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**Author:** [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-your-musical-questions-here/385808 "2025-04-12T07:30:02Z")
Every once in a while, non-musician Dopers ask questions about how music works: what’s the difference between E# and F, what do chord notations mean, what does 4/4 time mean, and so on. These threads usually devolve in… --- ## [Myths that form about songs and bands / band members](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myths-that-form-about-songs-and-bands-band-members/1014173)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 270\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myths-that-form-about-songs-and-bands-band-members/1014173 "2025-04-12T07:24:30Z")
So since this came up in the Songs about planes and flying thread: …I thought it might be fun to do a thread about myths and ‘urban legend’ style stories that have sprung up about songs, bands and musicians. I didn’t … --- ## [Most Professional US Sports wins for a General Manager ever and most for a GM with a single Team](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-professional-us-sports-wins-for-a-general-manager-ever-and-most-for-a-gm-with-a-single-team/1016912)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-professional-us-sports-wins-for-a-general-manager-ever-and-most-for-a-gm-with-a-single-team/1016912 "2025-04-12T07:10:51Z")
So Brian Cashman just got win 2500 as Yankees GM. I’m guessing Connie Mack is well ahead of him still, but who else? Any major professional top level US Sport. Though it would be hard to beat baseball by the nature of th… --- ## [Youtube humorous cartoon on time travel killing Hitler](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802)
**Author:** [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-humorous-cartoon-on-time-travel-killing-hitler/1016802 "2025-04-12T05:47:13Z")
I recall watching a Youtube video a few years ago (maybe I even got the link from here), but can’t find it anymore. So I hope you guys (or whatever is the term for women and men) may help me. It was a humorous cartoon/an… --- ## [What's the most boring film you could show a child?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-boring-film-you-could-show-a-child/1016655)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 182\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-boring-film-you-could-show-a-child/1016655 "2025-04-12T05:37:25Z")
A friend and I were watching The Great Escape recently, and their 10 year-old daughter joined us. I thought she wouldn’t enjoy the movie - she hasn’t yet learned about WWII, it has no female characters and lasts nearly t… --- ## [Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 9999\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950 "2025-04-12T05:32:16Z")
. {Note: all links are safe. I created them and shortened some using https://is.gd.} Thank you to Sampiro for starting the original Trivia Dominoes thread game ten years ago! That thread grew to 46,188 posts. Let it co… --- ## [55,000 emails in Gmail - What to do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/55-000-emails-in-gmail-what-to-do/1016926)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/55-000-emails-in-gmail-what-to-do/1016926 "2025-04-12T04:20:54Z")
My wife informs me that her Gmail suddenly shows more than 55,000 emails in her inbox, dating back to 2020. She says she has always saved important emails in separate folders, and swears she regularly cleaned out her inb… --- ## [Apple Watches - Educate me, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-watches-educate-me-please/977075)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-watches-educate-me-please/977075 "2025-04-12T02:59:51Z")
It looks like Series 8 is the current version. Series 9 is predicted to come out around September, 2023. I guess my main question is if any sort of monthly fee is required, or can you just pay for the watch and enjoy it… --- ## [I got this email from Amazon today:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-this-email-from-amazon-today/1016894)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-this-email-from-amazon-today/1016894 "2025-04-12T01:02:47Z")
Amazon.co.uk Hi Bob, Your package with Large Heavy Duty Squirrel… will be delivered today. --- ## [“Hands Off!” mass rallies scheduled nationwide for April 5](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-off-mass-rallies-scheduled-nationwide-for-april-5/1016417)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 184\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-off-mass-rallies-scheduled-nationwide-for-april-5/1016417 "2025-04-12T00:45:03Z")
Just heard about this today. WASHINGTON—Hundreds of rallies, marches and protests from Alaska to Hawaii to Northern Maine to Southeast Florida—plus four overseas—will bring hundreds of thousands of people into the st… --- ## [Fooling around with medicine dosage instructions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fooling-around-with-medicine-dosage-instructions/1016931)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fooling-around-with-medicine-dosage-instructions/1016931 "2025-04-12T00:06:29Z")
I’m sick. Upper respiratory stuff, nothing serious. On Nyquil/Dayquil and a round of antibiotics. Both the quils and the antibiotics labels instruct me to take the medications every 8 hours or every 12 hours, respective… --- ## [Help me get a gig I made up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-a-gig-i-made-up/1016875)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-a-gig-i-made-up/1016875 "2025-04-11T22:33:05Z")
The gig exists: giving lectures aboard cruise ships, but I have a specific subject which I’ve taught to undergraduates that’s actually much more suitable for people of the age and demographic that goes on cruises. What I… --- ## [Do I owe taxes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-owe-taxes/1016843)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-owe-taxes/1016843 "2025-04-11T22:12:19Z")
This could go in Factual Questions but I’m asking here because it seems less than urgent. My accountant, a perfectly respectable competent guy who has done my taxes for the past five years, tells me that I don’t need to … --- ## [Bob Hope quote, real or made up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-quote-real-or-made-up/1016916)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-hope-quote-real-or-made-up/1016916 "2025-04-11T21:59:30Z")
In “The Ghost Breakers” (1940), did Bob Hope really compare Democrats to zombies, or is that a dub that’s making the rounds? --- ## [Question about Medium](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-medium/492849)
**Author:** [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-medium/492849 "2009-04-12T19:37:41Z")
Thanks to Hulu, I’ve been able to keep up with the show, Medium. It got me to thinking. Has it ever been explained why Joe Dubois has a British accent? In the most recent episode, Allison was communicating with the gh… --- ## [New OK Go video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ok-go-video/1016928)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ok-go-video/1016928 "2025-04-11T21:32:28Z")
OK Go has posted their video for the song “Love”. It has robots and mirrors. So many mirrors. --- ## [Bad Ends (Spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ends-spoilers/1016860)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ends-spoilers/1016860 "2025-04-11T18:24:30Z")
Reading the Irene Adler thread, with its continuations of characters created by Doyle, made me think of all those movies and plays with Happy Endings, in which characters get to survive and go on with their lives, but wh… --- ## [We can clone extinct species. Should we?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-can-clone-extinct-species-should-we/692975)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-can-clone-extinct-species-should-we/692975 "2025-04-11T18:13:10Z")
Or will be able to within our lifetimes. There is a long list of species that have died off in the past century. Many directly or indirectly caused by humans taking over their habitats or hunting them to the point of n… --- ## [Tree Root Decay](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-root-decay/1016905)
**Author:** [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-root-decay/1016905 "2025-04-11T18:06:50Z")
After Hurricane Ian, I had to have the remains of some trees removed, including stumps. A few months ago, the location where my avocado tree was started sinking, creating a steep pit. I figured the remains of the grou… --- ## [The Righteous Gemstones on HBO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-righteous-gemstones-on-hbo/838955)
**Author:** [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-righteous-gemstones-on-hbo/838955 "2025-04-11T18:00:31Z")
Is anyone watching? What do people think? Come on, there can’t be just me who watched the first episode? I love John Goodman as Eli, and Adam Devine as the youngest son but the other characters are not grabbing me… yet… --- ## [Geography and the DC universe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-and-the-dc-universe/1016775)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geography-and-the-dc-universe/1016775 "2025-04-11T17:35:29Z")
Metropolis has Superman, Gotham has Batman, Fawcett City has Captain Marvel and family, Keystone City has the Flash, Coast City has Green Lantern - they’re all pretty well covered. But you’ve got Star City which has Gre… --- ## [Tax breaks for billionaires- inevitable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-breaks-for-billionaires-inevitable/1016862)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-breaks-for-billionaires-inevitable/1016862 "2025-04-11T16:56:31Z")
I see no direct opposition to what seems to be the only thing trump believes in. Tax breaks for billionaires is treated as a fait accompli, not something that could be opposed. --- ## [What TV show had a doorknob in the center of the front door?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-had-a-doorknob-in-the-center-of-the-front-door/341021)
**Author:** [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-had-a-doorknob-in-the-center-of-the-front-door/341021 "2025-04-11T15:24:06Z")
When my parents were planning details of the house they had built in 1957 or '58, I was 9 or 10 years old. I suggested they get a front door with a doorknob in the middle, like they had on that one show. I was sorta kidd… --- ## [Tetrahedral Pyramid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tetrahedral-pyramid/1016608)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tetrahedral-pyramid/1016608 "2025-04-11T14:38:02Z")
There are pyramid-shaped buildings all over the world – most famously the Pyramids of Egypt (and most famously, the three at Giza, although there are plenty of others elsewhere). There are pyramids in Mexico (in Teotihua… --- ## [Who here has had a sleep study?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-had-a-sleep-study/1016846)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-had-a-sleep-study/1016846 "2025-04-11T14:35:13Z")
I had one a few weeks ago. I’ve always been a restless sleeper, but this fall I started pushing on my wife with my feet. She could deal with that, but right before the new year I hit her hard while I was sleeping. The… --- ## [Outlawing dog breeds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlawing-dog-breeds/999608)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 200\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlawing-dog-breeds/999608 "2025-04-11T13:45:40Z")
Also in New Hampshire. NH bill would ban practice of breeding deformities into breeds. The idea is that desirable characteristics for certain breeds being selected for are resulting in dogs that suffer as a result of… --- ## [What happened to being a tramp?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-being-a-tramp/1015176)
**Author:** [@ziper1221](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ziper1221)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-being-a-tramp/1015176 "2025-04-11T13:28:28Z")
I’ve just finished reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair from 1906, and for a few chapters the protagonist is a tramp. Chewed up and defeated by the meat processing industry, he flees Chicago on a traincar, travelling the… --- ## [YouTuber "Simply Sara" has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtuber-simply-sara-has-died/1016816)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtuber-simply-sara-has-died/1016816 "2025-04-11T13:03:33Z")
Because she was a YouTuber, who mostly did cooking shows, I put the thread here. I didn’t watch her regularly, but I was aware of her online presence and did check her out occasionally. She died from complications of d… --- ## [2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee intermittent no start - brake switch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-jeep-grand-cherokee-intermittent-no-start-brake-switch/1016864)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-jeep-grand-cherokee-intermittent-no-start-brake-switch/1016864 "2025-04-11T12:19:45Z")
Since I WFH I don’t drive nearly as much as I used to. My Jeep will often site for several days before I drive it again. The last two times I tried starting it after sitting for 2-3 days, it did not start at all for 4 or… --- ## [Origin of candy canes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-candy-canes/144146)
**Author:** [@beagle1971](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagle1971)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [April 11, 2025, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-candy-canes/144146 "2025-04-11T11:12:46Z")
OK, I searched the forums and the archive, but I didn’t find a post addressing this specifically. I’ve received more than once a story proclaiming the “true story of the candy cane,” saying it was designed as a christia… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=335) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=337)