# Welcome to "Cafe Society" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713 "2001-08-29T15:21:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/21 "2001-08-29T17:29:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\*Discussing The Arts? Oops! Must be here by accident. \*\* Not at all, my man, take a chair. Carney, Tatum, Garfunkel, or Linkletter? ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/22 "2001-08-29T17:33:08Z")
dammit, now how do I choose between Mpsims and this? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/23 "2001-08-29T17:35:14Z")
I take my Linkletter in “Jack” form, thanks. > [@](#): > > Tonight on “Hootenany” we have The Brothers Four, The Chad Mitchell Trio, The Kingston Trio, and, filling in for Pete Seeger who was going to sing something political, TRINI LOPEZ! ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/24 "2001-08-29T17:37:06Z")
Oh yeah I can see it now, Ukulele Ike’s first closed thread, cause it was getting too heated, the fur was flying, names were being bastardized–“Who was better Heinlein or Tolkien”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/25 "2001-08-29T17:47:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > \*\*“Who was better Heinlein or Tolkien”. \*\* Or worse… ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/26 "2001-08-29T18:08:26Z")
Hey Euty, glad to see you were released from bondage in the [velveteen rub room.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=82432&pagenumber=2) Maybe you won’t find yourself handcuffed to the furniture here! Great I idea for a forum. I’m settling into a chair with my book, a cinnamon raisin scone and reading until the poetry reading starts. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/27 "2001-08-29T18:19:01Z")
Hey, let’s all try to keep this forum neat and tidy, m’kay?. If everyone picks up after themselves, we can keep this place looking brand-new for a long time. Clean up your crumbs and don’t spill any drinks on the brand new carpeting/ tile/ marble/ varnished hardwood floors. (If you do, mop it up quickly: don’t wait for someone else to pick up your mess. I, for one, would prefer not to step on sunflower seed shells and soggy biscotti chunks.) I like the smell of ‘new forum aroma’, so let’s use those napkins and drink coasters (white rings are really difficult to get out of the furniture, trust me). ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/28 "2001-08-29T19:17:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > **"Who was better Heinlein or Tolkien"?** Tolkien, of course. He managed to create new languages, each with its own grammar and syntax. His stories do not age, whereas most of Heinlein’s stories have dated badly. Also, many of Heinlein’s stories were just thinly-disguised political tracts. Nice forum. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/29 "2001-08-29T21:25:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > > **"Who was better Heinlein or Tolkien"?** > > Tolkien, of course. He managed to create new languages, each with its own grammar and syntax. His stories do not age, whereas most of Heinlein’s stories have dated badly. Also, many of Heinlein’s stories were just thinly-disguised political tracts. > > Nice forum. \*\* I agree with the “nice forum” statement. I was pleasantly surprised with the new addition when I logged on this morning. As to the rest of your post, \ Tolkien **had** to invent new languages because when read in English his works were so tragically boring you were rooting for the villains to kill \ everyone off so you could put the bloody book down and get to reading something interesting, like 90% of Heinlein. \ ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/30 "2001-08-29T21:46:19Z")
::deb walks in, bows, places hat on the sidewalk:: I am proud to have created the first official hijack of this new forum. Thank you and please leave a tip on the way out. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/31 "2001-08-29T22:23:31Z")
[tip] Memorize your password, don’t write it down. [/tip] ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/32 "2001-08-29T22:35:30Z")
“This forum is for discussion about the Arts” By discussion do you mean we don’t have to ask a question? ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/33 "2001-08-30T05:09:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > \*\* > ::deb walks in, bows, places hat on the sidewalk:: > > I am proud to have created the first official hijack of this new forum. Thank you and please leave a tip on the way out. \*\* Here’s my two cents worth. Don’t spend it all in one place.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/34 "2001-08-30T06:08:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\*[tip] > Memorize your password, don’t write it down. > [/tip] \*\* Is it “Fidelio” or “Fidellio”? I always get that mixed up. And what’s this blank spot next to “Password of the house”? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713/35 "2001-08-30T11:47:44Z")
Gee thanks, guys. You realize it only means [more work](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1561457#post1561457) for me… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-cafe-society/78713.md?page=1)