# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=372&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 373 --- ## [The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - the first one](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-the-first-one/1014441)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-the-first-one/1014441 "2025-02-18T14:53:22Z")
Why is the original so hard to find? All I ever see on “On Demand” is the 2nd version with Daniel Craig. --- ## [What would it take to directly make carbohydrates?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-to-directly-make-carbohydrates/1014272)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-it-take-to-directly-make-carbohydrates/1014272 "2025-02-18T14:21:46Z")
Is photosynthesis using chlorophyll the only way? If you can run that process in a test tube what type of carbohydrates might you end up with - anything useful? --- ## [What are YOUR important marital(ish) duties?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-important-marital-ish-duties/1014267)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-important-marital-ish-duties/1014267 "2025-02-18T14:20:00Z")
Yeah, yeah. For richer or poorer. In sickness or health. Love honor and obey. All that stuff they actually put in the marriage vows. But they tend to leave out the quirky yet critical to partnership happiness stuff. … --- ## [I pit my "new" Kindle now a brick](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-new-kindle-now-a-brick/1013754)
**Author:** [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-new-kindle-now-a-brick/1013754 "2025-02-18T13:14:20Z")
It’s a Paperwhite from slightly less than 2 years ago so out of warranty but WTF it is too new to not be working. Luckily - by god I have library books to read - I still have a Kindle Fire I replaced because it doesn’t … --- ## [Project 2025 is more than a playbook for Trumpism, it’s the Christian Nationalist manifesto](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-2025-is-more-than-a-playbook-for-trumpism-it-s-the-christian-nationalist-manifesto/998369)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-2025-is-more-than-a-playbook-for-trumpism-it-s-the-christian-nationalist-manifesto/998369 "2025-02-18T10:39:34Z")
Project 2025 is more than a playbook for Trumpism, it’s the Christian Nationalist manifesto Salon, 3/1/2024 Mainstream media outlets have begun to expose Project 2025’s radical vision: A gutted federal government; imm… --- ## [What Should Be Done About Air Safety? Trump: Reduce the Number Air Traffic Controllers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-be-done-about-air-safety-trump-reduce-the-number-air-traffic-controllers/1013726 "2025-02-18T05:51:10Z")
Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash. And I had been thinking this would be a category excl… --- ## [Why would a campaign worker just come to my house?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-a-campaign-worker-just-come-to-my-house/1014393)
**Author:** [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-a-campaign-worker-just-come-to-my-house/1014393 "2025-02-18T03:53:45Z")
I was out cleaning up my driveway when I noticed a car pull over three doors up and just stay there. About 5 min later, I finished up and went back inside. A few minutes later this car pulls up in front of my house, th… --- ## [How stupid, ignorant, uneducated etc are Trump and his sycophants?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-ignorant-uneducated-etc-are-trump-and-his-sycophants/1013918)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-ignorant-uneducated-etc-are-trump-and-his-sycophants/1013918 "2025-02-18T02:49:32Z")
After the whole George W/Iraq episode, I started thinking that a degree in world history (probably a post-grad degree) should be mandatory for US presidential candidates. Now, obviously, things are much, much worse. As s… --- ## [Government layoffs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-layoffs/1014303)
**Author:** [@Honolulu\_Lulu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honolulu_Lulu)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-layoffs/1014303 "2025-02-18T00:54:01Z")
What effect (if any) have all these government layoffs had on the real estate market in the D.C. area (including northern VA & southern MD). Have the government layoffs had secondary effects, such as retail stores, etc. … --- ## [RIP Tom Robbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-tom-robbins/1014136)
**Author:** [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-tom-robbins/1014136 "2025-02-17T23:56:03Z")
Author Tom Robbins passed away yesterday. NEW YORK – Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “J… --- ## [Coke limited edition flavors (formerly Starlight Coke)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-limited-edition-flavors-formerly-starlight-coke/960620)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-limited-edition-flavors-formerly-starlight-coke/960620 "2025-02-17T23:01:29Z")
I’m drinking one of the new Starlight Cokes right now. (Actually it’s a Starlight Coke Zero.) I am not having a favorable impression. It has a weird taste that’s somehow reminiscent of grain; like you made a barley flav… --- ## [Cats losing legs -- how well did it turn out?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-losing-legs-how-well-did-it-turn-out/1014391)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-losing-legs-how-well-did-it-turn-out/1014391 "2025-02-17T14:55:51Z")
Our cat is scheduled for surgery Thursday to remove what is almost certainly a cancerous tumor on the back of her thigh. However, when she’s sedated they will do X-rays and blood work before the surgery. Depending on the… --- ## [Android help? My on-screen keyboard disappeared](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-help-my-on-screen-keyboard-disappeared/1014397)
**Author:** [@LynnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LynnM)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-help-my-on-screen-keyboard-disappeared/1014397 "2025-02-17T13:27:39Z")
I have a Vortex HD65 Android phone. When I try to text, instead of the on-screen keyboard appearing, I’m getting “Tap to speak” with a red circle around a microphone icon. I must have changed a setting or something, but … --- ## [(Old) Buddying With Allies in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118)
**Author:** [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Replies:** 389\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118 "2025-02-17T12:53:05Z")
Yes, Spot is a very cute and amusing cat, but he’s gotten several thread titles recently, so IMO other Mumpets should step up and take a turn. :slight\_smile: For newer MMPers, I have two cats: Allie is 14 and we met her… --- ## [Help finding a commercial from the 70s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-commercial-from-the-70s/1014360)
**Author:** [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-commercial-from-the-70s/1014360 "2025-02-17T12:21:34Z")
Don’t ask why, but I am trying to find an old commercial from the 70s (possibly early 80s.) I feel like it was for Hush Puppies shoes, but not certain. It was a man’s face in closeup, and then a number of feet come in an… --- ## [Android WebView: Default to Browser possible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-webview-default-to-browser-possible/1014407)
**Author:** [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-webview-default-to-browser-possible/1014407 "2025-02-17T10:17:17Z")
I have a minor annoyance that I thought would have an easy fix, but apparently doesn’t. Opening any link from within an app or from the discover feed on my mobile device doesn’t open the full browser, but only the (Chrom… --- ## [Do you anagram words as you read?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-anagram-words-as-you-read/1013484)
**Author:** [@mattgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattgg)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-anagram-words-as-you-read/1013484 "2025-02-17T09:10:17Z")
I’ve always been a slow reader. A large part of the problem is that I tend to anagram words as I’m reading. I’m not doing this consciously. That is, I don’t stop and think of an anagram. I read the word the correct way a… --- ## [Do you think we could train or tame dinosaurs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-we-could-train-or-tame-dinosaurs/1014140)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-we-could-train-or-tame-dinosaurs/1014140 "2025-02-17T07:53:50Z")
I have seen a few alligator acts where a guy puts his head in the beastie’s mouth but I’m not sure how well trained they really are. I don’t think I have seen one dance or do much in the way of a trick. Has anyone even t… --- ## [How could a foreigner get used to Mexican tap water?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-foreigner-get-used-to-mexican-tap-water/1013987)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-foreigner-get-used-to-mexican-tap-water/1013987 "2025-02-17T06:58:04Z")
We all know that Mexican tap water isn’t purified to the degree that the American digestive system is used to. But if one were to spend a long time there, they couldn’t avoid Mexican tap water forever. You’ll eventually … --- ## [Why do truckers cut people off?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-truckers-cut-people-off/280368)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-truckers-cut-people-off/280368 "2025-02-16T22:52:58Z")
I see this all the time on a long drive. I’ll be on cruise control overtaking a couple of trucks. There’s no one behind me. Just as I get to the back end of the rear truck, he decides to change lanes to pass the truck… --- ## [Theatrical trailer for "Out of Africa"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theatrical-trailer-for-out-of-africa/1014401)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theatrical-trailer-for-out-of-africa/1014401 "2025-02-17T00:07:24Z")
Back in the 1980s I saw a lot of movies, and I remember (or think I remember) that the trailer for “Out of Africa” (which I saw many times) shown before other movies was extraordinarily long - but all I find in Youtube i… --- ## [There is a new Old Man of the Mountain {Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga Khan, is now the Aga Khan V}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-new-old-man-of-the-mountain-prince-rahim-al-hussaini-aga-khan-is-now-the-aga-khan-v/1014380)
**Author:** [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-new-old-man-of-the-mountain-prince-rahim-al-hussaini-aga-khan-is-now-the-aga-khan-v/1014380 "2025-02-16T23:53:27Z")
Prince Karim Al-Husseini Aga Khan, the 49th imam of the Nizari branch of the Isma’ili branch of the Shia branch of Islam, better known as the Aga Khan IV, died on February 5, 2025. His son, Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga … --- ## [How Many Different Types of Eggs Have You Eaten?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-types-of-eggs-have-you-eaten/1014371 "2025-02-16T23:21:27Z")
How many different types of eggs have you eaten in your lifetime? For myself, I can think of seven - chicken, duck, goose, turkey, quail, bluegill, and lumpfish (caviar). --- ## [USS Harry S. Truman Collides with Merchant Vessel in Mediterranean Sea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uss-harry-s-truman-collides-with-merchant-vessel-in-mediterranean-sea/1014276)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uss-harry-s-truman-collides-with-merchant-vessel-in-mediterranean-sea/1014276 "2025-02-16T23:14:06Z")
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), the flagship of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, collided with M/V Besiktas-M around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea, the Navy said Thursday. T… --- ## [Zelenskyy; Russia plans to attack NATO in 2026](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelenskyy-russia-plans-to-attack-nato-in-2026/1014313)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelenskyy-russia-plans-to-attack-nato-in-2026/1014313 "2025-02-16T23:04:40Z")
Ukraine’s President said today that Ukraine has intelligence indicating a planned Russian invasion of a NATO country next year. Seems likely to me. It’s clear Trump plans to collapse NATO and quite possibly invade Cana… --- ## [Meat Carnival](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-carnival/1014384)
**Author:** [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-carnival/1014384 "2025-02-16T21:31:32Z")
My wife took me to the (M)eat Carnival on Mare Island for my birthday last night. It’s pretty much what you would imagine from the name. One price gets you into a massive smoke-filled hanger repurposed from the old navy … --- ## [Interesting exhibition at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden last night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-exhibition-at-the-phoenix-desert-botanical-garden-last-night/1014379)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-exhibition-at-the-phoenix-desert-botanical-garden-last-night/1014379 "2025-02-16T20:34:18Z")
… --- ## [Trying to buy a used car from a dealer. Are they insane or off or just me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-buy-a-used-car-from-a-dealer-are-they-insane-or-off-or-just-me/1002536)
**Author:** [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Replies:** 276\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-buy-a-used-car-from-a-dealer-are-they-insane-or-off-or-just-me/1002536 "2025-02-16T20:34:00Z")
Hello Everyone, Tonight our 21 year old Son found a used car that he wanted at a local Honda dealer. This is his first car purchase and he asked me to go with him. To say I was shocked at the deal they offered us an und… --- ## [Mechanical Elephant novel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mechanical-elephant-novel/34155)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mechanical-elephant-novel/34155 "2025-02-16T19:14:39Z")
Years ago I ran across a children’s novel about two boys who go on a cross-country adventure in -get this- a mechanical elephant that their father built. Now my searches on the Net have turned up several other inquiries … --- ## [Hitler, did life get any better for the so called "right kind" of Germans?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-did-life-get-any-better-for-the-so-called-right-kind-of-germans/1014238)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-did-life-get-any-better-for-the-so-called-right-kind-of-germans/1014238 "2025-02-14T05:12:29Z")
Sorry if The question seems a little dark. With all that’s going on today it just got me to thinking: why do people willingly give up their freedom for a dictatorship? And the best answer I could come up with is they t… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=371&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=373&state=tracking)