# This thread goes backwards **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 6, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769 "2019-09-06T02:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/241 "2019-09-15T16:44:57Z")
I just finished a glass of cranapple juice and now am feeling a bit peckish. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/242 "2019-09-15T23:59:56Z")
Damned if I know; drinking blended juices like Sunny D or V-8 has never made _me_ especially hungry. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/243 "2019-09-16T00:22:55Z")
Anyone know why I feel hungry after drinking blended juices? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/244 "2019-09-16T00:49:55Z")
We had a long thread to discuss[What’s for Dinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=848533&highlight=dinner), but it faded away months ago. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/245 "2019-09-16T12:20:13Z")
Why are we talking about food in this thread? Didn’t we have another thread for that? I thought we were talking about fractions and enlightenment; though I admit I don’t really understand the connection. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/246 "2019-09-16T12:57:07Z")
Now, that’s a coincidence… that’s literally my favorite dish. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/247 "2019-09-16T13:47:23Z")
For my birthday a few weeks back I had cheese tortellini with pesto - yum! ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/248 "2019-09-16T14:53:29Z")
Well, I think it’s obvious we’re not going to talk about movies again any time soon. So please, tell us what you had for your birthday… three weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/249 "2019-09-16T16:31:25Z")
If anyone still cares, this is the fourth film version. The first was a silent movie in 1922, then a sound version in 1936, the a big-budget color version in 1959. But that has nothing to do with either food or math, so I guess it doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/250 "2019-09-16T19:47:16Z")
Did anyone see the latest remake of _Blawnox Against the World_? I thought it was pretty good, although Orson Bean makes any movie at least watchable. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/251 "2019-09-16T20:19:23Z")
Are Mr. Bean and Orson Bean related? There was a good movie with Orson Bean in it, can’t think of rhe title ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/252 "2019-09-16T20:37:32Z")
I think Orson Bean is my favorite actor; he’s been in so many Oscar-winning movies, too many to count. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/253 "2019-09-16T20:56:05Z")
Speaking of Newton, I think that I will always see Newton as Orson Bean when he played him in the biopic. Bean had an amazing presence. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/254 "2019-09-16T22:22:41Z")
So wierd that this thread seems to be devolving into a bunch of unrelated non sequiturs, but I remember having them as a kid. it has been a long time since I’ve had a fig Newton though. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/255 "2019-09-16T22:29:25Z")
Fig Newtons were not named after the renowned physicist, but after Newton, Massachusetts, near the home of Kennedy Biscuit Works (forerunner to Nabisco). ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/256 "2019-09-17T01:01:00Z")
I could not disagree more. Isaac Newton would [be so ashamed.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOCpNqB0CWs) Imagine having your name linked to an abomination fruit. You can talk about “everday science” all you want but this is disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/257 "2019-09-17T01:20:13Z")
It’s not just fig - Nabisco makes ‘em with apple-cinnamon, raspberries, and strawberry fillings. Ol’ Isaac would be proud…if you could make him quit obsessing about the dimensions of Solomon’s Temple long enough to tell him. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/258 "2019-09-17T02:30:40Z")
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Leibniz invented calculus! Newton invented cookies! Although it remains a mystery where he got figs in 17th century England. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/259 "2019-09-17T02:39:55Z")
Apropos of nothing, I was recently reading \*Of Tasty Treats and Higher Mathematics \*by Prof. Thaddeus Phartuccio, and came across a reference to Leibniz’s ginger cookies, which were apparently quite popular among the University of Stuttgart’s mathematics faculty. By contrast, Isaac Newton, who as everyone knows invented calculus, was a health nut, never baked and ate nothing sweeter than dried raisins. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769/260 "2019-09-17T02:49:10Z")
I actually think that’s Tim Burton’s best work, despite all the flaws. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-goes-backwards/839769.md?page=14)