# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=348&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 349 --- ## [Andy and Red’s escapes to Mexico (FQ about events in The Shawshank Redemption)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-and-red-s-escapes-to-mexico-fq-about-events-in-the-shawshank-redemption/1016054)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-and-red-s-escapes-to-mexico-fq-about-events-in-the-shawshank-redemption/1016054 "2025-03-27T05:49:04Z")
Open spoilers for 30-year-old movie. Hell, even the title spoils it. Anyhoo, Andy Dufresne left Portland, ME with $375,000 of the Warden’s money, using a fake name and fake documents, and headed to Mexico, c. 1967. Woul… --- ## [I pit America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-america/1009759)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 266\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-america/1009759 "2025-03-27T01:50:33Z")
Fuck this country. Fuck the tens of millions of voters who decided to put a fascist in charge of this country. Fuck the billionaires who decided they’d make more money with the fascists in charge. Fuck the non-voters who… --- ## [Legal question about non-self-defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-about-non-self-defense/1016116)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-about-non-self-defense/1016116 "2025-03-27T00:11:01Z")
This may have a factual answer, but I think legal questions go here. This concerns a scene in a detective story I am reading. A man with a gun has broken into a house and is threatening the occupants with his gun. Our… --- ## [Why didn't Hyman Roth recognize Rocco Lampone? (The Godfather Part II)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-hyman-roth-recognize-rocco-lampone-the-godfather-part-ii/1015840)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-hyman-roth-recognize-rocco-lampone-the-godfather-part-ii/1015840 "2025-03-26T23:38:45Z")
Here’s the scene. I always assumed that Michael Corleone had found some anonymous hitman that Roth had never met. But this was not the case. Rocco Lampone had been one of the Corleone’s top hit man for decades. (He was … --- ## [Sea Horses - did anyone order them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-horses-did-anyone-order-them/1016093)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sea-horses-did-anyone-order-them/1016093 "2025-03-26T23:26:30Z")
I remember ads for sea horses in many comics and magazines. Right next to the X-ray glasses and fake dog poop. :wink: I never ordered them. I’m curious if sea horses arrived alive? Back then it took a couple weeks to ge… --- ## [The Paradox of ancient, crumbling abandoned cities in stories set in the ancient world](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-paradox-of-ancient-crumbling-abandoned-cities-in-stories-set-in-the-ancient-world/1016029)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-paradox-of-ancient-crumbling-abandoned-cities-in-stories-set-in-the-ancient-world/1016029 "2025-03-26T23:07:36Z")
There are plenty of “Lost Race” stories starting in the late 19th century, such as Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race, in which someone encounters an unknown group or long-forgotten group still inhabiting a city. Abr… --- ## [Old PC and number of colors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pc-and-number-of-colors/1016127)
**Author:** [@Danger\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danger_Man)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pc-and-number-of-colors/1016127 "2025-03-26T21:58:43Z")
I remember I had a 386 in my childhood. For some reason I could only get 16 colors in Windows and 256 colors in DOS. I tried for a long time to also get 256 colors in Windows, but was not able to figure it out. Does anyo… --- ## [History fact check-What were you taught about Alan Turing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-fact-check-what-were-you-taught-about-alan-turing/1016067)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-fact-check-what-were-you-taught-about-alan-turing/1016067 "2025-03-26T21:41:14Z")
When you went to junior high and/or high school, What (if anything) were you taught about Alan Turing? Were you taught about what he did, or about his sexuality, or about what was done to him. His name was never bro… --- ## [Rule of Law News: Tracking the Trump Administration's Defiance of Court Orders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rule-of-law-news-tracking-the-trump-administrations-defiance-of-court-orders/1015732)
**Author:** [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rule-of-law-news-tracking-the-trump-administrations-defiance-of-court-orders/1015732 "2025-03-26T21:19:51Z")
For the purposes of this thread, appealing a court decision does not count, because such behavior is lawful and routine. Ambiguity should be noted. Here are 2 examples. Trump deported almost 300 Venezualan citizens to … --- ## [Whatever happened to "drill baby drill"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-drill-baby-drill/1016036)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-drill-baby-drill/1016036 "2025-03-26T19:22:45Z")
It was as much a core tenant of his political philosophy as mass deportations. I was really looking forward to seeing how he was going to coerce big oil into producing more and selling for less. Tax breaks and no environ… --- ## [I don't know how to think of SpaceX anymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-how-to-think-of-spacex-anymore/1010167)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-how-to-think-of-spacex-anymore/1010167 "2025-03-26T18:44:24Z")
Notwithstanding advantages and disadvantages of human spaceflight vs robotic space exploration, I have always found the whole manned space exploration thing fascinating, exciting and cool. I have, because it’s the best t… --- ## [Experiences with chemotherapy for cats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-chemotherapy-for-cats/1016143)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-chemotherapy-for-cats/1016143 "2025-03-26T17:15:13Z")
Have you had experience with a cat on chemotherapy? How hard was it on the cat and on the people taking care of the cat? Was it very costly? Are you glad you did it? How about radiation therapy experiences? My cat just … --- ## [Trump 2.0 begins: looking at possible scenarios with percentages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-2-0-begins-looking-at-possible-scenarios-with-percentages/1013162)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-2-0-begins-looking-at-possible-scenarios-with-percentages/1013162 "2025-03-26T15:57:50Z")
Happy Inauguration Day! Well, for sensible people, it’s not happy. But now what’s going to happen? We don’t know, since Trump is unpredictable, and his health is terrible. Anything is possible. IMHO, it all comes down … --- ## [You get caught with a dead body, are you going to prison?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-caught-with-a-dead-body-are-you-going-to-prison/1015796)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-caught-with-a-dead-body-are-you-going-to-prison/1015796 "2025-03-26T15:51:22Z")
Don’t need an answer fast :wink: just saw Snatch again and the thought occured to me. It’s a fairly common Hollywood trope, protagonist gets mixed up in a murder plot (or twelve) and ends up with an (obviously murdered)… --- ## [Dreams in these Modern Times](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-in-these-modern-times/1016140)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreams-in-these-modern-times/1016140 "2025-03-26T15:21:41Z")
I had a novel, at least for me, dream this morning. I was vaguely aware that the alarm was about to go off. I had a dream asking me if I could spend a few minutes completing a survey about the quality of sleep I got la… --- ## [How much of an ordeal was your tooth extraction and implant?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-an-ordeal-was-your-tooth-extraction-and-implant/1016097)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-an-ordeal-was-your-tooth-extraction-and-implant/1016097 "2025-03-26T14:19:47Z")
I just confirmed with my dentist that my I need to have one of my upper teeth (#14) extracted and and have an implant put in. Having a bridge, or just leaving a gap, didn’t really appeal to me. I know there is a four mon… --- ## [Tell us about your shoes!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-shoes/1013694)
**Author:** [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-shoes/1013694 "2025-03-26T09:56:27Z")
Big ass brogues. Distinguished topsider sperries. Shiny candy apple red kitten heels. Worn white NB sneakers. $250+ Air Jordan’s. It don’t matter, tell us what you’re wearing today! Color. Style. Brand. Shoe size. Do yo… --- ## ["Call a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than 4 hours"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-a-doctor-if-you-have-an-erection-lasting-longer-than-4-hours/1015812)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-a-doctor-if-you-have-an-erection-lasting-longer-than-4-hours/1015812 "2025-03-26T05:42:11Z")
Maybe I’m naive but is a 3 hour erection considered “normal”? --- ## [Well this is new: Republican appoints convicted mob hit man to city council](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-new-republican-appoints-convicted-mob-hit-man-to-city-council/1015880)
**Author:** [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-new-republican-appoints-convicted-mob-hit-man-to-city-council/1015880 "2025-03-26T05:07:01Z")
Not alleged. He murdered at least 6 people. Got out of prison early because he snitched. There is another article that I can’t seem to link that says more than half of the towns elected official’s have resigned over th… --- ## [Strange New Worlds season 2 to start June 15, 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-new-worlds-season-2-to-start-june-15-2023/984959)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 297\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-new-worlds-season-2-to-start-june-15-2023/984959 "2025-03-26T04:35:56Z")
The best Star Trek since the original returns this month! Now with Carol Kane. (New Chief Engineer) And a live action cross-over with “Below Decks”. The Official Trailer: So yes, I need to subscribe to P… --- ## [Talking cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-cats/1016071)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-cats/1016071 "2025-03-26T03:13:06Z")
Suppose someone developed a cat collar that could translate 4 or 5 cat thoughts into English. Besides “Feed me NOW” and “Don’t bother me!” what other phrases would your cat most want you to understand. --- ## [Knowledge doubling--is there any way this isn't nonsense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knowledge-doubling-is-there-any-way-this-isnt-nonsense/1015778)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knowledge-doubling-is-there-any-way-this-isnt-nonsense/1015778 "2025-03-26T02:36:31Z")
I was at a conference last week, and amid one very good session, there was a factoid that caught my eye. It’s floating around the Internet, and here’s a good example: In the conference and in other sources, these “ex… --- ## [Ought puzzles (like sudoku) have only 1 solution?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-puzzles-like-sudoku-have-only-1-solution/1016037)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-puzzles-like-sudoku-have-only-1-solution/1016037 "2025-03-26T02:28:56Z")
My wife does sudoku - I don’t. Today was supposed to be an easy puzzle. She was mildly displeased that the answer was ambiguous - it would have worked equally well if you had placed a 6 and a 7 in one place, and revers… --- ## [Can a Recipient of a Photo in an iPhone Text See the Metadata](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-recipient-of-a-photo-in-an-iphone-text-see-the-metadata/1016120)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-recipient-of-a-photo-in-an-iphone-text-see-the-metadata/1016120 "2025-03-26T02:07:14Z")
Can the recipient of a photo attached to an iPhone text see the metadata, particularly the location associated with a photo taken on that phone? I am baiting a fraudulent transaction phishing scammer from way back in De… --- ## [How did CBS news know what flight Witkoff was on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-cbs-news-know-what-flight-witkoff-was-on/1016110)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-cbs-news-know-what-flight-witkoff-was-on/1016110 "2025-03-26T02:03:40Z")
CBS news reported that a member of the notorious Signal chat was in Russia at the time. Witkoff arrived in Moscow shortly after noon local time on March 13, according to data from the flight tracking website FlightRa… --- ## [Jury Duty TV Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jury-duty-tv-show/982761)
**Author:** [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jury-duty-tv-show/982761 "2025-03-26T00:21:14Z")
We just started watching this very clever and funny TV mockumentary. It’s free to stream on FreeVee. Jury Duty | All-New Series | Coming April 7 - YouTube --- ## [Help me make a playlist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-a-playlist/1016064 "2025-03-25T23:43:39Z")
What I’ve done is collect links to various songs on Youtube in a Word Document. If I feel listening to a little music, I go to this document, and click on a link. After an ad, it plays the song. One at a time. Is there … --- ## [Actors with regular starring roles in two series at the same time?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-regular-starring-roles-in-two-series-at-the-same-time/1015313)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-with-regular-starring-roles-in-two-series-at-the-same-time/1015313 "2025-03-25T23:28:21Z")
“At the same time” can be sort of a vague concept with modern short streaming seasons with big gaps between them, but two “current” examples I noticed are Danny Pudi in both Mythic Quest and Going Dutch and Peyton List i… --- ## [Sympathy for the Devil and some enigmatic lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sympathy-for-the-devil-and-some-enigmatic-lyrics/1015915)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sympathy-for-the-devil-and-some-enigmatic-lyrics/1015915 "2025-03-25T23:19:22Z")
In this BBQ Pit “Clusterfuck” thread there was a bit of diversion over the song in the post title, in that case, the line: And I laid traps for troubadours Who get killed before they reach Bombay And that was well-a… --- ## [I keep getting text messages of "- - - - - - is your verification code" when I never asked to log into anything. Identity theft?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-keep-getting-text-messages-of-is-your-verification-code-when-i-never-asked-to-log-into-anything-identity-theft/1016107)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-keep-getting-text-messages-of-is-your-verification-code-when-i-never-asked-to-log-into-anything-identity-theft/1016107 "2025-03-25T22:53:09Z")
Starting this morning, I have gotten multiple text messages on my smartphone of “(6-digit number) is your verification code” when I have not been trying to log into anything. Is this some glitch, or someone trying to log… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=347&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=349&state=tracking)