# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=200 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 201 --- ## [Can Cuban ships pass through Guantánamo Bay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-cuban-ships-pass-through-guantanamo-bay/1024911)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-cuban-ships-pass-through-guantanamo-bay/1024911 "2025-11-17T23:52:48Z")
Guantánamo Bay is divided into the upper half in Cuba and the lower half in the U.S. naval base. As this map shows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Guantanamo.jpg The 1903 lease agreement included a specification in… --- ## [Could a highly experienced small aircraft pilot successfully be talked through the landing of an airliner, as in "Zero Hour! " and "Airplane!"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-highly-experienced-small-aircraft-pilot-successfully-be-talked-through-the-landing-of-an-airliner-as-in-zero-hour-and-airplane/1024679)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-highly-experienced-small-aircraft-pilot-successfully-be-talked-through-the-landing-of-an-airliner-as-in-zero-hour-and-airplane/1024679 "2025-11-17T23:18:26Z")
I mean, I fully appreciate that it’s “a totally different kind of flying all together!”. (Say it with me!) Airplane!, of course was a comic farce and it didn’t show many details about actually operating the plane, but… --- ## [Chicago Reader Being Sold (Again)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-reader-being-sold-again/1022508)
**Author:** [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-reader-being-sold-again/1022508 "2025-11-17T21:59:08Z")
Moderators: please feel free to move this to another forum if it isn’t appropriate here. The Chicago Reader, the alternative weekly paper which, as I understand it, owns the Straight Dope (and, by extension, the SDMB) h… --- ## [Software companies: You will work the way I want you to](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-companies-you-will-work-the-way-i-want-you-to/1024780)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-companies-you-will-work-the-way-i-want-you-to/1024780 "2025-11-17T20:21:49Z")
I rarely if ever use AI. GPTchat or Copilot or whatever is just not what I do and usually I am able to avoid it. But lately Skynet is taking over. My computer at home is insisting I update Win11 and when I look at the… --- ## [Does/did anyone else live in a family with a 'weekly' menu plan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-did-anyone-else-live-in-a-family-with-a-weekly-menu-plan/1024891)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-did-anyone-else-live-in-a-family-with-a-weekly-menu-plan/1024891 "2025-11-17T18:50:14Z")
By the time I reached grade school years, my mother declared she hated the task of deciding menus for the family. She didn’t object to the cooking/shopping part (my older sibs had for years pretty much already taken ove… --- ## [New "Naked Gun" movie starting Liam Neeson](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 196\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612 "2025-11-17T17:02:14Z")
I loved the originals growing up. It will be hard to recreate that combination of deadpan and total absurdity of the originals, but I think there are some promising signs in this teaser. One thing I think … --- ## [(Old) MMP and Chill - Winter is Here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mmp-and-chill-winter-is-here/1024720)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 357\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-mmp-and-chill-winter-is-here/1024720 "2025-11-17T15:18:34Z")
Yesterday it was 74, tomorrow it will get down to 34, and half the MMP has had snow already. Is anybody still somewhere warm? In any case, up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. Make yourself a hot beverage, an… --- ## [Making gravy tonight (maybe)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-gravy-tonight-maybe/1024785)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-gravy-tonight-maybe/1024785 "2025-11-17T14:23:21Z")
I will be making fried chicken cutlets tonight so not a lot of drippings. I was thinking of adding some of the seasoned flour and maybe butter for the rue if more fat needed. Ok so now I have chicken broth, cream and b… --- ## [Married couple, property ownership held "tenants in common", mortgage in my name only](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-couple-property-ownership-held-tenants-in-common-mortgage-in-my-name-only/1015397)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-couple-property-ownership-held-tenants-in-common-mortgage-in-my-name-only/1015397 "2025-11-17T13:15:56Z")
I’m wondering if this will be a problem down the road, if I die first. My husband and I bought this house 20 years ago, well before we were married. The ownership is as “tenants in common,” which effectively means that … --- ## [Massive bridge collapse in China](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-bridge-collapse-in-china/1024791)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-bridge-collapse-in-china/1024791 "2025-11-17T08:40:31Z")
The bridge was opened just a few months ago, but was recently closes due to recent landslides. After you watch the video, you will note the irony of this statement: “Currently, there is no estimated timeline for the r… --- ## [Book Collectors--terminology and technique](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-collectors-terminology-and-technique/1024787)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-collectors-terminology-and-technique/1024787 "2025-11-17T08:05:24Z")
I have has a mildly annoying morning. I obtained a book, online, and I have discovered the pages were not cut. That is, two pages were fused, never having been cut at the binder. This volume is a reprint of a 1918 pub… --- ## [Until the 1970s, Contac (an OTC cold remedy) contained a small amount of atropine (belladonna). What was its purpose?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/until-the-1970s-contac-an-otc-cold-remedy-contained-a-small-amount-of-atropine-belladonna-what-was-its-purpose/988022)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/until-the-1970s-contac-an-otc-cold-remedy-contained-a-small-amount-of-atropine-belladonna-what-was-its-purpose/988022 "2025-11-17T04:14:44Z")
In the USA there’s an OTC cold remedy known as Contac, which contains acetominophen and pseudoephedrine. Until sometime in the 1970s it also contained a small amount of atropine, the main active ingredient of belladonna… --- ## [John Oliver Nov 9/25 on "felony murder"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-oliver-nov-9-25-on-felony-murder/1024745)
**Author:** [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Replies:** 211\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-oliver-nov-9-25-on-felony-murder/1024745 "2025-11-17T02:11:23Z")
John Oliver’s investigative reports are always worthwhile, but rarely have I seen anything this shocking. Definitely another black eye for the US justice system. “Felony murder” is a strange term that denotes a crime w… --- ## [About your first name](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-your-first-name/1002718)
**Author:** [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Replies:** 200\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-your-first-name/1002718 "2025-11-17T01:19:59Z")
I just got a call from a realtor interested in earning a commission helping me sell my mother’s house. The call began, “Hello, is this \[my first name\]? I am a realtor with …” click. My best friends are vultures, … --- ## [Todd Snider has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-snider-has-died/1024889)
**Author:** [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-snider-has-died/1024889 "2025-11-17T00:25:52Z")
I was supposed to see Todd Snider last night, but the show was cancelled. I can’t quite figure out what really happened, but my interpretation is he got assaulted in Salt Lake City, enough to go to the hospital. He was t… --- ## [Sandwich thrower found not guilty of assault](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwich-thrower-found-not-guilty-of-assault/1024657)
**Author:** [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandwich-thrower-found-not-guilty-of-assault/1024657 "2025-11-16T22:31:00Z")
In late, midnight reading, good news… Man who flung footlong at Feds found “not guilty” of assault. The first charge, filed as a felony was not vinegar-ous enough of a charge to carry an indictment. It was later resub… --- ## [Glare on my laptop when I use it outdoors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glare-on-my-laptop-when-i-use-it-outdoors/1024900)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glare-on-my-laptop-when-i-use-it-outdoors/1024900 "2025-11-16T22:22:40Z")
I like to work outdoors but often can’t see my screen hardly at all when I work outdoors, even in the shade. Can anything be done to reduce glare? --- ## [How to 'select' exactly the words/text you want on a PC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-select-exactly-the-words-text-you-want-on-a-pc/1024859)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-select-exactly-the-words-text-you-want-on-a-pc/1024859 "2025-11-16T22:15:45Z")
I’m a Mac person. But I have to use a PC at work. My work often requires me copy and pasting text from one document to another. On a Mac, you put the curser where you want to start copying and drag it to where you want … --- ## ["Project 2025 is the agenda now" proclaim the MAGAts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-2025-is-the-agenda-now-proclaim-the-magats/1009858)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-2025-is-the-agenda-now-proclaim-the-magats/1009858 "2025-11-16T20:56:02Z")
Time to look at the nuts and bolts of this. In detail. Bear in mind the whole thing is 900 pages. (Ellipses show where I have removed a lot of text from the Axios article.) How Project 2025 would change American life h… --- ## [Copyright laws and dashcam footage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copyright-laws-and-dashcam-footage/1024898)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/copyright-laws-and-dashcam-footage/1024898 "2025-11-16T20:06:18Z")
I’ve noticed that YouTube channels offering dashcam footage will keep their videos specific to one place: this channel only shows footage from USA and Canada, that channel only shows footage from EU countries. Is this to… --- ## [What are/were armories for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-armories-for/1024423)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-armories-for/1024423 "2025-11-16T16:55:12Z")
Like this one – why were they built in the middle of cities? They were built to prepare for … what? They wouldn’t build monuments like that just to store rifles and whatnot, would they? So what were they built for, and w… --- ## [Best kids science books that aren't picture books](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kids-science-books-that-arent-picture-books/1024885)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-kids-science-books-that-arent-picture-books/1024885 "2025-11-16T15:04:47Z")
My seven year old is obsessed with reading, and is reading well above her grade level. She also likes science, so I was gonna get her a science book to read. But all the kids science books I see recommended are picture … --- ## [Illustrated children's book about clubs and Roberts Rules (from the 1970s)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustrated-childrens-book-about-clubs-and-roberts-rules-from-the-1970s/1024899)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustrated-childrens-book-about-clubs-and-roberts-rules-from-the-1970s/1024899 "2025-11-16T14:37:10Z")
As part of my nostalgia kick, I’m trying to remember a book I read in 1975 or so, when I was in elementary school. It explained how a club should be organized (with example constitutions), and run (with descriptions of h… --- ## [Can getting my transmission flushed cause problems?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-getting-my-transmission-flushed-cause-problems/1024878)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-getting-my-transmission-flushed-cause-problems/1024878 "2025-11-16T14:09:19Z")
I’ve read the old threads on transmission flushes. The general consensus is that you should get them done. There was no strong consensus on how often you need them; the suggestions run from every 30,000 miles to every 10… --- ## [Teaching AI in schools?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-ai-in-schools/1024774)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-ai-in-schools/1024774 "2025-11-16T11:25:02Z")
For quite a few years now there has been a current of opinion that schools should teach computer science as part of a general education. This has now been joined (or perhaps even partially superceded) by the idea of tea… --- ## [Three Chinese astronauts stranded on Tiangong space station](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-chinese-astronauts-stranded-on-tiangong-space-station/1024632)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-chinese-astronauts-stranded-on-tiangong-space-station/1024632 "2025-11-16T07:27:16Z")
Due to an impact of space debris on their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, three Chinese astronauts have been stranded on the Tiangong space station indefinitely, instead of going home Wednesday. The Shenzhou-21 crew had already … --- ## [Identify this single-player pencil-and-paper game, something to do with running a lemonade stand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-single-player-pencil-and-paper-game-something-to-do-with-running-a-lemonade-stand/1024064)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-single-player-pencil-and-paper-game-something-to-do-with-running-a-lemonade-stand/1024064 "2025-11-16T04:17:59Z")
WAY back in the day – and by that I mean mid-to-late 1970s – when I was a wee lad, and handheld games weren’t a thing, a relative taught me a game that I could play by myself using just a pencil and paper (and maybe dice… --- ## [California vacation: Jan 2026. Sacramento/SF/Berkeley](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-vacation-jan-2026-sacramento-sf-berkeley/1023703)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-vacation-jan-2026-sacramento-sf-berkeley/1023703 "2025-11-16T02:39:43Z")
Planing on about a week in California in January. Not ideal for weather, but it’ll be better than Chicago and maybe I’ll see the sun at least once. It looks like it’s easy to get between the Bay Area and Sacramento via … --- ## [Is there a science fiction equivalent of GOOSEBUMPS?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-science-fiction-equivalent-of-goosebumps/1024584)
**Author:** [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-science-fiction-equivalent-of-goosebumps/1024584 "2025-11-16T01:29:37Z")
Title sums it up. I have grandnieces too old for Seuss and not old enough for Asimov, with kind of a warped sense of humor. Any YA SF literary recommendations? --- ## [What denominations of coins and bills have been discontinued by the U.S. over the years?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-denominations-of-coins-and-bills-have-been-discontinued-by-the-u-s-over-the-years/1024817)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-denominations-of-coins-and-bills-have-been-discontinued-by-the-u-s-over-the-years/1024817 "2025-11-16T01:17:44Z")
What denominations, and when did they happen? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=199) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=201)