched about 20 minutes and could not believe what I was seeing. There is apparently nothing left for the networks to air, so FOX decided we would like to see celebrities “quar… --- ## [Easy/cheap way to insert shapes into multiple BMP image files?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-cheap-way-to-insert-shapes-into-multiple-bmp-image-files/853431)
**Author:** [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-cheap-way-to-insert-shapes-into-multiple-bmp-image-files/853431 "2020-05-10T12:35:50Z")
I have quite a few BMP image files and I need to highlight a section of each image. An arrow, a circle, or some other method would be fine. The catch is that I need to have it positioned in exactly the same location on… --- ## [Stillwater OK caves to tRumpist terrorism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stillwater-ok-caves-to-trumpist-terrorism/853252)
**Author:** [@Turki-lurki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turki-lurki)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stillwater-ok-caves-to-trumpist-terrorism/853252 "2020-05-10T12:18:34Z")
The mayor of Stillwater OK rescinded the town ordinance requiring folks to wear masks of some kind when in public during the Covid crisis. His reason: some a$$hat threatened a store employee with a gun when the employe… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1881) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1883)