# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=328 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 329 --- ## [Does Disney even want to make Star Wars movies anymore?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-disney-even-want-to-make-star-wars-movies-anymore/971981)
**Author:** [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-disney-even-want-to-make-star-wars-movies-anymore/971981 "2025-04-24T19:01:43Z")
The first three episodes of Andor debuted today on Disney+. Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka series is coming out, along with season 3 of The Mandalorian and another series called Skeleton Crew with Jude Law. Meanwhile not a sing… --- ## [eBay / iPhone question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-iphone-question/1017443)
**Author:** [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-iphone-question/1017443 "2025-04-24T18:16:18Z")
I submitted an offer for an iPhone on eBay that was listed as unopened and brand new. I received the following message from the seller. I have never heard of such a thing. At first glance it seems shady. Anyone ever see … --- ## [Your thoughts on the 'oddball' music albums- the experiments. Total flops? Or got a soft spot for them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-the-oddball-music-albums-the-experiments-total-flops-or-got-a-soft-spot-for-them/1017370)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-the-oddball-music-albums-the-experiments-total-flops-or-got-a-soft-spot-for-them/1017370 "2025-04-24T17:45:16Z")
Inspired by these posts in the " My thoughts on albums everybody has already heard.(recommendations accepted)" thread: What albums do you nominate as the oddball, out there, experimental efforts by bands looking to st… --- ## [How far has the Earth traveled in space since its formation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-has-the-earth-traveled-in-space-since-its-formation/1017414)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-has-the-earth-traveled-in-space-since-its-formation/1017414 "2025-04-24T17:33:45Z")
Since the Earth is revolving around the Sun, the Sun is revolving around the center of the Galaxy, and the Galaxy is moving throughout the universe, no doubt the Earth has moved a very long distance, perhaps thousands of… --- ## [Moby Dick and whale bites](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moby-dick-and-whale-bites/1017416)
**Author:** [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moby-dick-and-whale-bites/1017416 "2025-04-24T15:38:09Z")
Could a sperm whale bite off just the bottom half of one leg? I would think that if your legs were anywhere near a chomping whale that you’d lose more than that. --- ## [Can you give me a list of major European Defense Companies?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-give-me-a-list-of-major-european-defense-companies/1017284)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-give-me-a-list-of-major-european-defense-companies/1017284 "2025-04-24T15:17:31Z")
I would like to know which firms the EU will turn to, now that Trump has caused the EU to mistrust the US. --- ## [Tell me about Kagi search](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-kagi-search/1016571)
**Author:** [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-kagi-search/1016571 "2025-04-24T14:15:58Z")
Randomly this morning I came across two mentions of Kagi, a new (?) search engine that I had not heard of before. It runs on a paid subscription model, so there are no ads or sponsored results. Has anyone tried it? Ther… --- ## [Come Here v. Born Here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-here-v-born-here/1017382)
**Author:** [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-here-v-born-here/1017382 "2025-04-24T13:49:14Z")
This is not a fully formed idea. I don’t have a good succinct question by which we can rally around. That said: I’m watching a guy tour the most remote part of the CONUS, round about Glasgow Montana. And there’s a disct… --- ## [How Does Fiber Optic Data to a House Work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-fiber-optic-data-to-a-house-work/1017403)
**Author:** [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-fiber-optic-data-to-a-house-work/1017403 "2025-04-24T12:59:12Z")
Windstream/Kinetic will soon offer a fiber optic data connection to my address and I’m wondering how this will work. As I (poorly) understand it, the ISP tech will run a drop from the street to my house. Then, does the … --- ## [Sublime's Doin' Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sublimes-doin-time/1016695)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sublimes-doin-time/1016695 "2025-04-24T10:04:27Z")
Any Wikipedia editors out there? Today, I heard the song Doin’ Time, the original version where Bradley Nowell sings Doin’ Time instead of Summertime. According to Wikipedia, they were pressured to change the lyrics in… --- ## [Help me defeat my cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-defeat-my-cat/1017369)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-defeat-my-cat/1017369 "2025-04-24T06:36:47Z")
So my dear Matilda, a lovely and intelligent little kitty, is also a pain in my ass. She likes to go into my room and wake me up too early by knocking things off of my nightstand or turning on my sleeping computer if I d… --- ## [Why do the share prices of the companies owning stock exchanges suffer in a stock market downturn?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-share-prices-of-the-companies-owning-stock-exchanges-suffer-in-a-stock-market-downturn/1016736)
**Author:** [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-share-prices-of-the-companies-owning-stock-exchanges-suffer-in-a-stock-market-downturn/1016736 "2025-04-24T04:45:30Z")
Out of courisity (to distract myself from my personal portfolio having lost a month’s worth of my net income these last few days) I have looked today at the share prices of some stock exchanges: ICE - Intercontinental E… --- ## [Please, not my spaghetti sauce! (Campbell acquires the Rao's Brand)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-not-my-spaghetti-sauce-campbell-acquires-the-raos-brand/988212)
**Author:** [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-not-my-spaghetti-sauce-campbell-acquires-the-raos-brand/988212 "2025-04-24T03:37:57Z")
I’m a big fan of Rao’s products. Having relocated from NY to California, I miss the Italian food more than anything. Rao’s was the first sauce I tasted since moving here that scratched that NY itch. From their line of sa… --- ## [Why the hate for dairy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hate-for-dairy/1017285)
**Author:** [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hate-for-dairy/1017285 "2025-04-24T03:19:51Z")
I’ve met some people who seem to think dairy products are to be avoided at all costs, and there are numerous websites that embrace this notion. Said websites strike me as being long on hysteria and short on evidence. Obj… --- ## [Name of old circa 1970 comic strip featuring two beach bums?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-old-circa-1970-comic-strip-featuring-two-beach-bums/1017425)
**Author:** [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-old-circa-1970-comic-strip-featuring-two-beach-bums/1017425 "2025-04-24T03:16:13Z")
An old comic strip I used to read many years ago came to my mind today but I can’t recall the name of it. It ran late 60s to early 70s and featured two beach bums - one tall and thin the other short and a bit stout. Th… --- ## [Google Search/AI makes up explanations for any "idiom" you come up with](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-ai-makes-up-explanations-for-any-idiom-you-come-up-with/1017395)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-ai-makes-up-explanations-for-any-idiom-you-come-up-with/1017395 "2025-04-24T03:04:34Z")
I made up some idioms, typed them into Google search, and it turns out they’re meaningful! That second one below is really something. Good old AI. AI Overview: The statement “you can’t fry a pineapple with a toothbrus… --- ## [Only 30-50% of people have inner monologues?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-30-50-of-people-have-inner-monologues/1016567)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-30-50-of-people-have-inner-monologues/1016567 "2025-04-24T02:40:53Z")
I saw on a reddit thread that only 30-50% of people have inner monologues- i.e. don’t think in words. That seemed utterly ridiculous and fantastic, but lo and behold, it’s true. Woman without an inner monologue explain… --- ## [JD Vance you unctuous dithering prat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-you-unctuous-dithering-prat/1017320)
**Author:** [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-you-unctuous-dithering-prat/1017320 "2025-04-24T02:01:45Z")
Now the sins and failing of this reprehensible, toadying reptile elected to high office on 45/47’s coat tails have been discussed in detail and length in many other threads. That he resides within a mere Big Mac choking … --- ## [Cloned humans raised without parents. They grow to do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloned-humans-raised-without-parents-they-grow-to-do/1016921)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloned-humans-raised-without-parents-they-grow-to-do/1016921 "2025-04-24T01:44:25Z")
Inspired by the thread reanimated due to the Dire Wolf looking designer dog bit. In the old thread a point was made several times that without parents, pack, herd, flock, to learn from they wouldn’t be the true animal. … --- ## [New information suggests a laboratory accident that might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-information-suggests-a-laboratory-accident-that-might-have-been-the-spark-that-started-the-covid-19-pandemic/1015672)
**Author:** [@LouMa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouMa)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-information-suggests-a-laboratory-accident-that-might-have-been-the-spark-that-started-the-covid-19-pandemic/1015672 "2025-04-24T01:33:32Z")
NYT writes that scientists have withheld information about the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. This undermines trust in government structures and science. How can we trust the information we get from them? How dangero… --- ## [What information do dogs get from sniffing other dogs’ asses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-information-do-dogs-get-from-sniffing-other-dogs-asses/1017217)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-information-do-dogs-get-from-sniffing-other-dogs-asses/1017217 "2025-04-24T01:22:31Z")
Cats, too. Both species “greet” each other by sniffing anuses. Does the anus convey any information to the sniffer — age, sex, fertility, etc.? Or does it just convey a specific identifier, the way a face conveys someone… --- ## [Reading the Odyssey book by book - an ongoing discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-the-odyssey-book-by-book-an-ongoing-discussion/1015773)
**Author:** [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-the-odyssey-book-by-book-an-ongoing-discussion/1015773 "2025-04-23T23:33:57Z")
My spouse and I have just begun reading the Odyssey. We’re going at a casual pace, taking it one book (chapter) at a time and then discussing things that stand out. Once upon a time I was a classics student, and though … --- ## [The two doors riddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-doors-riddle/1017191)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-doors-riddle/1017191 "2025-04-23T23:06:33Z")
So one door tells the truth the other one always lies. Why wouldn’t asking “are you a door”? Work? --- ## [Reliable singing voices](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reliable-singing-voices/1017405)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reliable-singing-voices/1017405 "2025-04-23T22:59:05Z")
I have often wondered if professional singers ever days have where they just can’t sing. I have always enjoyed singing around the house but would never dare step outside that simply because I was never sure what was goin… --- ## [Long shot, but...what was the name of the play we put on in high school (1960)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-but-what-was-the-name-of-the-play-we-put-on-in-high-school-1960/1017279)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-but-what-was-the-name-of-the-play-we-put-on-in-high-school-1960/1017279 "2025-04-23T21:11:58Z")
The Drama Club, or whatever it was called, put on a play. It was a courtroom murder mystery, I think. The gimmick was that a number of people from the audience would be “empaneled” as the jury prior to the first act. … --- ## [What is considered art?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-considered-art/1017412)
**Author:** [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-considered-art/1017412 "2025-04-23T20:44:51Z")
What would be considered art and what wouldn’t? because there’s the opinion of everything should be considered art? and then There’s also the opinion of any some categories should be considered art… And finally is a … --- ## [If you could choose where to live in GoT](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-where-to-live-in-got/1017297)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-where-to-live-in-got/1017297 "2025-04-23T19:23:27Z")
I have been rereading the books of Game of Thrones. Seems like it could be pretty hard to stay alive someimes. So if yould choose where to live where would it be? At this point I’m thinking of the Free city of Braavos… --- ## [Does the date of Easter favor some dates over others?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-date-of-easter-favor-some-dates-over-others/1017173)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-date-of-easter-favor-some-dates-over-others/1017173 "2025-04-23T18:53:52Z")
I know that there are 35 possible days which can be Easter Sunday, but over the millennia, has the distribution been consistent across all 35 dates? Is there a one in 35 chance that any Easter will be on 4/20? Or does th… --- ## [Realistically, if the President/Vice President were both incapacitated and the Speaker of the House was from an opposing party, what would happen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistically-if-the-president-vice-president-were-both-incapacitated-and-the-speaker-of-the-house-was-from-an-opposing-party-what-would-happen/1017264)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistically-if-the-president-vice-president-were-both-incapacitated-and-the-speaker-of-the-house-was-from-an-opposing-party-what-would-happen/1017264 "2025-04-23T17:42:13Z")
This is a thing that I’ve seen constantly in fiction, a conspiracy to kill/incapacitate both the President and the Vice President in order to allow the third in line of succession to take over, almost always somebody fro… --- ## [Bill Maher and Larry David](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-and-larry-david/1017362)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-and-larry-david/1017362 "2025-04-23T16:31:45Z")
Larry David just wrote this op-ed piece for the NY Times (gift link): It’s spoofing something that Bill Maher did (talked about? wrote about?), some dinner he had with Trump. I tried to track down what happened, but… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=327) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=329)