# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=482&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 483 --- ## [Looking for a 60's paperback cookbook](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-60s-paperback-cookbook/1007059)
**Author:** [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-60s-paperback-cookbook/1007059 "2024-09-10T14:12:52Z")
This is like looking for that needle in a haystack, but in the 60’s I had a paperback ‘counterculture’ cookbook from perhaps a commune. Written by a rather cynical or cynical hippie chick. The title may have had the w… --- ## [Did former president Bush manufacture a reason to invade Iraq or was he misled by bad intelligence he thought was correct?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-former-president-bush-manufacture-a-reason-to-invade-iraq-or-was-he-misled-by-bad-intelligence-he-thought-was-correct/1006912)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-former-president-bush-manufacture-a-reason-to-invade-iraq-or-was-he-misled-by-bad-intelligence-he-thought-was-correct/1006912 "2024-09-10T12:34:19Z")
Continuing the discussion from Dick Cheney endorses Harris: At the time, I believe, it was reasonable to presume the CIA had done their job correctly. Wasn’t it after W.'s term that everyone realized how much of the i… --- ## [What do you think about the two Beowulfs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-two-beowulfs/1006928)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-two-beowulfs/1006928 "2024-09-10T11:28:24Z")
There’s an interesting problem at the beginning of the Old English poem Beowulf. The poem is of course about the Geatish hero named Beowulf who comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar, whose court is being terrorize… --- ## [Wouldnt it be in the interest of a major sports league to tell a decades long losing teams ownership to shape up or ship out?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-in-the-interest-of-a-major-sports-league-to-tell-a-decades-long-losing-teams-ownership-to-shape-up-or-ship-out/1006921)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wouldnt-it-be-in-the-interest-of-a-major-sports-league-to-tell-a-decades-long-losing-teams-ownership-to-shape-up-or-ship-out/1006921 "2024-09-10T09:52:41Z")
the sport doesn’t actually but let’s use the white sox’s current season which is not that far from being the worst ever that happens for say the next 5-10 years and management and ownership don’t do much to change it… --- ## [What would have to happen for an upcoming British monarch to not be of House (Mountbatten-) Windsor?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-have-to-happen-for-an-upcoming-british-monarch-to-not-be-of-house-mountbatten-windsor/1004560)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-have-to-happen-for-an-upcoming-british-monarch-to-not-be-of-house-mountbatten-windsor/1004560 "2024-09-10T07:29:37Z")
King Charles III is of the House of Mountbatten-Windsor (oft rendered as just Windsor), as was his mother before him, as will his son and Heir Apparent, the (likely) King William V. Best I can figure, the only way for a … --- ## [How long do HDDs actually last](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-do-hdds-actually-last/1006542)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-do-hdds-actually-last/1006542 "2024-09-10T05:19:59Z")
When I look on google, they say they last 3-5 years. But I have a laptop that is almost 20 years old and still works. I just pulled a laptop out of a box that is 13 years old and it still works. I have external HDDs tha… --- ## [My Brother goes into a VA Mental Hospital Soon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-goes-into-a-va-mental-hospital-soon/1006511)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-goes-into-a-va-mental-hospital-soon/1006511 "2024-09-10T04:22:15Z")
He lost his house, a couple years ago, & was living in a residence hotel. He has not had a job for ages. For years, he’s had trouble with depression. And anger. I’ve been supporting him, but now, I have to stop. I’ve … --- ## [Elon “ Ready to serve”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939 "2024-09-10T04:21:17Z")
Now the circus is complete. --- ## [Can a charity sue you for donating to them with a bad check?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-charity-sue-you-for-donating-to-them-with-a-bad-check/1006865)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-charity-sue-you-for-donating-to-them-with-a-bad-check/1006865 "2024-09-10T04:11:33Z")
Suppose a Girl Scout shows up at my door looking for donations and feeling in a generous mood I hand her a check for $2,956.03 no strings attached. Then later that night I go on a gambling spree in empty my bank accoun… --- ## [Need info on private club in Portland Oregon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-info-on-private-club-in-portland-oregon/1007018)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-info-on-private-club-in-portland-oregon/1007018 "2024-09-10T03:38:28Z")
I am looking for information concerning The Founders Club in Portland, Oregon. They met in a long-gone restaurant called Atwater’s back in the 80’s and 90’s, I think. The location was the 30th floor of the U.S. Bancorp … --- ## [How often do you check the polls and why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-the-polls-and-why/1006477)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-check-the-polls-and-why/1006477 "2024-09-10T03:29:44Z")
Against my better judgment, I’m finding myself spending way too much time checking and rechecking the polls/predictions/your takes on same… But the only realization I have is that - either the polls are pretty much of l… --- ## [Top five looney tunes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663 "2024-09-10T02:15:55Z")
Mine: Kitty Kornered (The one with the cats as Martians and Teddy Roosevelt) Feed the Kitty One Froggy Evening Chow Hound ( “This time we didn’t forget the gravy” ) Draftee Daffy --- ## [My MIL's annoying wifi router](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-annoying-wifi-router/1006913)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mils-annoying-wifi-router/1006913 "2024-09-10T02:03:37Z")
My MIL asked me to try to connect her new laptop to her router, because it wasn’t working for her. No problem, I’ve done this before. Her router is an old Verizon block (like the Devil’s Tower in Close Encounters of the … --- ## [Should Gargoyles come in pairs? (In West Virginia if that matters)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-gargoyles-come-in-pairs-in-west-virginia-if-that-matters/1003520)
**Author:** [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-gargoyles-come-in-pairs-in-west-virginia-if-that-matters/1003520 "2024-09-10T00:59:00Z")
We recently bought a new home. It has brick gate posts? that are about four feet tall and 18x18 inches on the top. The neighbors to the left of me have carriage lamps on their brick gate posts and the neighbors to the ri… --- ## [Restaurant employee rudeness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-employee-rudeness/1006940)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-employee-rudeness/1006940 "2024-09-09T22:15:52Z")
What would you do, really, if a counter person called you “bitch” when you were checking out? --- ## [Disingenuous argument and those who agree](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disingenuous-argument-and-those-who-agree/1006948)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disingenuous-argument-and-those-who-agree/1006948 "2024-09-09T19:44:03Z")
tl; dr Posters on this board will argue disingenuously, and it actually works on people who should know better. Even if you point it out. This is infuriating. Even worse, they will often deliberately antagonize you whe… --- ## ['Bad' actors who you still enjoy watching](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-actors-who-you-still-enjoy-watching/1006465)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-actors-who-you-still-enjoy-watching/1006465 "2024-09-09T19:00:32Z")
Continuing the discussion from Actors/resses that makes you NOT want to see a movie: What makes for a ‘bad’ actor is entirely subjective, of course. Hence the quote marks. But this comment from the other thread: …got … --- ## [Squirrel Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrel-fun/1006835)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrel-fun/1006835 "2024-09-09T16:49:48Z")
About 20 years ago a friend of mine gave me a weather station for Christmas. Like this: You hang this doo-dad outside and it transmits weather information to the screen pictured above. When I moved to The Home a year … --- ## [When you got married, how sure were you (that it was what you wanted to do?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-got-married-how-sure-were-you-that-it-was-what-you-wanted-to-do/1006797)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-got-married-how-sure-were-you-that-it-was-what-you-wanted-to-do/1006797 "2024-09-09T15:53:51Z")
I’m guessing that for most people, it was an absolutely yes, no doubt about it - but how many people here on the Dope have married while having cold feet or semi-serious doubt all the way up until walking down the aisle? … --- ## [Who are your favorite characters from the (original) TV series “Frasier”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-characters-from-the-original-tv-series-frasier/1006902)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-characters-from-the-original-tv-series-frasier/1006902 "2024-09-09T15:51:50Z")
poll --- ## [Theme from "The Third Man"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theme-from-the-third-man/1006706)
**Author:** [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theme-from-the-third-man/1006706 "2024-09-09T15:33:06Z")
Would someone please tell me who recorded a rock and roll version of “The Third Man” theme? --- ## [After 26 years I'm cutting off DirecTv](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-26-years-im-cutting-off-directv/1006858)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-26-years-im-cutting-off-directv/1006858 "2024-09-09T15:16:11Z")
It’s been a long ride with DirecTv. I learned about the service in Best Buy. I bought the dish and receiver. Did my own install in 1998. It felt so good cutting off my crappy Cable. It was so unreliable. My original Dir… --- ## [I'm sick. Everybody move back six feet. If you have a mask, put it on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-everybody-move-back-six-feet-if-you-have-a-mask-put-it-on/1005958)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sick-everybody-move-back-six-feet-if-you-have-a-mask-put-it-on/1005958 "2024-09-09T15:12:03Z")
This is about as miscellaneous and personal as it gets. Pretty damned pointless too! We live with The Daughter and her family in SCal. Who knows when we’ll get back to AZ? Anyway, six people and a whole bunch of cats un… --- ## [Doomsday Mission question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doomsday-mission-question/1006697)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doomsday-mission-question/1006697 "2024-09-09T13:54:02Z")
Back in 1967 most of Doomsday Mission was filmed, then shelved. In 1972 money was gathered and the film was finished, but since the original cast and sets weren’t available, they killed off most of the crew, leaving the… --- ## [(Old) Be-Labor-ing a Point. An End of (Meteorological) Summer MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-labor-ing-a-point-an-end-of-meteorological-summer-mmp/1006602)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 328\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-be-labor-ing-a-point-an-end-of-meteorological-summer-mmp/1006602 "2024-09-09T13:14:25Z")
As you wish. So it’s 12:04 EST, I’m off work, and am celebrating workers by not working(and not shopping, so as not to encourage more businesses). Any of the non-RDOS off today? it’s also the (tradional) time for sch… --- ## [Is it necessary to season a new pipe with honey?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-necessary-to-season-a-new-pipe-with-honey/1004771)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-necessary-to-season-a-new-pipe-with-honey/1004771 "2024-09-09T06:45:45Z")
In case anybody is unclear, I’m talking about a pipe that is used to smoke tobacco. I recently was gifted a nice, new Lorenzetti briar pipe. It appears to be tobacco-ready, but I’ve always ever seasoned my pipes with h… --- ## [Path of Exile: Diablo killer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/path-of-exile-diablo-killer/673151)
**Author:** [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/path-of-exile-diablo-killer/673151 "2024-09-09T05:19:12Z")
I played this during the beta and thought it was cool, but didn’t get too far into it. There were some interesting ideas - I really like the way they handle potions, and the humongous passive skill tree looks really inte… --- ## [Did any of the Founding Fathers advocate for a hereditary monarchy? And whom did they want to be king?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-the-founding-fathers-advocate-for-a-hereditary-monarchy-and-whom-did-they-want-to-be-king/1005509)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-any-of-the-founding-fathers-advocate-for-a-hereditary-monarchy-and-whom-did-they-want-to-be-king/1005509 "2024-09-09T04:49:17Z")
In elementary school our mushy 70s brains were taught that the God-ordained, glorious and forward-thinking Founding Fathers wanted a republic instead of a monarchy because American Exceptionalism (or something). Of cours… --- ## [Identify this cartoon/old movie short](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-cartoon-old-movie-short/1006974)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-cartoon-old-movie-short/1006974 "2024-09-09T03:40:24Z")
Today I had a memory of someone accidentally making biscuits with gunpowder instead of baking powder, and maybe (after the mistake was discovered) using the biscuits in a mortar. Ring any bells or am I imagining the who… --- ## [Autos with camera functionality as witnesses to crime](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autos-with-camera-functionality-as-witnesses-to-crime/1006776)
**Author:** [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autos-with-camera-functionality-as-witnesses-to-crime/1006776 "2024-09-09T03:36:20Z")
So have any of the Tesla owners here ever been in Oakland, California? If they legally park somewhere and come back to find their Tesla missing–don’t immediately think of it being stolen–instead it might be helping FIGHT… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=481&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=483&state=watching)