# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1982 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1983 --- ## [Good RX, great service but why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-rx-great-service-but-why/849244)
**Author:** [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-rx-great-service-but-why/849244 "2020-03-11T17:24:29Z")
Hello Everyone, I’M sure we are all aware of the app Good RX. I’ve used it and pay less with the app than with my insurance with all three of my scripts. I save more then half. I see the benefit to the consumer, but … --- ## [When did the “4 major American sports” get established as such?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-4-major-american-sports-get-established-as-such/849046)
**Author:** [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-4-major-american-sports-get-established-as-such/849046 "2020-03-11T17:16:45Z")
Ok a debatable phrase but as far back as I can remember Major League Baseball, NFL, NBA and NHL were considered the “four major leagues” in the USA, or at the very least “four major pro team leagues”. Baseball, while su… --- ## [Calling on LawnMasters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-on-lawnmasters/849164)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-on-lawnmasters/849164 "2020-03-11T17:02:01Z")
Looking for suggestions. I don’t have much of a green thumb, nor much desire. I’ve typically managed to keep my lawn passable, but not great. The new house has about 6,000 square foot of back yard in an urban area. The… --- ## [1:3 odds versus 33% chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-3-odds-versus-33-chance/848840)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-3-odds-versus-33-chance/848840 "2020-03-11T17:01:07Z")
I see both Biden and Saunders are rated at a “1 in 6” chance of winning the nomination outright. (On the 538 site.) How is this different from “fifteen point something percent chance?” Why are the numbers stated this wa… --- ## [Can a team retroactively forfeit a game?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-team-retroactively-forfeit-a-game/849000)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-team-retroactively-forfeit-a-game/849000 "2020-03-11T16:37:35Z")
There’s a current incident in my area where some members of a college sports team did something wrong outside of the arena and as a result, the team announced they won’t be playing for the rest of the season and will be … --- ## [Is it "bad" to use numbers in your email address?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-to-use-numbers-in-your-email-address/626295)
**Author:** [@Loafty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loafty)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-to-use-numbers-in-your-email-address/626295 "2020-03-11T15:26:00Z")
I think I am a relatively tech savvy person. I use Gmail but had to use a string of three random numbers after my name because it was taken. One of my co-workers said today: “Seriously, that’s your email? Are you in high… --- ## [How should I punish this misbehavior?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077 "2020-03-11T15:18:49Z")
One of my neighbors came to me today with a complaint about my daughter. This neighbor feels that my child has behaved inappropriately and disrespectfully towards her. Here’s the sitch: My daughter is seven. The neighbo… --- ## [Recommendations for a new side sleeper pillow please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-a-new-side-sleeper-pillow-please/849248)
**Author:** [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-a-new-side-sleeper-pillow-please/849248 "2020-03-11T15:06:24Z")
My old one is done, and I’ve had shoulder and neck pain all week. Heading out shopping manana, would like to know what you use. --- ## [Eric Taylor has passed away.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-taylor-has-passed-away/849270)
**Author:** [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eric-taylor-has-passed-away/849270 "2020-03-11T14:59:30Z")
Eric Taylor, Houston, Texas-based singer/songwriter, passed away on Monday, March 9th. I know few, if any, board members will be familiar with Eric or his music, but was a part of the Houston music scene for decades. In … --- ## [Handwash or Handrub?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handwash-or-handrub/849251)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handwash-or-handrub/849251 "2020-03-11T14:49:45Z")
The elves at work posted a how-to for handwashing at the bathroom sink, purportedly from the World Health Organization. First line: HOW TO HANDWASH? Small: Wash hands when visibly soiled! Otherwise, use handrub. 80% o… --- ## [McMillions on HBO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcmillions-on-hbo/847620)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcmillions-on-hbo/847620 "2020-03-11T14:46:11Z")
Documentary in 6 parts on how McD monopoly game was a scam from 1989 to 2001. Small group won all the big money. Very good show. Mondays at 10. This Sunday is part 2. --- ## [Vote for the country or vote for yourself?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-country-or-vote-for-yourself/849239)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-country-or-vote-for-yourself/849239 "2020-03-11T14:41:41Z")
Position A: I will vote for the candidate who I think will make my personal life better. It doesn’t matter what the cost is to others to make that happen. If everybody voted like me and the candidate won (both Electoral … --- ## [Stopping would-be mass shooters who have clean backgrounds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-would-be-mass-shooters-who-have-clean-backgrounds/848929)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 144\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-would-be-mass-shooters-who-have-clean-backgrounds/848929 "2020-03-11T14:15:21Z")
Eliot Rodger and Stephen Paddock both passed all of their required background checks for buying firearms. There are, doubtlessly, other mass shooters who had a clean background check at the buying process, too, but I’m a… --- ## [Ok to start using marijuana in your 50s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-start-using-marijuana-in-your-50s/849163)
**Author:** [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-to-start-using-marijuana-in-your-50s/849163 "2020-03-11T14:07:26Z")
Most of the literature on the potential risks of marijuana focus on younger users and particularly the impact on the growing brain. The inherent risks of smoking any substance are, of course, well documented, and the da… --- ## [PSA: you can't make it better and cheaper at home.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-you-cant-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/848148)
**Author:** [@Calavera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calavera)\ **Replies:** 162\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psa-you-cant-make-it-better-and-cheaper-at-home/848148 "2020-03-11T13:28:48Z")
OK there may be a couple of outliers here, but virtually all of you who think you’re the outliers are not, you’re just deluded. You can’t make it “better” and “cheaper” at home. You say you can make it “better”, most of… --- ## [Beyond "7 habits..." What do you recommend?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyond-7-habits-what-do-you-recommend/849264)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyond-7-habits-what-do-you-recommend/849264 "2020-03-11T13:24:35Z")
As far as motivational books or books to help one with their career, money, relationships, etc… what do you recommend? --- ## [Favorite Actor Who Was Never In A GREAT Movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-actor-who-was-never-in-a-great-movie/848980)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-actor-who-was-never-in-a-great-movie/848980 "2020-03-11T07:36:29Z")
James Cagney Again, your favorite, and movies you consider great… He was in many good films, a lot of 80 minute manufactured quickies, but a GREAT movie? --- ## [are there different levels of quarantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-different-levels-of-quarantine/849253)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-different-levels-of-quarantine/849253 "2020-03-11T06:23:50Z")
Official designations, or is it mostly ad hoc? I would assume there are official stages of quarantine. Maybe stage 1 is restricted travel and immigration from overseas, or restrictions on leaving your home city. Stage … --- ## [Inertia and Entropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inertia-and-entropy/849160)
**Author:** [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inertia-and-entropy/849160 "2020-03-11T06:12:57Z")
Inspired by the thread on Perpetual motion and Inertia, I have a question that has bothered me some over the years. So Newton’s law says “ Every body in the universe keeps at rest or uniform rectilinear motion unless an… --- ## [Yet again life imitates William Gibson](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-life-imitates-william-gibson/849037)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-again-life-imitates-william-gibson/849037 "2020-03-11T05:14:49Z")
If you recall, in one of William Gibson’s books, people wanted to get custom eyes to match those of internet star Tally Isham. Well, you can’t get whole custom eyes yet, but we are getting there. (An earlier instance, o… --- ## [Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger" is one of the greatest "concept" albums of all time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willie-nelsons-red-headed-stranger-is-one-of-the-greatest-concept-albums-of-all-time/849091)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willie-nelsons-red-headed-stranger-is-one-of-the-greatest-concept-albums-of-all-time/849091 "2020-03-11T04:54:07Z")
And there is Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. Love is like a dying ember and only memories remain and all through the ages I will remember blue eyes crying in the rain. Love me some Willie. --- ## [RIP Max von Sydow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-max-von-sydow/849148)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-max-von-sydow/849148 "2020-03-11T04:53:52Z")
Actor Max von Sydow, the title character in The Exorcist, has died at 90. --- ## [RIP Earl Pomerantz](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-earl-pomerantz/849197)
**Author:** [@AlTraina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlTraina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-earl-pomerantz/849197 "2020-03-10T10:18:53Z")
The former co-executive producer of The Cosby Show and writer on Mary Tyler Moore, The Bob Newhart Show, and Taxi died Saturday at 75. His brother Hart was the former partner of Lorne Michaels pre-SNL. --- ## [Air Purifier: Does it matter where you put it in your home?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-purifier-does-it-matter-where-you-put-it-in-your-home/849040)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-purifier-does-it-matter-where-you-put-it-in-your-home/849040 "2020-03-09T13:07:42Z")
Does it matter where an air purifier (fan with filters really) goes in your home? I imagine it does for big homes, multi-floor homes and I know a given air purifier can only do so much. One purifier can’t clean the air… --- ## [What do they call this corona virus in Mandarin? Cantonese?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-this-corona-virus-in-mandarin-cantonese/849216)
**Author:** [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-this-corona-virus-in-mandarin-cantonese/849216 "2020-03-11T04:21:14Z")
See query. I’m asking about both 1: The bioscience word; and What everybody calls it, if different, in regular talk or even newscasts or public announcements. Thanks. --- ## [MLB Off Season/Hot Stove](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-off-season-hot-stove/842799)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Replies:** 490\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-off-season-hot-stove/842799 "2020-07-02T22:18:25Z")
Congratulations to the Nationals! This is the thread for post-World Series discussion, including speculation about year-end awards, management/coaching changes, free agents, trades, and so on. My Astros have finally hi… --- ## [Jordan Peterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jordan-peterson/847650)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 176\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jordan-peterson/847650 "2020-03-11T03:51:02Z")
Jordan Peterson is a popular and controversial psychology professor who has gained a degree of Internet fame. He came out with a philosophy invoking historical and religious references that essentially incorporates 1950… --- ## [Obama's got 9 days to show some guts and save the republic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-got-9-days-to-show-some-guts-and-save-the-republic/848393)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 286\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-got-9-days-to-show-some-guts-and-save-the-republic/848393 "2020-03-11T02:07:16Z")
He and other pragmatic Democrats have to learn the lessons of the failed 2016 Stop Trump movement and act NOW, decisively. Here is the gameplan: --- ## [So...there's this. I guess.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-this-i-guess/849134)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-this-i-guess/849134 "2020-03-11T02:03:53Z")
Swing-y This is what I imagine the lifestyle of most Dopers to be. --- ## [Are children some kind of pure state?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-children-some-kind-of-pure-state/848898)
**Author:** [@Machinaforce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machinaforce)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-children-some-kind-of-pure-state/848898 "2020-03-11T01:52:33Z")
http://www.heartofthemystery.com/ Most referring to the “world in chaos” segment. I find it odd that recent spiritual trends seem to label childhood as some unspoiled version of the world before we “messed them up”. I … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1981) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1983)