# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=259 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 260 --- ## [Likely 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees - Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Rosanne Barr, Ye, and Scott Baio](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/likely-2025-kennedy-center-honorees-ted-nugent-kid-rock-rosanne-barr-ye-and-scott-baio/1014055)
**Author:** [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/likely-2025-kennedy-center-honorees-ted-nugent-kid-rock-rosanne-barr-ye-and-scott-baio/1014055 "2025-08-14T15:52:11Z")
Trump says he’s firing Kennedy Center board of trustees members and naming himself chairman --- ## [Selling NY car to CA buyers ... many process questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-ny-car-to-ca-buyers-many-process-questions/1021660)
**Author:** [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-ny-car-to-ca-buyers-many-process-questions/1021660 "2025-08-14T14:14:08Z")
I may be selling my 2017 car to a relative when they visit later this month. We live in NY, they live in CA. We’ll do the transaction while they’re here and they’ll arrange to have it shipped cross-country. On the NY si… --- ## [Uploading audio?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-audio/1021908)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-audio/1021908 "2025-08-14T14:07:40Z")
I just tried to upload a short .mp3 file in a post as part of an answer to someone who was asking for an example of something we were discussing. There is an upload icon at the top of the reply window and one can select… --- ## [Real headlines related to trump and his enablers that sound like made-up 'The Onion'-style joke headlines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 200\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652 "2025-08-14T13:08:53Z")
In the ‘Schadenfreude’ thread I said this: To which @Rebo replied: So, by overwhelming popular demand of one poster, here it is! The rules are simple: post one or more headlines of real, non-satirical articles from r… --- ## [When and how will Trump commandeer the internet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-will-trump-commandeer-the-internet/1016758)
**Author:** [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-will-trump-commandeer-the-internet/1016758 "2025-08-14T12:38:50Z")
Not sure if this belongs in the Pol tab but it will probably end up here… so… It’s a matter of time before martial law gets declared. Part of that will likely be a partial or complete shutdown of the internet as we know… --- ## [Future climate where you live](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-climate-where-you-live/1022012)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-climate-where-you-live/1022012 "2025-08-14T10:49:07Z")
Someone at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has created an interactive map showing what the climate in many cities is expected to be in about 60 years and then gives the closest analog of that … --- ## [Quotes that at first sound profound but really are obvious, stupid or pointless](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-at-first-sound-profound-but-really-are-obvious-stupid-or-pointless/256800)
**Author:** [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-at-first-sound-profound-but-really-are-obvious-stupid-or-pointless/256800 "2025-08-14T10:03:24Z")
What are your favourite “pretend-deep” quotes; stuff that sounds deep and meaningful but is in fact obvious, trite, pointless or stupid? I’m thinking of Time Cubes “A mother and baby are the same age, as a 1 day old bab… --- ## [About fucking time. The Sandy Hook families are suing Alex Jones for defamation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-fucking-time-the-sandy-hook-families-are-suing-alex-jones-for-defamation/812612)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 184\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-fucking-time-the-sandy-hook-families-are-suing-alex-jones-for-defamation/812612 "2025-08-14T03:02:08Z")
--- ## [Alligator Auschwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alligator-auschwitz/1021533)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alligator-auschwitz/1021533 "2025-08-14T03:00:24Z")
Not sure if this belongs here or in P&E. Calling the concentration camp in Florida Alligator Alcatraz libels the real Alcatraz. The inmates in the former had been duly convicted of crimes. They were fed (and not force… --- ## [At what point in the evolution of Homo as a species could there have been a recognition moment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-in-the-evolution-of-homo-as-a-species-could-there-have-been-a-recognition-moment/1021914)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-in-the-evolution-of-homo-as-a-species-could-there-have-been-a-recognition-moment/1021914 "2025-08-14T01:51:49Z")
Just saw a short clip of this wonderful BBC series, New Scientist. The discovery of a skull dating back roughly 300,000 years. A big leap from the 200,000 year benchmark that apparently was “the oldest” previously found… --- ## [What is this called? \[functional garment\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-called-functional-garment/1021973)
**Author:** [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-called-functional-garment/1021973 "2025-08-13T21:38:33Z")
The item I’m wanting to search for, but lack a name, is a vest like garment worn by people handling heavy or awkward equipment. Kind of like a flag bearer kit, but for a tool. I want to make one for myself for when I us… --- ## [Yet another SF Short Story ID thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-sf-short-story-id-thread/760965)
**Author:** [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-sf-short-story-id-thread/760965 "2025-08-13T20:25:45Z")
I invoke the famed SF SS identification powers of the SDMB, does anybody remember a story where a lone astronaut lands in a planet where the plants emit some kind of allucinatory effect that makes him see them as women? … --- ## [What do you call the kind of cable that connects your router to a computer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-kind-of-cable-that-connects-your-router-to-a-computer/1021918)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-kind-of-cable-that-connects-your-router-to-a-computer/1021918 "2025-08-13T18:54:53Z")
Continuing the discussion from Home networking problem (and solutions): This has bugged me for a very long time… (first world problems, I know)… what do you actually call those networking cables that connect a router to… --- ## [Why do I do this to myself?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-do-this-to-myself/1021721)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-do-this-to-myself/1021721 "2025-08-13T18:35:10Z")
So I’m on the bus and I do a sudoku puzzle. I finish in eleven minutes and four seconds. I notice to myself that for me, this is a very good score. Better than usual, not my nine minute best, but an above average perf… --- ## [Made-up Animals in African Movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-animals-in-african-movies/1021936)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-animals-in-african-movies/1021936 "2025-08-13T17:57:04Z")
I’m not talking here about misplaced animals or animal noises, like the use of the Australian Kookaburra for “monkey” noises in the jungle, or the call of the American Loon to indicate wilderness (especially, for some re… --- ## [Questions about Work From Home Jobs (Medical Recovery)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-work-from-home-jobs-medical-recovery/1021997)
**Author:** [@sta3535](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sta3535)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-work-from-home-jobs-medical-recovery/1021997 "2025-08-13T17:42:55Z")
Even though I’m in decent health, I’ve been wondering about my future (career wise) since I may need some medical procedures done in the future (not right away) However, since my current job title (shift lead manager) d… --- ## [In the world of professional baking, white sandwich bread is…?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-world-of-professional-baking-white-sandwich-bread-is/1021949)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-world-of-professional-baking-white-sandwich-bread-is/1021949 "2025-08-13T16:57:12Z")
The typical white, sliced sandwich bread that is ubiquitous in American homes and has been since … decades before I was born anyway. Symbolically, it’s a metaphor for the plainness and lack of imagination (and abundant s… --- ## [Looking for a picture of Mick Jagger with a candle on his head](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-picture-of-mick-jagger-with-a-candle-on-his-head/1021974)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-picture-of-mick-jagger-with-a-candle-on-his-head/1021974 "2025-08-13T14:49:26Z")
When I was a kid in the seventies, two of my older cousins often visited me and my sister. We had a guest room we also used to play in a lot, and my cousins had hung up some posters by rock and pop stars on the wall. One… --- ## [Arrows across America, early navigational aids for aviation.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrows-across-america-early-navigational-aids-for-aviation/717781)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrows-across-america-early-navigational-aids-for-aviation/717781 "2025-08-13T14:26:04Z")
I see quite a few threads on aircraft here. Thought you’d find this piece of forgotten history interesting. I’ve read about the early aviators and dead reckoning. Using a compass, natural landscape features, roads and… --- ## [Freedom of information Act Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-of-information-act-question/1021990)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-of-information-act-question/1021990 "2025-08-13T13:28:08Z")
While I believe that this question has a factual answer, it may also require a legal opinion. If its more suited to IMHO, please move it. Sorry, its long but I think it needs to be I work for a county as a police traini… --- ## [Rebo's Feuds can now be found in the Thread Games forum](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebos-feuds-can-now-be-found-in-the-thread-games-forum/822278)
**Author:** [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rebos-feuds-can-now-be-found-in-the-thread-games-forum/822278 "2025-08-13T12:57:32Z")
For those of you who have enjoyed and missed the Feuds of the past (which could previously be found in this forum), Dolores Reborn has begun running them again. They can now be found over in Thread Games. The plan is for… --- ## [Why do I feel a strong urge to turn on the lights when sundown is still nearly two hours away?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-a-strong-urge-to-turn-on-the-lights-when-sundown-is-still-nearly-two-hours-away/1021396)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-a-strong-urge-to-turn-on-the-lights-when-sundown-is-still-nearly-two-hours-away/1021396 "2025-08-13T12:02:27Z")
Where we live the sun currently doesn’t set until about 8:40. But sure enough, at around 5:30 or 6:00 my wife and I both feel that we must turn on the lights, because it somehow just seems darker, like the shades of nig… --- ## [We watched "Some Like It Hot" last night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-watched-some-like-it-hot-last-night/1021953)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-watched-some-like-it-hot-last-night/1021953 "2025-08-13T03:07:07Z")
Neither of us had ever seen it. We’re in our mid-60s. Expected there to be enough cringey moments that we might not make it through the first 20 minutes. We were wrong. Good script, well played. The cross-dressing is ne… --- ## [Kayak camping or who owns these islands](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kayak-camping-or-who-owns-these-islands/1021882)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kayak-camping-or-who-owns-these-islands/1021882 "2025-08-13T02:24:46Z")
I was playing around on Google Maps and noticed something I was unaware of, that there is a string of islands starting in Alaska and swooping over to Russia. How far could I legally go if I loaded up a kayak in Alaska an… --- ## [Evil? Who me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-who-me/1021995)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-who-me/1021995 "2025-08-13T01:20:52Z")
As death always looms large around me. And the numerous threads here About evil, sinful, pornographic Demons. I’ve decided this, (if I believed in Woo), is the way I wanna go in the afterlife. It seems they get away w… --- ## [Helicopter airlines: what was the point?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopter-airlines-what-was-the-point/1021945)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopter-airlines-what-was-the-point/1021945 "2025-08-13T00:25:40Z")
About 1968, a heliport opened next to the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Eleven nonstop S-61s each weekday to SFO, scheduled 7 minutes; if you were connecting to a flight east the helicopter fare was $3.75. Qu… --- ## [Should I try drinking Yaupon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-drinking-yaupon/1021631)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-drinking-yaupon/1021631 "2025-08-12T23:33:40Z")
I’d never heard of this drink before now, but tariffs may make coffee more expensive. Should I give it a shot? What’s the taste? --- ## [Trying to find a romance novel I read years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-romance-novel-i-read-years-ago/1021939)
**Author:** [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-romance-novel-i-read-years-ago/1021939 "2025-08-12T23:00:11Z")
Author may have been LaVyrle Spencer though I haven’t been able to find anything in her bibliography that matches. It’s set in a motel in the 1930s (I think), along US Route 66, in Arizona or New Mexico. The female prot… --- ## [What percentage of self-described atheists are Trump supporters, as opposed to the general population?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-self-described-atheists-are-trump-supporters-as-opposed-to-the-general-population/1021479)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-self-described-atheists-are-trump-supporters-as-opposed-to-the-general-population/1021479 "2025-08-12T20:15:47Z")
Just the facts to the best of your knowledge-no opinions as to why or why not. Thank you. --- ## [What would you do if you had centuries or millennia of life to accomplish it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-centuries-or-millennia-of-life-to-accomplish-it/1021900)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-centuries-or-millennia-of-life-to-accomplish-it/1021900 "2025-08-12T19:52:33Z")
I’d like to be able to make almost anything by hand that people could. I’d like to be able to knap flint knives and axes, start a fire with nothing but a hand spindle, tan animal hides and furs, make and hunt with a bow … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=258) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=260)