# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=709&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 710 --- ## [Anyone know the rules to "piggy move up"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-the-rules-to-piggy-move-up/992280)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-the-rules-to-piggy-move-up/992280 "2023-10-30T15:25:47Z")
I’m 62. When I was a kid in Chicago, we used to play a softball game called Piggy Move Up. As I recall, it was a way to play softball (16", of course!) with a limited number of players. But I can’t recall the exact ru… --- ## [The origin of "Cletus" as the stereotypical redneck name](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-origin-of-cletus-as-the-stereotypical-redneck-name/955325)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-origin-of-cletus-as-the-stereotypical-redneck-name/955325 "2023-10-30T15:12:38Z")
Didn’t know if there was a factual answer to the question so I put it here. How did “Cletus” become the stereotypical name for a backwoods redneck hillbilly type? Was it a thing before the “Simpsons” character? --- ## [Do you have any fun, but weird, traditions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fun-but-weird-traditions/992002)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-fun-but-weird-traditions/992002 "2023-10-30T15:08:26Z")
My ex-wife used to collect teddy bears. That’s not so weird, but she had a favourite that she took along on every business trip; of which, there were many. The bear wore a bear-sized sweatshirt, and everywhere the bear… --- ## [The Hallowe’en Star Wars inflatables are up!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallowe-en-star-wars-inflatables-are-up/992279)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallowe-en-star-wars-inflatables-are-up/992279 "2023-10-30T14:07:53Z")
Yoda and Darth facing off against each other, with a Storm Trooper waiting to jump in. Yoda has the quiet smirk of confidence ; “Have it, I do!” As an added bonus, the ground for once isn’t frozen, so pegging them in w… --- ## [Women's World Cup 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-world-cup-2023/986333)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 446\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-world-cup-2023/986333 "2023-10-30T13:45:10Z")
Les than a month to the women’s World Cup. Does anyone know what service is required to stream the matches in the US? Live or upon replay? For the men, Peacock showed the live matches with Spanish commentary and, I thi… --- ## [Russia wants to invade more of its neighbors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-wants-to-invade-more-of-its-neighbors/992078)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-wants-to-invade-more-of-its-neighbors/992078 "2023-10-30T13:11:39Z")
Putin’s state TV puppet reveals ‘second Ukraine’ next on Russia’s invasion hit list (msn.com) I’ve been seeing an uptick in the number of articles lately that report that some Russian general or politician or tv comment… --- ## [Let's go fishing! And make big bucks!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-fishing-and-make-big-bucks/992197)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-fishing-and-make-big-bucks/992197 "2023-10-30T12:58:28Z")
Oregon is paying a bounty for every invasive pikeminnow caught by anglers. They start at $6 each, then pay $8 after you catch 25, and $10 after the first 200. The leader has made over $107,000 for catching 10755 fish. Da… --- ## [Why do humans cook their food?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-humans-cook-their-food/991846)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 122\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-humans-cook-their-food/991846 "2023-10-30T12:33:25Z")
What is the purpose of cooking our food? Does it just make it more palatable and/or destroy potential pathogens, or does it confer some benefit to our digestive process? If it aids with our ability to digest the food, … --- ## [RIP Richard Moll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-richard-moll/992206)
**Author:** [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-richard-moll/992206 "2023-10-30T12:17:22Z")
Best known as Bull from Night Court, Richard Moll passed away Thursday at the age of 80. As an aside, it’s strange to realize how many cast members we’ve lost over the years from Night Court whereas of the Cheers ensemb… --- ## [(Old) Going bats in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-going-bats-in-the-mmp/991945)
**Author:** [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Replies:** 267\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-going-bats-in-the-mmp/991945 "2023-10-30T11:47:18Z")
I was just enjoying the bats dancing around our 4 o’clocks (night blooming flowers) and wondered how many of us are bat fans. I think they are super cute, and love hearing their sonar ping but I understand that some peo… --- ## [Are Our American Culinary Measuring Spoons Really Not Metric?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-our-american-culinary-measuring-spoons-really-not-metric/991983)
**Author:** [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Replies:** 127\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-our-american-culinary-measuring-spoons-really-not-metric/991983 "2023-10-30T11:29:58Z")
Search seems to show this precise question hasn’t been asked before, probably because of utter triviality, but: Are sets of culinary measuring spoons marked with United States customary units (half teaspoon, teaspoon, t… --- ## [Anaphylactic allergy to shellfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anaphylactic-allergy-to-shellfish/992232)
**Author:** [@Amia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amia)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anaphylactic-allergy-to-shellfish/992232 "2023-10-30T10:52:13Z")
Help! I was reared in a family where I could dismember a whole lobster in my high chair before I was potty trained. I love food! Every type of cuisine and though I prefer some I love most. Shellfish has been my favorite … --- ## [Looting and the 2024 election?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805)
**Author:** [@JoePockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoePockets)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805 "2023-10-30T10:31:12Z")
With current trends of increasing of looting in cities across America would this play role in independent & middle of road Democrats thoughts of supporting a candidate like Trump or a Republican ? Over the next year this… --- ## [What is the origin of G.O.A.T](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-g-o-a-t/992273)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-origin-of-g-o-a-t/992273 "2023-10-30T08:34:10Z")
What is the origin of the acronym G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time)? --- ## [Knee cyst EXPLODES!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knee-cyst-explodes/992258)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knee-cyst-explodes/992258 "2023-10-30T04:46:18Z")
Not safe for work. Graphic. Brace yourself. I warned ya. Knee-splosive Cyst | The Derminator - YouTube --- ## [My basketball pole, which was concreted in, collapsed. It left only the "stump" of the pole, which is the concreted in part, left. Is there a way to saw the stump down to the ground more or less evenly? (](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-basketball-pole-which-was-concreted-in-collapsed-it-left-only-the-stump-of-the-pole-which-is-the-concreted-in-part-left-is-there-a-way-to-saw-the-stump-down-to-the-ground-more-or-less-evenly/991600)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-basketball-pole-which-was-concreted-in-collapsed-it-left-only-the-stump-of-the-pole-which-is-the-concreted-in-part-left-is-there-a-way-to-saw-the-stump-down-to-the-ground-more-or-less-evenly/991600 "2023-10-30T03:57:57Z")
I’m trying to avoid an expensive bill by having a concrete company come and jackhammer the concrete and remove the metal “stump” of the pole. I’d be happy to saw it down flat with the ground and dig around the area a bi… --- ## [Do Georgia case probationers have to be in Georgia regularly throughout probation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-georgia-case-probationers-have-to-be-in-georgia-regularly-throughout-probation/992138)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-georgia-case-probationers-have-to-be-in-georgia-regularly-throughout-probation/992138 "2023-10-30T03:48:26Z")
Do the people who have pled guilty (or any people who eventually get convicted) in the Georgia case have to do regular check-ins or anything else specifically in Georgia? For example, if Trump got probation there, or Gi… --- ## [Is there a term for.....gathering/clasping a baseball before throwing it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-gathering-clasping-a-baseball-before-throwing-it/992251)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-term-for-gathering-clasping-a-baseball-before-throwing-it/992251 "2023-10-30T03:13:26Z")
Oftentimes, when a shortstop or baseman fields a ball, he will not immediately throw the ball to first base, but instead, sort of clap-grasp the ball in a sort of…“gathering”? motion, kind of like he’s clapping his throw… --- ## [Your Worst Substitute Teachers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-substitute-teachers/208950)
**Author:** [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-substitute-teachers/208950 "2023-10-30T02:55:48Z")
Grade 8 Science: Our science teacher has been away for the last couple of days. So far everything has been normal, all the substitutes have been fine. Most of them kept us from slacking off, which is a pretty good accom… --- ## [Democrat vs. Democratic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270 "2023-10-29T23:58:07Z")
Rather than risk a hijack of the MTG thread, or to resurrect an old thread, I’m making a new one. Only ‘Democrat’ isn’t an adjective. ‘Democratic’ is. Democrat Party (epithet) - Wikipedia. --- ## [A different kind of time travel conundrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-kind-of-time-travel-conundrum/991993)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-kind-of-time-travel-conundrum/991993 "2023-10-29T23:12:42Z")
You wake up, and all memory has been wiped back to your fifteenth birthday. What pleasantly surprises you the most? What disappoints you the most? What astounds you the most? --- ## [Show us your Jack o'Lantern!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798)
**Author:** [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798 "2023-10-29T22:36:13Z")
I’ve never carved one before but I’m really happy with how it turned out! --- ## [Emergency housing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emergency-housing/992060)
**Author:** [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emergency-housing/992060 "2023-10-29T22:21:27Z")
Okay folks, I know I’ve been scarce this summer and there’s a reason. I’m engaged. Reconnected with an old friend over the summer, we’ve fallen in love. Here’s the deal, he’s got Lou Gehrig’s disease. Which is bad enough… --- ## [How much do you pay for coffee mugs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-coffee-mugs/992194)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-coffee-mugs/992194 "2023-10-29T19:04:27Z")
I drink one, maybe two mugs of coffee a day. I have three mugs that I drink out of, all were part of one office gift bag or another and all are over 15 years old. Today I decided to buy myself a new coffee mug. It needed… --- ## [Scammer lied about having cancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scammer-lied-about-having-cancer/978972)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scammer-lied-about-having-cancer/978972 "2023-10-29T15:26:43Z")
I know this happens all the time, but a local 19-year-old woman claimed that she had acute lymphoblastic leukemia AND pancreatic cancer, and actually scammed people out of more than $40,000. This channel just broadcas… --- ## [How has halloween gone from scary to horror?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-halloween-gone-from-scary-to-horror/990433)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-halloween-gone-from-scary-to-horror/990433 "2023-10-29T14:50:31Z")
I am looking at Halloween decorations and costumes on Amazon. Halloween used to be about scary. Jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, bats, spiders, witches, etc Then it went to being more adult and sexy. But at least not for deco… --- ## [Is there a way to find out exact slot machine odds?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-find-out-exact-slot-machine-odds/992219)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-find-out-exact-slot-machine-odds/992219 "2023-10-29T11:54:00Z")
Like, suppose I won $800 in one spin on the Monkey Madness slot machine (fictional). Is there a way where I could find out that this event had an odds of, say, one in five hundred thousand of happening? I’m partly assum… --- ## [What are your favorite C songs POLL, part I. Select up to 10](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-c-songs-poll-part-i-select-up-to-10/992090)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-c-songs-poll-part-i-select-up-to-10/992090 "2023-10-29T11:47:28Z")
poll --- ## [Sweetrobin's Winds of Winter fan fiction (Game thrones)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweetrobins-winds-of-winter-fan-fiction-game-thrones/981790)
**Author:** [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweetrobins-winds-of-winter-fan-fiction-game-thrones/981790 "2023-10-29T11:23:38Z")
I’m not sure how many people on here are aware of this, but I’ve found this interesting and enjoyed it. After 12 years of waiting for the next book in Game Of Thrones, Preston Jacobs, one of the leading ASOIAF commentat… --- ## [Were there episodic performances of fictional material prior to radio?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-there-episodic-performances-of-fictional-material-prior-to-radio/992185)
**Author:** [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-there-episodic-performances-of-fictional-material-prior-to-radio/992185 "2023-10-29T06:59:20Z")
Lots of entertainment today is episodic. TV series go for years with the same group of characters. Movies have many sequels. Sometimes the episodes have an overarching plot, sometimes they don’t. I know that radio had lo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=708&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=710&state=watching)