# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=966 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 967 --- ## [I need some help finding support groups](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-help-finding-support-groups/973570)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 25, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-help-finding-support-groups/973570 "2022-10-25T00:53:45Z")
This is not mundane or pointless. My aunt suffered a stroke many years ago, which left her physically disabled. After my uncle passed away a few years ago, my cousin moved her in and took over her care with help from h… --- ## [Selling a car on Facebook. Let the scams begin!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-a-car-on-facebook-let-the-scams-begin/973666)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-a-car-on-facebook-let-the-scams-begin/973666 "2022-10-24T23:54:24Z")
So far got 4 messages and 2 of them already asked me to send them the code to prove I’m real. My responses to them How does the code prove I’m real? Name a state. I will tell you its capital and that will prove I’m r… --- ## [Beyond the Local Group of galaxies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyond-the-local-group-of-galaxies/973660)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyond-the-local-group-of-galaxies/973660 "2022-10-24T23:48:12Z")
I’ve long wondered what the nearest large galaxies were beyond the Local Group. I can’t recall this ever being mentioned in any astronomical literature, whether a book or article. So I finally got around to researching t… --- ## [Look at this stuff! Isn't it neat? (Show us your collections of things!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-this-stuff-isnt-it-neat-show-us-your-collections-of-things/958550)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-this-stuff-isnt-it-neat-show-us-your-collections-of-things/958550 "2022-10-24T23:40:17Z")
I collect things related to foxes, and it’s starting to get to the point where I’m actively seeking to add to my collection with some spending money on every payday. Most of the things, at least, are practical. My land… --- ## [\[Poll\] Who do you believe will be the Republican nominee for president in 2024?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-do-you-believe-will-be-the-republican-nominee-for-president-in-2024/973372)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-who-do-you-believe-will-be-the-republican-nominee-for-president-in-2024/973372 "2022-10-24T23:17:19Z")
Who do you believe will be the Republican nominee for president in 2024? poll Personally, I believe that Trump will run again because it’s just about the only way to vacate any federal charges or convictions that he mig… --- ## [Need to buy a chisel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-buy-a-chisel/973629)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-to-buy-a-chisel/973629 "2022-10-24T22:27:33Z")
I have a root that is lifting up an 8x8 piece of timber that I need to has set flush with the ground. I am going to use a saw to cut out the sides of a small section of the timber then to a depth 1.5" and 3" wide then … --- ## [Should you be able to use the armrests when on a plane?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-you-be-able-to-use-the-armrests-when-on-a-plane/973376)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-you-be-able-to-use-the-armrests-when-on-a-plane/973376 "2022-10-24T21:33:28Z")
I heard about yet another instance of a plane passenger complaining about large fellow passengers.. The complaining passenger didn’t make any effort to express herself - um - sympathetically, and I question her use of “r… --- ## [Does anyone remember this weird TV movie, possibly 1970s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-weird-tv-movie-possibly-1970s/973441)
**Author:** [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-weird-tv-movie-possibly-1970s/973441 "2022-10-24T21:23:26Z")
I’m trying to track down a TV movie, from the 1970s or thereabouts, looking back the plot seems so improbable that I’ve been thinking I must have dreamed it! Anyway – a deep sea project is trying to find the wreck of a … --- ## [Is Paris the only city where you can tour the sewers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-paris-the-only-city-where-you-can-tour-the-sewers/973653)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-paris-the-only-city-where-you-can-tour-the-sewers/973653 "2022-10-24T20:13:20Z")
Is Paris the only city where the sewers are an attraction where one can go on organized tours?:clipperton\_island: --- ## [Jordan, Religious Freedom, And Human Rights](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jordan-religious-freedom-and-human-rights/973594)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jordan-religious-freedom-and-human-rights/973594 "2022-10-24T20:05:07Z")
My devoutly evangelical Christian niece is going to Jordan to “work with” Syrian refugees, although she freely admits that “work with” means “prosyletize.” She also tells me that proselytizing Muslims in the kingdom is f… --- ## [Why I Hate Ally McBeal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040)
**Author:** [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-ally-mcbeal/19040 "2022-10-24T19:51:45Z")
So I’ve been complaining about the show for a while. And before you ask: I keep watching because it was original and clever last season. I keep hoping that cleverness will resurface. It hasn’t. This is obviously a show … --- ## [Was every Vietnam era draftee sent to fight in Vietnam?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-every-vietnam-era-draftee-sent-to-fight-in-vietnam/637679)
**Author:** [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-every-vietnam-era-draftee-sent-to-fight-in-vietnam/637679 "2022-10-24T19:25:22Z")
If you were drafted into the US Army (or the Marines) during the 1960s and early 1970s, was it inevitable to be sent to fight in Vietnam as soon as you finished your training? Or were there some lucky ones who could sit… --- ## [Can you think of instances when people who've left shows for new (and failed) series were quickly written back in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-instances-when-people-whove-left-shows-for-new-and-failed-series-were-quickly-written-back-in/951757)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-think-of-instances-when-people-whove-left-shows-for-new-and-failed-series-were-quickly-written-back-in/951757 "2022-10-24T17:19:29Z")
I’m bummed that an actress I really liked on Chicago Med has left to star in a new show (note that she wasn’t killed off). I started watching the pilot of that show…and I don’t think it’s going to last. If the new show f… --- ## [Does the NFL now have TOO much parity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-nfl-now-have-too-much-parity/973487)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-nfl-now-have-too-much-parity/973487 "2022-10-24T17:19:34Z")
Exhibits A & B: Only 2 teams, each, are projected to have points differentials either +100 or more or -100 or less (Bills & Eagles; Steelers and Panthers)-and that is with the 17 game schedule. Only 3 5-1 teams + the 6-… --- ## [How often do dogs choke?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-dogs-choke/973468)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-dogs-choke/973468 "2022-10-24T16:56:21Z")
I’m not talking about the 10-7 split in the tenth frame of a bowling tournament, but more like when they find a 2 week old dead rabbit and try to get as much down their neck before the tall ugly thing that drives the Jee… --- ## ["When in discourse of sequential threads" means what?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads-means-what/973679)
**Author:** [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads-means-what/973679 "2022-10-24T15:53:08Z")
Ok. So maybe I lack certain solving skills, but what in the name of all that’s good is the key or code or whatever to “https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-discourse-of-sequential-threads”. I have read some posts a… --- ## [Do any Greek myths actually specify the species of animals created by Epimetheus? I haven't found any reference to them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-greek-myths-actually-specify-the-species-of-animals-created-by-epimetheus-i-havent-found-any-reference-to-them/973699)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-greek-myths-actually-specify-the-species-of-animals-created-by-epimetheus-i-havent-found-any-reference-to-them/973699 "2022-10-24T13:23:48Z")
Do any Greek myhts actually specify the species of animals created by Epimetheus? I haven’t found any reference to them. The only reference I find is to birds, fish, forest animals etc. --- ## [Who will be the new British Prime Minister? Doing this again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-the-new-british-prime-minister-doing-this-again/973554)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-the-new-british-prime-minister-doing-this-again/973554 "2022-10-24T13:22:27Z")
Liz Truss is out already. Who the heck can be Prime Minister? It seems like a dumpy job right now that no one wants or can do. --- ## [An autumnal dilemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-autumnal-dilemma/972994)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-autumnal-dilemma/972994 "2022-10-24T09:48:28Z")
Autumn has come. The yellow leaves have fallen. Our lawn is covered in gold, with tufts of green poking through. Our neighbour has raked. There are no golden leaves on his lawn. It is green, even yet. There is a stra… --- ## [Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti, or 'Funny Duet For Cats'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duetto-buffo-di-due-gatti-or-funny-duet-for-cats/973683)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duetto-buffo-di-due-gatti-or-funny-duet-for-cats/973683 "2022-10-24T09:43:21Z")
The absolutely silly opera, called “Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti,” or “Funny Duet For Cats,” is clearly about … well … a cat fight. A friendly cat squabble, if you will, as indicated by all the different va… --- ## [Movie Characters Cast in TV Roles inspired by Their Movie Role](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-characters-cast-in-tv-roles-inspired-by-their-movie-role/973467 "2022-10-24T07:37:55Z")
This will be hard to describe and I suspect we’ll see a few answers outside of the parameters. I can only think of two examples: Brad Dourif’s Role in The first season X-Files episode “Beyond the Sea” is the Gemini Kill… --- ## [You're smart, you don't believe in curses. So anyway, how'd you go about trying to lift one?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-smart-you-dont-believe-in-curses-so-anyway-howd-you-go-about-trying-to-lift-one/973571)
**Author:** [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-smart-you-dont-believe-in-curses-so-anyway-howd-you-go-about-trying-to-lift-one/973571 "2022-10-24T06:45:05Z")
Imagine: You are you–You-you, whoever you are. You are at least smart enough to know you don’t know it all, which is a really intelligent place to be. You’re certainly too intelligent to believe in hokum like curses. S… --- ## [Grab a leaf rake in the MMP!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-a-leaf-rake-in-the-mmp/973366)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 239\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grab-a-leaf-rake-in-the-mmp/973366 "2022-10-24T04:44:29Z")
First, from last time: Dos the B-W Parkway not work for you? I find it’s usually a pleasanter drive than I-95. But it depends on what part of Baltimore you’re headed to… And moving forward - it’s a new, leaf-covered w… --- ## [Anyone with win 11 and CIV 6 on steam having problems since the last steam updates?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-with-win-11-and-civ-6-on-steam-having-problems-since-the-last-steam-updates/973680)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-with-win-11-and-civ-6-on-steam-having-problems-since-the-last-steam-updates/973680 "2022-10-24T00:18:59Z")
since the last steam update ive been having problems with civ 6 since the last update or two? Also, how do you see if you have mods installed I might have installed a mod way back when and forgot I have it … --- ## [The Scooby Gang is back! (not really, but close. )](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scooby-gang-is-back-not-really-but-close/973672)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scooby-gang-is-back-not-really-but-close/973672 "2022-10-24T02:25:24Z")
CW has a new show “The Winchesters”- a sorta prequel to “Supernatural.” But we have six young people (seven sometimes) with a mix of young men and women, who travel around in a sort of hippie van, solving supernatural… --- ## [Scenes that were serious back then but risible now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-were-serious-back-then-but-risible-now/972223)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-were-serious-back-then-but-risible-now/972223 "2022-10-24T01:09:36Z")
I just got back from a public screening of The Fellowship of the Ring at a local movie theatre. When Sean Bean delivered Boromir’s much-parodied line, “One does not simply walk into Mordor!”, the entire auditorium erupt… --- ## [If Francis retires while Benedict XVI is still alive, what will he be called?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-francis-retires-while-benedict-xvi-is-still-alive-what-will-he-be-called/973606)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-francis-retires-while-benedict-xvi-is-still-alive-what-will-he-be-called/973606 "2022-10-24T00:31:39Z")
Benedict is Pope Emeritus. Would Francis be Pope Emeritus Secundus? Pope Emeritus Minor? --- ## [Hurricane Ian Debris](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ian-debris/972952)
**Author:** [@19USMC69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19USMC69)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ian-debris/972952 "2022-10-23T23:03:52Z")
Before anything can be rebuilt a massive amount of debris has to be removed. Where does it go? The space required to hold it, even temporarily, has to be huge. Once there, will there be an attempt to recycle some of it? --- ## [How To Stick Balloons To Polyester Bodysuit?- Need Answer Before 10/22/2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stick-balloons-to-polyester-bodysuit-need-answer-before-10-22-2022/973341)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stick-balloons-to-polyester-bodysuit-need-answer-before-10-22-2022/973341 "2022-10-23T21:48:07Z")
My planned costume for this year was a Zentai (an over the head bodysuit) covered in twisty balloons. I was planning to attach the balloons to the polyster bodysuit with a sticky-side-out circle of duct tape. Unfortunatl… --- ## [Are gas burning cars as green as they can get?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-gas-burning-cars-as-green-as-they-can-get/973600)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-gas-burning-cars-as-green-as-they-can-get/973600 "2022-10-23T20:56:34Z")
I read somewhere that fuel efficiency and emissions control has improved something like 99% since 1960. That makes sense because cars back then were horrible. They were overweight, they burned lead gasoline, and they b… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=965) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=967)