# Casual Subjects for Cafe Society (CS4CS) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927 "2008-03-27T16:32:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/1 "2008-03-27T16:32:12Z")
This is an experimental thread that’s similar to “Mini-Rants” for the BBQ Pit. It’s for little random comments or observations you want to make on topics relevant to Cafe Society, but for which there’s not currently a thread open and it’s really not worth starting a thread to discuss as there’s probably not enough interest (e.g. “Damn but Ville Valo is sexy as hell” or “I think \*Porkys III was the greatest film of all time and here’s why”). I’ll make a post below in order to leave this as the instructional O.P… You can either comment on that post, or make a “mini-post” of your own about something that’s also "probably not worth a whole thread but is worth a post. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/2 "2008-03-27T16:37:40Z")
The trailer for Mike Myers’ [The Love Guru](http://youtube.com/watch?v=WPz5e9TvYIs) just looks absolutely horrible. There’s nothing that funny except for the parts that are recycled from Austin Powers (e.g. the “moley moley moley” obsession only this time with the word ‘midget’ for a character played by Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer). I think Mike has gone to the well once (or actually two or three times) too often, and this one just seems to recast _Austin Powers_ with an Indian theme. I’m hoping it’s not successful or there’ll be _Love Guru_ sequels in which Myers plays the love guru’s televangelist and archbishop doppelgangers; Mike’s a funny guy but he just isn’t Peter Sellers. OTOH, for those interested, you do get to see Justin Timberlake in bikini briefs. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/3 "2008-03-27T16:40:17Z")
There’s this book I’ve been dying to read called “Casseroles for the Dead”\*, but I guess it hasn’t come out yet. I keep on looking in the bookstores. If anyone knows where I can buy a copy, I’m really looking forward to getting one! \*working title, possibly wrong, but I’d recognize the author’s name. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/4 "2008-03-27T17:29:34Z")
My husband picked up the DVD for _No Country for Old Men_. I’m looking forward to watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/5 "2008-03-27T18:03:52Z")
May looks like the best month in a while for new releases. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/6 "2008-03-27T18:10:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] The trailer for Mike Myers’ [The Love Guru](http://youtube.com/watch?v=WPz5e9TvYIs) just looks absolutely horrible. There’s nothing that funny except for the parts that are recycled from Austin Powers (e.g. the “moley moley moley” obsession only this time with the word ‘midget’ for a character played by Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer). I think Mike has gone to the well once (or actually two or three times) too often, and this one just seems to recast _Austin Powers_ with an Indian theme. I’m hoping it’s not successful or there’ll be _Love Guru_ sequels in which Myers plays the love guru’s televangelist and archbishop doppelgangers; Mike’s a funny guy but he just isn’t Peter Sellers. OTOH, for those interested, you do get to see Justin Timberlake in bikini briefs. [/QUOTE] I’ll just add that I happened to see Mike Myers in a Starbucks perhaps a month ago (maybe longer). He was an asshole to the counter-person, dragged his girlfriend (the poor girl who was with him at any rate) around like an errant dog, and snarled at some poor shmuck kid who had the gonads to say “Wow! You’re Mike Myers.” ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/7 "2008-03-27T18:21:09Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] I’ll just add that I happened to see Mike Myers in a Starbucks perhaps a month ago (maybe longer). He was an asshole to the counter-person, dragged his girlfriend (the poor girl who was with him at any rate) around like an errant dog, and snarled at some poor shmuck kid who had the gonads to say “Wow! You’re Mike Myers.” [/QUOTE] Aww, give the poor guy some slack, he hadn’t had his coffee yet!! 😉 Nice idea for a thread **Sampiro**! This is the kind of thread idea I will think of in the middle of the night then forget by the time I wake up in the morning and sit down at the computer. \*\*\* I’m waiting on pins and needles for the new **Battlestar Galactica** episodes!! It’s bittersweet though because this is the last season. I can’t wait to see what they come up with for the series ending. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/8 "2008-03-27T18:35:47Z")
I wish I had gone to an anime high school. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/9 "2008-03-27T18:35:57Z")
Great idea, **Sampiro**! [QUOTE=ivylass] My husband picked up the DVD for _No Country for Old Men_. I’m looking forward to watching it. [/QUOTE] This is gonna be one of my all-time favorite movies. I watched it twice over the weekend and then loaned it to my daughter or I’d be watching it again. On another note, I’m hoping TCM will adjust its schedule and show some Richard Widmark movies soon – they often do that when a major star passes on. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/10 "2008-03-27T18:43:07Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] I’m hoping TCM will adjust its schedule and show some Richard Widmark movies soon – they often do that when a major star passes on. [/QUOTE] Yay! They’ve done it: [TCM Remembers Richard Widmark (1914-2008)](http://www.tcm.com/movienews/index/?cid=197318). ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/11 "2008-03-27T18:46:00Z")
I just spent about 40 bucks and I’m getting a big box of new books from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) AND I had a free shipping coupon that worked. I went to my favorite genre: Sci fi then requested the list be shown price lowest to highest. I found hundreds of books for under $10 - there are repeats/different editions but so what! I’m getting about 12 books, some hardcover. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/12 "2008-03-27T18:51:04Z")
I picked up the latest book by Sara Paretsky recently. _Bleeding Kansas_. I almost didn’t read it when I realized it wasn’t a V. I. Warshawski mystery. I’m really not sure I like it–give me escapist fluff anyday–this is kinda unrealistic in an all too real way. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/13 "2008-03-27T18:56:18Z")
I’m just now working my way through the first couple of seasons of Battlestar Galactica. I’ve hit a few clunkers, but overall it’s a great show. I love the look of the sets. The mix of sci-fi and old technology (corded phones, etc) is a stroke of brilliance. * * * I want to see John C. Reilly in more movies. * * * I still miss Bob Edwards ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/14 "2008-03-27T18:58:23Z")
Oh, and I’m reading _Wicked_, pushed on me by my daughter. I think I’m getting more out of it because, unlike Ivygirl, I have read all of the Oz books written by L. Frank Baum, so when they talk about Lurline and Tiktokism and Ozma Tippetarius, I have a reference she does not. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/15 "2008-03-27T19:04:39Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] I’m just now working my way through the first couple of seasons of Battlestar Galactica. I’ve hit a few clunkers, but overall it’s a great show. I love the look of the sets. The mix of sci-fi and old technology (corded phones, etc) is a stroke of brilliance. [/QUOTE] I initially began watching the show at the start of it’s third season; liked it, but it was much to complicated by that point for me to just easily jump in & start watching it. So, I’ve gone back and watched it from the beginning, am a little over halfway through the second seasons. Watched “Downloaded” last night, which disappointed me as it seems to retcon ‘Number Six’ in a way I don’t like. BTW, I don’t want a specific spoiler, but does it ever get explained why Baltar has visions of Six in his head, since it’s been revealed he _doesn’t_ have a micro-implant in his brain? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/16 "2008-03-27T19:12:06Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] I initially began watching the show at the start of it’s third season; liked it, but it was much to complicated by that point for me to just easily jump in & start watching it. So, I’ve gone back and watched it from the beginning, am a little over halfway through the second seasons. Watched “Downloaded” last night, which disappointed me as it seems to retcon ‘Number Six’ in a way I don’t like. BTW, I don’t want a specific spoiler, but does it ever get explained why Baltar has visions of Six in his head, since it’s been revealed he _doesn’t_ have a micro-implant in his brain? [/QUOTE] Dunno. I think you’re a couple episodes ahead of me. We just finished the two-parter “Home” last night. I didn’t care for that installment, but I’m looking forward to continuing. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/17 "2008-03-27T19:15:02Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] BTW, I don’t want a specific spoiler, but does it ever get explained why Baltar has visions of Six in his head, since it’s been revealed he _doesn’t_ have a micro-implant in his brain? [/QUOTE] Nope it’s never fully explained. Hope they are able to tie up loose ends in this last season, but they like to keep us guessing! ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/18 "2008-03-27T19:19:00Z")
I rented The Vicar of Dibley on DVD from the library and found that on one of the discs there is a special feature with Johnny Depp! Mmmm, Johnny Depp… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/19 "2008-03-27T19:21:20Z")
I’m dying from lack of new **House** episodes! And does anyone know when **So You Think You Can Dance** will be back on? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927/20 "2008-03-27T19:25:03Z")
Hey, I get to mini-rant _and_ mini-CS in the same post! A hearty eff-you to (in order) CBS, Comcast, and the NCAA – the three parties who conspired to make sure that I missed _Dexter_ this week. After watching _Idol_ lats night, my wife and went to fire up this week’s DVR’d episode, only to find _Cold Case_, the show that runs before _Dexter_. It would seem that NCAA basketball ran long, so CBS bumped the show back. Screw CBS for not scheduling filler material when they _know_ the tourney would bump shows back. Screw CBS and Comcast for not having a system in place that would inform the DVR box that this is the case. Screw CBS for not rebroadcasting it another night this week at 3am or something like NBC does with many of their shows. Screw either CBS or Comcast, whichever one is responsible for not having the show available on the On Demand channel. Screw [cbs.com](http://cbs.com) for not having the full episode available online. Hey CBS, this isn’t your normal series. If I miss an episode of _Without A Trace_, then yes, there will be one or two running plot points I’ll miss out on. But if you want to import a series like this – in which missing a single episode will completely skew my viewing experience – then do me a favor and don’t even fricking start showing them in the first place. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casual-subjects-for-cafe-society-cs4cs/442927.md?page=2)