# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=383&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 384 --- ## [What tv series am I thinking of? (Fantasy type show) with](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-am-i-thinking-of-fantasy-type-show-with/1013652)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-am-i-thinking-of-fantasy-type-show-with/1013652 "2025-01-31T02:23:15Z")
It was a series. Kind of like The Hobbit or Lord of the rings. It had a “little person” as the center. He supposedly had wizard like powers. Heroes journey type show. It was a TV series that came out not too long ago. … --- ## [Who was ctips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-ctips/1013641)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-ctips/1013641 "2025-01-31T02:18:31Z")
When I was first learning programming, I happened on the following website (as seen via the Wayback Machine): https://web.archive.org/web/20230318084320/http://users.bestweb.net/~ctips/ The site seems to have still bee… --- ## [Dick Van Dyke was driving a car? Who let him do that?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-van-dyke-was-driving-a-car-who-let-him-do-that/981513)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-van-dyke-was-driving-a-car-who-let-him-do-that/981513 "2025-01-31T01:57:33Z")
You do not give fragile, precious things the keys to a silver Lexus. Treat him like you’d treat drunk uncle Troy trying to drive home New Years Eve. I mean, he’s 97, he can’t fight you for them! --- ## [Warning and 30-day Suspension for split\_p\_j for violating topic ban](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-and-30-day-suspension-for-split-p-j-for-violating-topic-ban/1013661)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-and-30-day-suspension-for-split-p-j-for-violating-topic-ban/1013661 "2025-01-31T01:56:48Z")
After further review and discussion in the mod loop, staff have decided your posts in this thread were made in an effort to skirt your topic ban by not being specific about what conspiracy theory(ies) you’re referencin… --- ## [I did not know](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know/1013660)
**Author:** [@Cerridwyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerridwyn)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know/1013660 "2025-01-31T01:49:02Z")
I did not know how to create a new topic & accidently sent that website one. It encountered Czarcasm’s Google Chrome & im trying to fix it for him. I fixed his PC, but i forgot what i did. I also did not know where to … --- ## [Why no warning?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-warning/1013619)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-warning/1013619 "2025-01-31T01:49:01Z")
This is a question I have had on my mind for a while. I did not link to the specific post leading to me actually starting a thread because a) this is a situation I have seen many times, not just this once b) I didn’t … --- ## [Sambuca, anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sambuca-anyone/1013607)
**Author:** [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sambuca-anyone/1013607 "2025-01-31T00:39:29Z")
Does anyone like Sambuca, or know of good-tasting drinks that can be made with it? I like Amaretto and someone gifted me a bottle packaged with a bottle of Sambuca from the same company. For anyone that hasn’t tried is, … --- ## [Where did that come from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-that-come-from/1013649)
**Author:** [@Cerridwyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerridwyn)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-that-come-from/1013649 "2025-01-31T00:17:23Z")
Gstatic.com --- ## [A tipping point. Historians will write on this in 20 years](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tipping-point-historians-will-write-on-this-in-20-years/1013210)
**Author:** [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Replies:** 155\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tipping-point-historians-will-write-on-this-in-20-years/1013210 "2025-01-30T21:47:08Z")
The first Trump term and now the 2nd will push the US in a certain direction. Trump will not get too much credit from the historians. It will be noted that there was a shift. The voters are not happy and part of it is th… --- ## [Politicising tragedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politicising-tragedy/1013625)
**Author:** [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politicising-tragedy/1013625 "2025-01-30T20:45:47Z")
For cry eye. These people aren’t named or claimed by relatives, and the idiot playing president is blaming Biden and DEI. A stroke or aneurism would be too good for him. hegseth and vance may as well as fellated him the… --- ## [Power Walls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-walls/1013536)
**Author:** [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/power-walls/1013536 "2025-01-30T19:59:27Z")
Do any of you have experience with home battery backup systems? I live in California (home of the PG&E rolling blackout) and have leased solar panels that are tied to the grid. I have a 700 kW dual fuel generator that c… --- ## [Trying to identify a type of hinge?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-a-type-of-hinge/1013603)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-identify-a-type-of-hinge/1013603 "2025-01-30T19:06:21Z")
The best way I can describe is top and bottom are identical but one slightly smaller as it fits inside the other. It would be like two pieces of channel where the flanges were cut to a peek like a tent, say 2" There is… --- ## [Mexican Cheeses - Fight my Ignorance?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-cheeses-fight-my-ignorance/1013598)
**Author:** [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-cheeses-fight-my-ignorance/1013598 "2025-01-30T18:36:16Z")
I am marinating some carnitas for tomorrow’s dinner, and I want to do street corn on the side. I’ve got frozen roasted corn (it’s actually not bad) and limes, but realized I don’t know which kind of cheese to order. Th… --- ## [Worst things that Andrew Zimmern (or you) tried to eat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-that-andrew-zimmern-or-you-tried-to-eat/1013391)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-things-that-andrew-zimmern-or-you-tried-to-eat/1013391 "2025-01-30T18:28:00Z")
Andrew, of Bizarre Foods fame, tried a heck of a lot of things I wouldn’t even want to be in the same room with. He ate most of them, including the very ripe cheese with maggots. But I have fond memories of when he tried… --- ## [Post job interview follow-up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-job-interview-follow-up/1012438)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-job-interview-follow-up/1012438 "2025-01-30T17:40:12Z")
Yes, there are other threads on this, but they are old. I am applying for a software development position - the phone interview with an HR person went well enough that I had my technical interview yesterday (yes - new y… --- ## [HOA hijack of the "Did Walt ever said ..." thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoa-hijack-of-the-did-walt-ever-said-thread/1013582)
**Author:** [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoa-hijack-of-the-did-walt-ever-said-thread/1013582 "2025-01-30T17:03:47Z")
“HOA from hell” is a large majority of HOAs. (Not my Vietnamese-American friend, Hoa. He’s cool.) --- ## [What is your absolute favorite movie of all time?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627)
**Author:** [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)\ **Replies:** 240\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627 "2025-01-30T16:19:48Z")
Mine is Mary Poppins. I love all things Disney and this one captures all the wonderful things Disney does. --- ## [How do all-capitalized (not ALL CAPS) posts happen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-all-capitalized-not-all-caps-posts-happen/1002921)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-all-capitalized-not-all-caps-posts-happen/1002921 "2025-01-30T15:57:16Z")
I sometimes see comments on various places where every word in the post is capitalized. I don’t mean ALL CAPS, I Mean Posts Written Like This, Long Strings Of Capitalized Words. I can understand all-caps posts made with … --- ## [Did Trump cause the cost on insulin to raise?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-cause-the-cost-on-insulin-to-raise/1013545)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-trump-cause-the-cost-on-insulin-to-raise/1013545 "2025-01-30T12:22:08Z")
The best I’ve been able to google is: " Trump rescinded Biden’s 2022 order, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” including it in a list of dozens of former executive actions he described as "\[deeply unpopula… --- ## [R.I.P. Jules Feiffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-jules-feiffer/1013221)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-jules-feiffer/1013221 "2025-01-30T11:02:15Z")
… In October 1956, Mr. Feiffer strolled into the office of The Village Voice, which had been founded the previous year, and offered to draw a regular strip for nothing. First titled “Sick, Sick, Sick,” it eventually … --- ## [What does a Vampire look like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-vampire-look-like/1013532)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-a-vampire-look-like/1013532 "2025-01-30T10:42:57Z")
One thing I find interesting is the way pop media has a particular “look” for characters or things. The prime example of this is Frankenstein’s monster, which is practically defined by Jack Peirce’s flat-topped makeup jo… --- ## [Can you pass out from a single drink?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-out-from-a-single-drink/1013560)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-out-from-a-single-drink/1013560 "2025-01-30T07:32:33Z")
There’s a memorable scene in Back to the Future: Part III where a sober Emmett “Doc” Brown downs a single shot of whiskey and promptly falls unconscious. The bartender, having seen this happen once before, observes that… --- ## [Happy Cake Day to me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cake-day-to-me/1013189)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cake-day-to-me/1013189 "2025-01-30T04:17:04Z")
I was just posting in GQ (or FQ I guess) and I noticed today is my SDMB cake day! I joined the board 25 years ago today after lurking for several years both on the web and on AOL. A quarter century as a member, almost … --- ## [New Dark Tower book coming? Maybe? re: Stephen King tweets as such](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dark-tower-book-coming-maybe-re-stephen-king-tweets-as-such/1009287)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-dark-tower-book-coming-maybe-re-stephen-king-tweets-as-such/1009287 "2025-01-30T03:01:24Z")
--- ## [Gurgling from furnace condensate drain](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gurgling-from-furnace-condensate-drain/1012671)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gurgling-from-furnace-condensate-drain/1012671 "2025-01-30T00:38:05Z")
The condensate pipe from my home’s gas furnace leads to a floor drain right next the furnace. This morning something’s making gurgling noises down there, and I’m pretty sure either it’s the floor drain or the condensate… --- ## [Struggling with my internet addiction - anyone else?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struggling-with-my-internet-addiction-anyone-else/996193)
**Author:** [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/struggling-with-my-internet-addiction-anyone-else/996193 "2025-01-30T00:27:34Z")
Like the thread title says - I have an addiction to the internet, mostly in the form of social media sites but also including game sites and film sites like YouTube. It is made more difficult because a computer is the m… --- ## ["Just a bit outside", Bob Uecker has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-bit-outside-bob-uecker-has-died/1013055)
**Author:** [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-bit-outside-bob-uecker-has-died/1013055 "2025-01-30T00:13:00Z")
I debated if it should go here or in CS, but I figured he was more a sports guy. Bob Uecker has died at the age of 90. --- ## [What makes a CEO talented?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-ceo-talented/1013489)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-ceo-talented/1013489 "2025-01-30T00:12:01Z")
I work for a global company. We have this gentleman at work. If he’s in his thirties at all He’s a young 30. And this guy has gone in 5 years from being an intern, to being facilities manager. Just two more rungs of th… --- ## [Worst Movies of 2024?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-of-2024/1013259)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movies-of-2024/1013259 "2025-01-29T23:29:01Z")
I will pick one “worst” and the rest are unranked. Worst: Megalopolis - No. Nope. This isn’t a brilliant, hard to crack, work that will go up in esteem later. It’s horrible, comically bad. We need to face it. Francis F… --- ## [90s infomercial for bowl holder](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588)
**Author:** [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-infomercial-for-bowl-holder/1013588 "2025-01-29T23:10:52Z")
I remember an infomercial from the 1990s where the seller was offering something to hold down bowls while you stir them - maybe a kind of suction attachment to the counter. To show why it was important, he stirred withou… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=382&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=384&state=tracking)