# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=235&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 236 --- ## [Humorous business name combinations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-business-name-combinations/1023069)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-business-name-combinations/1023069 "2025-09-23T22:26:11Z")
The thread title may require some explanation, so here’s the example that inspired it: In South Lake Tahoe, CA, there’s a restaurant called Bert’s Cafe. And then just down the street is Ernie’s Coffee Shop. Neither na… --- ## [Breaking news: Trump safe after shots fired near Palm Beach golf club 2024/09/15](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-trump-safe-after-shots-fired-near-palm-beach-golf-club-2024-09-15/1007312)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 172\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-trump-safe-after-shots-fired-near-palm-beach-golf-club-2024-09-15/1007312 "2025-09-23T21:21:47Z")
ABC is more vague, but NY Post says Secret Service shot at man who may have had a gun. Apparently Trump wasn’t actually fired at, and is safe. ETA, the first version of the NYP article did not specify an AK-47. --- ## [Question about Al Pacino's character in "Scent of a Woman"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-al-pacinos-character-in-scent-of-a-woman/806727)
**Author:** [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-al-pacinos-character-in-scent-of-a-woman/806727 "2025-09-23T21:21:28Z")
How is it possible to be blinded by the explosion of a grenade, but not have your face or any other part of your body be fucked up from it? --- ## [Elvis - Graceland up for Foreclosure Auction](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-graceland-up-for-foreclosure-auction/1001839)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elvis-graceland-up-for-foreclosure-auction/1001839 "2025-09-23T19:26:55Z")
What a screwed up mess. Lisa Marie used Graceland as collateral on a 3.8 million dollar loan. She managed to wipe out her inheritance and put Graceland in jeopardy. Elvis is still a cash cow. Royalties on his music, mov… --- ## [Hacked Email](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacked-email/1023153)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hacked-email/1023153 "2025-09-23T19:06:07Z")
At work, we have been using Yahoo for email for many, many years. I have had this issue arise twice now, within a few weeks of one another. I sent an email to a customer regarding a past-due invoice. I asked if there wa… --- ## [Pop culture within science fiction; the good and the bad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-within-science-fiction-the-good-and-the-bad/1023260)
**Author:** [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-culture-within-science-fiction-the-good-and-the-bad/1023260 "2025-09-23T18:53:50Z")
Science fiction movies and shows try to build a world, and it’s not just science and technology. There are moments when characters are relaxing, listening to music or watching sports. I give the creators credit for try… --- ## [Weird phone call from CVS(?) about genetic swab test they want to send me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-phone-call-from-cvs-about-genetic-swab-test-they-want-to-send-me/1023314)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-phone-call-from-cvs-about-genetic-swab-test-they-want-to-send-me/1023314 "2025-09-23T17:27:09Z")
I just had a call, supposedly from CVS and an 800 number, where they pretty nearly insisted that they were going to send me a mouth swab genetic test, because all senior citizens over the age of 65 are eligible for predi… --- ## [Anyone else play or have played Logistical?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-play-or-have-played-logistical/1023276)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-play-or-have-played-logistical/1023276 "2025-09-23T16:33:22Z")
I’m extremely addicted to it, at the moment. IMO, it’s not very different from other “build up resources, expand, and take over” games like Civilization, Sim games, and Minecraft. Curious if anyone else here plays. Su… --- ## [Coffee Survey](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-survey/1023234)
**Author:** [@sta3535](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sta3535)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-survey/1023234 "2025-09-23T16:08:07Z")
How do you drink your coffee? Hot, Cold, Iced, Black, Creamer, Sugar/Sweetner? Do you make it at home or do you buy it on your way to work or out in public? Are you particular about the brand of coffee and where you get… --- ## [Can AI Ever Be Secure?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-ai-ever-be-secure/1023315)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-ai-ever-be-secure/1023315 "2025-09-23T15:33:17Z")
This Economist article argues (probably) no. That a system which has access to everything will always be exploitable. I enjoy reading about AI but my knowledge of cybersecurity and computer science is both dated and li… --- ## [NFL Week 3](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/1023090)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/1023090 "2025-09-23T13:51:29Z")
After two weeks, there are 10 undefeated teams, one in each division, except for the NFC West, which boasts 3 unbeatens. And there are 10 0-2 teams, one of which is the Chiefs. KC is 0-2 for the first time since 2014. … --- ## [Christian Fundys & creationists v. Ai](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-fundys-creationists-v-ai/1023143)
**Author:** [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-fundys-creationists-v-ai/1023143 "2025-09-23T08:05:46Z")
They deny evolution. How can they justify embracing an “artificial intelligence”? Where is the outrage, pushback? Am I missing it? It’s ok if it fits their agenda? --- ## [Countries with three or more uninterrupted sea coasts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countries-with-three-or-more-uninterrupted-sea-coasts/1023217)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countries-with-three-or-more-uninterrupted-sea-coasts/1023217 "2025-09-23T06:34:38Z")
I’m going to guess that trivia questions belong in this category. What countries have 3 or more uninterrupted sea coasts? The coasts all have to be on a single contiguous territory of that country. Exclaves and islands… --- ## [Quick, Easy, and Awesome Recipes Facebook group](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-and-awesome-recipes-facebook-group/1023304)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-and-awesome-recipes-facebook-group/1023304 "2025-09-23T02:32:57Z")
I have mod approval to make this post. I’d like to invite everyone here to my new Facebook group, called “Quick, Easy, and Awesome Recipes”, in which we share amazing food that can be prepared in 45 minutes or less with… --- ## [NFL 49ers vs Cardinals: No safety](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-49ers-vs-cardinals-no-safety/1023318)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-49ers-vs-cardinals-no-safety/1023318 "2025-09-23T02:25:53Z")
This was one of the highlights I saw on Sportscenter. QB threw the ball away from the end zone. Grounding is a loss of down, but since the penalty was in the end zone, shouldn’t it also have been a safety? Did the ref… --- ## [College guests speakers, back then Vs today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-guests-speakers-back-then-vs-today/1023133)
**Author:** [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-guests-speakers-back-then-vs-today/1023133 "2025-09-23T00:32:17Z")
Even before Charles Kirk, YouTube had videos of similar personalities visiting university auditoria, like Ben Shapiro, or the strange event featuring Milo Yiannopoulos, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Steven Crowder that led… --- ## [FBI to label trans activism as violent extremism in wake of Charlie Kirk's death](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-to-label-trans-activism-as-violent-extremism-in-wake-of-charlie-kirks-death/1023191)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-to-label-trans-activism-as-violent-extremism-in-wake-of-charlie-kirks-death/1023191 "2025-09-22T23:46:39Z")
The FBI is using the belief that Charlie Kirk’s partner was transgender as an excuse to label all trans activism as violent extremism. Things are about to get extremely bad in America. --- ## [Things put forward by the Trump administration that are acutally good ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-put-forward-by-the-trump-administration-that-are-acutally-good-ideas/1016438)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-put-forward-by-the-trump-administration-that-are-acutally-good-ideas/1016438 "2025-09-22T23:43:52Z")
I’m imagining that this is going to be a pretty short thread with one update every 2-3 months, but in the interest of fairness to time keeping abilities of stopped clocks the nut finding prowess of blind squirrels, I fig… --- ## [Private jets and speed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-jets-and-speed/441219)
**Author:** [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-jets-and-speed/441219 "2025-09-22T23:26:13Z")
A simple question, really. If you had unlimited funds and you wanted to fly from, say, Los Angeles to London, would it be faster to buy a ticket on a commercial airline\*, or would chartering a private jet get you there s… --- ## [A temporary paint for large swaths of road surface?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-temporary-paint-for-large-swaths-of-road-surface/1020034)
**Author:** [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-temporary-paint-for-large-swaths-of-road-surface/1020034 "2025-09-22T23:17:40Z")
Some friends are shooting a video that is set in the 1880s and involves a crowd marching down a city street. The city street is asphalt, which does not match the dirt road that it would have been at the time. Some sort o… --- ## [Phrenology is back, baby! "Does Your Hat Size Predict Your Intelligence?" The answer may surprise you!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrenology-is-back-baby-does-your-hat-size-predict-your-intelligence-the-answer-may-surprise-you/1023300)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrenology-is-back-baby-does-your-hat-size-predict-your-intelligence-the-answer-may-surprise-you/1023300 "2025-09-22T23:11:09Z")
Does Your Hat Size Predict Your Intelligence? How Genetics Methods Can Answer Intelligence Questions – Association for Psychological Science – APS Here’s the actual paper. genetics\_intelligence\_CDPS.pdf I refuse to ta… --- ## [Who/What will take Kimmel's place on ABC Late Night television?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-will-take-kimmels-place-on-abc-late-night-television/1023237)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-will-take-kimmels-place-on-abc-late-night-television/1023237 "2025-09-22T21:34:30Z")
Right now it is re-runs of Celebrity Family Feud, but is that their permanent solution? What , if anything, is slated to fill that hole? What should be there? For the purpose of this thread, Kimmel himself is not an op… --- ## [Oops. I did it again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-i-did-it-again/1023272)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-i-did-it-again/1023272 "2025-09-22T21:29:31Z")
To paraphrase Ms.Spears. I completely swore off of the 24 hour newscycle on Nov.7th, 2024. Threw the front page of my newspaper in the trash. Did not read. Did not watch. The only news about politics I heard was from … --- ## [Topic ban for Demontree on Trans and related issues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-for-demontree-on-trans-and-related-issues/1023312)
**Author:** [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-ban-for-demontree-on-trans-and-related-issues/1023312 "2025-09-22T21:27:02Z")
Topic ban for @demontree on Trans and related issues. They are no longer to post on Trans and related issues. Poster has a history of hijacking unrelated threads to speak to this issue, and has created or contributed t… --- ## [Has anyone here seen The Groundlings perform recently?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-seen-the-groundlings-perform-recently/1023299)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-seen-the-groundlings-perform-recently/1023299 "2025-09-22T20:48:46Z")
And how was it? Was it funny? Will someone\* rather out of touch with the latest pop culture trends be able to enjoy it? A friend is inviting me to their show in Walnut Creek, which is probably a 45 minute drive on a Sat… --- ## [Where do protesters get the giant letters they display over highways?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-protesters-get-the-giant-letters-they-display-over-highways/1023243)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-protesters-get-the-giant-letters-they-display-over-highways/1023243 "2025-09-22T20:34:18Z")
I see them on the news all the time. The letters are about 2 feet high and each letter is printed on a single sheet of something - paper, cardboard. Wherever they get them, it must be interesting when someone orders some… --- ## [Which number is bigger?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-number-is-bigger/1023305)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-number-is-bigger/1023305 "2025-09-22T20:13:07Z")
I include a link to a Reddit post since it is more elegant then I can generate. --- ## [Life of Chuck - discussion for those who have seen it (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-chuck-discussion-for-those-who-have-seen-it-open-spoilers/1020350)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-chuck-discussion-for-those-who-have-seen-it-open-spoilers/1020350 "2025-09-22T18:18:12Z")
Has anyone else seen Life of Chuck, the latest Stephen King adaptation done by Mike Flanagan, who also adapted Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep. Notably, this movie isn’t horror at all, though. I’m not sure where I land o… --- ## [Every music sub-genre known to man!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-music-sub-genre-known-to-man/1023194)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-music-sub-genre-known-to-man/1023194 "2025-09-22T16:27:48Z")
There have been a couple of music sub-genre threads but this will be the grandaddy of them all. I stumbled onto this deep-dive rabbit-hole of music yesterday. The genres are loosely associated by color. Click on a sub (… --- ## [Spatial reference in Films](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-reference-in-films/1023184)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-reference-in-films/1023184 "2025-09-22T16:25:54Z")
I’ve long had an issue with “spatial reference,” a phrase I think I’ve derived from Hitchcock, meaning “where exactly people are, in relation to other people and things” in films, particularly films of a large scale, suc… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=234&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=236&state=muted)