# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=665&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 666 --- ## [How much physical force can you use to evict a trespasser?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-physical-force-can-you-use-to-evict-a-trespasser/995190)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-physical-force-can-you-use-to-evict-a-trespasser/995190 "2023-12-26T22:18:21Z")
Obviously this depends heavily on jurisdiction according to state law, but can anyone give examples? The problem today is that the pat answer “call the police” isn’t always workable. Removing homeless persons, public dru… --- ## [Switching from natural gas dryer to electric dryer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-from-natural-gas-dryer-to-electric-dryer/994849)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-from-natural-gas-dryer-to-electric-dryer/994849 "2023-12-26T21:08:36Z")
I know there have been threads about this before, but they all seem to focus on costs – startup costs for switching, and long-term costs for using. I don’t care about those things so much. Which is environmentally bet… --- ## [On Re-reading all of Robert Heinlein via The Virginia Edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-re-reading-all-of-robert-heinlein-via-the-virginia-edition/637729)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Replies:** 770\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-re-reading-all-of-robert-heinlein-via-the-virginia-edition/637729 "2023-12-26T20:09:39Z")
As some of you may remember last year I purchased The Virginia Edition. TVE is a complete Heinlein. And they mean complete. All the books, stories, screenplays, essays, and letters available that were written by the ol… --- ## [Peter Zeihan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-zeihan/995187)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-zeihan/995187 "2023-12-26T19:18:33Z")
So about a year ago, I started seeing this guy everywhere. He’s apparently some geopolitical expert. I enjoy his videos. But I question the certainty with which he makes his claims. For instance, he has a number of v… --- ## [Recycling old car model names](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-old-car-model-names/995068)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycling-old-car-model-names/995068 "2023-12-26T17:52:11Z")
Dodge/Chrysler/Stellantis has recently revived the name Hornet for a compact hatchback/SUV. What other Model Names do you think they should bring back? Rambler? Coronet? Polara? --- ## [Is anyone else having a less than festive Christmas holiday?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-a-less-than-festive-christmas-holiday/995113)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-a-less-than-festive-christmas-holiday/995113 "2023-12-26T15:50:56Z")
I’m addressing this to those who celebrate. Anyway, I am, and I know a lot of other people are, and TBH, there’s more to it than my father’s death a few months ago. Even though I’m a Christian, it just seems like anoth… --- ## [Four chord question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-chord-question/994455)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-chord-question/994455 "2023-12-26T15:17:11Z")
Ed Sheeran has posted a short video where he says he can play any song using 4 chords. The same 4 chords. Sure, you can get by with a LOT with the I, IV, V, and vi, but what I’m wondering would playing a V7 be considered… --- ## [AC Motor and Fluorescent Lights](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-motor-and-fluorescent-lights/995125)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-motor-and-fluorescent-lights/995125 "2023-12-26T15:05:36Z")
We put a new fridge / freezer unit on the same outlet with a washing machine and a fluorescent light. The fluorescent light (a conventional bulb, low end fixure that is not hard wired - just to add more light in our base… --- ## [Shallots: How many is "one" shallot?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shallots-how-many-is-one-shallot/995071)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shallots-how-many-is-one-shallot/995071 "2023-12-26T13:33:26Z")
I was looking at some recipes that call for a shallot (as in one). But, when I went to the store some shallots had two…bulbs…in one single wrapping of the dry “paper” that encases them. Then, I saw other shallots which… --- ## [Legal estate question: Renovations to a condo while it is still part of the estate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-estate-question-renovations-to-a-condo-while-it-is-still-part-of-the-estate/995082)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-estate-question-renovations-to-a-condo-while-it-is-still-part-of-the-estate/995082 "2023-12-26T13:04:28Z")
My wife’s mother died recently. My wife is the executor named in the will, and is the sole heir. We have not yet been to county probate to get a testamentary letter, but have an appointment for Jan 10. My MIL had a condo… --- ## [“Do Not Pass” Truck Squad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-pass-truck-squad/994932)
**Author:** [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-pass-truck-squad/994932 "2023-12-26T10:42:56Z")
Okay, this was a different experience. On the way to work on the highway, a pack of three trucks with signs facing backward, reading “Do Not Pass” merged on and drove back and forth between lanes, keeping all cars behind… --- ## [Scanning the images from those old plastic 'slide viewers'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scanning-the-images-from-those-old-plastic-slide-viewers/995133)
**Author:** [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scanning-the-images-from-those-old-plastic-slide-viewers/995133 "2023-12-26T04:18:52Z")
During some recent cleaning, I found some of those little, single-pic, ‘slide viewers’. (I think that’s what they’re called. Googling that term turns up mostly larger systems that can be loaded with multiple slides which… --- ## [What day is your "Christmas Dinner" on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-is-your-christmas-dinner-on/995081)
**Author:** [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-day-is-your-christmas-dinner-on/995081 "2023-12-26T00:19:14Z")
If someone invited to you to “Christmas Dinner” what day would you assume they meant? A Christmas Eve Dinner or A Christmas Day Dinner? My immediate family usually has it on Christmas Eve but at some relatives would … --- ## [Let's share our favorite lasagna recipes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-share-our-favorite-lasagna-recipes/995052)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-share-our-favorite-lasagna-recipes/995052 "2023-12-25T21:41:59Z")
Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying your holiday festivities. I am in charge of the lasagna this year and I need to do two of them. I am fairly practiced at throwing together a basic lasagna, but to be honest, th… --- ## [And a Merry Mari Lwyd to you!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-merry-mari-lwyd-to-you/995080)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-merry-mari-lwyd-to-you/995080 "2023-12-25T21:10:54Z")
The Welsh have a holiday tradition from way back in pagan times, a midwinter celebration of wit, banter, poetry slam, and of course feasting and drinking. Folks stick a horse skull up on a pole, decorate it with ribbons… --- ## [KCRW founder Ruth Seymour died on Friday, Dec. 22, 2023 at the age of 88](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kcrw-founder-ruth-seymour-died-on-friday-dec-22-2023-at-the-age-of-88/995025)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kcrw-founder-ruth-seymour-died-on-friday-dec-22-2023-at-the-age-of-88/995025 "2023-12-25T20:52:49Z")
--- ## [What are your feelings on viewing terrible images of war?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-feelings-on-viewing-terrible-images-of-war/994332)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-feelings-on-viewing-terrible-images-of-war/994332 "2023-12-25T19:48:40Z")
I’ve seen some terrible images of war, thankfully just online or on the television. I don’t seek them out, but if I come across one, I force myself to watch or look at the image or video. Except for the audio from the U… --- ## [What terms should I use for internet artists who are unpaid without negative implications of amateur?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-terms-should-i-use-for-internet-artists-who-are-unpaid-without-negative-implications-of-amateur/994996)
**Author:** [@Amber13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber13)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-terms-should-i-use-for-internet-artists-who-are-unpaid-without-negative-implications-of-amateur/994996 "2023-12-25T18:57:12Z")
What terms should I use for internet artists who are unpaid or get paid a little but not their main source of income without implications of being unskillful on the word ‘‘amateur’’? , I’m referring to the source of inco… --- ## [Marty (1955)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marty-1955/994211)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marty-1955/994211 "2023-12-25T18:13:51Z")
Watching Marty (1955) on TCMHD. We really love this movie. Before Mrs. L.A., I could relate to Ernest Borgnine’s character (‘Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man’s life when he’s gotta face some facts. And… --- ## [Any high School or College Wrestlers here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-high-school-or-college-wrestlers-here/995072)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-high-school-or-college-wrestlers-here/995072 "2023-12-25T18:23:31Z")
I just have some questions about the sport. I know that wrestling involves a lot of technique, but is a lot of the technique built on things we do somewhat instinctively when wrestling? I have watched dogs and cats’ wres… --- ## [Happy Festivus 2023!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus-2023/995044)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-festivus-2023/995044 "2023-12-25T17:47:47Z")
It’s December 23, which means it’s time for the made up holiday that scratches us right where we itch. This thread is a place to share your grievances, recount the blessed story of the first Festivus, let us know of any… --- ## [Movies that are Holiday Movies only to you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-holiday-movies-only-to-you/605777)
**Author:** [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-are-holiday-movies-only-to-you/605777 "2023-12-25T15:24:41Z")
There are several movies that have nothing to do with the holidays that have become so traditional at our house that I now consider them holiday movies. Arsenic & Old Lace - I first saw this one Christmas Eve about 25 y… --- ## [Trump's denigrations of the military](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-denigrations-of-the-military/991683)
**Author:** [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-denigrations-of-the-military/991683 "2023-12-25T10:44:31Z")
How many of the top brass do you suppose support Trump, even after everything he’s said about the military (executing Milley, “generals are dumb,” dead soldiers are losers, etc)? Instinctively, I’d say “Very few” but af… --- ## [Which are you cooking for the holiday meal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-you-cooking-for-the-holiday-meal/995069)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-are-you-cooking-for-the-holiday-meal/995069 "2023-12-25T05:18:06Z")
Stuffing or dressing? We do dressing. I won’t bore you with the not-so-special recipe for cornbread dressing we make. Just know it must be like Aunt Edna made or there will be adverse reactions from the peanut gallery. … --- ## [(Old) Winter Solstice MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-winter-solstice-mmp/994757)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 276\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-winter-solstice-mmp/994757 "2023-12-25T04:30:38Z")
Well, it’s not Winter Solstice yet, but it’s this week. It’s 21:20 here on the Left Coast, but it’s 00:20 on the east; so I guess this is the MMP. One thing about SoCal was that Winter wasn’t very wintery. Thinking of… --- ## [What are your favorite songs that begin with the letter T? See rules in OP (Final Poll added)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-that-begin-with-the-letter-t-see-rules-in-op-final-poll-added/994171)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 123\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-that-begin-with-the-letter-t-see-rules-in-op-final-poll-added/994171 "2023-12-25T02:40:49Z")
Rules : Submissions are limited to 5 per person. Please do not post title suggestions or comments on alternative titles. This takes a little of the fun out of the process. It is ok, after the polls are posted, to name… --- ## [Overrated food and drink (brands)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 408\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-food-and-drink-brands/991515 "2023-12-25T02:36:13Z")
It was probably a mystique and availability. Yep. People wants whats they can’t has. Most people I know, including myself, were like “What the hell is so special about this pig slop” the first time we got our hands … --- ## [Why would gays choose to be Catholic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-gays-choose-to-be-catholic/994826)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-gays-choose-to-be-catholic/994826 "2023-12-25T02:08:02Z")
The RC church recently announced that gay couples could be blessed, tho not married. I was raised Roman Catholic, but have been Atheist since grade school. I do not understand why someone who believes in Christ would f… --- ## [Alterna-Thanksgiving: Bosda Di'Chi's Irish Stew Recipe From Hell Deluxe.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alterna-thanksgiving-bosda-dichis-irish-stew-recipe-from-hell-deluxe/381460)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alterna-thanksgiving-bosda-dichis-irish-stew-recipe-from-hell-deluxe/381460 "2023-12-25T00:03:53Z")
\*\*This Post Inspired by Jonathan Swift’s " A Modest Proposal". Therefore, it’s Literary. So there! And BTW: I’m of Irish Descent Myself.\*\* I’m making Bosda’s Irish Stew Deluxe for dinner tonight. If you want some, pay… --- ## [New Monk movie premieres Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203 "2023-12-24T23:24:15Z")
Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie They got most of the Monk cast back together. Jason Gray-Stanford had a heart transplant in Nov, 2020. I’m very happy to see him working again. I’m looking forward to revisting my ol… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=664&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=666&state=muted)