# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=764 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 765 --- ## [Neat language “Facts”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-language-facts/987882)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neat-language-facts/987882 "2023-08-13T04:46:28Z")
Those of us who love language might enjoy this column of unverified interesting language tidbits. --- ## [Double-Take at Sign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-take-at-sign/988314)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-take-at-sign/988314 "2023-08-13T03:33:47Z")
Along a local highway, there is a store that sells sex stuff - vibrators, movies, etc. It’s like an Adam & Eve store. Today as I drove by, there on their electronic, neon colored sign in a running loop was: Anal August S… --- ## [Oceana air show tips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oceana-air-show-tips/988473)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oceana-air-show-tips/988473 "2023-08-13T02:56:28Z")
I plan on going to this airshow for the first time this year. Any particular hints or tips? Are the various seats you have the option of paying for worth it? --- ## [Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund interviewed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitol-police-chief-steven-sund-interviewed/988483)
**Author:** [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitol-police-chief-steven-sund-interviewed/988483 "2023-08-13T02:50:29Z")
Here are links to two interviews with home. One is with C-SPAN’s Book TV, the other with Tucker Carlson. This guy seems to be straight shooters and apolitical. His recitation of what he experienced leading up to Jan. 6,… --- ## [Where do plastic surgeons get the skin needed for breast augmentation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-plastic-surgeons-get-the-skin-needed-for-breast-augmentation/988481)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-plastic-surgeons-get-the-skin-needed-for-breast-augmentation/988481 "2023-08-13T01:42:18Z")
Forgive me for asking such an oddball (and potentially prurient) question, but it recently occurred to me: Suppose a woman has very small breasts, and goes to a plastic surgeon to have breast augmentation. She asks for… --- ## [I have mushrooms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-mushrooms/983977)
**Author:** [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-mushrooms/983977 "2023-08-13T01:40:41Z")
The HOA did its annual drive by and told everyone to clear out our weeds. There is a little strip of land between my driveway and the next one over, about a foot or two wide. The neighbor was doing his weeds so he did t… --- ## [Help identify horror movie from 2000s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-horror-movie-from-2000s/988478)
**Author:** [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-horror-movie-from-2000s/988478 "2023-08-12T19:17:55Z")
Group of young people are in the woods for some reason I can’t remember. They find a rock face with drawings on it that are thousands of years old. Maybe one of them is an archeology student and this is why they’re there… --- ## [Need lightweight rod to span 30 inches supported on both ends to hold 20 lbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-lightweight-rod-to-span-30-inches-supported-on-both-ends-to-hold-20-lbs/988418)
**Author:** [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-lightweight-rod-to-span-30-inches-supported-on-both-ends-to-hold-20-lbs/988418 "2023-08-12T17:34:02Z")
I have a 20 lb canoe, and want to make a lightweight yoke for it. The yoke will need to be 30 inches across. I’ll also drill holes in it to mount the shoulder pads. I’d like to shape it in a curve around my neck inste… --- ## [Sherry Wine - anyone know what happened to it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherry-wine-anyone-know-what-happened-to-it/988372)
**Author:** [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherry-wine-anyone-know-what-happened-to-it/988372 "2023-08-12T15:44:45Z")
I don’t know if this is the proper category. I’ve been buying sherry wine for years, Taylor and Fairbanks, and all of a sudden, the shelves in every liquor store in my area are bare. No one seems to know why, other tha… --- ## [Recommend tools for straightening dents in a file cabinet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-tools-for-straightening-dents-in-a-file-cabinet/988440)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-tools-for-straightening-dents-in-a-file-cabinet/988440 "2023-08-12T15:32:08Z")
Imagine a file cabinet made of regular sheet steel, only imagine it with a bunch of drawers only about 1.5" high. This is an end mill storage cabinet (end mills are tools that seem to be like short, thick drill bits used… --- ## [Design. For the colourblind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-for-the-colourblind/988381)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/design-for-the-colourblind/988381 "2023-08-12T14:57:29Z")
They say one in twelve US males (versus 1 in 200 women) are colourblind. Apart from traffic lights, I never thought much about other design implications. So this article interested me. Are you colourblind? Are there … --- ## [Is it true that most casino employees in Vegas are Mormons?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-that-most-casino-employees-in-vegas-are-mormons/988430)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-that-most-casino-employees-in-vegas-are-mormons/988430 "2023-08-12T14:27:02Z")
A friend dropped this nugget on me at a party. Apparently it’s because they’re a pretty strait-laced and moral lot and therefore ideal employees. My Google-fu isn’t great today. --- ## [Maui fires - discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maui-fires-discussion/988432)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maui-fires-discussion/988432 "2023-08-12T13:24:06Z")
They still don’t know how it started. I didn’t realize a tropical rainforest would burn this easily. Maui is listed in the 10 wettest places on earth. The death toll is still rising as rescuers go into buildings. :cry: … --- ## [Intergalactic Voids and Repulsive Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intergalactic-voids-and-repulsive-gravity/988378)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intergalactic-voids-and-repulsive-gravity/988378 "2023-08-12T13:08:13Z")
There is astronomic evidence of vast stretches of mostly massless space on cosmically large scales known as Voids. Void (astronomy) - Wikipedia Under certain conditions, gravity can be repulsive (apparently, responsibl… --- ## [Putting the 'devil fish' on the menu](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-the-devil-fish-on-the-menu/988410)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-the-devil-fish-on-the-menu/988410 "2023-08-12T12:20:51Z")
Pez diablo: “devil fish.” That’s what locals in the Mexican state of Tabasco call the armored catfish that has invaded their waters. Also known as suckermouths, the species is popular with aquarium owners because the… --- ## [Scam e-mails about antivirus software: Why always McAfee?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scam-e-mails-about-antivirus-software-why-always-mcafee/988375)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scam-e-mails-about-antivirus-software-why-always-mcafee/988375 "2023-08-12T12:14:14Z")
I regularly get e-mails about the upcoming expiry of my antivirus software, urging me to take action to stay protected. The e-mails are easily recognisable as scam or at least phishing attempts. But one thing that puzzle… --- ## [If A Credible Person Confesses To Murder, But There's No Evidence](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-credible-person-confesses-to-murder-but-theres-no-evidence/987933)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-credible-person-confesses-to-murder-but-theres-no-evidence/987933 "2023-08-12T12:11:13Z")
In an audiobook I’m listening to, a middle-aged, well-respected family man admits that, when he was 17, he murdered his girlfriend in a fit of rage. He got away with it (there was no physical evidence at the crime scene,… --- ## [Matching monitor colors on desktop Mac](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matching-monitor-colors-on-desktop-mac/987982)
**Author:** [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matching-monitor-colors-on-desktop-mac/987982 "2023-08-12T11:26:06Z")
I’ve got an iMac and a new Apple Studio Display. Both are 5K “retina” displays, but there is a noticeable color difference between the two. White, in particular, is not the same - one is (to my eyes, at least) a nice neu… --- ## [I want to start a thread, but I think I will need moderator support](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-start-a-thread-but-i-think-i-will-need-moderator-support/980583)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 156\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-start-a-thread-but-i-think-i-will-need-moderator-support/980583 "2023-08-12T10:00:23Z")
I would like to start a thread in Politics And Elections titled “Why are you currently a Republican?”. I do not want snark, mocking, parody etc. from those that are not Republicans, I do not want “I used to be a Republi… --- ## [Happy National Film Score Day!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-national-film-score-day/982074)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-national-film-score-day/982074 "2023-04-04T17:40:15Z")
Just heard it announced on Buffalo’s NPR station. They launched their celebration with the theme from Jurassic Park. --- ## [Do you think Citizen Kane is a good story?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-citizen-kane-is-a-good-story/987564)
**Author:** [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-citizen-kane-is-a-good-story/987564 "2023-07-25T19:11:39Z")
Citizen Kane. Best movie ever to some, boring to others. Let’s set aside the movie itself, any technical advancements on screen are not up for discussion here. Also set aside any talk of it being based on William Rand… --- ## [On the dispersion of broken glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-dispersion-of-broken-glass/988409)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-dispersion-of-broken-glass/988409 "2023-08-12T06:12:46Z")
I am always amazed that if a glass or jar tips off the counter and breaks on the floor, I am still finding bits of glass 20 feet away days later. --- ## [Idiocracy - your thoughts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiocracy-your-thoughts/988283)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiocracy-your-thoughts/988283 "2023-08-12T00:31:20Z")
In Idiocracy, do you believe there exists, somewhere, reasonably-intelligent people in large numbers that still make society happen? Like, my first thought is there must be because Airplanes, TVs, and monster trucks don… --- ## [Windows update changes user files](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-update-changes-user-files/988336)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-update-changes-user-files/988336 "2023-08-12T00:19:58Z")
This is embarrassing, because an am an IT guy. After Windows update, my local account was like new; just created, all saved files, bookmarks, passwords were gone. Thunderbird had no account associated with it. Upon a G… --- ## [Trump - possible Wire Fraud indictment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-possible-wire-fraud-indictment/988382)
**Author:** [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-possible-wire-fraud-indictment/988382 "2023-08-11T22:30:52Z")
Special Counsel, Jack Smith, had a panoply of options/mountain of improprieties to dig through in order to decide if, and with what, to charge Donald Trump. Paring it down to the nub – choosing the charges that best fit… --- ## [Art You Love, But Can't Recommend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-you-love-but-cant-recommend/988302)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-you-love-but-cant-recommend/988302 "2023-08-11T22:02:22Z")
What art do you love but can’t recommend to anyone else, because you don’t think anyone else around you would enjoy it? Maybe your affection for it is founded in something that nobody else will experience, like my love f… --- ## [New Physics in Muon Experiment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-physics-in-muon-experiment/988373)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-physics-in-muon-experiment/988373 "2023-08-11T21:16:22Z")
This article says: “The kind of precision that these people have managed to attain is just staggering,” said Dan Hooper, a theoretical cosmologist at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the work. “There … --- ## [Anyone heard this theory on Jimmy Hoffa?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-heard-this-theory-on-jimmy-hoffa/514943)
**Author:** [@TNWPsycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TNWPsycho)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-heard-this-theory-on-jimmy-hoffa/514943 "2023-08-11T21:08:05Z")
There is a town by where i work that is home to a cheese factory, F&A Dairy This area of Wisconsin is notorious for being home to rum runners in the 30s and being home to many gangsters later on, and this cheese factory… --- ## [Got fired- owe employer password info, etc...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-fired-owe-employer-password-info-etc/987730)
**Author:** [@ttsfixit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ttsfixit)\ **Replies:** 162\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-fired-owe-employer-password-info-etc/987730 "2023-08-11T20:35:36Z")
Long time reader, first time poster, putting IMHO due to potential legal questions. My wife got fired last week for insubordination. Some background, my wife worked for a small real estate agency (the owner was the only… --- ## [Resolved, SDMB should discourage use of “star-bellied sneetch”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 11, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-sdmb-should-discourage-use-of-star-bellied-sneetch/988408 "2023-08-11T20:09:35Z")
This time of division and polarization must end. In my youth, I was a baseball. We must move forward, not backward, upwards, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! I’m so tired of Doper… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=763) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=765)